2017-12-19, 02:45
My new goal:
- Being able to access the media (movies, tv shows, etc) in Kodi while away (aka with my laptop at my parents, etc.), without having to pay anything more than what I am currently paying.
My current setup is:
- Movies/TV Shows, etc are stored on a USB drive. The drive is plugged into the router (AsusWRT based RT-N16). Computers on the LAN can access the media using SMB and it works great in Kodi.
- There is at least one computer on the LAN that is on all the time. This computer sometimes has an active SSH server. It also runs Turnkey OpenVPM via a VMWare virt from time to time. I also have remote control/VNC access to such computer.
- The house has good internet with 35Mbps "upload" speed. The public IP is mapped to a (sub)domain name.
Options that I have experimented and are not working well:
- Access the media via SSH/SFTP directly to the router: Since the router is an older RT-N16, its CPU just doesn't have enough juice to do fast enough encryption for SSH for large high bandwidth data such as media.
- Direct FTP to the router is a no-no since it sends username passwords as clear text. Don't want to make my media world readable.
- Using OpenVPN VM on a desktop on the LAN to get to the SMB share: SMB is too chatty and doesn't work well over VPN.
Question:
Does anyone have any suggestion for a setup? Maybe a temporary server that I can run on a PC to proxy SMB to SFTP? A Kodi plugin? Something else that can help me access the files from Kodi when outside of the house?
Thanks
- Being able to access the media (movies, tv shows, etc) in Kodi while away (aka with my laptop at my parents, etc.), without having to pay anything more than what I am currently paying.
My current setup is:
- Movies/TV Shows, etc are stored on a USB drive. The drive is plugged into the router (AsusWRT based RT-N16). Computers on the LAN can access the media using SMB and it works great in Kodi.
- There is at least one computer on the LAN that is on all the time. This computer sometimes has an active SSH server. It also runs Turnkey OpenVPM via a VMWare virt from time to time. I also have remote control/VNC access to such computer.
- The house has good internet with 35Mbps "upload" speed. The public IP is mapped to a (sub)domain name.
Options that I have experimented and are not working well:
- Access the media via SSH/SFTP directly to the router: Since the router is an older RT-N16, its CPU just doesn't have enough juice to do fast enough encryption for SSH for large high bandwidth data such as media.
- Direct FTP to the router is a no-no since it sends username passwords as clear text. Don't want to make my media world readable.
- Using OpenVPN VM on a desktop on the LAN to get to the SMB share: SMB is too chatty and doesn't work well over VPN.
Question:
Does anyone have any suggestion for a setup? Maybe a temporary server that I can run on a PC to proxy SMB to SFTP? A Kodi plugin? Something else that can help me access the files from Kodi when outside of the house?
Thanks
