Hello,
I’m using a raspberry PI3 with Kodi installed on it in my living room as a media centre to watch files I download from the internet. It’s getting a little tiring constantly copying these files onto a USB drive to play them on my TV. As the Pi is on all of the time, is there a way that I can drag and drop these files onto the Pi from my desktop after I download them? I’ve played around with the networking settings on both my PC and in Kodi, however I can only see Kodi as a media centre on my PC which opens in Windows Media Player. I can’t get to the folder structure to copy files to the SD card in my Pi.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Two options:
- Media stays on your laptop (easier)
Since the media is already on your desktop, and both devices are already on the network, you can take advantage of kodi’s ability to stream from remote computers.
First, set up a shared directory on your desktop, following: http://kodi.wiki/view/SMB
Then, using the details from before, add that directory as a video source to Kodi:
http://kodi.wiki/view/Adding_video_sources
- Write directly to Raspberry pi (harder)
If you don’t want to keep your desktop on when you’re watching TV, you can set up a special folder on your raspberry pi and make it appear on your desktop.
First, you’ll need to find a way to log in to your raspberry pi with SSH.
Once you’ve figured that out, you will need to type some commands and edit some files on the command line, following the instructions at:
http://kodi.wiki/view/Samba
If you haven’t used the linux commandline before, this could be hard. However, if you successfully complete this, you will be able to see the folder you shared from your raspberry pi on your desktop and save files to it directly.
Regardless of which method you take, be sure you’re familiar with what you need to do to update the directory when new content is added: http://kodi.wiki/view/Set_content_and_scan#Scanning_and_updating_files