DaGaffer
Down With That Sorta Thing
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Anyone know anything about Kodi? I'm having issues...
I run two Kodi instances, one on an Android Box in the living room (Box A) and another on a Fire Box upstairs (Box B).
They both pull files using NFS from a Synology NAS which is downstairs next to Box A and my router. Box A is a wired connection, Box B wireless.
Box A runs the latest version of Kodi (18.2) which auto-updated the other day. Box B runs an older version (17.3) mainly because you have to side load Kodi onto FireOS and its a bit of a faff.
Whole thing has been running like this for a couple of years without any bother. Anyhoo...
After Box A updated the other night Kodi isn't able to reach the Synology box to update the libraries, it just goes into "preparing..." and then times out. When I try to look in the files it just says it can't reach the server. So my immediate thought was there's some issue with Kodi 18.2 but I can' see any chatter about it on forums etc. Then to increase my confusion, Box B, on a different version of Kodi, is also displaying the same symptoms. So its the network or the Synology box right? I can see the Synology box on the network via my PC and access it, move files around etc. no problem. It seems to be working fine. And if I try to look up the IP address for the Synology from either Box they can also see it and look inside at the files from that direction so there's nothing wrong with the connections.
So why have both instances of Kodi stopped finding my server and updating content info at exactly the same time and in the same way?
I run two Kodi instances, one on an Android Box in the living room (Box A) and another on a Fire Box upstairs (Box B).
They both pull files using NFS from a Synology NAS which is downstairs next to Box A and my router. Box A is a wired connection, Box B wireless.
Box A runs the latest version of Kodi (18.2) which auto-updated the other day. Box B runs an older version (17.3) mainly because you have to side load Kodi onto FireOS and its a bit of a faff.
Whole thing has been running like this for a couple of years without any bother. Anyhoo...
After Box A updated the other night Kodi isn't able to reach the Synology box to update the libraries, it just goes into "preparing..." and then times out. When I try to look in the files it just says it can't reach the server. So my immediate thought was there's some issue with Kodi 18.2 but I can' see any chatter about it on forums etc. Then to increase my confusion, Box B, on a different version of Kodi, is also displaying the same symptoms. So its the network or the Synology box right? I can see the Synology box on the network via my PC and access it, move files around etc. no problem. It seems to be working fine. And if I try to look up the IP address for the Synology from either Box they can also see it and look inside at the files from that direction so there's nothing wrong with the connections.
So why have both instances of Kodi stopped finding my server and updating content info at exactly the same time and in the same way?
