Sftp (ssh) with auth file (no password)

Hi,

I'm trying LibreElec for some days now and I've to say that I'm very happy ! Thanks to all of you. I like the simplicity of the system, the ability to use systemd to make my own services, Docker, etc. The system is simple yet extensible.

But I'm playing videos from a private server. This server is only accessible via ssh (no FTP, SFTP, etc), and only with an identity file (no password auth).

• first I've used a systemd service that mounted this remote directory on a local directory using `sshfs`
  • but this has the big disadvantage of let Kodi think this directory was a normal directory and there were 2 drawbacks:
    • when the server is off Kodi becomes non responsive for a long time (some minutes), probably waiting for the system to list files on this directory, without any timeout
    • I had buffering issues that I didn't solved by tweaking advancedsettings.xml files
• today I got the solution from http://here
  • putted my ssh identity files in `/storage/.ssh`
  • used the sshfs plugin with
    • correct username
    • no password
  • surprisingly the plugin uses root ssh keys to identify an user with another name

I can't test video streaming now but at least I can browse distant files

After some weekd of testing, I'm back to my first solution: `sshfs` mount. I don't know why but sftp method is not usable on big files (files that needs buffering): Kodi freeze for a while then come back to file list.
In contrary the buffering is doing well with sshfs mount.