System Information:
- Raspberry PI 3
- LibreELEC (Krypton) v7.90.010 ALPHA
- Media on USB
Description:
There is a niffy feature in the included Chorus2 web interface, to allow "Local" [Streaming] playback of files within the web interface. Unfortunately, as it's configured now: the feature is broken by security improvements made in XBMC v12 Frodo [Ref: Webserver - Official Kodi Wiki ]
The problem occurs because the path "/media" is automatically added to the sources.xml on RPi systems [Ref: Issues with streaming to other devices - Sources? ] which is scanned by the library scanner to populate it's database. The paths in /media ultimately resolve to /var/media; which is perfectly fine for the local Kodi instance. But the HTTP VFS service [used by remote systems] will deny access to them because there is no entry for /var/media permitting access.
To fix, simply update the sources.xml with an entry for /var/media, like so:
/storage/.kodi/userdata/sources.xml
<sources>
...
<music>
...
<source>
<name>EXT</name>
<path pathversion="1">/var/media</path>
<allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
</source>
...Notes:
- Putting the /var/media entry under the <files> sub-item does not work! Streaming only started working for me once I moved it to <music>.
- You can probably create the entry via the GUI interface by first going to the "Root filesystem" option.
Likely related:
Bug #42: Not playing locally - Yatse, the Kodi remote - Yatse: Kodi remote
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