

But what if you don’t want to watch them on your PC? What if you’d rather access content on your television or mobile phone?

UPnP settings can be found in Settings -> Services -> UPnP / DLNAįor an explanation of the settings see.If you have lots of movies, TV shows, and other media on your computer’s hard drive, the Kodi media player is a great way to stream them all in one place. You would not normally set your Kodi install as both a Server and Client. Then setup Clients to receive the UPnP video and music libraries from the Server. If you intend to use Kodi as the UPnP Server, then select the Kodi installation that has the fully scanned/scraped library that you would like shared to your other devices. Kodi UPnP is disabled by default and must be activated before use. You should be able to disable UPnP in your router, but still use UPnP on your local network. If your router has the UPnP setting enabled, then malicious actors may be able to access your network.

You can only browse and play from the Browse Tree. Note: UPnP file sharing cannot be used to create a Kodi library on the client device, nor can you use any library features.

The client player does not have direct access to the video and music files.Kodi can be used as a UPnP Server that will stream its library contents to other players on the network, or it can be used as a UPnP Client that can receive music and video from a UPnP Server on the network.
