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Emby for Kodi plugin: Playback timeout when trying to play movie remotely


glassman
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Hi there, I'm able to use Emby for Kodi normally when I'm on my LAN, but as soon as I switch off WiFi on my phone, I can't seem to get anything to play. I should mention that I've already selected the option "Play from HTTP instead of SMB" from inside the plugin settings, and that I have port 8096 forwarded correctly on my router.

 

I've attached the log file. The only thing I've done in the log is edited my DDNS hostname from what the no-ip hostname actually was to <hostname>.no-ip.org, for security purposes. Is there anything I'm missing here? I spent the last day trying to figure this out with less than desirable results. Any insight that anyone could provide into this would be greatly appreciated.

 

P.S. - The log entries might look a little strange at the end there as you can see that I'm transferring the log file to a local share, but at that point I had switched WiFi back on solely for that purpose.

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Angelblue05

Can you confirm if you are using playback mode being set to addon (emby for kodi settings > sync option)? Otherwise the play from http does not have any effect.

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glassman

Can you confirm if you are using playback mode being set to addon (emby for kodi settings > sync option)? Otherwise the play from http does not have any effect.

 

That's interesting. So apparently I had it set to native. I just switched it to addon, but I can confirm I'm getting the same results.

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Yes, that's normal. You will need to resync your library first. Check the settings for more info: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/plugin.video.emby/wiki/Emby-for-Kodi-settings

 

Awesome. That worked. Thank you so much. Being new to this, I guess I thought I needed to use native so that emby would integrate properly into Movies and TV Shows. I thought that by using addon mode, they would only show up as an emby link or something, much the way that plexbmc works.

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One last question. Would the Emby for Kodi Sync Queue plugin help in my specific setup? I was under the impression that all the scanning happened on the server side. Do I have this all wrong?

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Emby server does the global scanning of your library. However each Kodi instance is keeping a local databse itself. So Kodi also needs to scan, however this scan is a lot faster than normal.

 

Yes that option would be good assuming you have that plugin installed within Emby on your server.

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