How do I get Emby to sync playback of my video add-on on all devices

[skyguy29 0]

Hi everyone. Apologizes if this is the wrong section but it's a bit of a complex issue so its hard to know which forum this belongs in and I am very new to this..

 

Yesterday I downloaded the Emby Server along with the Kodi companion, TrakT, and Auto BoxSets plugins on my Windows PC and I have Kodi installed on my Windows PC and I have Kodi on my Android Smartphone and on my Android Tablet as well..

 

I download the Emby Server because I have heard that it's one of the only ways to sync playback between devices when using Kodi.

 

Those of you outside of Australia will probably not have heard of most of these video add-on services but I can assure you they are perfectly legit. The video add-ons that I want to have playback sync on all my hardware are: SBS On Demand, ABC iView, 7Plus, 9Now, 10Play, Kayo Sports and Samsung TV Plus. I really prefer to watch on-demand content from the Kodi add-ons of these services instead of the regular app versions because watching them via the Kodi add-ons blocks all adds.  

 

Like say for example you are watching the movie Upgrade (2018) over on the 7Plus add-on from your Windows PC but then you decide to stop the movie at the 35 minute mark and later on during the day you want to finish watching Upgrade (2018) from the same Kodi 7Plus add-on and obviously you want to pick up where you left off and resume playback from the 35 minute timestamp,   only instead of going back on your Windows PC to finish the movie you want to continue watching the movie on your Tablet..

I'm having enormous difficulty trying to do the above with my legal Kodi video streaming add-ons.

 

When I'm using Kodi on my Windows PC and using Kodi on my Smartphone and Tablet I can see them marked as 'active devices' directly from the Emby dashboard itself via my Windows PC. I have downloaded and installed the Emby for Kodi add-ons (Emby Con & Emby-Next-Gen) and I have signed in to the Emby for Kodi add-ons on ALL my devices.

 

So it appears that the Emby server is actually working..

 

When I've gone to the Library section of the Emby server to share the pathway by adding folders I just added whatever Kodi files from my C:/ drive I could find but this has NOT WORKED. I have heard that the Kodi add-on files that you add to Emby have to be stored as   STRM files, but I can not find any STRM from within the Kodi files on my C:/ drive. Do I have to manually create STRM files of the SBS On Demand, ABC iView, 7Plus, 9Now, 10Play, Kayo Sports and Samsung TV Plus Kodi add-ons in order for Emby to actually detect them and then scan them?

 

If anyone can please help me out or if anyone needs any more information in order to better assist then please let me know. I'm in way over my head with trying to get this all to work, but I would really appreciate some help.

 

 

 

Edited March 1, 2022 by skyguy29

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[Luke 42085]

Hi, yes you have to first get the content into your Emby Server first, and one way to do that would be .strm files.

[skyguy29 0]

On 3/2/2022 at 3:54 AM, Luke said:

Hi, yes you have to first get the content into your Emby Server first, and one way to do that would be .strm files.

How would I look for the .strm files of these video add-ons? or how would I make the .strm files so that the video add-ons are detected by Emby? Are there any other ways in which Emby can read these Kodi video add-ons when adding the media to the library? 

Edited March 3, 2022 by skyguy29

[Luke 42085]

I don't really know anything about those add-ons so I can't answer questions about them, but you can learn about our strm file support here:

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159147-strm-files

[skyguy29 0]

Do you know if anyone has successfully made strm files of the Samsung TV Plus video streaming add-on from Kodi via Emby?

[Luke 42085]

5 hours ago, skyguy29 said:

Do you know if anyone has successfully made strm files of the Samsung TV Plus video streaming add-on from Kodi via Emby?

I've never heard of that addon, so no, but if you can get direct video urls ,then I'm sure you can create strm files.