transfer files to external hard drive, attached to the pi3, play on kodi

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Hi all

I have Kodi (Jarvis) installed on my Pi3. The Pi3 is running OpenElec.

Is there any way I can transfer files from my PC or Mobile Device (Android or Apple) to my external Hard Drive connected to the Pi3 AND play on Kodi?

The reason I ask is because then I wouldn't need my PC on or run down the battery on my device?

I've tried doing some research on youtube and google, but just couldn't find an explicit solution!

Thanks
 
Hi all

I have Kodi (Jarvis) installed on my Pi3. The Pi3 is running OpenElec.

Is there any way I can transfer files from my PC or Mobile Device (Android or Apple) to my external Hard Drive connected to the Pi3 AND play on Kodi?

The reason I ask is because then I wouldn't need my PC on or run down the battery on my device?

I've tried doing some research on youtube and google, but just couldn't find an explicit solution!

Thanks

On android you just add the files to the usb hard drive from your pc then plug the drive into your device. Launch kodi, click video addons, click the two dots, click files, then you see your drive on the list.
On pc video addons you click the two dots, add videos then browse and you see your drive on the list, choose it and click ok. It may be different for rasberry pi.
 
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Hi thanks - if I connect the external hard drive to the pi3, can I not then send files through the network to the hard drive from my android device or PC as opposed to plugging the hard drive to my PC to transfer the files?
I don't want to keep my laptop on while I play the files, hence I just want to attached the hard drive to the pi3 and then run the files from the hard drive.
 
Hi thanks - if I connect the external hard drive to the pi3, can I not then send files through the network to the hard drive from my android device or PC as opposed to plugging the hard drive to my PC to transfer the files?
Thats what I do, my external drive is connected to the pi by ethernet, and shows up in Kodi running on my pc and my android tab. Try enabling SMB and UPNP on Openelec and see if you can see the hard drive, you may have to set it as a video file location first.
If you have a networked drive it's even easier as it will show up on all devices wether or not you have Kodi running on them
 
I'll try connecting it now and let's see. My external hard drive doesn't have ethernet. It connects via USB and has to be powered....
 
I've connected a 128gb ssd to a usb port on my pi2 and can transfer files from my mac to the pi over wifi and ethernet, the pi saw the drive under the "video-files" tab without me having to do anything , so your drive hopefully will work fine from a powered hub.
 
I used to have pi connected as media server with 250gb hdd connected to a powered hub which I then connected to the pi and either my solo2 or the pi running kodi would play the files, which were downloaded by sickrage/sabnzbd , running on the pi
 
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