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Nvidia Shield TV Pro cannot add directories - jeff-gaines - 2024-12-10
My Nvidia Shield TV Pro arrived 2 days ago. I have been playing with media players and found Kodi on Windows brilliant so I installed it on my Shield TV.
The installation was easy but I cannot for the life of me add network file locations. I have added the Network location as a NAS to the Shield TV and VLC can see it but adding it as a location for Kodi has me going round in circles. I keep ending up back at the message "there are no files in this location."
I have Googled for hours but got nowhere.
Can anybody point me to a simple HOWTO for this please?
RE: Nvidia Shield TV Pro cannot add directories - izprtxqkft - 2024-12-10
(2024-12-10, 15:24)jeff-gaines Wrote: Can anybody point me to a simple HOWTO for this please?
sure, how about 2 of them
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=362113
https://kodi.wiki/view/SMB
RE: Nvidia Shield TV Pro cannot add directories - hdmkv - 2024-12-10
Shield can mount your network shares, which is even better.
RE: Nvidia Shield TV Pro cannot add directories - DarrenHill - 2024-12-10
Thread moved to Android support
RE: Nvidia Shield TV Pro cannot add directories - MrMagic - 2024-12-11
(2024-12-10, 19:45)hdmkv Wrote: Shield can mount your network shares, which is even better.
I think the OP already did that if I read his post correctly.
But the OP should go into his Android Settings -> Apps -> Kodi -> Permissions and change the Files and media permission to "Allow all the time".
RE: Nvidia Shield TV Pro cannot add directories - jeff-gaines - 2024-12-11
Success!
I can now browse my network shares from Kodi and play all my media with the bonus that if I select a DVD iso it treats it as a DVD and give me the full DVD menu which I was hoping for but no other media player provides the facility.
Problem is I don't know how I got it working except I read all the replies here and followed all the links and "suddenly it worked" which is a variation of "it just worked".
I need to go through it and make my own notes (for next time), shall I post those notes here in case it helps others?
Many thanks to everybody :-)