Kodi 16 Amazon FTV with no internet

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Running Kodi 16.1 on a FTV and FTV2

Use them to watch netflix and interface with my unraid6 server to watch local networked stored videos

Last night my DSL connect was intermittent and when I would start Kodi it would run for some time then I would be returned to the FTV home sçreen with the network error screen

If kodi stayed active long enough for me to start a local video it seemed to run longer but eventual ended with same results

Is there a method to prevent this?