UPnP sharing – Kodi not working

Hello,

I’m sharing my Kodi library from a Minix Neo U1 (called “Base”) to 3 android tablets and one Amazon Fire stick – all running Kodi.

When this works I can see the video library perfectly remotely, with all artwork and descriptions etc.

Unfortunately this fails more often than it works. “Base” is intermittently available as a source for the remote Kodis. It’ll work fine for a few hours/days, then disappear. Sme of the tablets work, others don’t. Sometimes the tablets will see each other (under browse for new share – UpnP devices) but not “Base”, as if it doesn’t exist.

If I run BubbleUPnP on “Base” all the remote devices can see it and stream 100% of the time without fail but this just displays the files in list – none of the artwork or descriptions or funky interface I enjoy with a proper Kodi library share.

It’s completely random and really frustrating. Is there any explanation as to why Kodi cannot locate versions of itself but can see BubbleUPnP?