Hi there,
I am not sure if this is the best place to post this question, but thought I would give it a try.
I have an old Apple TV 2 with Kodi… it has been working for me for years, but since Kodi no longer supports these boxes, I decided to upgrade. I bought an off-the-shelf Android TV box (Goobang Doo ABOX III). I don’t think the problem I am about to describe is related to the box.
The box comes with Android TV 6 and Kodi 16.1 ( a customized version of Kodi 16.1 with piles of add-ons and customized skin… it looks pretty good ).
When adding a video source to kodi ( a local video source ), and setting the folder to Movies content type, kodi will try to scan the folder to organize its content, and when this happens, Kodi crashes. It seems to start the search but then it crashes… the log files just shows me that it started to scan but then that is it. The funny thing is that if I set the content ( to a different folder ) as TV Shows, the scan works fine. I have tried a number of different things but nothing has worked (reset the box to factory defaults, installed Kodi from Google Play store, etc).
However, recently I started to consider that the issue is not the box itself, but the fact that my Apple TV with Kodi is still running. The two movie folders are setup in my Apple TV (Kodi), and the TV Shows is not. When the new box ( new Kodi ) starts scanning the two movie folders, it crashes, but it does not crash with the TV Shows which is not setup in the Apple TV box.
The main question then is, can two different Kodi boxes point to the same local library location? If not, can anyone shed some light into what I should try next? I have seen in another thread someone setting one of the Kodi boxes as a server, and the other as a client. I am only having the old box running until I get the new one up and going.
thanks