As I live in a rural area, my internet connectivity isn’t the best.
To solve for this problem – with my R6700 router, I used SMB://192.168.1.1 to specify an IP code instead of using READYSHARE for all of my local files hosted on a USB drive connected to my router.
This formerly worked out great. Given I’m watching a local file, the numeric IP was able to continue playing the local file, regardless if I lost my “global” internet connection to the outside world.
I can’t remember when – but suddenly everything went to pot. Now, if there’s even a momentary BLIP in my internet connectivity, KODI freezes up.
I’m an idiot, so at first I blamed KODI 
But VLC player, using the same numeric IP solution, now present the exact same problem.
This is obviously highly frustrating – as, again, my internet connectivity can be spotty at times.
So I was considering getting one of those ONN sticks from Wally Mart – as the only apps I ever use are Stremio (for my evil non-local live stream real-debrid content) and Kodi for my local files that were never pirated but downloaded and paid for by me to properly insure that Tom Cruise no longer has to beg for scraps to feed his Scientology pups
Bad jokes aside – I was just wondering if the gurus here might know what I obviously don’t know? Perhaps it was a router firmware update that spoiled my formerly perfect numeric IP solution, or FireOS was updated to purposefully break everything when Amazon can no longer spy on me, or… 
Basically, these internet connectivity issues come in “spurts”. So imagine a 4 hour window where every 20 minutes, KODI just freezes up because the internet went down for a heartbeat?
Maybe there’s a cool addon or setting I don’t know about that “caches” 10 minutes of video – so nothing crashes until a full 10 minutes go by without connectivity?
As it stands – even a MILLISECOND of “internet out” results in the crash.
Thanks VERY MUCH for any info!