AFAIK, Kodi is still client-based, and doesn't have the nice server component that Plex does. It's nice to have a single server handling transcoding, media management, etc. etc, and allowing the clients to be thin.
How "nice" do you want it to be? Kodi can be told to act as a UPnP server, and any UPnP client should then be able to pick up on it.
Kodi also has an optional web interface, which is primarily used to act as a remote, but I've found it can also be a thin client receiver--any media within the library can be streamed to the browser tab.
I'd love to use Kodi with my Windows SMB shares - and I certainly can - but Amazon stubbornly hides the icon on the Fire TV interface. The added steps of going into `settings > applications > manage applications > kodi > launch` is just too much.
secabeen|8 years ago
AdmiralAsshat|8 years ago
Kodi also has an optional web interface, which is primarily used to act as a remote, but I've found it can also be a thin client receiver--any media within the library can be streamed to the browser tab.
msh|8 years ago
AdmiralAsshat|8 years ago
http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Share_libraries_using_UPnP
ukyrgf|8 years ago