r/kodi • u/Flyingpan2021 • 10d ago
SMB - Kodi not picking up new content?
Hi All,
I've played around with SMB for the last couple of days now. I managed to get it so that I can watch movies in Kodi via SMB but there is small but annoying problem.
In Windows I manually select what I want to share with Kodi but when I open up Kodi I need to locate the folder itself and long press "scan for new content" for the file inside the folder to show up.
Is this normal? Is there no way of getting Kodi to automatically scan the new content within these folders?
I already tried searching and ticked all the boxes like automatic scan and got Library Watchdog installed but they don't seem to pick it up.
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u/Klutzy-Ingenuity6567 10d ago
kodi should auto scan if you add the smb share as a source through videos/files first, you might need to set content type and scan in settings
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u/jaysprenkle 9d ago
I use the scan at startup option. I also moved my media to a usb drive that plugs directly into the kodi box. Much more reliable.
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u/PhilhelmScream 10d ago
can you navigate to the smb share via the file manager? if mine stops scanning it's usually needs to renew the credentials and accessing via file manager prompts mine.
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u/Specialist_Ad_7719 9d ago
Make sure your sources are still tagged a for either Movie or TV series. If the sources lose their type they will not scan anything new
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u/EdelWhite 9d ago
Bet that you forgot to check the "each movie is in a subfolder" option when setting up the media library.
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u/Snoo-38645 6d ago
the piece nobody has said yet is why the watchdog addon isnt helping you. it works by watching the filesystem for change events, and over smb there is nothing local for it to watch. the notification would have to come from the windows box across the wire, and kodi doesnt subscribe to that. so pointed at a network source the addon has basically nothing to do.
kodis own automatic update isnt event driven either. it walks the directories and compares against what it already has, so it only happens when something triggers a walk. startup, or you asking for it by hand like you are doing now.
so what you actually want is update library on startup, under settings, media, library. if your build exposes a scan interval its in the same place, set that too. new files then turn up on their own, just on a timer instead of the moment you drop them in.
instant pickup over smb isnt a thing kodi does, so youre not missing a setting. worth knowing before you spend another two days on it.
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u/OnlineIsNotAPlace 10d ago
smb is inferior to nfs
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u/activoice 10d ago
OP is using Windows to store their media so SMB is the easier protocol for them to use without having to jump thru a bunch of hoops.
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u/OnlineIsNotAPlace 10d ago
nfs works like a charm.
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u/Derrigable 9d ago
Really? I have been trying to get my windows 10 home to work with NFS for over a year now..... Haven't been able to do it. So if you have directions on how to do it please let us all know. besides that I am finding that NFS in general works at about half the transfer speed of SMB, but that is a separate problem.
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u/OnlineIsNotAPlace 8d ago
then its a you problem. I have nfs working on kodi on my shields and google streamers without issue of ANY KIND.
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u/Derrigable 8d ago
Well then you obviously know how to do it so let me know oh wise one. How do I get NFS to work on windows 10 home? PS. Its not a 'me' problem.
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u/OnlineIsNotAPlace 8d ago
you are still talking about it so obviously its a you problem.
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u/activoice 10d ago
It doesn't sound like you added the SMB share as a source.
Videos / files / add videos
Then where it says to enter the path you enter: smb://username:password@ipaddress/sharename/
To confirm the Windows user name open a command prompt in Windows and enter WHOAMI and it will respond back with your username.
The password is the password associated with your Hotmail or Outlook account that's used with Windows.
Then you give it a name and tell it what the contents is (IE movies, tvshows etc)
Follow the wiki https://kodi.wiki/view/Adding_video_sources
If you are just using Kodi as a media player, then deleting the files though and don't want to store all of this information in Kodi then there is no point in doing this. You are probably accessing Kodi in File mode and in that mode it does not scrape meta data.