Kodi doesn't have a server feature like plex does where you can serve media to other devices. A more direct alternative would be jellyfin, which even works well with kodi as the media player.

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What does Kodi do, then, if you can't host your media on it?

[–] theredhood@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

It's a media center, you can play your local files or you can use add-ons like the official jellyfin addon and connect to any jellyfin server.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 7 months ago

Kodi, especially with librelec on rpi can be used as a replacement for appletv or firestick. But atm its rough for me, ngl.