MI Box with SPMC and Emby Add-on question

by xtrmbikin

Anyone have any experience setting up the Mi Box at an external location and using SPMC plus the Emby Add-on to connect to a home server. What minimum internet speed would be recommended at the external site? I ran into some issues trying to stream from my server and think my girlfriend's internet connection is too slow. She is using the $15 Time Warner internet package which I think is 3 down 1 up. My server is located at my house on a FIOS 75/75 connection and don't have issues streaming from other locations. SPMC error said cannot Direct stream (Media title.MKV) Any tweaks I can try while I wait for the USB to Ethernet adapter to arrive?

pawdog

There should be a setting in the Emby addon to ask the server to transcode to a size you can stream. If not install the Emby app that has full functionality.

aonysllo

Have you tried just running Emby directly in the MiBox, w/o SPMC?

Cdmonk

I haven't done it with SPMC/KODI, but thats mainly as I have my SPMC set up to directly access the media. I have tried a Mi Box running the great Emby Android TV app remotely and it worked fine and I only have a 1MBIT up connection!

You would need to set 3 settings on the Emby for Kodi plugin from what I can tell.

  • Sync Options > Playback Mode = Addon
  • Video Playback > Play from HTTP instead of SMB = TRUE
  • Video Playback > - Video Quality = 2.0 Mbps HD

If you had option 1 set up as Native (Direct Paths), you will need to do a full resync to replace the media locations with a link to the plug-in rather than the internal network location.