Using Seafile as media repository for Kodi

Seafile Server
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I am using Seafile as a data warehouse containing media files for Kodi.
Kodi is installed on a Raspberry Pi in the same network.

I have configured webdav access, but it does not work well. Kodi does connect to Seafile, but the connection is unstable and regularly lost.

I wonder if one of those options worked better:

  • Use Seafile FUSE to have a symbolic folder on the machine with Seafile, that I could mount on the Raspberry Pi using NFS
  • Use davfs2 rather than kodi’s native webdav feature

Has someone an advice which solution might work best?
Intuitively I would prefer the NFS mount because webdav provides write permissions on the seafile server which are not needed for Kodi.

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I use SeaDrive for this. In fact, I use SeaDrive indirectly, as I cannot install it on my Kodi box, I’ve installed it on a VM, and my Kodi box mount this through sshfs. It’s working nicely.

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Thank you, I will try to install SeaDrive on the Raspberry Pi.
May I ask why you cannot do it that way? Are you concerned that the Raspberry Pi is too weak to deal with that or is there another reason?

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OK, it seems like there is no Seafile version for ARM chips, so no way to install it on the Raspberry Pi.

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I’m not running a RasPi, but another ARM based HTPC appliance, for which there’s no SeaDrive available. I could have tried to build it, but it was easier to use an SSHFS mount point as I already have tons of other VM running

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Seadrive on raspberry Pi - #11 by fakuivan you could try using this to build the required packages.