I’m curious about this one. I’m running a Radxa Rock 5B with an android TV ROM, but it is a janky experience at best. That has been the main difficult with Radxa’s line of rockchip based SBCs - the software support is lacking. How is the software support for the N2+, and when did it release?
CoreELEC is community maintained and the N2+ still receives the latest builds, my last update was just last month.
However, CoreELEC can be installed on many devices (including some Android TV boxes) that have Amlogic chips. You can see a full list if you to to the download page on the CoreELEC page https://coreelec.org/.
Also, CoreELEC is not Android, it is Linux running only Kodi. If you need anything besides Kodi you might want to look at another solution or have multiple devices.
Same setup minus jellyfin. You can play directly from your server/nas using NFS, and Kodi will scrape for the meta data and match the show/movie. Now I only use Jellyfin for when I’m out of the house. Worth noting it also does Atmos!
Would HIGHLY recommend the oDroid N2+ with CoreELEC!
Bonus, if you use any *Arr programs, they can also sync to Kodi, for notifications on media added, and to sync and clean Kodi’s database for deleted media.
I switched to Jellycon that doesn’t integrate with the Kodi library, but rather acts like other basic Kodi add-ons. You can still browse the Jellyfin library through the add-on in Kodi, and through the Kore app by navigating to add-ons > Jellycon > Content tab, though I mostly initiate media playback from the Jellyfin app on Android. Direct play works too.
I tried Jellycon briefly when I started but it’s unfortunate that it doesn’t integrate into the Kodi UI properly, so there’s no way to really use the Kodi interface nicely without casting from the Jellyfin app. It more or less just becomes a playback client for the Jellyfin app. If the Jellyfin app wouldn’t be such a disaster when casting I probably would be fine with that.
Might try it again in the future but the Jellyfin app experience is nothing like what Kore or Yatse can do directly with Kodi.
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I have been using an Odroid N2+ with CoreELEC installed and the Jellyfin Kodi plugin for years now.
Plays pretty much everything you throw at it, including 4k HDR HFR.
Dolby Vision is supported in CoreELEC but only on some devices.
I’m curious about this one. I’m running a Radxa Rock 5B with an android TV ROM, but it is a janky experience at best. That has been the main difficult with Radxa’s line of rockchip based SBCs - the software support is lacking. How is the software support for the N2+, and when did it release?
CoreELEC is community maintained and the N2+ still receives the latest builds, my last update was just last month.
However, CoreELEC can be installed on many devices (including some Android TV boxes) that have Amlogic chips. You can see a full list if you to to the download page on the CoreELEC page https://coreelec.org/.
Also, CoreELEC is not Android, it is Linux running only Kodi. If you need anything besides Kodi you might want to look at another solution or have multiple devices.
Same setup minus jellyfin. You can play directly from your server/nas using NFS, and Kodi will scrape for the meta data and match the show/movie. Now I only use Jellyfin for when I’m out of the house. Worth noting it also does Atmos!
Would HIGHLY recommend the oDroid N2+ with CoreELEC!
Bonus, if you use any *Arr programs, they can also sync to Kodi, for notifications on media added, and to sync and clean Kodi’s database for deleted media.
Kodi still plays via SMB/NFS when configured in direct play mode. Only the metadata is provided via Jellyfin and play progress is synced to Jellyfin.
The Jellyfin plugin is not the most stable piece of software but it gets the job done.
I switched to Jellycon that doesn’t integrate with the Kodi library, but rather acts like other basic Kodi add-ons. You can still browse the Jellyfin library through the add-on in Kodi, and through the Kore app by navigating to add-ons > Jellycon > Content tab, though I mostly initiate media playback from the Jellyfin app on Android. Direct play works too.
I tried Jellycon briefly when I started but it’s unfortunate that it doesn’t integrate into the Kodi UI properly, so there’s no way to really use the Kodi interface nicely without casting from the Jellyfin app. It more or less just becomes a playback client for the Jellyfin app. If the Jellyfin app wouldn’t be such a disaster when casting I probably would be fine with that.
Might try it again in the future but the Jellyfin app experience is nothing like what Kore or Yatse can do directly with Kodi.