Every time I “Update library” in Kodi on my FireTV after a minute or so it kills my entire wifi network temporarily until the update is finished; not the end of the world but annoying because other devices connected start sending disconnected alerts. I am using a Fire TV with FireOS built in and have it connected via Ethernet, so why it is killing my wifi is a real brain twister. The wifi is enabled on the FireTV for things like screen mirroring and whatnot.
Hardware:
Pioneer FireTV connected via Ethernet.
Eero wifi 6
Any update on this? I am now running Kodi v21.0 with the same persistent issue.
Every time I refresh my library in Kodi on my Fire TV it kills my Eero wifi for a few minutes (light on all Eero units turns red) even though they are connected in bridge mode and my fire TV is connected to a switch before the Eero via ethernet cable. In theory, this should not effect wifi at all since it is a hard wired connection.
I think I have isolated the problem to either “The Movie Database Python version 3.0.1” or “The TVDB v4 version 1.1.6”.
The wifi eventually comes back but it is very annoying and should not be happening.
That is a very odd and unique issue for sure. I don’t know what could be happening that causes your Eero to shut down, turn red and then reboot. Have you tried using Kodi on another device hooked into your TV? I’m just curious if that acts the same way.
The intended use of Kodi is as a media center for your own content, similar to Plex. When he said library, I assumed he was talking about a library of his own movies, shows, pictures, videos, etc.
Kodi can scan an external drive and index the files into it’s “library”, that’s what I mean by library mode. If you have your privately owned video, music or pictures centrally located, you can access and index them from an external hard drive or whatever.