USB write permission

[albertd]

Every Fire TV has a USB port that can read media, but MrMC, like Kodi, cannot write to it or delete files from it. If you were to give MrMC those permissions it would be one thing it could do that Kodi can't.

[koying]

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=268872

It's as of 21, actually

[albertd]

Hi Koying,

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately, I don't really understand your answer. I don't know what "21" means.

I take it, from the link, you started on it, didn't succeed, and haven't revisited?

Albert

[davilla]

I'll take a took at it when I get a chance.

[koying]

Never finished it, if you wonder.
Too cumbersome

[albertd]

Thanks, I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

[Nunyafb]

I know there is a strange work around because I have moved all of my KODI files to the SD card on my FTV. I'll need to find the instructions I used. If I remember correctly it basically came down to the windows equivalent of a symbolic link. a folder is created on the SD-card/usb drive and folder is created on the internal SD-card and they a linked anything copied to the internal folder is actually stored on the external device.

I'm not sure if that's what your trying to do if let me know and I'll go look for the instructions I used.

Jim

[jbennett]

FYI, if anyone is still curious about this...

Starting with Android 5.0 ("Lollipop")/Fire OS 5.0, default permissions for external media were restricted per application, to an app's own data directory.

If you pop your USB drive or micro SD card into another device, and create this directory (under UsbStorage):

/Android/data/tv.mrmc.mrmc/

...it and any subdirectories will default to being writable by MrMC.

I just store my media files in subdirectories of this now - it allows me to use MrMC's file manager to copy files from my uPnP media server over the network, when I don't feel like moving my USB drive between devices to do so.