I have looked into this many years ago and I understand that it is not possible. That way I can copy files from PC to the Disk and also the TV can access it. ONe device would be the router and one the TV with a y shaped cable to the Disk drive. I know this final bit seems silly but the ideal could be to have an external disk drive shared between two devices. Of course one other issue I have realised is that I will need the TV running to copy files.Īnother option I have tried is attaching the disk drive to the USB on my ROuter, but I the TV cannot access it, nor can EMBY (obviously the latter because there is no EMBY server on my rounter!) So I know there are apps arounf like EMBY and PLEX but cannot find anything that will allow a Drive attached to the TV to be accessed from my PC.

Theoretically it means loading something like a FTP server app on the TV and copying and modifying file using something like FileZilla (I like this one and the client would do all I want) So my ideal would be to plug the 4TB into the TV USB port (I know this works fine) and somehow copy files to it from my PC. Changing the file name or directory structure requires a Server restartĢ. FTP server helps to accommodate the following functions. It allows uploading (Put) files to the server from the client device and downloading (Get) files from the server on the client device. They are primarily used for two essential functions, Put and Get. There are a few issues that mean it is not ideal.ġ. FTP servers are the software solutions used for transferring files across the internet. I now have EMBY running so I can add a 4TB drive to my PC and EMBY client on the TV will play videos using the EMBY Server.

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