Nvidia Shield storage quandary

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#311574 27-Jan-2024 16:10

I have an Nvidia Shield box P2897 but I'm not sure if it's the 2017 or 2019 model.

Either way, at some point in time I stuck in a 16GB USB stick to handle all the Kodi stuff.

Now that is going to run out of storage before too long.

What would be the easiest way to replace the 16GB stick with a 64GB one?

All the articles I can find discuss adding a USB stick assume there isnt already one in use.

And yes, my xmas lights are still up.

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#3187447 27-Jan-2024 17:24

what do you have on it thats taking up all the space? my kodi boxes only have about 6gb total on them.

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#3187448 27-Jan-2024 17:36

I presume its fanart but thats just a guess.

I dont know how to tell what is using the storage up.

Actually, it's possible I never got around to moving anything to the USB stick, it's being sticking out the back for quite a long time. Again I dont know how to tell if it's "in use" or not. Could I just unplug it and see what stops working if anything?

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#3187453 27-Jan-2024 18:22

Yep, I've shutdown the Shield, unplugged the usb stick, restarted and the Storage screen is unchanged and everything still seems to work.

I guess increasing the storage is something I started (barely) and didnt finish.

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#3188145 29-Jan-2024 17:35

I haven’t played with Kodi for a few years I’m guess your using the usb stick for media storage..Can you point Shield to a network storage device, I use my PC that way you can get an internal or external HDD of a few TB. That should do the trick.

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#3188198 29-Jan-2024 17:52

Turns out I'm not using the USB stick at all, and the media is stored on a NAS which is where I want it.

I vaguely recall now getting storage warnings 2-3 years ago and inserting the stick to deal with that issue by offloading Kodi on to it.

It must have been tricky as I never ended up doing it. I'm not good with command line and unixy type stuff so it wouldnt take much to get beyond my capabilities.

However, I'm going to have to have another crack at it, hopefully doing it right so I never have to do it again.

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#3190251 4-Feb-2024 11:55

So yesterday turned out to be an indoor day and instead of working on my presentation for next week, I installed Emby on my Synology NAS instead.

If I delete my video sources on Kodi (nvidia shield) thereby restoring oodles of storage space and install the Emby add-on will that take care of needing to expand the shield storage?.

I cant quite work out from the documentation whether kodi will remotely use the Emby database on the NAS or just use it to populate its own database thereby using up the storage again?

I do like the idea of being able to have multiple kodi installs and one database to manage though.

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#3190859 5-Feb-2024 10:40

That totally worked!

Removed video sources in Kodi, and then checked storage usage.

No change.

Went into apps on the shield and saw Kodi was using 7GB.

Cleared data and whoosh, down to next to nothing.

Installed Emby for Kodi, and connected to the Emby server on the NAS.

That was all over inside a minute.

And using way less storage than before!

And I love that any changes made within Emby are automatically applied in Kodi, no need to manually scan folders.

I'm probably very late to the Emby fan club, but I have drunk all the Koolade now.

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#3190954 5-Feb-2024 12:46

Welcome aboard the Emby train, I also joined it in the last 6 months or so.