Hello guys.
Have been on Vero/OSMC/Kodi for ages now, but now tried Plex server on my Mac and find it vastly superior for my use case and the Plex client is built in my TV so it’s really a seamless experience. Bye bye CEC issues which have been always a problem with my LG.
So I’ve been browsing the forum but found old or unrelated post. Here’s the question:
Can I uninstall/inactivate Kodi and only have Plex server running on my Vero 4K+ ?
Thanks a lot for any update/clarification.
There is information on the OSMC wiki about stopping and disabling Kodi:
I suppose you technically could uninstall it using the package manager, but it doesn’t take up that much space, so it probably isn’t worth it.
If you have interest in streaming your Plex library outside of your home I’d suggest that you would be better off going with a PC based Plex server or else a NAS that has support for both running the server as well as transcoding. I have a number of people who regularly stream from mine and the need to transcode because of client format support or bandwidth issues is common. Also, if you have any decent sized library Plex’s database and metadata files can get quite large with might be an issue. I also wonder how long it would take scanning in content if you have enabled intro and commercial skipping detection.
If you have another TV without an option to directly run the Plex app on it you can also run a Plex in Kodi using a very similar interface with the PlexMod for Kodi add-on. You can even set in its preferences to automatically open the Plex add-on when Kodi starts.