Need to attach NTFS USB drive for videos to RPi2B with OSMC

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@Bosse_B

This needs to be using a directly connected USB drive (1TB) containing all of the videos, which is different from at home where the videos reside on my network NAS.So can OSMC use a USB hard drive formatted as NTFS for both read and write??

Yes NTFS read/write is supported on OSMC.

Keep in mind that if you are trying to power the drive directly from the Pi 2 you will need to enable max_usb_current=1 in config.txt and have a good power adaptor. Not all drives can be successfully powered from a Pi so you may need an external power adaptor for the drive.

@Bosse_B

1. Upload new videos from my Win7 PC via a samba share of the hard drive on the Pi (is this possible)2) Use the Yatse Android remote control app on my Samsung phone accessed via the WiFi network.

Yes to both of those.

@Bosse_B

Note that due to the limited data allowance on my mobile network Internet access in the summer house I don’t want the OSMC or Kodi to access the Internet through the WiFi connection!

To disable internet access the easiest way would be to use a Static IP configuration instead of DHCP and simply set the Default gateway deliberately to an IP address other than your router - eg an address not in use by any device.