Kodi

The media player on its own network, through the VPN, controlled from the phone.

Needs The Firewall guide: the media network, its fixed address and its rules are set up there.

Status Coming later: the chapters are not written yet.

The media player is a small Intel N100 PC with 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB NVMe drive, running LibreELEC: a minimal Linux that only runs Kodi. It sits alone on the media network, reaches the internet only through the VPN, and is controlled from the Kodi remote app on a phone on the trusted Wi-Fi.

The media player: a white, rounded box with a blue ring of light on the front — The media player, closed: the blue ring is the power light.

The media player taken apart: the empty white case on the left, the frame with the mainboard, memory and NVMe drive on the right — Taken apart: the board, with its memory and NVMe drive, slides out of the case.

What the guide will cover

Installing LibreELEC, and giving the player its fixed address.
The firewall rules: the phone's remote control on ports 18080 and 9090, SSH from the admin laptop, and nothing else in.
Internet through the VPN, and what happens to playback when the tunnel is down.
The Kodi remote app on the phone.