xbmc / kodi what ports to open on firewall so I can see files via upnp

Question

I'm running xbmc / kodi 14.0 on my ubuntu 14.04 machine and I'm trying to view / watch my files located on my Kodi ubuntu machine from my nexus 7 tablet. I'm using bubbleupnp onmy tablet which can see my plex server but it can't see my kodi server are there ports I need to open up like I did for the plex server? If so what are they?

Solution

This is what I had to do.

1) Do a netstat to find the PID of kodi.bin on the Local Kodi server

sudo netstat -lp --inet

2) Then get the pid and do a grep on it, this will tell you the udp and tcp ports it uses.

sudo netstat -lp --inet | grep "$7609/"

Link to example of it

Comments

[bitinerant]

This can be done in one step via sudo netstat --listening --program --inet --numeric | grep kodi