Many people don't care about this aspect.Īlso, you can use the plex web interface from any browser, including your phone's, to watch or listen to any media inside the Plex DB. F-droid tends to have GPL software, not proprietary and most apps don't have ads. Odyssey is in the f-droid store, so you don't have to use the google-play store. I don't use my phone that way - generally want to playback only local media, so I use nextcloud to get the media local, then Odyssey music player to play the local media. So I just use chrome or firefox browser on my android phone, which is not so convenient, but it's for free.Īs SeijiSensei says, try BubbleUPnP on the phone. The only thing is that official android app allows to watch only the first minute in free version. Works great on my ubuntu pc, ubuntu notebook, raspberry pi under kodi/osmc and android. Some are 'pay to make it work', but you can run you own VPN and access the media like it was local, assuming you have a broadband internet connection from home already. If you spend more time now, it is much easier later.Īlso, if you want to stream audio/video from anywhere in the world, there are solutions for that. Just depends on the level of effort you are willing to do on the front end for a smooth experience later. There's also the nextcloud/owncloud serve options with video players for webclients as an option. This is probably the most full-featured, easiest to use media center software, but Kodi would be a little heavy for a phone. VLC can be a DLNA renderer, client, or access files on a streaming site. Then any DLNA renderer/client on android or a web browser if you use plex's web interface. If you share the storage on the LAN with either CIFS or NFS, then any android that can read from those methods will work.

Minidlna, plex, cifs server on the Ubuntu side.

Firefox upnp player