Can't use external hard disk as Media Source

[bastianilso]

Hi,

I want to Kodi to use my external hard drive mounted at "/run/media/bastianilso/harddrive" as media source, but it seems that this path is not accessible from the Flatpak.

• What is the right way to address this issue in the long run? Does Kodi need to implement a portal here? Or is it on the Flatpak manifest permission side of things?

• is there a temporary Flatpak CLI command workaround that can be used to make my external harddrive accessible (punching a hole in the sandbox) for now?

[bastianilso]

I believe this is also related to fx:
flathub/org.videolan.VLC#8

[bastianilso]

Also related:
flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam#55

is there a temporary Flatpak CLI command workaround that can be used to make my external harddrive accessible (punching a hole in the sandbox) for now?

I found an answer to this now.
flatpak override --user --filesystem=/path/to/your/harddisk/ tv.kodi.Kodi

[Marko10-000]

Yes, that's the current only solution that exists. Perhaps we should communicate that more clearly (see #47)