jellyfin-kodi VS jellyfin-expo

In the specific context of the jellyfin for kodi plugin :

The jellyfin for kodi plugin does this.

JellyCon appears to work just fine. Jellyfin for Kodi is suffering from an upstream Python bug if you're running Python 3.11.0 that causes it to crash, but there's nothing we can do until they push updates out. issue.

Jellyfin-Kodi - "thick" Kodi addon. syncs metadata from the JF server into Kodi's local database for a native Kodi feel.

Jellyfin for Kodi - This addon syncs metadata from selected Jellyfin libraries into the local Kodi database. This has the effect of making interacting with it feel very much like vanilla Kodi with local media (shows up under Movies/TV Shows on the home screen by default, virtually no delay, etc). However, it also tends to consume the database and not share well, so if you have local media or something else that interacts with the database directly, you'll have conflicts and it won't be happy. The sync process can take some extra time on Kodi startup if you don't leave it running 24/7, but it's mostly in the background while Kodi is running.

The first factor is that for an extended period of time, the Jellyfin for Kodi was hard crashing Kodi and I couldn't actually run it to test any changes. This didn't completely stop me from doing stuff, but it certainly made it an order of magnitude harder to do so. Even more fun, now that issue has gone away for me, but one of the other team members has reported it's started happening to them. I can't find the cause, I can only assume it's a python version incompatibility or namespace collision or just fucking witchcraft, who knows. This obviously puts a big damper on how productive I can be with it.

Kodi

Jellyfin Mobile issue

Can't quite work out whether this has been implemented yet or not. I can see a part completed task on jellyfin-expo to "improve" ithttps://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-expo/issues/372 but that implies that it's already there ?

Yeah this is exactly right. I am hoping to have download support available as a user setting under a “beta” status in the next release of the expo app. Progress can be followed here.

The iOS app is open source, so you are welcome to contribute a PR: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-expo

It's maintaned by a single developer in his spare time, so I'm sure he'd appreciate it!

Timelines are hard, especially when it's an entirely volunteer ran project and there's effectively only one person working on the client in question (who also works on 2-3 other clients as well, and has a day job). So the "when" is basically whenever somebody with the time and skills is willing to work on implementing the things in the linked issue here, which would probably be the best place for you to follow if you want updates.

Well, you can see how much code was involved to get a basic version of it implemented. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-expo/pull/366

Not yet, but it is in the works…

Please note that this is different from our regular iOS app, which can be found here: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-expo