Play To Kodi Extension For Chrome: Send Videos From Your Browser To Kodi

Play To Kodi is a handy Chrome extension that allows you to instantly send a video stream from your PC straight to the big screen via Kodi. It’s actually surprisingly useful when you don’t want to go to the trouble of mirroring your entire screen, and makes for a more seamless home entertainment experience. We help you get started with Play To Kodi below.

Sometimes it’s easier to browse for videos on your computer rather than browsing for them within Kodi. But what do you do if you find a video that you want to watch on your computer, and you want to send it to Kodi to be played? If you’re on YouTube then you could add it to a playlist and then open up that playlist using the YouTube add-on for Kodi. But that’s not very convenient. There is a better way, and one which you can use for most video sites, not just YouTube.

The Play to Kodi extension is a simple browser extension which is available for either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. You can use this extension to quickly and easily send videos from your browser to Kodi and start them playing straight away. This is really helpful if you are browsing on a smaller screen and you have Kodi on a larger screen, so you can see the video as large and clear as possible. Below we’ll give you installation and usage instructions for how to send videos from your browser to Kodi with Play to Kodi.

Kodi Users Should Get A VPN

Many of the add-ons that are available for Kodi are created by third party developers and are not approved by the official Kodi team. Some of these add-ons let you stream or download copyrighted content such as music, movies, or episodes of TV shows Accessing copyrighted content in this manner without permission is illegal in most countries, and if you are caught doing so then you could be fined, kicked off your network by your ISP, or even prosecuted by law enforcement.

The best way to keep yourself safe when using Kodi add-ons is to install a VPN. The VPN will encrypt all of the data that your device sends over the internet, and this encryption makes it impossible for anyone else to observe or track your internet usage. Your ISP and any law enforcement personnel who try to observe your internet activity will not be able to see whether you have been streaming and will not be able to track which sites you have visited, which keeps you safe.

NordVPN – The Ultimate Secure Streaming Solution for Kodi

NordVPN was practically tailor-made to solve the problems facing Kodi users. Privacy is always a concern, with ISPs breathing down your neck, tracking and waiting to throttle your traffic as soon as you launch Kodi. But with unbreakable 256-bit AES encryption shrouding your connection, third-party snooping quickly becomes a thing of the past. In fact, it’s the same level of encryption used by the NSA–try hacking into that!

Additionally, you might be in a country where you’re quite limited in what you can watch with Kodi. But with NordVPN’s 5,800+ servers in 59 countries, you can spoof past geoblocks in any corner of the globe to stream a literal world of new content. This super-charges your Kodi add-ons, and even works with browser based services like Netflix (though this requires a little help from NordVPN’s 100%-automated SmartPlay feature).

We recommend NordVPN for Kodi because it secures your streams, gives you greater access to new TV shows and movies, and generally enforces your right to privacy online. There’s built-in DNS leak protection, an automatic kill switch, and the industry’s toughest no-logging policy on board to ensure your unencrypted data never falls into the wrong hands–or really, anyone’s hands other than your own.

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How To Install The Play To Kodi Extension For Chrome

Here are the instructions for installing the Play to Kodi extension for Google Chrome:

1. Open up your Chrome browser and go to the following URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/play-to-kodi/fncjhcjfnnooidlkijollckpakkebden?hl=en
2. Click the blue Add to Chrome button in the top right of the window     
3. A popup will ask you if you want to install the Play to Kodi extension. Click on Add extension
   
   
4. Wait for just a second until you see a notification saying Play to Kodi has been added to Chrome
   

How To Install The Play To Kodi Extension For Firefox

And here are the instructions for installing the Play to Kodi extension for Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open up your Firefox browser and go to the following URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-to-kodi4/
2. Click the blue Add to firefox button in the middle of the page
3. The add-on will quickly download. Now you’ll be asked if you want to install the Play to Kodi add-on. Click on Install
4. Wait for just a second until you see a notification saying Play to Kodi has been successfully installed

How To Use The Play To Kodi Extension

Once you have installed the Play to Kodi extension and set it up so you can use it to send videos. Whether you have installed Play to Kodi on Chrome or on Firefox, using it is the same. Here is how you set up your Play to Kodi extension and start using it to play videos on Kodi:

1. Now you need to set up your extension. Click on the Play to Kodi icon: on Chrome and Firefox it is the brown TV logo in the top right of your browser, next to the menu bar
2. You’ll see an icon of a set of cogs in the lower left of the extension popup. This is the settings icon, so click on that
   
3. Now you need to enter the details of your Kodi system, including the URL, the port, and the username and password if you have one
   
4. If you don’t know these details, open up Kodi and go to Settings, then to System info. This will show your your IP address, which you should enter into the URL box in Play to Kodi. The port is 8080 by default
5. While you have Kodi open, you should enable remote control. To do this, go to Settings, then to Services, then to Control. Now you need to enable Allow remote control via HTTP by moving the slider to the on position. You can also check or change the port number here if you need to
6. Once you have entered all the required information into Play to Kodi, click on Save. Now when you click on the extension icon, you’ll see an indicator of what is currently playing and controls to interact with Kodi
   
7. Now you’re ready to browse for videos. Go to a site like YouTube in your browser and select the video that you want to play. Now right click on the link to that video
8. You’ll see your usual browser menu right click pop up. There should be a section near the bottom that says Play to Kodi. From this section, choose Play now to play the video straight away or Queue to add the video to the queue
   
9. Now your video will start playing in Kodi
   
10. Note that you can also click on the Play to Kodi icon to use it as a remote control for Kodi

Alternative – The Kassi Share Extension for Google Chrome and Firefox

The Play to Kodi extension is great, but it doesn’t work with every video. There are some video sites where the extension can’t pick up the URL of the video and therefore can’t send it to Kodi, so the Play to Kodi won’t be available in the context menu when you right click on a video. If you find this is a problem for you, you could try out the Kassi Share extension instead. Kassi Share is also a browser extension available for Chrome and Firefox, and it works in almost exactly the same way as Play to Kodi. But it supports a few more different video formats, so it’s worth trying out if you’re not having a good experience with Play to Kodi.

In order to install and use Kassi Share, here’s what to do:

1. First off all, enable remote control for Kodi by going to Settings, then to Services, then to Control. Now toggle the Allow remote control via HTTP slider
2. Open up your browser and navigate to one of the following URLs: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kassi-share-send-to-kodi/gbghegmimhjemkhpimohkdopkeahldbh?hl=en for Chrome or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kassi-share/ for Firefox
3. Download the extension as usual – using the Add to Chrome button or the Add to Firefox button depending on your browser
4. Go to your browser’s extensions page or add-ons page and click on Options for Kassi Share
5. In the options menu, enter a display name for your Kodi system, plus its IP address and port, and its username and password if you have one
6. Now click on Save
7. Now you can exit out of the extensions area and use your browser to browse for videos. When you find a video you want to play, right click on it
8. Look in the context menu for Kassi Share – Send to Kodi
9. From this menu, select either Play to start the video straight away, or Add to Queue to queue the video for later
10. Now your video will start playing in Kodi

Conclusion

Play to Kodi is a simple but effective add-on for sending videos from your browser to Kodi. It is especially useful for browsing YouTube on one device and lining them up to be played on your Kodi system, due to the not-great experience of browsing YouTube through Kodi directly. You can easily install the Play to Kodi extension on either Chrome or Firefox, and it requires just a little bit of simple set up. If you’re having problems with Play to Kodi, then you can try out the very similar Kassi Share extension instead.

Do you use Play to Kodi, or do you prefer browsing for content within Kodi itself? Let us know what you think is best in the comments below.

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