Suggest an Android tool for browsing local intranet media

[nRiTeCh]

My family needs to view photos/videos at any given time without me requiring to turn on my pc and walk them through it!
I'm going to attach a portable hdd/ssd to my routers usb port containing such data.
From the phones one can go to the File manager, add network bla bla and browse from there.
But this will be too technical for my family esp. elders.

Thus, I'm looking for an android tool via which this job can be simplified and browse the media just like any internal media.

 

[biscuit]

you may look into kodi

 

[nRiTeCh]

you may look into kodi

I had a bit of terrible exp. with Kodi for streaming media between TV and Pc.

 

[Futureized]

You just want to give them ability to browser physical files/folders or play media ?
Windows SMB is a good soution

 

[kage]

Also look into immich if you can self host.

Doesn't get any better than that for personal photos and videos.

 

[Heisen]

Not an android solution, but should be pretty similar, once you have your drive shared via router, as long as it's assigned local IP doesn't change, on iPad you can add the drive once, and it will be saved, now your old folks will be only 2-3 taps (at max) away after the iPad is unlocked to access the photos and video.
Unlocked iPad -> open files app -> open shared drive.

Now I suppose the last opened directory will be saved, so the next time they open the files app, they will always be in the shared drive folder.

Just have the iPad connected to the same Wifi network, and you are done.

You can try on android tablet, but iPad is much better for old folks, large beautiful color screen with ultra simplistic UI, you can remove most of the stuff from the home screen and clean it even more, they will love it, might even start using it for other purposes.