Play videos from a UGREEN NAS on Android TV

Yonto Player on Android TV plays the videos in your UGREEN NAS’s shared folder straight from the share, with no media server and nothing to install on the NAS, and shows them as a library of films and series with posters and descriptions. It reads the folder over SMB or WebDAV, which UGOS Pro turns on in its Control Panel. You need a NAS user that can read the shared folder, the NAS’s IP address, and a few minutes with the remote or your phone.

It works the same on an Android phone or tablet, where you type the address into the form yourself (In Yonto Player).

Which to choose

SMB is the simpler choice on Android TV and on Android phones and tablets. Yonto Player speaks SMB 2 and 3, not the older SMB 1. UGREEN’s help says UGOS Pro supports SMB 1 to SMB 3, so there is nothing to change on the NAS.
WebDAV is the one to choose on a Mac, since only the Android apps have SMB.
Folder in Files is for an iPhone or iPad: connect to the NAS in the Files app (tap ⋯, then Connect to Server), then choose Add source, Folder in Files and the share’s folder.

Each shows the shared folder the same way in Yonto Player: its videos grouped into films and series from their names, with its folders beside them, and the posters you keep beside the files or that Yonto Player looks up online.

On the NAS

The steps below are from UGREEN’s own help for UGOS Pro. Its menus can differ a little between UGOS Pro versions, so go by what your NAS shows.

Find the NAS’s IP address

In UGOS Pro, open Control Panel, then Network > Network Connection: the IP address is listed there, usually under LAN1 or LAN2. UGREEN’s help also says you can find the NAS in your router’s list of connected devices.

Use the IP address in Yonto Player rather than the NAS’s name, which an Android TV may not be able to look up.

Let a user read the shared folder

Pick the NAS user Yonto Player will sign in as, or create one for it. A new standard user can’t open a shared folder until you give it a permission: UGREEN’s help says a standard user with none set is denied access. Open the Files app, right-click the shared folder with your videos and choose Properties > Permissions. Give that user read-only or read and write permission and confirm: Yonto Player only reads, so read-only is enough.

Turn on SMB

Open Control Panel and go to File Service > SMB, tick Enable SMB Service and choose Apply.

Or turn on WebDAV

Open Control Panel and go to File Service > WebDAV, tick the box that turns the WebDAV service on and choose Apply. Its ports are 5005 for HTTP and 5006 for HTTPS unless you change them under Advanced Settings, which is also where HTTP or HTTPS can be turned off.

In Yonto Player

On your Android TV, open Yonto Player and choose Settings, Sources, Add source. Choose Source type, then SMB or WebDAV.
Choose Set up from your phone and scan the QR code with your phone’s camera.
On the page that opens, enter the Server address, then Username, if it needs one and Password, which are the NAS user’s, and choose Send to the TV.
- For SMB, the address is smb://, the NAS’s IP address and the shared folder’s name, like smb://192.168.1.20/video. Add a folder inside it to open there, like smb://192.168.1.20/video/Movies.
- For WebDAV, the address is http://, the IP address, the port and the shared folder’s name, like http://192.168.1.20:5005/video. An http:// address is not encrypted, and the form says “This address isn’t encrypted, so the password crosses your network in the clear.” An https:// address, on port 5006, works only when the television trusts the NAS’s certificate.
The television’s form fills in. Choose Test connection, which reads that folder: “Connected successfully” means it worked. Choose Save.

Prefer the remote? Leave out step 2 and type in the form: pressing OK on a field opens an on-screen keyboard. Nothing is saved until you choose Save with the remote.

On an Android phone or tablet, tap Settings, Sources, Add source, tap Add SMB or Add WebDAV, type the same address, username and password, then tap Test connection and Save.

Play video files from a NAS or USB drive on Android TV goes through the same form with a video of each type.

Watching

Pick the source from the source chip at the top left of Home, then open Browse. It groups the videos into Films and Series from their names; Folders lists the folders and then the videos, by name with each video’s size, and OK on a video plays it. A title shows the poster and description kept beside it (how they are named), and Yonto Player looks up online what the files leave out.

A video you play goes into History, and into Continue playing on Home, under its file name. Choosing it there plays on from where you stopped.
Subtitles inside the file, and subtitle files beside it with the video’s name (Movie.srt or Movie.en.srt beside Movie.mkv), are offered under Subtitles in the player (Audio and subtitles on a phone or tablet).
What plays depends on the television’s own decoders: H.264 and H.265 in MP4 or MKV are the safe choice. On Android, Yonto Player decodes AC3, E-AC-3, DTS and TrueHD sound itself when the television cannot (DTS, TrueHD and Dolby audio on Android TV).

Free or Pro

The NAS’s shared folder is one source, and your first source is free. A second source, such as another shared folder or a Jellyfin server, needs Pro. On our website it is US$7.47 instead of US$14.95 while the offer runs, until December 31, 2026, one payment, not a subscription, and one licence works on up to 5 devices at a time. In the app on Android TV and Android phones and tablets, you can try Pro free for 7 days, once per device, with no payment details, and it ends on its own. Yonto Pro says how to buy it and turn it on.

If it does not connect

These show in Browse, with Retry.

“Couldn’t reach the server. Check that it’s on and on the same network.” Check that the NAS is on, that the television is on the same network, and that the IP address in the Server address is the NAS’s. For SMB, check that the SMB service is on; for WebDAV, that the WebDAV service is on and the port in the address is its port. An https:// address also shows this when the television does not trust the NAS’s certificate: use http:// and port 5005 on your home network, or give the NAS a certificate the television trusts.

“The server didn’t accept the username or password. Check them in this source’s settings.” Go to Settings, Sources, choose the source, then Edit, and correct them. They are the NAS user’s.

“This folder is no longer there.” The shared folder’s name in the address does not match one on the NAS, or the folder was moved or renamed. Check the name in the Files app.

“This account can’t open this folder. Check the username in this source’s settings, or the account’s permissions on the server.” The NAS user has no permission on the shared folder, or is denied access to it. If the NAS lets guests in, a wrong password can also end here, as a guest, so check the password too. In the Files app, right-click the folder, choose Properties > Permissions and give the user read-only or read and write permission.

Troubleshooting lists every message the app shows.

Yonto Player provides no content. UGREEN and UGOS Pro are trademarks of their owner, and Yonto Player is not affiliated with or endorsed by UGREEN.