Kodi on Android

[Blindstealer]

i cant even get kodi to play a movie file.  stored on my nas, through addons or locally.  i get a file failed to play. check log error. 
  thoroughly disappointed in this board.  advertised as android being the "show floor" OS and android doesnt even work right. ethernet is unbearably slow, and keyboard support is horrible.  2 different Logitech keyboards would just drop out.  when, keyboard is working i get about 1.5 second lag between key press and it actually registering

I had a similar problem and a setup similar to you (tried to make kodi play videos stored on a different samba host), I had the pine connected to an ethernet gigabit switch and the green led kept blinking and network was slow/unstable. Works fine with a 100mb connection (had to put a 10/100 switch between the pine and the gigabit switch, lol)