I have got this cool raspberry pi 2 setup which is hooked to my TV as a Media Center (osmc/kodi) and have got SickRage and CouchPotato installed to fetch my subscribed shows from the internet. Which later OSMC picks up and indexes with all meta and subs.
openvpn creates a VPN tunnel for all outgoing connections. So I can still use my mobile to ssh to and as a remote for the media center (Yatse).
Yatse doesn’t let me play videos I have on Rpi on my Phone (even when I am on the same network) under the free app.
So I resorted to dlna/upnp. One option was to switch on dlna /upnp on Kodi/osmc but that would have listed so much data. I wanted more control on what files to expose. So, I started a dlna server on rpi and accessed via VLC on my phone.
Here’s how!!
$ sudo apt-get install minidlna
$ sudo vi /etc/minidlna.conf
inotify=yes
media_dir=/path/to/folder
$ sudo service minidlna force-reload
$ sudo service minidlna restart
VLC automatically detects the server running on the same network.
All good! Seeking works great too.
Nikunj Lahoti 
This is cool !!!
😀 thanks! Let me know when you get one started locally.
why don’t you write on Quora.
It has a wide audience, the content will be appreciated by the users.
🙂 yeah will do. My technical blogs are mostly for myself as a reminder or how I got something to work.