Mobile Remote Configuration

I've covered controlling your Kodi device before, but that was only really practical on a Windows OS. Today's method should work across all platforms.

Resources

To complete this tutorial, you will need to own a Smart Phone, Due to the sheer amount of different phone builds across multiple platforms it would be pointless for me to do a tutorial on one app in particular. However I can make a recommendation, if you have and Android device of a high enough spec, you should definitely download and try out Yatse. Otherwise just do a search for Kodi Remote in your app store and you should find a couple. 

Different apps will need different ways of configuration, so check the App's page for installation instructions. 

Kodi Settings

You should have your smart phone ready at this point, but you may still have some empty fields, so keep an eye out during this process and you should be able to fill up the rest of those fields.

Ok, so open up Kodi, and head over to System, and then Services. Inside this menu change the Settings Level to Expert as shown below.

Go to remote control and enable the following options:

Then head up to Webserver and enable the option "Allow control Kodi via HTTP". You can setup a username and password too, otherwise anyone on your network can control your Kodi

Next we are going up to UPnP and we're going to allow the sharing of video and music libraries through UPnP. This will allow you to stream your media should you want to. You should also allow UPnP control here.

Now for the next step you will need Apple Bonjour installed if you are using Windows. 

Go to Zeroconf and activate the one option in there. That should allow you to auto discover Kodi on many remote control apps, but it will vary.

All that's left to do is configure your app, or hopefully you can just scan and find your device.