diff --git a/homeassistant/components/media_player/kodi.py b/homeassistant/components/media_player/kodi.py
index 68161deea2f..9676fe451c7 100644
--- a/homeassistant/components/media_player/kodi.py
+++ b/homeassistant/components/media_player/kodi.py
@@ -76,11 +76,17 @@ class KodiDevice(MediaPlayerDevice):
         import jsonrpc_requests
         self._name = name
         self._url = url
+        self._basic_auth_url = None
 
         kwargs = {'timeout': 5}
 
         if auth is not None:
             kwargs['auth'] = auth
+            scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment = urllib.parse.urlsplit(url)
+            self._basic_auth_url = \
+                urllib.parse.urlunsplit((scheme, '{}:{}@{}'.format
+                                         (auth[0], auth[1], netloc),
+                                         path, query, fragment))
 
         self._server = jsonrpc_requests.Server(
             '{}/jsonrpc'.format(self._url), **kwargs)
@@ -195,6 +201,11 @@ class KodiDevice(MediaPlayerDevice):
         url_components = urllib.parse.urlparse(self._item['thumbnail'])
 
         if url_components.scheme == 'image':
+            if self._basic_auth_url is not None:
+                return '{}/image/{}'.format(
+                    self._basic_auth_url,
+                    urllib.parse.quote_plus(self._item['thumbnail']))
+
             return '{}/image/{}'.format(
                 self._url,
                 urllib.parse.quote_plus(self._item['thumbnail']))