Kodi 17 & pvr.dvbviewer 2.4.3 & recording service 1.30.1.0 does not work!

[deathaxe]

With Kodi 17 beta 2 Live-TV support is broken on my system. I can't activate the pvr.dvbviewer addon.

Kodi.log shows

11:50:53 T:3320  NOTICE: AddOnLog: DVBViewer Client: Checking backend version...
11:50:53 T:3320  NOTICE: AddOnLog: DVBViewer Client: Version: 18743552
11:50:53 T:3320   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://127.0.0.1:8089/api/status2.html
11:50:53 T:3320   ERROR: AddOnLog: DVBViewer Client: Unable to get backend status. Error: Error document empty.
11:50:53 T:3320   ERROR: ADDON: Dll DVBViewer Client - Client returned bad status (1) from Create and is not usable
11:50:57 T:3320   ERROR: PVR::CPVRClients::UpdateAddons - failed to create add-on DVBViewer Client, status = 1

By changing the status URL to http://127.0.0.1:8089/api/status.html Live-TV works fine again.

bool Dvb::UpdateBackendStatus(bool updateSettings)
{
  const std::string &req = GetHttpXML(BuildURL("api/status.html"));

  TiXmlDocument doc;
  doc.Parse(req.c_str());
...

As I never tried another version of recording service than 1.30.1.0 my question now is whether /api/status2.html is a typing error or depends the URL from recording service version?

[manuelm]

api/status.html is deprecated since 1.30.1. See http://www.dvbviewer.tv/forum/topic/19629-recording-service-beta/?p=431016 + https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.dvbviewer/commit/5bbbafa36c1a4a4cc8ad3fcdef6d681ffc494497

Are you sure you're running RS 1.30.1?

I'll leave this bug report open as the URL change broke the detection of old RS versions.

[deathaxe]

Wow, very fast answer.

Yes I am running 1.30.1 for years now. Maybe it's still a beta built. If the URL changed, I think it was a good idea to check version and load from eigher /api/status.html or /api/status2.html just to keep compatibility with older versions. The integer value of recording service version is printed in Kodi.log as received from the /api/version.html. If I type 127.0.0.1:8089/api/status.html everything is fine. status2.html is not found (404)

[manuelm]

Yeah, please test upgrading your RS version. I'll fix the version detection. But in general I don't support older RS versions.

[deathaxe]

Tried recording service 1.32 but for some yet unknown reason, it does not start, so I need to keep using 1.30.1 with a modified version of your addon for now.

[manuelm]

So I just checked this and I'm doing a version check before pulling any data. Nothing to fix here.

From the first output the version check says you're running 1.30.1.0, however api/status2.html is not available, which is contrary to the RS changelog. I'll just close this because if you're running an inofficial build you're on your own.

[5anjar]

i have the same exact issue everything was working fine on the previous version how can i change status2 to status ?

22:51:47.380 T:30104 WARNING: PVR::CPVRClient::GetAddonProperties - Addon DVBViewer:127.0.0.1 (Not connected!) does not support timer types. It will work, but not benefit from the timer features introduced with PVR Addon API 2.0.0 22:51:47.390 T:58436 NOTICE: AddOnLog: DVBViewer Client: Checking backend version... 22:51:47.390 T:58436 NOTICE: AddOnLog: DVBViewer Client: Version: 18743552 22:51:47.391 T:58436 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://127.0.0.1:8089/api/status2.html

[manuelm]

The RS version check is incorrect. I forgot to bump it. You are running RS 1.30 but need to be running 1.31 or above.

[deathaxe]

how can i change status2 to status ?

HexEditor :-)

I tried with newer versions of DVBViewer and Recording services, but it crashed and crashed and crashed. So reverted to older versions and hacked the plugin to make it work with old status.

[5anjar]

First id like to thank you for your quick response :) I downloaded the rs 1.31 as suggested I got it working on the local machine but not the remote machine My remote machine is a preinstalled kodi android box i cant change the kodi on it The local machine runs kodi 17

Now i think i wilk revert it bak to a previous version Am not a programmer am mechanical engineer :)

Ithink the dvb viewer client for kodi shoud have a check box ( if u r using rs 1.30 or older

[5anjar]

On which file should i use the hex editor Can you expedite

[deathaxe]

I am pretty sure the dev will hate me for this post but he chose not to support older versions of recording service.

I used TinyHexer as I didn't want to setup a developement environment for such a trivial change.

Just search for status2.html and remove the 2 and add a hex 00 after .html for proper 0-termination.

CAUTION: Make sure not to move any byte of the code or this plugin will crash!

before

after

[5anjar]

thnk you alot its working like a charm i just got the chance to do it , you were very helpful

[joselete25]

Hi I'm new here and my english is not very good I have a question. The status2 for status in pvr.dvbviewer in pc is already done. I have osmc in my raspberry and it has the same error but here I don't have pvr.dvbviewer.dll. what am I supposed to do? thank you

[Jalle19]

Pastebin a debug log from our Raspberry Pi.

[joselete25]

I don't know how to copy the log of oscm. I took a picture Thank you for answering

[joselete25]

It's already working thank you Jalle19

[manuelm]

With https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.dvbviewer/commit/146cf89515dd0417fdb71a61ba9eef9d7b64ccf4 the required RS version got bumped to 1.33.2 (Kodi Leia)