Unable to see the PIP window

[ditronicos]

Hi.

I was able to install the addon, copied the pipkeymapfile.xml to /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps

Pressing the "p" longedpressed I can see the service starting but no PIP on the screen watching a TV channel

Tested at Kodi 19.0.0 (Pop OS and Ubuntu) and CoreELEC 19.2-Matrix_rc2.

I can't find any log about it to share with you.

Any idea how to handle it?

[mltobi]

Hi,

there are several "log" files that are stored under /tmp.

• pipcurl_stderr.log, contain something like this:

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                               Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  100 12838  100 12838    0     0   284k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  278k

• pipffmpeg_stderr.log -> ffmpeg should contain the capturing info of the currently activated ...

  Output #0, image2, to '/tmp/thumb.png':
  Metadata:
  encoder         : Lavf58.29.100
  Stream #0:0: Video: png, rgb24, 320x180 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 2 fps, 2 tbn, 2 tbc
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavc58.54.100 png
  fps=1.8 q=-0.0 size=N/A time=00:00:22.00 bitrate=N/A speed=0.869x 

• thumb.png -> last capture image

You can also check if the ffmpeg process runs correctly. ps aux should show something like this:

ffmpeg -i http://[username]:[password]@192.168.1.1:9981/stream/channelid/1169598191?profile=pass -ss 00:00:08.000 -f image2 -vf fps=2,scale=320:-1 -y -update 1 /tmp/thumb.png

.kodi/temo/kodi.log should contain the following:

2021-08-01 17:31:22.215 T:43924    INFO <general>: [pip-service] Starting
2021-08-01 17:31:22.374 T:43924    INFO <general>: [pip-service] download 130 channel urls from http://192.168.1.1:9981/playlist/channels.m3u?profile=pass.
2021-08-01 17:31:32.381 T:43924    INFO <general>: [pip-service] key press detected!

In Debug mode you get even more logging in kodi.log.

tvheadend server needs to provide your channels via channels.m3u with a "pass" profile.

I hope this information helps. tobi