Pulsar Daemon not starting after upgrading to Kodi 15.x (ver 0.6.1)

[rainmanone]

weird problem, for some obscure reason I just can't get Pulsar to work on Kodi 15.0,15.1 or even 16. no problems with 14.2 I'm on the latest rev (0.6.1) My system is: Celeron j1900, windows 8.1 64 bit (bing edition), When upgrading from kodi 14.2 --> I get an error (in the log) that there's a problem connecting to remote machine. if I do a clean install of Kodi (and install Pulsar only), I'm just getting a request to restart XBMC before using Pulsar (and it doesn't help, I keep getting the request after restart too).

I see that pulsar.exe process is running in the Task Manager, but the notification about the Pulsar Daemon start never pops up.

any ideas how to debug it ?

[rainmanone]

00:25:11 T:2832 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false 00:25:11 T:3560 ERROR: Control 50 in window 10025 has been asked to focus, but it can't 00:25:11 T:2832 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 00:25:11 T:2832 NOTICE: http://localhost:65251/ 00:25:13 T:2832 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--

• NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS! Error Type: <class 'urllib2.URLError'> Error Contents: <urlopen error [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it> Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\raana_000\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.pulsar\navigation.py", line 6, in navigation.run() File "C:\Users\raana_000\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.pulsar\resources\site-packages\pulsar\navigation.py", line 64, in run data = _json(url) File "C:\Users\raana_000\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.pulsar\resources\site-packages\pulsar\navigation.py", line 43, in _json with closing(urllib2.urlopen(url)) as response: File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 404, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 422, in _open '_open', req) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain result = func(_args) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 1214, in http_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open raise URLError(err) URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it> -->End of Python script error report<-- 00:25:13 T:3560 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.pulsar/ 00:25:13 T:3560 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.pulsar/) failed 00:25:13 T:3816 NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false 00:25:29 T:2592 NOTICE: Thread LanguageInvoker start, auto delete: false 00:25:29 T:3560 ERROR: Control 50 in window 10025 has been asked to focus, but it can't 00:25:29 T:2592 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<-- 00:25:29 T:2592 NOTICE: http://localhost:65251/ 00:25:31 T:2592 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
• NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS! Error Type: <class 'urllib2.URLError'> Error Contents: <urlopen error [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it> Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\raana_000\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.pulsar\navigation.py", line 6, in navigation.run() File "C:\Users\raana_000\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.pulsar\resources\site-packages\pulsar\navigation.py", line 64, in run data = _json(url) File "C:\Users\raana_000\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.pulsar\resources\site-packages\pulsar\navigation.py", line 43, in _json with closing(urllib2.urlopen(url)) as response: File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen return _opener.open(url, data, timeout) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 404, in open response = self._open(req, data) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 422, in _open '_open', req) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain result = func(_args) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 1214, in http_open return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open raise URLError(err) URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it> -->End of Python script error report<-- 00:25:31 T:3560 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.pulsar/ 00:25:31 T:3560 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.pulsar/) failed 00:25:31 T:664 NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false

[rainmanone]

Error Contents: <urlopen error [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it>

[rainmanone]

Hi,

look like the problem is "solved" changing the HTTP remote control port in Kodi back to the default 80 (it was set previously to 9090), allowed the Pulsar Daemon to load, and now it's working properly. (every other port causes a connection fail). so.. it's a workaround, but it works (it doesn't happen in Kodi 14.2 though, no problem changing the port there)