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2011-08-06, 17:46
(This post was last modified: 2011-08-06, 22:28 by Tobby.)
There should really be a sticky with this information.
Do you have the same problem?
- I can't update via TMDB and I get "Unable to connect to remote server".
- I have no problem updating music, tv-shows etc.
- I can still chose different posters and fanarts for movies that already have info.
If you agree to all of the above statements this should help you:
Go to System > Add-ons > Get add-ons > All add-ons > Video add-ons > YouTube (in XBMC)
When you have done that press install and then restart XBMC. Hope that helps.
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dunno how this works (maybe the error stems from trailer downloads??) but it worked for me.
for confluence skin
System > Add-ons > Get add-ons > All add-ons > Video add-ons > YouTube
same for night, etc.. using XBMC 10.1 on windows.
Thanks much, have been plagged by this error for a few days.
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humm. there should be no invisible dep. we have left an old tmdb scraper (without the youtube code) in the main tree, it should immediately be updated to the newer version from the repo which has the dependency listed. what version are you at?
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I have this issue today, first time I've scraped in about 2 weeks. Can't update my TV Shows. It scraped half of them (I think they may have had the .nfo's already exported, as they were added again thanks to a mass-renaming of files) but the rest it won't.
It came up with the above message.
Please help!
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Same for me trying scrap using TVDB, but started saying...
Unable to connect to remote server
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I can confirm youtube is not the culprit for me.
I switched to IMDB and was not seeing the errors, however IDMB really started pulling some whacky names for movies and art, I think TMDB is much better.
It seems like there are two posibilities for this:
1. your connection to the api
2. movies that it cannot find information for
It seems 1 is harder to solve, because it is on a per user basis, but couldn't 2 be solved by skipping any movies it cannot find data for instead of erroring out and requiring you to click?
Just my 2 cents.
Anyways, trying to figure out if I have a good reason for not being able to connect to TMDB because it is effecting m ywindows box and ATV2.
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I am able to connect to TMDB just fine with curl, have installed and reinstalled YouTube, TMDB addons all with no effect. Tried the solutions proposed and still get the error "Unable to connect to remote server" The Dharma machines have no issues.
If someone cares to look at the log I can post it.