[corona]

Hi there,
I follow the instruction and install NetfliXBMC without any problem. However, when I open NetfliXBMC there is showing no profile eventhough my account is config more than one profile. There is no movies or TV shows if I click on the categories. Any suggestion or advice? Thanks in advance.

-QT

Hi,

I'm running on Ubuntu 13.10 - XBMC 14.
To get NetfliXBMC running I've installed Chrome (by sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable)
I've installed the chrome launcher addon and the NetfliXBMC add-on.
In the configuration I filled in my email address and password. Single user account disabled since I have two profiles on my account.
Other settings are untouched.

When I'm trying to launch NetfliXBMC I get the window titled "Who's watching?".
I suppose this should give me the chance to choose my profile, however, nothing is showing up in this window.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Sorry it looks like there's possibly some changes in the netflix website for some users, are you both using the US version of netflix? One user noted his netflix website had a beta site option in website options, could you see if you have a similar setting and try it on/off?

[Talguy]

I just installed this addon and been trying to get it to work on windows. I was able to map my remotes buttons but the problem I'm having now is I don't get any audio. I believe this is due to the windows exclusive audio mode that is part of the Kodi setup process per the windows wiki. How does everyone get around this? What is your configuration?

also how do you make it so that when I press the button that closes the browser window it bring Kodi back to the foreground and in focus?

[corona]

I just installed this addon and been trying to get it to work on windows. I was able to map my remotes buttons but the problem I'm having now is I don't get any audio. I believe this is due to the windows exclusive audio mode that is part of the Kodi setup process per the windows wiki. How does everyone get around this? What is your configuration?

also how do you make it so that when I press the button that closes the browser window it bring Kodi back to the foreground and in focus?

I hadn't heard of exclusive audio mode on windows. Just had a look at the wiki, quite interesting.
I think it must work when you ensure kodi does not hold the audio device open too long, as plenty of others have had kodi with this plugin running on windows. I run on linux and sometimes mac, very rarely do I get a chance to test on windows.

In kodi settings, I think under system->audio there's a setting for how long kodi should hold the audio device open for when idle, set that very low or zero. Perhaps even try turning off skin sounds to test as well.

I'm not certain about bringing kodi back into focus, it just works for me on linux/mac. Are you using the chrome plugin for remote mapping, or the windows utility? There's a remote control setting in netflixbmc that creates an invisible window overlay for the purpose of forwarding remote key-presses, perhaps try turning that on/off to see if it affects the return focus.

[cassperr]

Sorry it looks like there's possibly some changes in the netflix website for some users, are you both using the US version of netflix? One user noted his netflix website had a beta site option in website options, could you see if you have a similar setting and try it on/off?

I'm using the Dutch version of Netflix. There is a beta setting available and I've changed it to off but without any affect.

[aas88keyz]

I just installed this addon and been trying to get it to work on windows. I was able to map my remotes buttons but the problem I'm having now is I don't get any audio. I believe this is due to the windows exclusive audio mode that is part of the Kodi setup process per the windows wiki. How does everyone get around this? What is your configuration?

also how do you make it so that when I press the button that closes the browser window it bring Kodi back to the foreground and in focus?

The best answer I can give about the Kodi focus to foreground is playing with the Kodi Setting for Display and most importantly how you use full screen. sometime you have to keep change back and forth on that one setting for it to remember. This has usually worked for me. Once the full screen is in sync you usually don't have to worry about it later. I am sorry I don't know the direct setting path. If you need me to I can look that up too. Just may take a couple hours before I get to my Kodi system.

[Talguy]

I just installed this addon and been trying to get it to work on windows. I was able to map my remotes buttons but the problem I'm having now is I don't get any audio. I believe this is due to the windows exclusive audio mode that is part of the Kodi setup process per the windows wiki. How does everyone get around this? What is your configuration?

also how do you make it so that when I press the button that closes the browser window it bring Kodi back to the foreground and in focus?

I hadn't heard of exclusive audio mode on windows. Just had a look at the wiki, quite interesting.
I think it must work when you ensure kodi does not hold the audio device open too long, as plenty of others have had kodi with this plugin running on windows. I run on linux and sometimes mac, very rarely do I get a chance to test on windows.

In kodi settings, I think under system->audio there's a setting for how long kodi should hold the audio device open for when idle, set that very low or zero. Perhaps even try turning off skin sounds to test as well.

I'm not certain about bringing kodi back into focus, it just works for me on linux/mac. Are you using the chrome plugin for remote mapping, or the windows utility? There's a remote control setting in netflixbmc that creates an invisible window overlay for the purpose of forwarding remote key-presses, perhaps try turning that on/off to see if it affects the return focus.

OK I now know my problem now. I set kodi long ago to always keep the audio device alive. I'll try adjusting this option when I get home tonight and see if that solves my problem. Thanks for reminding me of that setting.

I just installed this addon and been trying to get it to work on windows. I was able to map my remotes buttons but the problem I'm having now is I don't get any audio. I believe this is due to the windows exclusive audio mode that is part of the Kodi setup process per the windows wiki. How does everyone get around this? What is your configuration?

also how do you make it so that when I press the button that closes the browser window it bring Kodi back to the foreground and in focus?

The best answer I can give about the Kodi focus to foreground is playing with the Kodi Setting for Display and most importantly how you use full screen. sometime you have to keep change back and forth on that one setting for it to remember. This has usually worked for me. Once the full screen is in sync you usually don't have to worry about it later. I am sorry I don't know the direct setting path. If you need me to I can look that up too. Just may take a couple hours before I get to my Kodi system.

Thanks I'll try that out.

[edwardcode]

I have looked really hard and I have not been able to find a clear installation guide to install Netflixbmc with chrome launcher on a ubuntu 14.04 server. I do not have a window manager running on my server I just run xbmc --standalone with xinit. Can some one point me in the correct direction to get this working on my linux server. I am very well versed in linux, buy my gui skills are a bit lacking.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

[Fatty Dunn]

I am running the latest kodi version on my windows 8.1 machine and when I go to configure screen of the add on and I try to enter my credential they keyboard pops up but it is blank of any keys. If I use my keyboard to just type my email in, its like the keyboard window isn't there and its hitting keyboard shortcuts for kodi. Also if I try to do it from the xbmc app on my iPhone it just does not enter anything. Also I am running the master version of the addon from the github site. This happens for both the email and password. If anyone has an idea or a work around that would be great

Thanks
Jason

[corona]

I have looked really hard and I have not been able to find a clear installation guide to install Netflixbmc with chrome launcher on a ubuntu 14.04 server. I do not have a window manager running on my server I just run xbmc --standalone with xinit. Can some one point me in the correct direction to get this working on my linux server. I am very well versed in linux, buy my gui skills are a bit lacking.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

You may struggle to get this to work at all without a window manager, I feel it may be a bit luck of the draw whether chrome will display on top of kodi or not. There's no harm in trying though.
You shouldn't have to configure anything as such, just make sure chrome is installed, then the plugin in kodi and put in user/pass. When you go to a show it'll try to launch chrome and just wait and see what happens. If you can't see anything chekc from ssh if chrome is running, if so and you can't see it you'll probably need a window manager.

[corona]

I am running the latest kodi version on my windows 8.1 machine and when I go to configure screen of the add on and I try to enter my credential they keyboard pops up but it is blank of any keys. If I use my keyboard to just type my email in, its like the keyboard window isn't there and its hitting keyboard shortcuts for kodi. Also if I try to do it from the xbmc app on my iPhone it just does not enter anything. Also I am running the master version of the addon from the github site. This happens for both the email and password. If anyone has an idea or a work around that would be great

Thanks
Jason

This sounds like a helix skin issue, all skins need major upgrades to work with kodi/helix - in particular the keyboard is blank until it's upgraded. Try on confluence to start with and see if that fixes the problem, if so then try to find an update to your favorite skin.

I'm still in the process of updating my own skin myself which is holding my main system back down on gotham, and limiting my time available for fixing issues with this plugin :-\

[edwardcode]

I have looked really hard and I have not been able to find a clear installation guide to install Netflixbmc with chrome launcher on a ubuntu 14.04 server. I do not have a window manager running on my server I just run xbmc --standalone with xinit. Can some one point me in the correct direction to get this working on my linux server. I am very well versed in linux, buy my gui skills are a bit lacking.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

You may struggle to get this to work at all without a window manager, I feel it may be a bit luck of the draw whether chrome will display on top of kodi or not. There's no harm in trying though.
You shouldn't have to configure anything as such, just make sure chrome is installed, then the plugin in kodi and put in user/pass. When you go to a show it'll try to launch chrome and just wait and see what happens. If you can't see anything chekc from ssh if chrome is running, if so and you can't see it you'll probably need a window manager.

When I installed the chrome launcher it opened in only half of the screen and it was not accepting input from my keyboard and mouse. The keyboard and mouse was still controlling kodi.

I am all for using a window manager, my only problem is I do not know how to properly implement a window manager into my minimalist xbmc (kodi) installation. Does kodi need to also start in a window manager, so the manager can manage both kodi and chrome? Either way, would you recommend Open box as the window manager? If not, what would you recommend?

I really appreciate all of the help.

Thanks.

[corona]

I have looked really hard and I have not been able to find a clear installation guide to install Netflixbmc with chrome launcher on a ubuntu 14.04 server. I do not have a window manager running on my server I just run xbmc --standalone with xinit. Can some one point me in the correct direction to get this working on my linux server. I am very well versed in linux, buy my gui skills are a bit lacking.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

You may struggle to get this to work at all without a window manager, I feel it may be a bit luck of the draw whether chrome will display on top of kodi or not. There's no harm in trying though.
You shouldn't have to configure anything as such, just make sure chrome is installed, then the plugin in kodi and put in user/pass. When you go to a show it'll try to launch chrome and just wait and see what happens. If you can't see anything chekc from ssh if chrome is running, if so and you can't see it you'll probably need a window manager.

When I installed the chrome launcher it opened in only half of the screen and it was not accepting input from my keyboard and mouse. The keyboard and mouse was still controlling kodi.

I am all for using a window manager, my only problem is I do not know how to properly implement a window manager into my minimalist xbmc (kodi) installation. Does kodi need to also start in a window manager, so the manager can manage both kodi and chrome? Either way, would you recommend Open box as the window manager? If not, what would you recommend?

I really appreciate all of the help.

Thanks.

Ah yes, controlling where the input goes and window resizing are both definitely wm tasks.

I used to self-manage a wm on my system with ~.xinitrc, by memory I started my app first (mythfrontend &) and then started the wm, which would be blocking.
As such you should be able to start the wm yourself after kodi, possibly even use a chrome launcher script to start a wm and chrome, tie them together such the the wm shuts down when the script finished. The chrome launcher plugin has an option to start a script rather than chrome directly, just make sure you pass all the arguments through to chrome.

I used a few different light weight wm's in my time, fluxbox, ratpoison, etc. I used fvwm for the longest, until my latest system install where I'm just using linux mint instead with cinnamon/mate built in wm's. For your use case it probably wont matter which wm you use, pretty much any of them should work. It's easy to try a couple of different ones anyway.

I'd suggest even just running the system how you have it now, with chrome half visible and non-controllable, then start a wm from ssh and see if that makes it all work (may need to alt-tab or similar to app switch once it's started up). Try a couple that way, see what works, then script it up.

If you can't be bothered with the chrome launcher script and/or don't mind a wm running full time, you can just start one from ~/.xinitrc as such: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xinitrc

[edwardcode]

You may struggle to get this to work at all without a window manager, I feel it may be a bit luck of the draw whether chrome will display on top of kodi or not. There's no harm in trying though.
You shouldn't have to configure anything as such, just make sure chrome is installed, then the plugin in kodi and put in user/pass. When you go to a show it'll try to launch chrome and just wait and see what happens. If you can't see anything chekc from ssh if chrome is running, if so and you can't see it you'll probably need a window manager.

When I installed the chrome launcher it opened in only half of the screen and it was not accepting input from my keyboard and mouse. The keyboard and mouse was still controlling kodi.

I am all for using a window manager, my only problem is I do not know how to properly implement a window manager into my minimalist xbmc (kodi) installation. Does kodi need to also start in a window manager, so the manager can manage both kodi and chrome? Either way, would you recommend Open box as the window manager? If not, what would you recommend?

I really appreciate all of the help.

Thanks.

Ah yes, controlling where the input goes and window resizing are both definitely wm tasks.

I used to self-manage a wm on my system with ~.xinitrc, by memory I started my app first (mythfrontend &) and then started the wm, which would be blocking.
As such you should be able to start the wm yourself after kodi, possibly even use a chrome launcher script to start a wm and chrome, tie them together such the the wm shuts down when the script finished. The chrome launcher plugin has an option to start a script rather than chrome directly, just make sure you pass all the arguments through to chrome.

I used a few different light weight wm's in my time, fluxbox, ratpoison, etc. I used fvwm for the longest, until my latest system install where I'm just using linux mint instead with cinnamon/mate built in wm's. For your use case it probably wont matter which wm you use, pretty much any of them should work. It's easy to try a couple of different ones anyway.

I'd suggest even just running the system how you have it now, with chrome half visible and non-controllable, then start a wm from ssh and see if that makes it all work (may need to alt-tab or similar to app switch once it's started up). Try a couple that way, see what works, then script it up.

If you can't be bothered with the chrome launcher script and/or don't mind a wm running full time, you can just start one from ~/.xinitrc as such: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xinitrc

OK I think I am getting closer to understanding this. I think my problem lies in my X configuration/setup. Let ms give you a little more information about my setup. I installed Ubuntu. 14.04 server. Then I installed xorg and xbmc. After I did that I created a script in /etc/init/xbmc that basically runs 'exec su - -c " xinit /user/bin/xbmc --standalone" <username>'. Ignore the single quotes. I could not use startx because it did not work for me. I was not sure why, but xinit worked, so I did not pursue it. An other odd thing I noticed is that xbmc starts up in tty2 or 'alt + Ctrl + F2' instead of F7. When I run fluxbox it will start up in tty7 or 'alt + Ctrl + F7' like it should, but will not pull in my xbmc session. Also an other thing to note, with my xbmc running I can not start up fluxbox with xinit. It says, server is already achieve for display 0. So I have to use startx. Based on this info do you have any idea what I am doing wrong?

Once again thanks for helping me with this issue.

[corona]

In the init script, you could possible leave it at 'exec su - -c "xinit" <username>' at which point I think it'll run ~/.xinitrc, where you can put a list of things to run. One of which can be '<wm of choice> &' before starting xbmc in the foreground. That way the whole thing should still restart automatically if kodi dies, so long as you've got the restart flag in the /etc/init file.

[Soli]

Got a little problem of Google Chrome not using the whole screen. There is a little bar at the bottom. It's not too bad, but I do wonder what the cause might be.
The same also happens when I launch a website using Chrome Launcher by itself. So it might not be a problem with Netflixbmc but nonetheless it might affect other users of Netflixbmc, and therefore the cause of this post.
My system:
Mac Mini 2006 upgraded with Core2Duo 2.33 running XBMCbuntu 13 64bit, but upgraded to Kodi 14.0 stable with apt-get. Should be identical to Kodibuntu save a few splash/wallpapers. I believe XBMCbuntu is using Openbox WM.

ATVclient is installed so it lets my use an Apple Remote in XBMC. The old Mac mini works more or less perfectly in XBMC.

For Netflixbmc I did the following

Added the Google Chrome PPA and have Google Chrome v40 stable installed.

Tearing in videos in Chrome was fixed by editing xorg.conf.
GFX card is 945GM. I have also tried to installing Intel Graphics Installer, but it made no difference whatsoever.

Google Chrome occupying only 60% of the screen (left side) instead of (almost) fullscreen was fixed by disabling Chrome control plugin in the advanced settings of Netflixbmc.

So the problem is that Google Chrome does not occupy the whole screen , as in fullscreen. There is a little black bar at the bottom. I have attached a picture that shows this (The loading text does dissapear after a couple of seconds, leaving only a black bar so it's not intrusive)
What could the problem be? Could it be the Openbox WM?

I almost hope it is because of Openbox, just waiting for an excuse to install Linux Mint with Cinnamon and it's not-so-bad support of HiDPI. (Which is nice also a standard 1080p display when you use it in the living room).