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Hello All,

I'm trying to run IPTV Simple Client on Kodi on Ubuntu 16.04, I was able to install the add-on but when I try to enable it, that's ok, but nothing happens, the option in the home screen for TV does not appear and if I exit Kodi or reboot my machine, the add-on is disabled and I receive a warning that the add on must be enabled.

Here is what I have found in the logs...

22:40:09 T:139645538494208 NOTICE: PVRManager - starting up
22:40:09 T:139646513518976 NOTICE: initialize done
22:40:09 T:139646513518976 NOTICE: Running the application...
22:40:09 T:139645521708800 ERROR: ADDON: Could not locate pvr.iptvsimple.so
22:40:09 T:139645521708800 WARNING: UpdateAndInitialiseClients - failed to create add-on PVR IPTV Simple Client, status = 6
22:40:09 T:139645521708800 WARNING: UpdateAndInitialiseClients - failed to load the dll for add-on PVR IPTV Simple Client, disabling it

I had this same problem on my Kodi installed on a raspberry pi, if someone have some idea on how to solve that I appreciate.

Thank you! :-)

Yes after upgrade to 16 Jarvis this addon is older version in repo
i tried install version from ubuntu 14 15 etc.....
wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/u..._amd64.deb
but depends on libpatform1 ..................
spike solution

unpack this deb
copy libs to kodi addon lib on my system /usr/lib/kodi/addons/pvr.iptvsimple
copy addon settings addon.xml to kodi e.g. /usr/share/kodi/addons/pvr.iptvsimple
kodi crash when loaded libplatform1.so try create symlink libplatform2.so to libplatform1.so

mmm run ldconfig

after this step i se tv

Thanks EugeneSCH! :-)

I've tried your suggestion but unfortunately I've got the same results... :-(

The only thing that changed a little bit is the log, look:

15:12:30 T:139647934256896 NOTICE: PVRManager - starting up
15:12:30 T:139647564900096 ERROR: ADDON: Could not locate pvr.iptvsimple.so.1.12.10
15:12:30 T:139647564900096 WARNING: UpdateAndInitialiseClients - failed to create add-on PVR IPTV Simple Client, status = 6
15:12:30 T:139647564900096 WARNING: UpdateAndInitialiseClients - failed to load the dll for add-on PVR IPTV Simple Client, disabling it

Any idea on that?

Thanks!

copy addon settings addon.xml to kodi e.g. /usr/share/kodi/addons/pvr.iptvsimple - in this xml defined lib name

Code:
<extension

    point="xbmc.pvrclient"

    library_linux="pvr.iptvsimple.so.1.12.10"/>

this step success - kodi now search new lib

you need find where kodi searched .so etc.... in debian(ubuntu) this /usr/*/kodi/addons
in default my Xenial keeps pvr.iptvsimple in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/kodi/addons/pvr.iptvsimple

i create symlink

Code:
root@tv-home:/usr/lib/kodi/addons# ls -l pvr.iptvsimple

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root pvr.iptvsimple -> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/kodi/addons/pvr.iptvsimple

root@tv-home:/usr/lib/kodi/addons/pvr.iptvsimple# pwd

/usr/lib/kodi/addons/pvr.iptvsimple

root@tv-home:/usr/lib/kodi/addons/pvr.iptvsimple# ls -l

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      pvr.iptvsimple.so -> pvr.iptvsimple.so.16.0

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  pvr.iptvsimple.so.1.11.5

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  pvr.iptvsimple.so.1.12.10

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   pvr.iptvsimple.so.15.2 -> pvr.iptvsimple.so.1.11.5

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   pvr.iptvsimple.so.16.0 -> pvr.iptvsimple.so.1.12.10

kodi search dll(so) in special://xbmcbin/...
can be found in log
NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: /usr/lib/kodi

billv6

EugeneSCH

billv6

EugeneSCH

EugeneSCH