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We run a kodi in each room of the house and like to have the same settings on each. When we install a new add-on, we experiment with settings and like these to be the same too, in all rooms. So we use a file server with a "kodi clients" alias and each client has path substitution:

Code:
<advancedsettings>

  <pathsubstitution>  

    <substitute>

      <from>special://profile/addon_data/</from>

      <to>smb://fileserver/KodiClient/userdata/addon_data/</to>

    </substitute>

...

Unfortunatly, the netflix add on gets confused between the local addon_data directory and the shared directory :-(

log:
12:33:53.032 T:140259297527552 WARNING: SMBFile::OpenForWrite() called with overwriting enabled! - smb://fileserver/KodiClient/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.netflix/settings.xml

12:34:16.822 T:140259297527552 WARNING: Previous line repeats 2 times.

12:34:16.822 T:140259297527552 WARNING: SMBFile::OpenForWrite() called with overwriting enabled! - smb://fileserver/KodiClient/userdata/addon_data/script.module.inputstreamhelper/settings.xml

12:34:19.504 T:140259297527552   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--

                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!

                                            Error Type: <type 'exceptions.IOError'>

                                            Error Contents: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.module.inputstreamhelper/tmp/1.4.9.1088-linux-x64.zip'

                                            Traceback (most recent call last):

                                              File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.netflix/addon.py", line 33, in <module>

                                                NAVIGATION.router(paramstring=REQUEST_PARAMS)

                                              File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.netflix/resources/lib/utils.py", line 60, in wrapped

                                                result = func(*args, **kwargs)

                                              File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.netflix/resources/lib/Navigation.py", line 253, in router

                                                infoLabels=params.get('infoLabels', {}))

                                              File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.netflix/resources/lib/utils.py", line 60, in wrapped

                                                result = func(*args, **kwargs)

                                              File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.netflix/resources/lib/Navigation.py", line 313, in play_video

                                                timeline_markers=self._get_timeline_markers(metadata))

                                              File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.netflix/resources/lib/KodiHelper.py", line 908, in play_item

                                                if not is_helper.check_inputstream():

                                              File "/storage/.kodi/addons/script.module.inputstreamhelper/lib/inputstreamhelper.py", line 763, in check_inputstream

                                                return self._check_drm()

                                              File "/storage/.kodi/addons/script.module.inputstreamhelper/lib/inputstreamhelper.py", line 741, in _check_drm

                                                return self._check_widevine()

                                              File "/storage/.kodi/addons/script.module.inputstreamhelper/lib/inputstreamhelper.py", line 655, in _check_widevine

                                                return self._install_widevine()

                                              File "/storage/.kodi/addons/script.module.inputstreamhelper/lib/inputstreamhelper.py", line 540, in _install_widevine

                                                return self._install_widevine_x86()

                                              File "/storage/.kodi/addons/script.module.inputstreamhelper/lib/inputstreamhelper.py", line 442, in _install_widevine_x86

                                                downloaded = self._http_request(download=True)

                                              File "/storage/.kodi/addons/script.module.inputstreamhelper/lib/inputstreamhelper.py", line 304, in _http_request

                                                with open(self._download_path, 'wb') as f:

                                            IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.module.inputstreamhelper/tmp/1.4.9.1088-linux-x64.zip'

                                            -->End of Python script error report<--

12:34:19.702 T:140259297527552 WARNING: CPythonInvoker(4, /storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.netflix/addon.py): the python script "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.netflix/addon.py" has left several classes in memory that we couldn't clean up. The classes include: N9XBMCAddon9xbmcaddon5AddonE

There is in fact no local '/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.module.inputstreamhelper/' directory:

bash:
~/.kodi/userdata/addon_data # ls

browser.chrome              pvr.hts

peripheral.joystick         service.libreelec.settings

plugin.audio.radio_de       skin.estuary

but it can be found in the file server (with unfortunately an empty cdm and tmp directory):

bash:
/data/KodiClient/userdata/addon_data/script.module.inputstreamhelper# ls -lR

.:

total 12

drwxrwx--- 2 hts video 4096 feb 10 12:26 cdm

-rw-rw---- 1 hts video   88 feb 10 12:34 settings.xml

drwxrwx--- 2 hts video 4096 feb  9 22:52 tmp



./cdm:

total 0



./tmp:

total 0

The install of the netflix add on has correctly created and filled a cdm directory in ~/.kodi/

Oh, by the way, without the path substitution, the add on works very well (LibreELEC 9.0), but we'll go mad updating all the clients while we tweak the user interface.

robvh