[lefty420]

Version 1.5.6 is available now, changes include:
- Added 3DO
- Added Atari ST. Note I'm not an expert at setup for Hatari (the Atari ST emulator). Games launch, but setup of Hatari seems like it can be painful.
- Added Dinothawr (Thanks Lefty420!)
- Updated External Launch Database
- Updated Wizard for new game listings
- Updated function that searches for local files before downloading a game. This fixes quite a few issues with launching local files instead of downloading. This makes IARL a more robust front-end that people can just use for games they have on their local computer in addition to games they want to try from the cloud (best of both worlds).
- Added functionality to use games hosted from Google Drive or Dropbox. See wiki here.

I'm at the end of my list of gaming platforms to include in this addon

Awesome job sir, You certainly have come along way with this addon and congrats for this achievement. Its an integral part of my kodi experience. I cant wait for retroplayer to be out in the wild so more people can experience it. Again man thanks for all your hard work.

[thibs]

Make sure you dont have 2 copies of iarl installed this can happen if you install the zip from the git. Check you don't have plugin.program.iarl + plugin.program.iarl-master in your addons folder. If you do delete them both and re-install from the repo.

I just did. I looked into .kodi/userdata/addon_data and .kodi/addons, but I cound't find anything related to iarl. I have the felling that is something wrong with addon.xml. It's just a hunch.

[thibs]

Make sure you dont have 2 copies of iarl installed this can happen if you install the zip from the git. Check you don't have plugin.program.iarl + plugin.program.iarl-master in your addons folder. If you do delete them both and re-install from the repo.

I just did. I looked into .kodi/userdata/addon_data and .kodi/addons, but I cound't find anything related to iarl. I have the felling that is something wrong with addon.xml. It's just a hunch.

Just one more information, when I try to install, the error occurs when it's in 3%

[LupinSansei]

This is an amazing addon! Is there any way we can use our local collections instead of downloading them? Or create symbolic links to where directory this downloads the roms to?

[zachmorris]

Make sure you dont have 2 copies of iarl installed this can happen if you install the zip from the git. Check you don't have plugin.program.iarl + plugin.program.iarl-master in your addons folder. If you do delete them both and re-install from the repo.

I just did. I looked into .kodi/userdata/addon_data and .kodi/addons, but I cound't find anything related to iarl. I have the felling that is something wrong with addon.xml. It's just a hunch.

Just one more information, when I try to install, the error occurs when it's in 3%

You could check the log to see where it's failing, but I'm guessing it's having an issue installing one of the required modules:

Code:

<import addon="xbmc.python" version="2.14.0"/>
    <import addon="plugin.video.youtube" version="5.1.9"/>
    <import addon="script.module.dateutil" version="2.4.2"/>
    <import addon="script.module.requests" version="2.9.1"/>

What version of Kodi are you using? I'm guessing there's some sort of incompatability with your version. I've developed IARL on Kodi v15 so it should work with that or any later version.

Also, if installing by zip, use the latest version from here, although installation by repository is better for automatic updates.

[zachmorris]

This is an amazing addon! Is there any way we can use our local collections instead of downloading them? Or create symbolic links to where directory this downloads the roms to?

You can use local collections. IARL will by default look for a local file first before it downloads. If the file is found locally, it will launch that instead. If it doesn't find it, it will download it.

If you want to use local files, ensure the following:
1) The game list of interest is pointed to download to the directory where your local files are saved
2) The local files are named exactly the same as the ones listed in the game list

See the addon settings for 'Game Already Exists Locally' and game list settings for 'Download Path'

You can also checkout AEL for launching games saved locally.

[thibs]

You could check the log to see where it's failing, but I'm guessing it's having an issue installing one of the required modules:

Code:

<import addon="xbmc.python" version="2.14.0"/>
    <import addon="plugin.video.youtube" version="5.1.9"/>
    <import addon="script.module.dateutil" version="2.4.2"/>
    <import addon="script.module.requests" version="2.9.1"/>

What version of Kodi are you using? I'm guessing there's some sort of incompatability with your version. I've developed IARL on Kodi v15 so it should work with that or any later version.

Also, if installing by zip, use the latest version from here, although installation by repository is better for automatic updates.

I'm using Kodi 15.2 (OpenElec-Isengard). I'm going to try again using your repository and I'll post the log here.

[thibs]

You could check the log to see where it's failing, but I'm guessing it's having an issue installing one of the required modules:

Code:

<import addon="xbmc.python" version="2.14.0"/>
    <import addon="plugin.video.youtube" version="5.1.9"/>
    <import addon="script.module.dateutil" version="2.4.2"/>
    <import addon="script.module.requests" version="2.9.1"/>

What version of Kodi are you using? I'm guessing there's some sort of incompatability with your version. I've developed IARL on Kodi v15 so it should work with that or any later version.

Also, if installing by zip, use the latest version from here, although installation by repository is better for automatic updates.

I'm using Kodi 15.2 (OpenElec-Isengard). I'm going to try again using your repository and I'll post the log here.

I got the same error. Here is the log of IARL installation. I just copy everything and I know there is a lot of useless things, but I prefer to have sure. I believe this is what tells the error:

Code:

16:39:43 240.646439 T:1711273024   ERROR: CAddonInstallJob[plugin.program.iarl]: could not read addon description of special://home/addons/plugin.program.iarl
16:39:43 240.656952 T:1967575040   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogKaiToast.xml) ------
16:39:43 240.708755 T:1967575040   DEBUG: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory (addons://repository.zachmorris/xbmc.addon.video)
16:39:43 240.709076 T:1967575040   DEBUG:   ParentPath = [addons://repository.zachmorris/xbmc.addon.video]
16:39:43 240.733932 T:1416578112  NOTICE: Thread BackgroundLoader start, auto delete: false
16:39:43 240.738510 T:1416578112   DEBUG: Thread BackgroundLoader 1416578112 terminating
16:39:48 245.606781 T:1967575040   DEBUG: SECTION:UnloadDelayed(DLL: special://xbmcbin/system/ImageLib-arm.so)
16:39:48 245.607040 T:1967575040   DEBUG: Unloading: /ImageLib-arm.so
16:39:48 246.051056 T:1967575040   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogKaiToast.xml) ------
16:40:11 268.440735 T:1408189504   ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Transferred a partial file(18)
16:40:11 268.441071 T:1408189504  NOTICE: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Reconnect, (re)try 1
16:40:13 270.710785 T:1711273024   DEBUG: Thread JobWorker 1711273024 terminating (autodelete)
16:40:13 270.722198 T:1785947200   DEBUG: Thread JobWorker 1785947200 terminating (autodelete)

[zachmorris]

You could check the log to see where it's failing, but I'm guessing it's having an issue installing one of the required modules:

Code:

<import addon="xbmc.python" version="2.14.0"/>
    <import addon="plugin.video.youtube" version="5.1.9"/>
    <import addon="script.module.dateutil" version="2.4.2"/>
    <import addon="script.module.requests" version="2.9.1"/>

What version of Kodi are you using? I'm guessing there's some sort of incompatability with your version. I've developed IARL on Kodi v15 so it should work with that or any later version.

Also, if installing by zip, use the latest version from here, although installation by repository is better for automatic updates.

I'm using Kodi 15.2 (OpenElec-Isengard). I'm going to try again using your repository and I'll post the log here.

Code:

16:39:43 240.646439 T:1711273024   ERROR: CAddonInstallJob[plugin.program.iarl]: could not read addon description of special://home/addons/plugin.program.iarl

No idea what the issue is, but a quick googling makes it sound like there's a corrupt file in your addon folder. You can try the following:
1. Delete the addon folders 'plugin.program.iarl' within .kodi/addons and .kodi/userdata/addon_data
2. Restart Kodi
3. Re-install IARL

If that doesn't work, you can manually install by:
1. Copy the folder 'plugin.program.iarl' into your .kodi/addons folder
2. Ensure the required supporting pluins are installed (you might have to manually install them, this is automatic if you install the normal way):
plugin.video.youtube
script.module.dateutil
script.module.requests

[thibs]

No idea what the issue is, but a quick googling makes it sound like there's a corrupt file in your addon folder. You can try the following:
1. Delete the addon folders 'plugin.program.iarl' within .kodi/addons and .kodi/userdata/addon_data
2. Restart Kodi
3. Re-install IARL

If that doesn't work, you can manually install by:
1. Copy the folder 'plugin.program.iarl' into your .kodi/addons folder
2. Ensure the required supporting pluins are installed (you might have to manually install them, this is automatic if you install the normal way):
plugin.video.youtube
script.module.dateutil
script.module.requests

I tried to install in a clean version of OpenElec 15.2 and it didn't work as well. I have the plugins with updated version of them. Should I change the version in addons.xml to the version of my plugin?

[thibs]

No idea what the issue is, but a quick googling makes it sound like there's a corrupt file in your addon folder. You can try the following:
1. Delete the addon folders 'plugin.program.iarl' within .kodi/addons and .kodi/userdata/addon_data
2. Restart Kodi
3. Re-install IARL

If that doesn't work, you can manually install by:
1. Copy the folder 'plugin.program.iarl' into your .kodi/addons folder
2. Ensure the required supporting pluins are installed (you might have to manually install them, this is automatic if you install the normal way):
plugin.video.youtube
script.module.dateutil
script.module.requests

I tried to install in a clean version of OpenElec 15.2 and it didn't work as well. I have the plugins with updated version of them. Should I change the version in addons.xml to the version of my plugin?

So, I installed using addon installer and it worked. Thanks for all the help

[thibs]

Now, i have one more problem LOL. For my gba(although I believe is for every emulator), after I downloaded a rom, the addon unzip the rom, but it's saved with a name with commas and when I tried to lunch, IARL doesn't recognize and try to download again. If I remove the commas, IARL recognizes the archive and open without download. Here is two examples:
Addon make the file with this name: 007 - NightFire (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De).gba -> does not recognize
I make the changes for: 007 - NightFire (USA Europe) (EnFrDe).gba -> It does recognize!
How do I fix that?

[zachmorris]

Now, i have one more problem LOL. For my gba(although I believe is for every emulator), after I downloaded a rom, the addon unzip the rom, but it's saved with a name with commas and when I tried to lunch, IARL doesn't recognize and try to download again. If I remove the commas, IARL recognizes the archive and open without download. Here is two examples:
Addon make the file with this name: 007 - NightFire (USA, Europe) (En,Fr,De).gba -> does not recognize
I make the changes for: 007 - NightFire (USA Europe) (EnFrDe).gba -> It does recognize!
How do I fix that?

Thanks for the report. Appears to be a bug. I'll fix it.

[LupinSansei]

This is an amazing addon! Is there any way we can use our local collections instead of downloading them? Or create symbolic links to where directory this downloads the roms to?

You can use local collections. IARL will by default look for a local file first before it downloads. If the file is found locally, it will launch that instead. If it doesn't find it, it will download it.

If you want to use local files, ensure the following:
1) The game list of interest is pointed to download to the directory where your local files are saved
2) The local files are named exactly the same as the ones listed in the game list

See the addon settings for 'Game Already Exists Locally' and game list settings for 'Download Path'

You can also checkout AEL for launching games saved locally.

Thanks! I'll give both options a shot. Keep up the awesome work

[zachmorris]

This is an amazing addon! Is there any way we can use our local collections instead of downloading them? Or create symbolic links to where directory this downloads the roms to?

You can use local collections. IARL will by default look for a local file first before it downloads. If the file is found locally, it will launch that instead. If it doesn't find it, it will download it.

If you want to use local files, ensure the following:
1) The game list of interest is pointed to download to the directory where your local files are saved
2) The local files are named exactly the same as the ones listed in the game list

See the addon settings for 'Game Already Exists Locally' and game list settings for 'Download Path'

You can also checkout AEL for launching games saved locally.

Thanks! I'll give both options a shot. Keep up the awesome work

Just a little more detail. Here's how I'm using the addon for a all-in-one type gaming system:

• I've created a folder for each system on my computer (nes, genesis, atari_2600, etc)
  
• For each game list in IARL, I select 'Update Download Path' and point to the folder I made
  
• Launch the game you want to play from IARL, the first time you play the game it will download the required files to the folder you pointed to
  
• Now, the next time I want to play that game, just go and select the game again. The addon will see the required files already exist locally and launch the game directly
  

Version 1.5.7 is available for a few bug fixes.