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cashxx
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2017-04-08, 07:33
(This post was last modified: 2017-04-08, 07:42 by cashxx.)
My bad....was testing different versions of Kodi because of a problem with an addon and was changing the name of each version of Kodi in /Applications It seems if you change the name from Kodi to like Kodi Nightly Build, XMBCHelper doesn't like that and is what is used for the remote to work. Even though I quit XMBCHelper between launching the different versions, it didn't matter. Seems to be hard coded to look for Kodi.app, but thought I seen in the package in the launch agent it used variables so not sure.
Seen the following line in /private/var/log/system.log
Apr 8 00:16:53 homesvr XBMCHelper[556]: [ERROR] Path does not exist: /Applications/Kodi. Cannot launch executable
Deleted all version of Kodi and renamed 17.1 back to just Kodi and rebooted and everything worked then, was able to launch Kodi again with the Apple remote. Probably could have just quit the XMBCHelper with top or in activity monitor and relaunch Kodi once or twice and it would have fixed it, but took the easy way out and simply did a reboot.
Thought I had renamed the Kodi apps before and yesterday testing stuff I didn't have issues, so not sure why all of a sudden I had a problem. But seems to be what the issue was!
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Derek
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if you want to run different versions put them in their own folder and run kodi -p easiest from the console. (Portable mode)
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cashxx
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Thanks I wasn't aware of that!
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I am pretty sure that doesn't work in OS X - especially not with the XBMCHelper service for apple remote that is a special thing only available on OS X ...
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Well you can start it from cmdline - but the osx starter doesn't even evaluate the -p argument (actually it has no argument support at all).
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much:
click here
HowTo setup NFS for Kodi:
NFS (wiki)
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf):
Avahi_Zeroconf (wiki)
READ THE IOS FAQ!:
iOS FAQ (wiki)