[jim_p]

MoojMidge
Is this possible?  To create a stripped down version that only needs to download/play from a Youtube URL it is send?  Kinda like a casting device?
Would this avoid the API requirements all together?

Memories of an era...
https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:TubeCast

It was also working for a few other sites I think. I stopped using it once its cast v1 protocol became obsolete on most sites, youtube being the most known.

[Mickeyluv]

@ApuCalypso Can you tell me what you're pasting into the API fields? If you can anonymise a screen shot it would be really helpful. The values I previously had appear to be shortened versions of the ID and secret but now the character strings are so long they corrupt my display by overwriting. I've repeatedly recreated the API keys and nothing works for me despite having a new IP address. I've tried different Google accounts as well with the same results.

[otinley]

@Mickeyluv

First create an API which will give you the 1st field needed,

Second,  create an OAuth 2.0 Client IDs which will give you two fields:
- Client ID.  You need to strip .apps.googleusercontent.com from the clientID if present.
- Secret key. 

With those 3 fields go back to Kodi and add them to the YouTube addon settings,
Then 
You will have toign in and register your device twice.
"The second time you Connect a device, you will be prompted with:
This app isn't verified This app hasn't been verified by Google yet. Only proceed if you know and trust the developer.
From there clicking Advanced and Go to <your project name> (unsafe) allows you to complete the process."

[The Diplomat]

Hello,

I can confirm that 7.2.0 version beta 4 is working properly. In my case, Kodi 19.4 is running. Just updating the addon didn't going well for me, maybe because my API and OAuth keys were from 5 years ago so I decided to create new ones just in case.

It's very useful to copy&paste it directly using the youtube API addon link when you have these keys (if you want to get the new API keys you should follow the guide at #2877). 

Remember to activate the URL at Youtube Addon settings, API section -> http://<IP of Kodi device>:<port>/youtube/api

If you want to type all the API Keys directly at the addon, it's fine too.

Then just go to "sign in" section at addon, follow the steps and introduce the first generated code at google.com/device and also introduce the second generated code at google.com/device.

That's it, everything up and working again.

[Mickeyluv]

You need to strip .apps.googleusercontent.com from the clientID if present.

Thanks. This is the key part I was missing and when I did this it all worked. On my Raspberry Pi4 two of the processor cores are now running 80-100% continuously and the other two averaging around 40%. My convection cooled enclosure smells and feels hot and I need to re-think this. Other video plugins run on average about 15%, briefly peaking at maybe 45%.

EDIT: Just realised I have a cooling pad that couples the processor to the case which I hadn't needed to use before, so will fit this.

[DjDiabolik]

Have to report my personal feedback:
I have a Intel NUC NUC7PJYHN whit a Intel Pentium Silver J5040 8GB RAM etc etc. I'm running the current and update Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS with Linux 6.8.0-51-generic and i'm using the current and updated version of Kodi 21.2 in flatpak edition.

Currently... as everyone has.. the addons 7.1.1.6 (i'm preferrer to use the unofficial) as stop to work at all. Every video i try to open "Verify you are not a bot ecc. ecc."

I honestly don't remember when it was the last time I regenerated my API keys but for made Youtube working as ever i simply update the addons to current latest beta... the 7.2.0 beta 4.

Everything worked again I didn't have to double log in or anything like that.....


Since I use the skin Estuary mod v2 (from kodinerds repo) it also shows memory usage and cpu load while watching a video i have try to look what's append during watching youtube video from this newest beta:
The CPU temp -> The maximum value i read here it's 75°C

The CPU Load it's have a bar -> on average during video playback the bar covers and goes just over half

Now.... Onestly when i watch a normal video like from other addons or from local storage (for example a mkv for a any folder of my hd) I have never given too much importance to these two values so i can't confirm that using this new addon in beta creates excessive stress on my cpu.
Some people report that their cooling system is so over-active that it interferes with the viewing of the video itself. Luckily this is not my case.

How i can eventually check the CPU temp for example when i'm on Desktop of Ubuntu and check how much the values ​​increase, for example when I run Kodi itself ?

However, it must also be said that the solidity of Kodi has recently been largely undermined by a general instability for a month now and you can found my report here on linux section and also a my issue on the flathub tv.kodi.Kodi Github fork.

To back in topic.... i don't have idea... 75°C it's a high value on CPU temp ?

Apparently i have this from terminal:

Code:

diabolik@NUC-Ubuntu:~$ sensors
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Package id 0:  +42.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 0:        +42.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1:        +42.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 2:        +42.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 3:        +41.0°C  (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)

acpitz-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
temp1:        +45.0°C  

iwlwifi_1-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1:            N/A  


I need to check if it's normal +30° when it's run Kodi.... and if i have similar value also when i not use the youtube addons.

Thanks for any feedback like this..

*EDIT*
This is my usage when kodi it's in idle:



70°C when kodi in idle and 75° when i use youtube i thinks it's ok. I thinks i have a similar value if i open a video for local storage...

[The Diplomat]

That's true, I enabled the logging and when a video is reproduced the CPU different cores from my Raspberry Pi 3 peaks to 100% during the video and the CPU-KODI value is above 100% constantly.

Will this cause some issue to the hardware? Will this be fixed at the stable 7.2.0 version?

Thanks.

[DjDiabolik]

That's true, I enabled the logging and when a video is reproduced the CPU different cores from my Raspberry Pi 3 peaks to 100% during the video and the CPU-KODI value is above 100% constantly.

Will this cause some issue to the hardware? Will this be fixed at the stable 7.2.0 version?

Thanks.

The raspberry pi3 it's a very old hardware..... it's time to pass in a better hardware...

anyway it's because now, if i understand correctly, need to download the files locally (problably in a temp files or similar) and kodi open it's in realtime and this cause a very high cpu usage....

If i understad correctly previous that it's possibly to obtain the mp4 link from youtube site and and the addon opened it in streaming.

Now it's used a local cache..... I don't know if it will be different in the future but from what I understand no.

[Francky04]

How i can eventually check the CPU temp for example when i'm on Desktop of Ubuntu and check how much the values ​​increase, for example when I run Kodi itself ?

Maybe one of this two Gnome extensions could help you to monitor your CPU temp :
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1460/vitals/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3...itor-next/

[drummerbod]

Have you used the setup wizard?

RPi 3 will only do 1080p h264 at best. Make sure you're not trying to make it do anything above that.

I upgraded to RPi 4s last year to support h265 content. In general a much better experience than the aging RPi 3.

[The Diplomat]

It's an old hardware but it's working fine with all addons, as media center if I want to watch movies from my PC and so on, I don't see the need changing it only because an specific addon is consuming high CPU, and I see that some other people with Raspberry Pi 4 are experiencing the same issue...

[DjDiabolik]

How i can eventually check the CPU temp for example when i'm on Desktop of Ubuntu and check how much the values ​​increase, for example when I run Kodi itself ?

Maybe one of this two Gnome extensions could help you to monitor your CPU temp :
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1460/vitals/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3...itor-next/

Yeah thanks for suggestion... infact I don't know if the values ​​detected by "estuary mod v2" are correct or not. Infact if exit from kodi and back to ubuntu desktop and run "sensors" from terminal i can see the cpu temp which has returned to around 50°C.
It's strange.. simply run kodi as stay in idle with gui and cpu temp raise at 70°C ?? Really strange also because then you can see that the CPU load is particularly low.

But anyway it's not right to go too off-topic.... we should simply ask ourselves. are these new cpu loads that we now have using youtube harmful to our devices? The difficult answer is up to you/us.... unless YouTube itself takes a step back in security control and adds more stupid things to its site, I think there will be no alternative as already said...

It's an old hardware but it's working fine with all addons, as media center if I want to watch movies from my PC and so on, I don't see the need changing it only because an specific addon is consuming high CPU, and I see that some other people with Raspberry Pi 4 are experiencing the same issue...

 Nobody forces you to change your hardware... it's your choice. but if in the future for some reason it is no longer usable, it is enough to be aware of the causes.

I threw away my raspberry pi2 a year ago to switch to this new minipc and you can definitely see the leap forward and how... but also that it's offtopic consideration here.

[kaminix]

Hi, I have 7.2.0+beta 5 installed and get the 'bot' pop-up. In my userdata folder it still shows and acknowledges my 'key, ID and secret' in the settings.xml and the api_keys.json files that have always been in there on previous versions. My problem is that the Youtube app is installed on an Android so when I go to sign in it gives me the temporary 'device pass code' to go to google and sign in. I can't do any of this on an Android. You used to be able to edit settings and json files with your passwords etc. to manipulate things to work. Has anyone here tried to sign in using an Android and if so how did you do it. Thank You.

[The Diplomat]

Hi,

Thanks, I will have in mind to upgrade my Raspberry, maybe in the next months as a birthday present

Meanwhile Raspberry 3 it's working fine to me (I'm not viewing videos at more than 1080p) and as I see other people with Raspberry 4 are experiencing the high CPU usage so if that causes an issue to the hardware (it seems unlikely if you don't use it extremely for a long time) this will cause issues to all the people and that doesn't seem to be happening.

My question was only about if that behaviour was related to some sort of bug and that will be solved but I see that at previous versions the .mp4 streaming was opened by the addon and now the video is downloaded at local cache (if I'm not wrong about that) so that's good to me.

Thanks very much to the developers for all the effort and the work, and all this community for your help.

[p__7]

Hello all,

I had been experiencing intermittent issues for months, which I have now resolved by installing the 7.2 beta 5 from the github page.

Sometimes the audio would not work. Sometimes the video would not play the first time. Sometimes I got "unknown error", and sometimes a message to please check the logs. When I checked the logs, I saw the message to please login to prove I am not a bot. But I already am logged in... So I found this forum and saw that people solved the problem by installing the 7.2 beta version. I wasn't sure how to do this at first, but found success by downloading the zip file to my computer, then using WinSCP to copy it into the /storage/downloads folder on libreelec, and then navigating through the kodi addons UI until I found "Install from ZIP."

It did not install two copies of the youtube app, it updated the app from 7.1.1.6 to the 7.2 beta. Before I tried this, I re-logged in to the API account, by first "Sign Out" in the app, and then followed instructions to sign in, making sure I was signing into the same google account as created the API key, way back when. I am not sure if it was necessary to sign out and back in.

After this, I was able to watch a long yt video (1.5 hours) continuously with subtitles and audio and no issues. I did not check if my rp4 was getting hot. I have my settings set to 720p h264 only, since my TV is pretty old.

Right now my only questions are
1. How to track whether the rpi4 is getting too hot?
2. Will the youtube app automatically update to the latest version when 7.2 is released?

Thank you to the developers -- this is truly amazing.