[BaldNerd]

Hi all,
A bit of history here: my Kodi add-on was submitted by a viewer who created it a few years ago. It has worked great, but with later versions of Kodi as of late (17.6 is confirmed to do this) the screen is just blank.

I am trying to "take over" development a bit--in that, I want to fix this, but I'm entirely green when it comes to Kodi channel development. I understand most of the code in our add-on, but couldn't tell you why it only works on older versions of Kodi.

Would you kindly be willing to take a look, and even PR if you're able... or at least let me know what I should be looking for?

The repo is here: https://github.com/Cat5TV/plugin.video.category5

The issue is here: https://github.com/Cat5TV/plugin.video.c.../issues/14

The add-on pulls a list of shows from a file called shows.php on our server. Each show has its own RSS feed. It works perfectly on Kodi 16.

I am so very grateful for any assistance you can provide.

Robbie // BaldNerd

[FXB78]

Debug log showing it failing would probably help.

[BaldNerd]

I agree, however the debug log shows no such thing. 

[Klojum]

however the debug log shows no such thing

We have a new Kodi expert in the house.

[da-anda]

nothing visible in the Debug Log which the user postet on the github ticket. At least I couldn't see where the add-on ever triggered any playback. So the bug is somewhere inside the add-on and not Kodi failing on the playback.

edit: works for me in Kodi 18 alpha on Windows
edit2: ok, seems to be broken on 17.6 on Windows as well. It won't even load the categories in my case.

edit3: I asked one of our python devs to have a look

[da-anda]

as already posted on the github ticked:

Talked to one of our python devs. Your add-on uses the content type

Code:

shows

while the correct one is

Code:

tvshows

. Once you change it, it works (just tested on 17.6 on Windows)

[BaldNerd]

however the debug log shows no such thing

We have a new Kodi expert in the house. 

Haha, fair point.    But yeah, the debug log literally had no errors or issues, so didn't help pointing me in the right direction (plus, as you tongue-in-cheek pointed out, I'm n00b) 

da-anda - AWESOME, thank you to you and the unnamed Python dev. I'll do a new commit now to test!

[BaldNerd]

Update: that did it! Thank you so much for your expedient help!

[da-anda]

the python dev the spotted the error was ronie, so all thanks to him

[BaldNerd]

On behalf of the entire Category5 community - THANKS RONIE!! 

[ronie]

:-)