[hirsivaja]

Video plugin for playing content from Yle Areena

Features:

• browse all programs
  
• TV programs on-demand
  
• radio programs on-demand
  
• live TV channels
  
• live Areena streams
  
• add favorites
  
• search for series and individual items
  
• paging
  
• grouping by publish date, popularity, remaining viewing time
  
• subtitles
  

Not supported:

• DRM protected content
  
• timeshift
  
• downloading of content
  

I have decided not to implement timeshift or downloading content. Feel free to fork the project though if you want implement them yourself.

Installation:
for Kodi 18 and older: DISCONTINUED
for Kodi 19 and newer: STABLE

Help & support:
GitHub page can be found from HERE
For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue to GitHub. CREATE NEW ISSUE

[ikke-t]

I have decided not to implement timeshift or downloading content. Feel free to fork the project though if you want implement them yourself.

Just to clarify, is that out of principle or would you accept PR if someone implemented those?

Thanks for keeping the plugin up to date, it's useful!

[laurent-c]

Hi,

Thank for this new thread, it will help to find it more easily the future update.
Thank also for the add-on of course.

[hirsivaja]

I have decided not to implement timeshift or downloading content. Feel free to fork the project though if you want implement them yourself.

Just to clarify, is that out of principle or would you accept PR if someone implemented those 

These features have been requested in the past, but they are features that I don't personally need and don't know how to implement. I would probably accept a Pull Request though.

[laurent-c]

Hi,

About the World Cup of Football which is coming soon, how the add-on will work?
The direct lives will be added automatically or an special update is planning?

[hirsivaja]

Sports and news can now be played through the API.

[hirsivaja]

Python 3 version for Kodi 19 can now be downloaded from:
BETA

[AndersG]

Python 3 version for Kodi 19 can now be downloaded from:
BETA

Thanks again for your efforts. Just got an email from Yle that they are deprecating some of the public APIs. How will this affect the Yle Areena plugin?

*** Hello, user of Yle API!

We at Yle have been taking a look at open interfaces based on their use. We
are disabling some of the lesser-used interfaces and focusing our
maintenance resources on the critical functions. For this reason, programme
data and stream distribution data interfaces will be removed from the Yle
APIs during the spring.

If your current API solution is of social or business importance to you or
your company, you can request access to an internal API whose interfaces
are different from the current implementation. At this stage, we are
accepting professional partners who use APIs to maintain services intended
for a broad user base as internal API users.

We are currently mapping out the use of open interfaces, and we hope that
you contact us via this form if the use of an internal API is necessary to
your operations:
https://forms.gle/hc6yFMyAvydgcq1JA 

We are aiming to provide access to the new interface to everyone whose
operations would be significantly hindered from not being able to use an
interface.

URLs of the APIs being disabled:

https://external.api.yle.fi/v1/programs/items.json 

https://external.api.yle.fi/v1/programs/items/{id}.json 

https://external.api.yle.fi/v1/series/items.json 

https://external.api.yle.fi/v1/series/items/{id}.json 

https://external.api.yle.fi/v1/programs/categories.json 

https://external.api.yle.fi/v1/programs/services.json 

https://external.api.yle.fi/v1/programs/.../{id}.json 

https://external.api.yle.fi/v1/programs/schedules.json 

https://external.api.yle.fi/v1/programs/...s/now.json 

https://external.api.yle.fi/v1/programs/...vice}.json 

https://external.api.yle.fi/v1/media/playouts.json 

https://external.api.yle.fi/v1/tracking/streamstart 


Regards,
Yle API team
[email protected] 

[hirsivaja]

Python 3 version for Kodi 19 can now be downloaded from:
BETA

Thanks again for your efforts. Just got an email from Yle that they are deprecating some of the public APIs. How will this affect the Yle Areena plugin?

This change would disable this plugin completely.
We are trying to see how many people use this plugin to see what our next options would be.
Please go answer the poll here:
Usage poll

[AndersG]

This change would disable this plugin completely.

We are trying to see how many people use this plugin to see what our next options would be.
Please go answer the poll here:
Usage poll

OK. I have voted.

[Franz47]

Viewing Yle Areena on the Raspberry Pi in the Chromium Browser under Raspbian has become worse over time for unknown reasons. Live TV sound has started to crackle and video quality low with frequent interruptions despite enough bandwidth on my internet connection. Even worse when watching already broadcasted programs.
On the Raspberry Pi 3  under LibreElec 9.2.6 with Kodi 18.X I have now installed the older areena plugin from https://github.com/hirsivaja/plugin.vide...ee/python2
Playing old programs works very fine but Live TV is not showing anything, not even a rotating circle showing attempts to connect and deliver.
I am situated outside Finland in the EU. AamuTV in YLE1 has never been geoblocked when looking through the browser.
Any idea what I could do?
(Except waiting for LibreElec 10.X with Python3 support)