[shmikis]

@shmikis 

Can you detail, step by step exactly how you reproduce this? It might be easier to figure this out that way rather than via a log. A copy of your settings.xml from iptvsimple would help too. There should not be anything secret in that file. It's located here: userdata/addon_data/pvr.iptvsimple/settings.xml.

Step by step:
1. Installing fresh copy of Kodi nightly
2. Enabling pvr iptv simple addon
3. Enabling local playlist file (hls links)
4. Enabling local EPG file
5. Enabling catchup.

that's it. No other changes from default installation. Tested same procedure on two platforms (Win10 64 and ATV) using three different iptv providers. Always getting the same error.

settings.xml:
<settings version="2">
    <setting id="m3uPathType">0</setting>
    <setting id="m3uPath">C:\Users\[USERNAME]\[PATH]\[PLAYLIST].m3u</setting>
    <setting id="m3uUrl" default="true" />
    <setting id="m3uCache" default="true">true</setting>
    <setting id="startNum" default="true">1</setting>
    <setting id="numberByOrder" default="true">false</setting>
    <setting id="m3uRefreshMode" default="true">0</setting>
    <setting id="m3uRefreshIntervalMins" default="true">60</setting>
    <setting id="m3uRefreshHour" default="true">4</setting>
    <setting id="epgPathType">0</setting>
    <setting id="epgPath">C:\Users\[USERNAME]\[PATH]\[EPG].xml.gz</setting>
    <setting id="epgUrl" default="true" />
    <setting id="epgCache" default="true">true</setting>
    <setting id="epgTimeShift" default="true">0</setting>
    <setting id="epgTSOverride" default="true">false</setting>
    <setting id="useEpgGenreText" default="true">false</setting>
    <setting id="genresPathType" default="true">0</setting>
    <setting id="genresPath" default="true">special://userdata/addon_data/pvr.iptvsimple/genres/genreTextMappings/genres.xml</setting>
    <setting id="genresUrl" default="true" />
    <setting id="logoPathType" default="true">1</setting>
    <setting id="logoPath" default="true" />
    <setting id="logoBaseUrl" default="true" />
    <setting id="logoFromEpg" default="true">1</setting>
    <setting id="timeshiftEnabled" default="true">false</setting>
    <setting id="timeshiftEnabledAll" default="true">true</setting>
    <setting id="timeshiftEnabledHttp" default="true">true</setting>
    <setting id="timeshiftEnabledUdp" default="true">true</setting>
    <setting id="timeshiftEnabledCustom" default="true">false</setting>
    <setting id="catchupEnabled">true</setting>
    <setting id="catchupQueryFormat" default="true" />
    <setting id="catchupDays" default="true">5</setting>
    <setting id="allChannelsCatchupMode" default="true">0</setting>
    <setting id="catchupPlayEpgAsLive" default="true">false</setting>
    <setting id="catchupWatchEpgBeginBufferMins" default="true">5</setting>
    <setting id="catchupWatchEpgEndBufferMins" default="true">15</setting>
    <setting id="catchupOnlyOnFinishedProgrammes" default="true">false</setting>
    <setting id="transformMulticastStreamUrls" default="true">false</setting>
    <setting id="udpxyHost" default="true">127.0.0.1</setting>
    <setting id="udpxyPort" default="true">4022</setting>
    <setting id="useFFmpegReconnect" default="true">true</setting>
    <setting id="useInputstreamAdaptiveforHls" default="true">false</setting>
    <setting id="defaultUserAgent" default="true" />
    <setting id="defaultInputstream" default="true" />
    <setting id="defaultMimeType" default="true" />
</settings>