2014-08-04, 07:27
(2013-10-22, 05:35)quaternio Wrote: I found a solution for my inability to login to Youtube through the plugin (and boy, was it a pain!). This is for people who have already attached their Youtube account to a Google+ ACCOUNT (as opposed to a Google+ page). Basically, we will be detaching your YT account from your G+ account, and then we will reattach said YT account to a G+ page. Thanks to taliz's post, which helped me deduce what was necessary for this fix.
If you are sure that your YT is not associated with a G+ account, my solution probably won't help you (unless maybe if you choose to create a G+ account, then create a page to associate with your YT account). If you are sure that your YT account is already associated with a G+ PAGE, just skip to step #8 and this should work for you.
This solution will not require deleting your G+ account or any pages already associated with it. Warning: after 14 days, your YT account will be permanently associated with said page (or so the warning dialog claims after doing this).
1) Login to Youtube on a web browser.
2) Click your account in the top right area, then select "Youtube settings" under the YouTube column.
3) In overview, select Advanced (or go to youtube.com/account_advanced)
4) Here, there should be an option to disconnect your channel from your Google+ account, click that and click okay/accept on the next page.
5) Go back to youtube.com/account_advanced as described before.
6) Click the button that says "Connect with a Google+ Page"
7) Choose an existing page or create a new page (DO NOT associate it with your ACCOUNT; and remember, this may be permanent, so choose a page name with which you will be happy)
*At this point, you should be given a login name with a format like <page-name><unique#>@pages.plusgoogle.com ; if not, you should receive it in an email. You will need this to login to Youtube XBMC plugin.
**From here, you have to add a password to your new page-associated version of your channel. I did the following:
8) Go to Google+ (plus.google.com)
9) In the dashboard (hover over Home), select "Pages" and choose "Manage this Page" for the page that you associated with your YT account.
10) Choose "Settings" in the bar at the top of the webpage
11) Scroll down and in the "Third Party Tools" category, click "Set up a password"
12) Create a password
13) Finally, use your <page-name><unique#>@pages.plusgoogle.com and newly created password as your login credentials in the YouTube XBMC plugin (replacing "<page-name><unique#>" with your unique login)
I hope this helps those who have yet to find a solution.
I am just wondering if anyone can help me with this. Ive tried the above steps with no success. ive tried my regular username, the custom google plus one (both with the whole @pages.plusgoogle.com and without), nothing is working. this was working for me up until a couple days ago, even with the google+ integration. my youtube version is 3.4.6, which it does not offer me any updates. im not sure which xbmc version it is as I am not a mac user - my brother set it up for me to use for streaming.
I love being logged in to my youtube account on it because I would use my computer to select videos to "watch later", then go in on my xbmc (which i use as my tv essentially, no cable or satelite hooked up) then i could watch those watch later videos without having to search for them using the manual pain in the butt keyboard.
If anyone could help me as far as why its not working anymore, that would be great. I already was attached to a google+ account before, and didnt try disassociating and reassociating until it stopped working. i had to use google plus in order to comment while on the computer (with real keyboard).
Any help would be great. maybe it does just need updated but that doesnt explain why it would randomly stop working when google+ was already integrated with my account with no issues. and actually, i didnt log out on xbmc either, im not too sure what exactly happened.
ETA: The addon itself does work. I can still search manually for videos to watch and the internet is still working. so its nothing connection related.