[brianflanagan]

Hi team,

I've be using Kodi 19.3 on my Mac for a while perfectly.
I've added the add-on IPTV Simple Client but after I add the Playlist location and PVR manager is refreshing then it stays at 0% .
The IPTV service provider works with Smartplayers (On my TV, not in Kodi) for example with no problem. Not sure if it's m3u or xtream though.

See the playlist format I'm using in Kodi:
myurl.com:8080/get.php?username=USER&password=abcd1234&type=m3u

On Kodi I see:
"PVR manager is starting up: 0%
Loading channels from clients"

Yesterday it stopped there:
2023-09-09 10:01:10.575 T:3468329 WARNING <general>: Skipped 374 duplicate messages..
2023-09-09 10:01:10.575 T:3468329 WARNING <general>: DARWINOSX: underflow (0 vs 4096 bytes)

In the logs, today it seems to start but then it stops:
2023-09-09 10:00:30.714 T:3458871    INFO <general>: Skipped 3 duplicate messages..
2023-09-09 10:00:30.714 T:3458871    INFO <general>: Removed stale TV channel '' from group 'All channels'
2023-09-09 10:01:10.575 T:3468329 WARNING <general>: Skipped 374 duplicate messages..
2023-09-09 10:01:10.575 T:3468329 WARNING <general>: DARWINOSX: underflow (0 vs 4096 bytes)
2023-09-09 10:06:53.954 T:3458871    INFO <general>: Skipped 82 duplicate messages..
2023-09-09 10:06:53.954 T:3458871    INFO <general>: Removed stale TV channel '' from group 'All channels'
2023-09-09 10:07:04.910 T:3458871   ERROR <general>: Skipped 320 duplicate messages..
2023-09-09 10:07:04.910 T:3458871   ERROR <general>: GetChannelGroups: Add-on 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:07:04.910 T:3458871   ERROR <general>: GetChannelGroups: PVR client 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:07:04.959 T:3458871   ERROR <general>: GetChannels: Add-on 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:07:04.959 T:3458871   ERROR <general>: GetChannels: PVR client 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:07:04.959 T:3458871   ERROR <general>: GetChannelGroups: Add-on 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:07:04.960 T:3458871   ERROR <general>: GetChannelGroups: PVR client 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:07:06.477 T:3458871    INFO <general>: PVR Manager: Started
2023-09-09 10:07:07.784 T:3471106   ERROR <general>: UpdateFromScraper: No EPG scraper defined for table ''
2023-09-09 10:07:07.784 T:3471106   ERROR <general>: Update: Failed to update table ''
2023-09-09 10:07:07.785 T:3471106   ERROR <general>: UpdateFromScraper: No EPG scraper defined for table ''
2023-09-09 10:07:07.786 T:3471106   ERROR <general>: Update: Failed to update table ''


I'v added the EPG setup and it seems to stop differently:
2023-09-09 10:43:52.420 T:3485314    INFO <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr.iptvsimple - Create - Creating the PVR IPTV Simple add-on
2023-09-09 10:43:52.436 T:3485314   ERROR <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr.iptvsimple - LoadPlayList - Unable to load playlist cache file 'myurl.com:8080/get.php?username=USER&password=abcd1234&type=m3u':  file is missing or empty.
2023-09-09 10:43:52.436 T:3485314    INFO <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: Create Starting separate client update thread...
2023-09-09 10:43:52.436 T:3485314    INFO <general>: PVR Manager: Starting
2023-09-09 10:43:52.440 T:3485333   ERROR <general>: GetChannels: Add-on 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:43:52.440 T:3485333   ERROR <general>: GetChannels: PVR client 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:43:52.440 T:3485333   ERROR <general>: GetChannelGroups: Add-on 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:43:52.440 T:3485333   ERROR <general>: GetChannelGroups: PVR client 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:43:52.442 T:3485333   ERROR <general>: GetChannels: Add-on 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:43:52.442 T:3485333   ERROR <general>: GetChannels: PVR client 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:43:52.443 T:3485333   ERROR <general>: GetChannelGroups: Add-on 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:43:52.443 T:3485333   ERROR <general>: GetChannelGroups: PVR client 'IPTV Simple PVR Add-on:connected' returned an error: server error
2023-09-09 10:43:52.444 T:3485333    INFO <general>: PVR Manager: Started
2023-09-09 10:43:52.608 T:3485326    INFO <general>: CPythonInvoker(0, /Users/MyUser/Library/Application Support/Kodi/addons/inputstream.ffmpegdirect/resources/lib/runner.py): script successfully run
2023-09-09 10:43:52.625 T:3485326    INFO <general>: Python interpreter stopped


I've put the same url in my browser and it successfully downloaded a .m3u file


Is this a known problem ?
Is my m3u playlist format correct ? Should I use a different type in the url request ?
How can I fix this please ?

Thanks for your help

[Dangelus]

Welcome. Please do not post logs or long snippets of partial logs directly in your thread. You must have missed the big red text above the "Post Reply" button indicating this.

Log snippets are not as useful as you may think. If you would like someone to take a look at your issue then please provide a link to your full Debug Log and post the link in this thread. Instructions are in the link.

[brianflanagan]

Apologies, I think I've seen logs in other posts. I thought this was helpful...

[Dangelus]

Apologies, I think I've seen logs in other posts. I thought this was helpful...

Full logs are helpful, and like I mentioned though, not in the main text of your post please. 

Feel free to follow the suggestions in my previous post if you would like some support.

[phunkyfish]

Please the full debug log and I can take a look.

What you could try is setting the user agent to vlc. There is an option in settings to do that.