IPTV Simple Client CURL issue

1st Official Post

    Hey guys,

    I’m trying to update my librelec (rpi 3) 8.2.5 to 9.0 or 9.2.

    I’m using IPTV Simple Client to watch tv from a m3u playlist, but it doesn’t work from the 9.0 version.

    As I have realized, from v9.0, Kodi is using Curl for sending requests to the iptv server, and my kodi log confirms this, I see Curl errors, like “server is not responding”.


    I saw this thread, the guy solved it by setting the user agent, but it didn’t help me.

    [SOLVED] On LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-9.0-Milhouse-201806xxx PVR SIMPLE CLIENT Not Work


    i will copy my kodi log here very soon :)


    Do you have any idea how could I solve this ? Or can you recommend another pvr client which is not using curl ? But I guess this is a system-wide feature...


    thanks

    Same problem...

    2020-10-15 22:10:52.190 T:1807721344 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: HTTP returned error 403

    2020-10-15 22:10:52.190 T:1807721344 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 403 for http://aaaaa.com/bbb:

    2020-10-15 22:10:52.190 T:1807721344 ERROR: Open - failed to open source <http://aaaaa.com/bbb>

    2020-10-15 22:10:52.190 T:1807721344 ERROR: AddOnLog: PVR IPTV Simple Client: Unable to load playlist file http://aaaaa.com/bbb': file is missing or empty.

    It suddenly stoped working...

    The same URL works fine on GSE IPTV on iPhone/Android, the channels URLs works normally on VLC...

    Only LibreElec / IPTV Simple Client stoped working :(

    Running on RPI3 + LibreElec 9.2.4 and also in a RPI1 + LibreElec 9.2.4. Both stoped working.

    Even the weather ADDON stoped working - even with all internet connection tests working fine.

    Is there any update on LibreElec that could cause general curl/connectivity problems?

    So weird...

    Guilherme

    • Official Post

    The HTTP 403 Is a HTTP status code meaning access to the requested resource is forbidden for some reason. The server understood the request, but will not fulfill it due to client-related issues.

    Check http://aaaaa.com/bbb with a browser. This might provide information about your issue.

    The server might not like the user-agent used by IPTV simple.

    Workaround:

    -Install a nightly version of libreelec with Kodi 19

    -ssh to libreelec

    -create a file called "advancedsettings.xml" in /storage/.kodi/userdata folder

    Code
    cd /storage/.kodi/userdata
touch advancedsettings.xml
nano advancedsettings.xml

    -add this code to the advancedsettings.xml file

    Code
    <advancedsettings>
  <network>
    <disablehttp2>true</disablehttp2>
  </network>
</advancedsettings>

    -save and exit nano (CTRL+X)

    -reboot

    Code
    reboot

    The nightly version i´m using is very buggy in Rpi 1b..wireless not working correctly and everytime i reboot libreelec requires to install again simple iptv addon.

    But got my iptv working again