LibreELEC (Kodi 20) keeps prompting user profile

hbbs · February 20, 2023 at 4:25 AM

Hi LibreELEC,

This bug appeared during the development cycle of Kodi 20. Apparently, at least on my installation, it didn't go away when Kodi 20 was released a couple of weeks ago.

I am running the latest test build of LibreELEC: https://test.libreelec.tv/11.0/RPi/RPi2/

LibreELEC:~ # lsb_release -a

LibreELEC (community): nightly-20230219-ebf3c2e

This is how you can duplicate this bug, hopefully.

Just let LibreELEC idle. The screen monitor will dim a little. Then you only need to hit a button (any) and after profile prompt will appear asking you to choose a user profile.

This is happening every time Kodi goes inactive and the monitor screen dims. Sometimes happens when I am listening to some songs over streaming addons like Radio Paradise

Here is some logging: http://ix.io/4oBX

Hope it helps.

Is there any else having this issue?

Please, let me know.

**chewitt** · February 20, 2023 at 4:31 PM

If this is a Kodi bug .. it should be reported via Kodi forums.

hbbs · February 21, 2023 at 5:30 AM

It turns out this was a 'feature' of Embycon (Emby addon for Kodi) that I wasn't aware.

I'll let the fix here in case anyone else might bump into this issue in the future.

You need to go into the Embycon addon settings and turn it off

EmbyCon Settings -> Events -> Screensaver -> Show change user dialog

That's it.

Hope that helps.