libreelec broken addons

    The VRT Max addon is dependent on inputstream adaptive and widevine. The dependencies get installed in both libreelec and standard kodi on linux alongside the addon.

    In kodi on libreelec the addon gets errors and does not play content.

    In kodi on linux it depends on the linux version. However, when manually installing inputstream adaptive in linux through sudo apt-get install kodi-inputstream-adaptive prior to installing the addon on kodi there is never any problem.

    So I figure, to get the addon working in kodi on libreelec I should prior to installing the addon install inputstream adaptive somehow manually in libreelec (not through kodi on libreelec)? I have no clue how to do that.

    Can anyone help me installing inputstream adaptive on libreelec before installing the addon and dependencies in kodi on libreelec? Thanks!

    Quote from bvtv

    Can anyone help me installing inputstream adaptive on libreelec before installing the addon and dependencies in kodi on libreelec? Thanks

    The inputstream.adaptive add-on is in the LE add-on repo. If widevine is then required for some add-on it should trigger the install of widevine.helper which handles the download/install automatically.. at least that's my experience.

    Quote from chewitt

    The inputstream.adaptive add-on is in the LE add-on repo. If widevine is then required for some add-on it should trigger the install of widevine.helper which handles the download/install automatically.. at least that's my experience.

    Yes, it is in the repo, that's not the question. Maybe the question is why inputstream.adaptive installed through the libreelec kodi iteration doesn't do its job properly? In old threads on other forums it appears a known problem which is solved by installing inputstream.adaptive through linux rather than through kodi. Ownership/permissions issue?

    Anyway, how do I install inputstream.adaptive on libreelec not through the kodi interface? Terminal? SSH? Thanks.

    a) Kodi does not publish a "Linux" version; each distro compiles and provides IA for their own users

    b) If an updated IA version is released we have normally bumped our IA add-on within 24 hours

    c) The "old problem" you are reading about is an old problem

    d) If you want to faff about on the CLI using wget, unzip, and database hacking to enable the add-on, it can be done. As you need the 'compiled for LE' version from our repo though; why bother when it takes 5 seconds via the GUI.

    e) There is no current/known problem with the IA add-on (at least, it works here for me)

    /shrug

    Quote from chewitt

    e) There is no current/known problem with the IA add-on (at least, it works here for me)

    /shrug

    Thanks! May I ask you if you could test it with the VRT Max addon? Clean libreelec with only installing the VRT Max addon and its dependencies. It keeps failing despite being in country, and I think/hope I narrowed it down to this IA install?

    Perhaps look at https://github.com/add-ons/plugin.video.vrt.nu/issues for info on current issues with that addon. If the VRT content is both geolocked and encrypted it's possible that a specific or minimum libwidevine version is required, and as the add-on authors are always one step behind upstream changes there are occasional delays and breakage while things are adjusted. In some cases it's possible to manually download and mod things but we don't track that here, and there's not much point in me trying to test VRT Max as I'm ~6,500km from Belgium.