[RPi4] Inputstream adaptive for LE12

sebb · February 20, 2026 at 2:36 PM

Hi

is inputstream adaptive available for rpi (4) / aarch64? One of the steaming add-ons requires it, and it did install the inputstreamhelper, which then can manage versions of inputsteam adaptive and others, but nothing pops up.

I'm on LibreELEC (official): 12.2.1 (RPi4.aarch64). and looks like the plugin is not available. Is that correct?

Or do i need to perform some other installs / actions?

Thx

**chewitt** · February 20, 2026 at 3:56 PM

inputstream.adaptive installs inputstreamhelper (widevinehelper?) which handles downloading the chromeos image we have to extract libwidevine from the first time an add-on that requires it is used. I'm using IA on an RPi5; which uses exactly the same IA addon as RPi4 (same files/repo). I'm using it on an LE13 image, not LE12.2, but that shouldn't make any difference as the add-on versions are kept in sync.

If something is failing there will be info in kodi.log.

sebb · February 21, 2026 at 2:33 PM

Once InputStreamHelper is installed, is it supposed to download the image and extract modules on it's own? Or do I need to do something?

Based on the logs it was initially complaining about missing directory:

Shell session

2026-02-21 13:47:47.501 T:980     error <general>: GetDirectory - Error getting /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.module.inputstreamhelper
2026-02-21 13:47:47.501 T:980     error <general>: GetDirectory - Error getting special://masterprofile/addon_data/script.module.inputstreamhelper
2026-02-21 13:47:47.501 T:980     error <general>: CGUIDialogFileBrowser::GetDirectory(special://masterprofile/addon_data/script.module.inputstreamhelper) failed

So I've manually created it.

I've also tried installing it, but it wouldn't initiate any fetches, and reports:

Shell session

2026-02-21 14:59:26.092 T:4610    error <general>: [script.module.inputstreamhelper] inputstream.adaptive is disabled.
2026-02-21 14:59:26.092 T:4610    error <general>: EXCEPTION: Unknown addon id 'inputstream.adaptive'.
2026-02-21 14:59:26.093 T:4610  warning <general>: [script.module.inputstreamhelper] 
	 Kodi version 21.3 is running on a Linux system with arm64 architecture.
	 
	 InputStream Helper is at version 0.8.5 
	 InputStream Adaptive is at version None  (disabled)
	 
	 Widevine CDM is at version (Not found) and was installed on Never
	 It was last checked for updates on Never
	 It is installed at None
	 
	 Please report issues to: https://git.io/JfKJb

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Looking into debug section, I can manually download the image:

https://dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chromeos/recovery/chromeos_16328.65.0_jacuzzi_recovery_stable-channel_JacuzziMPKeys-v1
9.bin.zip

On another hand installing Youtube which requires IA, fails:

Shell session

2026-02-21 14:32:43.685 T:4378    error <general>: CAddonInstallJob[plugin.video.youtube]: The dependency on inputstream.adaptive version 19.0.0 could not be satisfied.

Also tried with add-on without hardcoded dependency on IA, namely "ORF"

Shell session

2026-02-21 15:07:55.468 T:4731    error <general>: EXCEPTION: Unknown addon id 'inputstream.adaptive'.
2026-02-21 15:07:55.468 T:4731    error <general>: [script.module.inputstreamhelper] InputStream add-on not installed.
2026-02-21 15:08:27.506 T:4731    error <general>: EXCEPTION: Unknown exception thrown from the call "XBMCAddon::xbmcplugin::addDirectoryItem"
2026-02-21 15:08:27.546 T:4731    error <general>: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
			- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
		 Error Type: <class 'RuntimeError'>
		 Error Contents: Unknown exception thrown from the call "XBMCAddon::xbmcplugin::addDirectoryItem"
		 Traceback (most recent call last):
			 File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.orftvthek/resources/lib/default.py", line 6, in <module>
				 addon.run()
			 File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.orftvthek/resources/lib/addon.py", line 281, in run
				 route_plugin.run()
			 File "/storage/.kodi/addons/script.module.routing/lib/routing.py", line 130, in run
				 self._dispatch(self.path)
			 File "/storage/.kodi/addons/script.module.routing/lib/routing.py", line 141, in _dispatch
				 view_func(**kwargs)
			 File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.orftvthek/resources/lib/addon.py", line 186, in get_schedule
				 kodi_worker.render(directory)
			 File "/storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.orftvthek/resources/lib/kodi.py", line 99, in render
				 addDirectoryItem(self.plugin.handle, url=route, listitem=list_item, isFolder=folder)
		 RuntimeError: Unknown exception thrown from the call "XBMCAddon::xbmcplugin::addDirectoryItem"
		 -->End of Python script error report<--

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sebb · February 21, 2026 at 8:17 PM

Turns out it was a problem on my end.

I'm using Cloudflare DNS for families, and apprently "addons.libreelec.tv" is filtered. Hence I wasn't getting access to LE addons.

With that resolved installed went fine. Thank for support.

[RPi4] Inputstream adaptive for LE12

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