Settings addon is not yet ready, please try again later

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    After migrating to LibreELEC (and what an improvement it is, everything runs much better and smoother!) I am left with one problem: I am unable to change any LibreELEC system settings. When I try to run the LibreELEC configuration add-on, I get the following error message:

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    Settings addon is not yet ready, please try again later

    I've googled for it, but the only references to this error message that I can find relate to LE 7.90 alpha and I can find nothing useful.

    I'd supply a debug log file, but I need to enable that under the system settings that I can't get into.

    Suggestions, anyone?

    Tnx!

    // FvW

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    this is really strange. Would be intersting from which OE version you tried to migrate and what skin might be in use then

    Could you please try for a test to do a hard reset by:

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    mv /storage/.kodi /storage/kodi-bak

    That will remove all your settings and installed addons, but those will be stored in the "kodi-bak"-folder. I'm not sure what exactly causes the issue, but the message cames from here:

    service.libreelec.settings/default.py at 17315f4066454fb9ef12d36c465cb423726757a9 · LibreELEC/service.libreelec.settings · GitHub

    Quote from DaVu


    this is really strange. Would be intersting from which OE version you tried to migrate and what skin might be in use then

    Could you please try for a test to do a hard reset by:

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    mv /storage/.kodi /storage/kodi-bak

    That will remove all your settings and installed addons, but those will be stored in the "kodi-bak"-folder. I'm not sure what exactly causes the issue, but the message cames from here:

    service.libreelec.settings/default.py at 17315f4066454fb9ef12d36c465cb423726757a9 · LibreELEC/service.libreelec.settings · GitHub

    OK. Did that, and Kodi reverted to defaults (and the Estuary skin). Then the settings add-on worked. When I restored my backed up .kodi folder I did find several settings had reverted to defaults (resolution back to DESKTOP from 1920x1080p; audio output back to HDMI only from HDMI and Analog) and the settings add-on once again tells me to come back later. [Edit: in fact ALL kodi settings had reverted to their defaults after the restore and I had to re-customize everything, from subtitle preferences in the OSD to the video calibration in the Kodi system settings. Just mentioning it in case it's relevant.]

    I migrated from OE6 with Kodi 15.1 and the Xonfluence skin to EE8 and Kodi 17.1. Upon start-up Xonfluence was disabled as an incompatible add-on and Kodi reverted to Estuary. I updated Xonfluence from its repo and all was well. In fact everything works with the exception of the settings add-on. [Edit: so it's clear that something in the .kodi folder breaks the OpenELEC settings addon.]

    Tnx!

    Edited once, last by frankvw (April 12, 2017 at 9:11 AM).

    Quote from DaVu


    So just re-do your settings. It might have been a problem with the skin you have used. So I would keep it this way, do your settings, add your addons and see, if it fails again.

    I already redid all the settings. I was hoping that a migration would mean I'd not have to go through the weeks of finetuning and installing add-ons all over again. I might as well forget about migrating and start with a fresh image from scratch then. Oh well.

    Thanks for looking into it.

    // FvW