I updated my Pi3 to the Kodi 18.2 RC today via the My OSMC updater.
I had previously attempted various ways to get the Amazon VOD app to work on my device when I was still running Kodi 17. Maybe that was a mistake? (I’m getting this from the Sandmann 1.02 repo)
I tried several methods today of getting the app to work. It doesn’t work any differently than it did under Kodi 17, as far as I can tell. I reset all the settings in the Amazon VOD app to default. Signed in under my account, etc.
What happens now is that I can load my watchlist with all my favorite items, but when I attempt to select a video to play it either notifies me of an HTTP error, or just never loads anything.
I’m confused. I thought this was supposed to be supported natively in Kodi 18 somehow. All the instructions I find still refer to third party apps like the Sandmann repo Amazon VOD app. Did anything actually change?
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Depending on the used skin you have to set the settings-level to standard or higher, in summary:
enable debug logging at settings->system->logging
reboot the OSMC device
reproduce the issue
upload the log set either using the Log Uploader method within the My OSMC menu in the GUI or the ssh method invoking command grab-logs -A
publish the provided URL from the log set upload, here
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I’m thinking libwidvine missing perhaps?, since i never used the add-on I don’t know if it uses input.stream.helper, to download and install libwidvine, which is used by most DRM-services like Netflix, Viaplay and my guess Amazon too.
You might wanna update the add-on zip, since there were changes 16 days ago.
Sure, I’ll try to get some logs posted up tonight. I was able to figure out the debug mode the other day, so I’ll try that later when I’m home again.
Yes, I believe the Amazon addon also uses widevine. IIRC, I think my system ran through the install for that back when I was on Kodi 17… although of course it didn’t really work right then. I was not prompted to install it when I tried to get the Amazon plugin working post-install of Leia.
Did you mean updating the Sandmann addon zip? That has the same version number as it’s had forever, as far as I can tell.
If someone could point me to how to force a widevine reinstall, I was thinking that maybe that was the issue, especially since I can authenticate to Amazon fine and load my playlist, but then it dies when I try to launch anything from the list.
If you had it installed before the upgrade,I would try to uninstall the add-on and reinstall it.
If that doesn’t work i’d uninstall add-on, remove .kodi/cdm folder and ./kodi/addons/script.module.inputstreamhelper. Reinstall add-on and let it reinstall inputstreamhelper and libwidvine.
Was something supposed to happen on screen indicating that widevine reinstalled? I couldn’t see anything. In fact, I no longer have the folders I rm’ed above. Oops.
After all that, attempted to launch a video and still got errors. If anyone has further suggestions I’d be interested.
