How to use Netflix on OSMC (RPI2)

[bacitoto]

Boot into Raspbian.

Open up the Terminal. Type in “wget Releases · kusti8/chromium-build · GitHub…

Wait for the download to finish.

Install the package by typing “sudo dpkg -i chromium-browser_56.0.2924.84-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1011.deb”

Restart your Raspbian Installation

NOTE: In some cases it may require up to three reboots.

SOURCE
Github

Not sure how this would work on OSMC, but you could probably just startup chromium normally or even add it to the home menu

[dillthedog]

Chromium won’t work on OSMC without X11, which isn’t installed. There’s a thread about this: [Testing] X11(simple desktop) + Chromium(web browser) in a simple installer for Stretch

[matejmosko]

Hi, everything necessary is already in main branch of kodi 18. Will there be any osmc test builds to play with?

Info here: GitHub - asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix: Inputstream based Netflix plugin for Kodi

[fzinken]

@matejmosko

Hi, everything necessary is already in main branch of kodi 18. Will there be any osmc test builds to play with?

Info here: GitHub - asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix: Inputstream based Netflix plugin for Kodi

Since 9 months @gmc is producing Kodi 18 builds

[TESTING] Kodi 18 (Leia) builds for Raspberry Pi

Update: When OSMC stable is released it will be based on 18.1. The Nightly builds are now at 18.2RC1 so in order to avoid confusion its time to bump the nightly releases to 18.8 This requires that you update your sources.list and point to gmc-19. (See Installing below) If you run the nightly 18.8 builds you will not automatically upgrade to 18.1 stable when it’s released (As the build number will be lower) If you are having issues with updating this is due to the aptly certificate expiring. …

[matejmosko]

Oh, thanks. I just didn’t know. My bad. I am going to test netflix. Great to know.

[matejmosko]

Great news everybody. I have upgraded my OSMC to nightly build by @gmc Kodi 18 (Leia) builds for Raspberry Pi and now I can play netflix on my RPi3 OSMC install. All necessary information and netflix addon can be found on Netflix addon github.

DISCLAIMER: This includes upgrading OSMC to nightly build. There may be very ugly bugs. If you don’t know what you are doing, wait for the official Leia 18 release.

There were only two things I had to do differently.

(first) When downloading widevine library I had to modify the getwidevine.sh script. Change this line:

[ -z "${ARCH}" ] && ARCH=$(grep -m1 ARCH= /etc/os-release | sed 's/"//g' | cut -d. -f2)

to

 [ -z "${ARCH}" ] && ARCH=arm

Then run the script

sh getwidevine.sh

(second) The second thing is because of missing cryptodomex library in OSMC. Therefore we need to install python-pip through ssh and then install cryptodomex

sudo apt install python-pip
sudo pip install pycryptodomex

After all this (and changing max resolution in inputstream.adaptive to 480p - not sure if necessary) my son watches Peppa Pig from netflix right now

Enjoy.

The picture was taken a few seconds before my wife discovered Peppa Pig

[piwa]

Hello, I have done on Raspberry Pi2 like you’ve described above without problems but when I start to play some movie I got Errors like this attached at bottom.

Have anyone idea where I’ve to looking for problems and how to solve that ?

Piotr

13:16:12.414 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 1 source: 256
13:16:12.481 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.115.134/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ndKq3u7eKo7WkEf0CI_BQwIboc_abM1abcMG8-UdyndL0cJnp14dlMjHBRvkbM2RPHpQXV6MFwgCWjID1SXO8XJAF6r7cxJoTuj1eNCUOLaELaMLpzWilXNKftpLMxAVTYWqgcAtN5HRUA2mCOv6DeMLdMlqobLOIDm3i7WoyBTAquxGnKLuNBHo0Q616NL8_-Ak1&v=3&e=1507418011&t=J3STpty37KCuvvcF6TwcKjvWlAw|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:12.481 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:12.481 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:12.481 T:1621357552 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 1. Stream disabled.
13:16:12.481 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 2 source: 256
13:16:12.548 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.115.160/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ud6iyuLyOorqyVuccOLkMnt_pML7IN16ZddH-oBlwmNvwbIGigcpuKlrUca0FRHRBM6kWTp8xvlvHzcucc0KVdb8C3r7Vvd4UvxlHIxIgNq0tdM-sjn_qUNGfoN2YrmULUQfDB15KrWRND2eEPeecb5DZKluvdvqEGT_1_mk1EDIi7V60KrO5anxyAa9tdK90tR8&v=3&e=1507418011&t=khbt4w532uZIwe7u6NgbIG35HDQ|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:12.549 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:12.549 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:12.549 T:1621357552 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 2. Stream disabled.
13:16:12.549 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 3 source: 256
13:16:12.555 T:1956835328  NOTICE: m_playbackStarting
13:16:12.556 T:1956835328  NOTICE: StereoscopicsManager::IsPlaying
13:16:12.615 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.115.160/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ud6iyuLuNobSyVuccOLkMnt_pML7IN16ZddH-oBlwmNvwbIGigcpuKlrUca0FRHRBM6kWTp8xvlvHzcucc0KVdb8C3r7Vvd4UvxlHIxIgNq0tdM-sjn_qUNWfoN2YrmULUQfDB15KrWRND2eEPeecb5DZKluvdvqEGT_1_mk1EDIi7V60KrO5anxyAa9tdK90tR8&v=3&e=1507418011&t=DJmvRjgS9TUn03jsT45diIlvdm8|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:12.615 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:12.615 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:12.616 T:1621357552 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 3. Stream disabled.
13:16:12.616 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 4 source: 256
13:16:12.682 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.115.134/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ndKq3u7eFp7WqEf0CI_BQwIboc_abM1abcMG8-UdyndL0cJnp14dlMjHBRvkbM2RPHpQXV6MFwgCWjID1SXO8XJAF6r7cxJoTuj1eNCUOLaELaMLpzWilXNKYs5LMxAVTYWqgcAtN5HRUA2mCOv6DeMLdMlqobLOIDm3i7WoyBTAquxGnKLuNBHo0Q616NL8_-Ak1&v=3&e=1507418011&t=VHU2wYZMYh9HHmriEw5Vf40uEqU|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:12.682 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:12.682 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:12.683 T:1621357552 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 4. Stream disabled.
13:16:12.683 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 5 source: 256
13:16:12.749 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.115.160/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ud6iyuLqPpLayVuccOLkMnt_pML7IN16ZddH-oBlwmNvwbIGigcpuKlrUca0FRHRBM6kWTp8xvlvHzcucc0KVdb8C3r7Vvd4UvxlHIxIgNq0tdM-sjn_qU9CfoN2YrmULUQfDB15KrWRND2eEPeecb5DZKluvdvqEGT_1_mk1EDIi7V60KrO5anxyAa9tdK90tR8&v=3&e=1507418011&t=5RuGQVnFoxxfACtvkqgiWUzmg38|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:12.749 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:12.749 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:12.750 T:1621357552 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 5. Stream disabled.
13:16:12.750 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 6 source: 256
13:16:12.816 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.115.134/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ndKq3u7eFobOoEf0CI_BQwIboc_abM1abcMG8-UdyndL0cJnp14dlMjHBRvkbM2RPHpQXV6MFwgCWjID1SXO8XJAF6r7cxJoTuj1eNCUOLaELaMLpzWilXNGatpLMxAVTYWqgcAtN5HRUA2mCOv6DeMLdMlqobLOIDm3i7WoyBTAquxGnKLuNBHo0Q616NL8_-Ak1&v=3&e=1507418011&t=ga8uKFl4OZ76rjlQQ8Qn6R2p-yg|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:12.817 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:12.817 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:12.817 T:1621357552 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 6. Stream disabled.
13:16:12.817 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 7 source: 256
13:16:12.883 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.115.160/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ud6iwvL6JobeyVuccOLkMnt_pML7IN16ZddH-oBlwmNvwbIGigcpuKlrUca0FRHRBM6kWTp8xvlvHzcucc0KVdb8C3r7Vvd4UvxlHIxIgNq0tdM-sjn_qUtafoN2YrmULUQfDB15KrWRND2eEPeecb5DZKluvdvqEGT_1_mk1EDIi7V60KrO5anxyAa9tdK90tR8&v=3&e=1507418011&t=NCnI7jMXMIe17yTt_m2DQvFEnOg|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:12.883 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:12.884 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:12.884 T:1621357552 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 7. Stream disabled.
13:16:12.884 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 8 source: 256
13:16:12.949 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.114.152/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ud6uzv7aLorCyVuccOLkMnt_pML7IN16ZddH-oBlwmNvwbIGigcpuKlrUca0FRHRBM6kWTp8xvlvHzcucc0KVdb8C3r7Vvd4UvxlHIxIgNq0tdM-sjn_qVdqfoN2YrmULUQfDB15KrWRND2eEPeecb5DZKluvdvqEGT_1_mk1EDIi7V60KrO5anxyAa9tdK90tR8&v=3&e=1507418011&t=Ao-bEllqFHw30IH417VA1t3BwyQ|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:12.949 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:12.950 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:12.950 T:1621357552 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 8. Stream disabled.
13:16:12.950 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 9 source: 256
13:16:13.015 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.115.134/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ndKq3u7eFr7KrEf0CI_BQwIboc_abM1abcMG8-UdyndL0cJnp14dlMjHBRvkbM2RPHpQXV6MFwgCWjID1SXO8XJAF6r7cxJoTuj1eNCUOLaELaMLpzWilXNaftpLMxAVTYWqgcAtN5HRUA2mCOv6DeMLdMlqobLOIDm3i7WoyBTAquxGnKLuNBHo0Q616NL8_-Ak1&v=3&e=1507418011&t=IplwEEj6__56uAyqbHsISqyFQmQ|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:13.016 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:13.016 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:13.016 T:1621357552 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 9. Stream disabled.
13:16:13.017 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 10 source: 256
13:16:13.084 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.116.157/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ud6uzvr2Kp7eyVuccOLkMnt_pML7IN16ZddH-oBlwmNvwbIGigcpuKlrUca0FRHRBM6kWTp8xvlvHzcucc0KVdb8C3r7Vvd4UvxlHIxIgNq0tdM-sjn_qVtKfoN2YrmULUQfDB15KrWRND2eEPeecb5DZKluvdvqEGT_1_mk1EDIi7V60KrO5anxyAa9tdK90tR8&v=3&e=1507418011&t=fJznLHxXOATWsXuK3vqdo0Go2HA|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:13.084 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:13.085 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:13.085 T:1621357552 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 10. Stream disabled.
13:16:13.085 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 11 source: 256
13:16:13.142 T:1956835328  NOTICE: m_playbackStarting
13:16:13.142 T:1956835328  NOTICE: StereoscopicsManager::IsPlaying
13:16:13.152 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.115.160/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ndKq3u7eEoLOkEf0CI_BQwIboc_abM1abcMG8-UdyndL0cJnp14dlMjHBRvkbM2RPHpQXV6MFwgCWjID1SXO8XJAF6r7cxJoTuj1eNCUOLaELaMLpzWilXNKcs4SDkG8zOVrNE3wY4z1EGmWMPPmaZ9WPNkKpa6nBAnqw-nkxAiUos0foO7mFMBQyBe94I_8vs0Qjlg&v=3&e=1507418011&t=inB0dtMuogphc1RsonWPEvqrnd8|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:13.152 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:13.152 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:13.153 T:1621357552 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 11. Stream disabled.
13:16:13.153 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 12 source: 256
13:16:13.222 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.115.134/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ndKq3u7eKo7WkEf0CI_BQwIboc_abM1abcMG8-UdyndL0cJnp14dlMjHBRvkbM2RPHpQXV6MFwgCWjID1SXO8XJAF6r7cxJoTuj1eNCUOLaELaMLpzWilXNKftpLMxAVTYWqgcAtN5HRUA2mCOv6DeMLdMlqobLOIDm3i7WoyBTAquxGnKLuNBHo0Q616NL8_-Ak1&v=3&e=1507418011&t=J3STpty37KCuvvcF6TwcKjvWlAw|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:13.222 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:13.222 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:13.222 T:1621357552 WARNING: OpenStream - Unsupported stream 12. Stream disabled.
13:16:13.224 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Opening stream: 13 source: 256
13:16:13.236 T:1956835328  NOTICE: m_playbackStarting
13:16:13.236 T:1956835328  NOTICE: StereoscopicsManager::IsPlaying
13:16:13.293 T:1621357552   ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 404 for http://198.38.116.157/?o=AQH8uKZckcYZrt6ndKWyvLiJo7qqEf0CI-dQwIboc_abM1abcMG8-UdyndL0cJnp14dlMjHBRvkbM2RPHpQXV6MFwgCWjID1SXO8XJAF6r7cxJoTuj1eNCUOLaELaMLpzWilXNKWtJLMxAVTYWqgcAtN5HRUA2mCOv6DeMLdMlqobLOIDm3i7WoyBTAquxGnKLuNBHo0Q616NL8_-Ak1&v=3&e=1507418011&t=B_Mp5M1w8GMFJQ45AgLeDnSFM-o|Range=bytes%3d0-40340&seekable=0
13:16:13.293 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Download SIDX retrieval failed
13:16:13.294 T:1621357552   ERROR: AddOnLog: InputStream Adaptive: Unable to select stream!
13:16:13.294 T:1621357552  NOTICE: Finding audio codec for: 86057

[matejmosko]

I have replied at netflix addon github issue #168. The errors you are getting seem to be related to connectivity problems. Try reaching the links that are anreachable through wget or curl direclty over ssh. If the errors are still 404, check your network, routers etc. Here the errors are 403 - forbidden = I cannot access the urls just outside of netflix addon.

If the errors would be 403 or other, there is something I miss. Please post the result.

[piwa]

Hi, thanks for good hint…Problem was in my home network settings. I wrote more details at issue #168.
Thank you for your help:)

[sasadangelo]

This is a very interesting scenario. Does anyone know when OSMC will migrate to Kodi 18? When this will occur does this plugin work out of the box?

@matejmosko

They have already managed to make amazon prime and skygo on rpi a reality. Fingers crossed.

Do you mean that with Kodi 18 we will be able to play Amazon prime and Skygo as well?

[sam_nazarko]

@sasadangelo

Does anyone know when OSMC will migrate to Kodi 18? When this will occur does this plugin work out of the box?

matejmosko:

When Kodi v18 is released.
You can already install test builds.

[matejmosko]

Probably yes. I haven’t tried it because I don’t have account to neither of these services (not accessible in my country and I am too lazy to setup DNS or VPN). But there are plugins in kodinerds repo (it si a repo of german kodi enthusiasts). Here you can find a manual to install Amazon on kodi 18:

kodinerds.de → Amazon Instant Video

It is in german, obviously. You can use google translate to read it if you want, but actually my manual above is almost the same. The only thing you have to do differently is add kodinerds repo and install prime and/or skygo plugin.

But be wary. I haven’t tried it and you have to upgrade to unstable branch of osmc. Anything can go wrong.

[sasadangelo]

thank you

[laclaro]

Hi folks, I did a write-up about how to install instant video and netflix on OSMC with Kodi 18. Check it out here: RPi streaming station with Amazon Instant Video and Netflix | laclaro

Cheers

Henning

[fzinken]

@laclaro

RPi streaming station with Amazon Instant Video and Netflix | laclaro

Wondering why you make it complicated with first download to PC and the scp to OSMC. Why not also use wget as you did later wget -O netflix.zip https://github.com/asciidisco/plugin.video.netflix/archive/master.zip

[laclaro]

That’s true. Adjusted.

[fzinken]

@laclaro

That’s true. Adjusted.

Also why not link to the GMC post here for the latest Leila builds and instructions

[TESTING] Kodi 18 (Leia) builds for Raspberry Pi

Update: When OSMC stable is released it will be based on 18.1. The Nightly builds are now at 18.2RC1 so in order to avoid confusion its time to bump the nightly releases to 18.8 This requires that you update your sources.list and point to gmc-19. (See Installing below) If you run the nightly 18.8 builds you will not automatically upgrade to 18.1 stable when it’s released (As the build number will be lower) If you are having issues with updating this is due to the aptly certificate expiring. …

[laclaro]

Also true. Same info was linked, but that source is indeed more recent

[jones]

Are raspberry license keys required? MPEG-2 and VC1 ? Most of netflix content will be H.264, right?

To install pycryptodomex you need first to install the deps:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgmp3-dev python-dev

And to install latest pip:
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python get-pip.py

Don’t we also need widevine?
wget http://nmacleod.com/public/libreelec/getwidevine.sh
sudo sh getwidevine.sh

[laclaro]

Thank you for the hint about pycryptodomex. I found a different solution which does not involve python-pip. However, to directly use a python package is cleaner.

The required libs of widevine are installed automatically to /home/osmc/.kodi/cdm/ during the process. I don’t know exactly when though. Maybe it is already content of Kodi 18 or some plugin pulled the files.

Best,

Henning