Okay, sorry about that, I thought Samba was something exotic. I downloaded the file and, to facilitate the file transfer, I put Filezilla on the Mint Linux system I was using. Instructions for this, by the way, are here:
I deleted all the files in the folder [quote=“geedee, post:1, topic:13368”]
\plugin.video.youtube
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…and replaced them with the unzipped contents of the folder you suggested. I did not restart the Pi (a Raspberry Pi B) but went to YouTube to log out. It was already logged out. I signed in with the two passwords with the system. I tried to set up a search and got the “daily limit exceeded” warning again. I logged out of the YouTube plugin, logged in again, and attempted it, and again got the “daily limit exceeded” message.
THEN, I logged out of the YouTube app, went back to FileZilla, transferred the files again (copying over the old ones), signed in with the two password process, and THIS time it worked!
Simply add to your instructions that you should log out of the YouTube plugin FIRST, then do the file transfer. Thanks!
Good to know this worked for you!!. I’ll add a note to the original article that in your case you had to logout first, so that might be the case for others also!!
Note:: @tomreedtoon - had to logout of Youtube first before he followed the above process for the add-on to start working. Others might have to do the same also.
All right, it didn’t entirely work. I unplugged my Pi, and went to bed. The next morning, I plugged in, and got the “daily limit exceeded” warning again. Don’t have time to experiment today, to see if reloading folder will work. Including the backup and delete of the [quote=“Karnage, post:6, topic:13368”]
userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.youtube folder.
[/quote] …mentioned above. The adventure continues…
Next time. Attempted to log out of the YouTube plug-in. It wouldn’t let me. So I tried to delete it. But to do that, I had to also delete the Classic Movies plug-in. Then created the “blah” folder using Filezilla, And deleted the userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.youtube folder. Then reinstalled the plugin from the zip file found at. [quote=“geedee, post:1, topic:13368”]
kolinger/plugin.video.youtube
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And then, did the double log-in. The plug-in works now. I will try later tonight after a reboot and see if it’s permanent. (Hopefully better than my car brake problem.)
Hi,
I think that the Youtube addon is not working anymore popping up this alert “project marked for deletion”; the issue seems that big g disable the API key of the addon; to fix it is very not easy process, but it worked for me following these steps (I did not uninstall it anyway as stated as first step) : http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=200735&page=202
Anyone has a better solution?
I have been following that thread closely and am waiting to see when big G pulls the plug on the current API.
One of my buddies ran into the same issue yesterday so I’ll be trying one of the these other methods to fix his system. If I can get it working I’ll document that as the next method!!
FWIW…
Last night I used the method explained in that kodi forum thread, which @dentaku65 refers to.
It worked for me, but it’s not simple.
I would assume that it’s the best option, since someone else won’t be using the same API key.
That thread has a link to a modified version of the addon, that evidently will occasionally require logging in and out. (to acquire a new API key from a pool)
For that reason, I figured that the custom API key method, while more complicated, is a better long term option.
Based on all the “tinkering” I have done with the “unique API key” method so far I find it to be a much more effective solution, but it is not an easy one. I think I already have 4 different docs written up and now of them looks simple and straightforward
I will try and simplify the whole process and write up a doc on it, but I doubt I’ll be done with it in the next cpl of days. With work and life stuff … earliest I’d be able to provide a doc for testing and validation would be friday
Hi,
I did this and is working; first uninstall YouTube Addon, if there are other addon dependencies unintall them all (I had to uninstall GoPro, Bin@ural and Music Box), then uninstall Youtube addon (if you try to uninstall the addon if there are some dependencies the system alerts you), then delete the userdata/addon_data of YouTube rm -r .kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.youtube/
Download/install the Youtube addon of raspberryrabbit available here: https://github.com/rasberryrabbit/plugin.video.youtube/archive/master.zip
Github code here:
Reinstall your dependencies addons if any (you’ll have your untouched data back)
It works fine and you’re not obliged to sign-in to use it
I still do not understand why Kodi official repo do not use raspberryrabbit as Youtube addon
Umm… .kodi\userdata\addon_data is the addon settings directory, at least in OpenELEC, surely also in OSMC. Surely the zip contents should go into .kodi\addons\plugin.video.youtube instead?
After struggling with this for a week or so I have realized this is a temp fix and not worth the hassel. I’ll be working on the API fix for this today and tomorrow as that is a better solution (even though it is more involved)
I
From what I remember you have to sign-out and then sign-in again to fix this error. You’ll have to authorize the app/plugin twice when you sign-in agin.
most everyone has stopped using this method as you have to sign-in every now and then to get a new api key from the pool.
I wrote up a another method, based on info gathered from other posts here and on other forums, where you create your own api key. It is a more involved process but since I went to that method I haven’t had to sign-out.
Hope you can get those resolved sooner than later bud!!