I thought I’d give you guys a catch up.
The custom user agent patch is removed for some time now and will be in the next update.
I reached out to several IPTV providers to ask them why they were blocking OSMC. Most didn’t reply but one did and said that they weren’t blocking OSMC, but they were reselling from a company that were. It seems most providers are just middle-manning services from one giant company.
After some discussion with the larger company, they said that they sold Kodi services only, and they thought OSMC was piggybacking off this somehow. I asked them if they would unblock it and they said they couldn’t because of the number of OSMC users and the bandwidth implications this would have.
So now we will blend in with the rest of Kodi clients, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we see some services have issues with oversubscription in the future…
Sam