"PVR manager is starting up" popup every 5 minutes

Every 5 minutes I get a modal popup saying “PVR manager is starting up”.

I’m using a default install with only Twitch and Samba addons.

From googling it seems to be a recurrent issue in Kodi/XBMC, so I tried the following solutions, without success:

  • Disable TV
  • Set theme default screen to Home

I pasted full kodi.log here, this part seems relevant:

22:44:16  17.338873 T:1957667376 WARNING: JSONRPC: Could not parse type "PVR.Details.Channel"
22:44:16  17.339556 T:1957667376 WARNING: JSONRPC: Could not parse type "PVR.Details.ChannelGroup.Extended"
22:44:16  17.364111 T:1957667376 WARNING: JSONRPC: Could not parse type "GUI.Property.Value"
22:44:16  17.375515 T:1957667376 WARNING: JSONRPC: Could not parse type "Setting.Details.SettingList"

edit: debug mode logs, relevant part (I did no press any key):

23:13:35 141.845932 T:1957577264   DEBUG: OnKey: h (0xf048) pressed, action is ActivateWindow(TVChannels)
23:13:35 141.846176 T:1957577264   DEBUG: Activating window ID: 10615
23:13:35 141.846451 T:1957577264   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (VideoFullScreen.xml) ------
23:13:35 141.873688 T:1957577264   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (MyPVRChannels.xml) ------
23:13:35 141.873947 T:1957577264    INFO: Loading skin file: MyPVRChannels.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY
23:13:35 141.959488 T:1957577264   DEBUG: DialogProgress::StartModal called
23:13:35 141.959686 T:1957577264   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogProgress.xml) ------
23:13:35 141.959763 T:1957577264    INFO: Loading skin file: DialogProgress.xml, load type: KEEP_IN_MEMORY

You have something installed that is querying Kodi PVR functions via the JSONRPC API. This is not something that happens on a clean install of Kodi.

This could be an installed addon, or it could be a remote app such as yatse. Remember that if you install an addon they will frequently have dependencies on other addons such as service addons, and those dependencies will get automatically installed for you.

When you remove the original Addon the dependencies are not automatically removed. So the dependency of an addon you once had installed but removed may be causing the issue. If something appears to be happening automatically every 5 minutes check to see what service addons are still installed, as service addons are allowed to run autonomously in the background.

FYI, I found out the HTTP interface was enabled. I disabled it and the issue does not occur anymore.

I suspect my router (french ISP Orange Livebox) has some sort of discovery mechanism that sends requests on port 80 to connected devices, but I did not verify it.