[packman] Kodi PVR addons issue

[AbdulMajad Qureshi]

Hi Sagi,

Thank you for looking into this for me.  I'll give this a try next chance I
get.  I'm currently away visiting family & won't get a chance until early
next week.

Thank you again for taking the time to get this working for me,

Abdul

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:44 AM Sagi Ben-Akiva <sagiben at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Abdul,
>
> I was able to build pvr.iptvsimple, it still was not merged to Multimedia
> and can be found in my home project at :
> https://pmbs.links2linux.de/package/show/home:sagiben/kodi.binary-addons
> and for the binaries for Leap 15.0 :
>
> https://pmbs.links2linux.de/package/binaries/home:sagiben/kodi.binary-addons/Multimedia_openSUSE_Leap_15.0
>
> I was not able to enable the PVR on my PC, can you give it a try ?
> If everything is fine I will merge the needed changes.
>
> Sagi.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 6:13 AM Sagi Ben-Akiva <sagiben at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that you are the first to ask for this addon.
>> I can work on the needed fixes to our kodi binary addons build process.
>>
>> The addon repository and build instructions can be found here :
>> https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.iptvsimple branch Leia .
>>
>> Sagi.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 6:29 AM AbdulMajad Qureshi <qureshia at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thank you for the update.  Has anyone else asked about it?  I'd like to
>>> continue to use it if possible.  If it is possible, I'd like to get a
>>> working build for kodi 18.  If not, can you recommend another PVR addon
>>> that also uses M3U files & could you provide a link to the documentation of
>>> how to setup/configure it?
>>>
>>> Thanks again for your help,
>>>
>>> Abdul
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:32 AM Sagi Ben-Akiva <sagiben at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Yes , IPTV simple add-on was removed from Kodi 18.x build for openSUSE
>>>> because we had many build/compilation issues.
>>>>
>>>> It was decided to disable the broken addons in order to release Kodi
>>>> 18.x and its add-ons as soon as possible,
>>>> and come back to each addons if someone needs it.
>>>>
>>>> Sagi.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 15:19 AbdulMajad Qureshi <qureshia at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm running OpenSuse Leap 42.3 & my version of Kodi got updated to 18.3
>>>>> after I ran an update a few days ago, but the IPTV Simple Client that
>>>>> I was
>>>>> using was removed.  I looked through the repo & saw that it wasn't
>>>>> available anymore.  I kept looking for a version/repo that I could
>>>>> download
>>>>> from & recover it, but so far no luck.  I had to revert to a previous
>>>>> snapshot in order to revert back to Kodi 17.6 with the Simple Client
>>>>> restored to be usable again.  I browsed through the rest of the repo &
>>>>> found that the client isn't available past Leap 42.2.  Other PVR
>>>>> addons are
>>>>> listed, but the IPTV Simple Client isn't for Leap 42.3 & Kodi 18.  Do
>>>>> you
>>>>> know if it will become available again for Kodi 18?  I've had to set
>>>>> Kodi
>>>>> to not update in Yast to prevent it from happening again & losing the
>>>>> client.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your attention,
>>>>>
>>>>> Abdul
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>>>>