Hello there,<\/p>\n
Well, I use Kodi as my media center on Ubuntu 20.04.<\/p>\n
I do not use it that much nowadays since ESPN has moved most of its content to ESPN+ ( and yes I have a valid subscription via my cable provider) and there is no add-on for it.<\/p>\n
As well as with NBC which now uses Peacock and some other apps.<\/p>\n
I still use it to watch my movie collection and also IPTV. I have a subscription with a provider.<\/p>\n
The other day, I decided to clean it since I had lots of repositories that did not work anymore and it was a mess So I did a clean install to Kodi Leia.<\/p>\n
So far so good until I started Kodi. Notice that the PVR IPTV Simple Client was not working.<\/p>\n
No sweat, under Ubuntu you can add it as a package, and perhaps it was not installed correctly.<\/p>\n
Silly me,\u00a0 the problem was that it had a dependency that was broken. It was asking for the Kodi-API-PVR=(3.5.10).<\/p>\n
Strange since the Kodi install package should have the API on it. Not really somehow the API is no longer part of it.<\/p>\n
Well, I tried installing it from the Kodi repository, it is no longer there it has been taken out. The new repository that has it, was trying to install a client that had the same error as when I tried it on Ubuntu. Bummer.<\/p>\n
A long search on forums gave no answer, under Windows it seems to be working under Linux it seems to be broken but for some distros and not others.<\/p>\n
Found someone on a forum saying it was a banned add-on, silly rabbit. First of all, it is just a client it has no configuration to try to stream stuff you are not suppose to for example.<\/p>\n
That brings me to another thing that bothers me, there are lots of people on forums that do not know diddly.<\/p>\n
They ask inane questions, send you the wrong path, and sound as they are doing you a favor. Who would it thought the Internet was like that (sarcasm…).<\/p>\n
In any case, decided to go to the source.<\/p>\n