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Hi, I'm running the Emby for Kodi addon using Kodi 17.3 on Windows 10. Everything seemed to be working fine last night, but today I am unable to play any videos through the Emby plugin (they work fine if I play them in Kodi directly). I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling the plugin from scratch, but that doesn't seem to have fixed anything. The library is rebuilt fine and all of my media is found, just unplayable. I have attached the log file below, thanks in advance for any help. Cheers kodi.log

Hi, I'm using Kodi 17.6, I have multiple users on it. Lately two of my users have an emby plugin error when login in. The error is only with Kodi, the users are fine on emby web, app... 18:41:05.969 T:13124 NOTICE: EMBY.connectionmanager -> Begin ConnectionManager constructor 18:41:05.971 T:13124 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<-- - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS! Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'> Error Contents: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc9' in position 56: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Plasmon\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\service.py", line 37, in <module> service = Service() File "C:\Users\Plasmon\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\service_entry.py", line 84, in __init__ librarysync.LibrarySync().offline_mode_views() File "C:\Users\Plasmon\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\librarysync.py", line 60, in __init__ self.user = userclient.UserClient() File "C:\Users\Plasmon\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\userclient.py", line 42, in __init__ self.connectmanager = connectmanager.ConnectManager() File "C:\Users\Plasmon\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\connectmanager.py", line 54, in __init__ self._connect.setFilePath(path) File "C:\Users\Plasmon\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\connect\connectionmanager.py", line 78, in setFilePath self.credentialProvider.setPath(path) File "C:\Users\Plasmon\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\connect\credentials.py", line 30, in setPath self.path = path.decode('utf-8') File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\encodings\utf_8.py", line 16, in decode return codecs.utf_8_decode(input, errors, True) UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xc9' in position 56: ordinal not in range(128) -->End of Python script error report<-- 18:41:05.978 T:13124 WARNING: CPythonInvoker(5, C:\Users\Plasmon\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\service.py): the python script "C:\Users\Plasmon\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\service.py" has left several classes in memory that we couldn't clean up. The classes include: class XBMCAddon::xbmc::Monitor,class XBMCAddon::xbmcaddon::Addon,class XBMCAddon::xbmcaddon::Addon Seems to be related to an unsupported character. I've notice one thing in common with the two problematic users, in Kodi both usernames contains a "é". (not the case in emby) PS C:\Users\Plasmon\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\profiles> ls Directory: C:\Users\Plasmon\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\profiles Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- d----- 2017-11-14 08:15 Mireille <-- Working fine d----- 2017-03-13 18:32 Simon <-- Working fine d----- 2017-12-14 22:31 Véro <-- emby plugin not working / error d----- 2017-03-13 18:33 Élise <-- emby plugin not working / error PS C:\Users\Plasmon\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\profiles> I imagine the emby plugin try to access the kodi user path and is failing because of this french character. It was working before, I suppose it can be easily fix. Regards Simon

Hello, my server db was corupt, had to rebuild it with help from the forum, now i notice that when i am in kodi (htpc livingroom) that when i want to delete a movie i don't get the contex menu when i hit c in kodi so i can delete the movie from the server. I am on server Versie 3.2.50.0 use kodi 17.6 and the emby for kodi addon is 2.3.59. This is on all my clients of kodi ( livingroom/sleeproom/ office) pc's with all win 10. I get a contex menu in kodi but it says only that remove from library (but its local) i checked the delete movie is still on the server.? hope someone can help grtz ed kodi.log

Hi all, Emby Server: 3.2.33.0 Kodi 17.4 Emby Addon for Kodi: 2.3.55 I have a Photo's Library configured (type is "Photos", name is "Foto's & Video's Patrick") and it has contents (see Emby.png) When I open the Emby Pictures addon for Kodi, the Photos Library shows up, but the content is empty. (see Kodi 01-04.png) Anyone have any idea what could be the cause of this problem? I attached the Kodi log and the Emby Server log. Thanks in advance! Emby.log kodi.log

I have two NAS boxes - one with all my current content and one with older archived stuff. I generally don't bother powering on the one with the older stuff unless I really need access to it. When performing a scan, there are thousands and thousands of lines of errors reporting "The network path was not found" as it attempts to scan what seems like every single individual video on that server. I think it would be a good idea for the scan to validate access to the top level of each media location before going any further. If the top level path isn't accessible - then report that and then skip the entire media location.

Anyone had this error before, only a reboot will fix it. Seems to happen after being unused for a few hours. This is a librelec install with only the Emby addon installed, nothing else. https://youtu.be/7hmuadKfMuo

So far I'm able to scrobble movies fine but I can't get it to scrobble any TV show and I don't know if it's just a problem with the trakt add-on or emby add-on or both so I'm hoping someone can help me with it. I'm using Kodi 17.5 and saulfreds Embuary skin. https://paste.ubuntu.com/25879590/ Sent from my ZTE A2017U using Tapatalk

Hello Guys I rely heavily on a french tv show subtitles addon called betaseries. You can download the repo here : https://github.com/skylex/xbmc-betaseries/raw/master/repository.betaseries/repository.betaseries-1.0.0.zip I ran 2 tests : - one with fresh installed kodi from scratch with only betaseries addon - one with fresh installed kodi from scratch with betaseries addon and emby for kodi addon The episodeid which are given are different when Emby for Kodi is installed. When Emby for Kodi is installed, the betaseries addon does not find anything because it is looking for something else than usual The kodi log for the version without Emby : https://pastebin.com/cXh3mzPB The epidoseid given is 540372 (which works) The kodi log for the version with Emby : https://pastebin.com/7Q6QRwzD The epidoseid given is 784154 (which does not work) My knowledge ends here unfortunately. I don't know what these episodeid refer to as they are different than the ones from tvdb for instance. I ran the tests twice, on windows and on android tv with kodi 17.3, kodi, 17.5, Kodi 17.6. So it is not machine related The emby server is on a synology NAS. I can provide a log but I am not sure it is useful for this problem. It would be great if someone could take a look. Maybe it is linked to the problem with episodeid which cause trakt for kodi problems ? Anyway, many thanks in advance

I still use Kodi (with the Emby add-on) on a few TVs because it supports displaying notifications that are sent to its API. So for instance, I can call the Kodi JSON API endpoint with a message like: "Motion detected at the front door" "Spa temperature is 103 degrees" "New text message from John Smith" Then the message is displayed as an overlay on whatever content I'm watching (or just at the top of the screen if no media is playing). I'm able to specify a title and duration for the notification as well. In the case of Emby, I would also want to specify if the alert should be broadcast to (a) all connected devices, or ( to all devices logged in with certain USERS I'm happy to provide screenshots for how the alerts display in Kodi if that would be helpful. Any idea if something like this has been considered before or is on the roadmap? It really is the only feature that keeps me using Kodi (with Emby plugin) on my TVs instead of just using Emby directly.

Hi, Very happy with Media Browser's ability to store metadata in a separate folder. However, even though a specific area is defined where all information and images are stored, the subtitles collected by Media Browser are currently downloaded into the actual media folder. For security reasons, many users prefer to mount their data storage read-only from the server. That way, the data is not quite as much as risk in case there is a catastrophic bug (unlikely) or security breach on the media server. Thus it's a great feature for MBS to store the metadata in a local folder on the local server, and then get the video files from a read-only storage system. Currently I believe subtitles is the only core component that desires write access to the video directory directly. Would it be possible to add an option to specify either a separate area for subtitles, or to store subtitles together with metadata? As an example, in my current setup, subtitles are auto-downloaded into a separate folder, and then there's a script running on the storage system that searches for and copies all SRTs from this area every few hours. However, the SRT grabber I currently use is rubbish compared to the quality of Media Browser's, so it would be terrific if Media Browser's own subtitle grabber could be used to grab to a custom area. -Florux

Emby for Kodi 2.3.55 doesn't fail over to external address although it has the information in "data.txt". @@Angelblue05 I'll pm you kodi log and data.txt when access is tried from the external network. This still doesn't fix the problem in the other thread, but is bug (or a new feature :-) ) never the less. Andy777

I have a reverse proxy and am using that to make Emby available remotely at https://sub.domain.XYZ/NotEmby I recently tried to experiment with with Emby on Kodi on my phone, but could not get it to connect remotely at all. I eventually discovered the following workaround that made it work. If I set the server address to "https://sub.domain.XYZ"and the port to "/NotEmby" it connected and worked perfectly. What didn't work was any combination of either the full URL with either http or https and port 80, 443, 0, or 00000. I'm assuming what's throwing this off is my nginx config to make /NotEmby work, but I don't know a better way to do it. rewrite /NotEmby/(.*) /$1 break; Including a port doesn't seem necessary when using a URL and port 80 or 443, so why force it to be set during the configuration?

Please remove Series Pooling, or at the very least make it an Optional Setting

How to get channels in order Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Can someone help how can I put the channel in order one fires tick on emby Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Can someone help me how do I put Channels in order on firestick on emby Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Hello. I've been trying to get this to work and I had to create an account and get help. I've searched all 3 or 4 threads around this topic and I couldn't get it to work. Everything is organized nicely in the Emby Web interface but not on the Kodi add-on. I tried "Perform local database reset" and then "Perform manual sync" but my TV shows spread across different drives are still showing as more than one. "Automatically merge series that are spread across multiple folders" is already checked in Emby Server as well. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Hi I seem to have a problem artist in Kodi the name of the artists says "Missing" However it looks fine in the Emby web GUI. Artist is called "112" they are on TheaudioDB site here. I've tried refreshing their metadata in the Emby server and also refreshing them in Kodi via the Emby options context menu. But still their name / title is missing.

Hello, I'm writing a Kodi addon which limits the number of videos that'll be played in a playlist. I've a Kodi player class, which does something like this : class KodiPlayer(xbmc.Player): playback_count = 0 def __init__ (self): xbmc.Player.__init__(self) self.logger = None def onPlayBackStarted(self, *arg): if self.playback_count >= playlist_max_count: xbmc.Player().stop() def onPlayBackEnded(self, *arg): self.playback_count += 1 The call in onPlayBackStarted to stop playback works, but it has the effect of causing the Emby addon to crash, as below: 22:04:59.883 T:13092 NOTICE: EMBY.ga_client -> ERROR:: XBMC is not playing any videofile Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\ADMIN\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\ga_client.py", line 24, in wrapper return func(*args, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\ADMIN\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\kodimonitor.py", line 76, in onNotification self._on_play_(data) File "C:\Users\ADMIN\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\kodimonitor.py", line 98, in _on_play_ item = xbmc.Player().getVideoInfoTag() RuntimeError: XBMC is not playing any videofile 22:04:59.883 T:13092 NOTICE: EMBY.ga_client -> ERROR:: log_error: onNotification args: (<kodimonitor.KodiMonitor object at 0x12F1B300>, 'xbmc', 'Player.OnPlay', '{"item":{"id":3862,"type":"episode"},"player":{"playerid":1,"speed":1}}') kwargs: {} 22:04:59.883 T:13092 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<-- - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS! Error Type: <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'> Error Contents: XBMC is not playing any videofile Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\ADMIN\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\ga_client.py", line 24, in wrapper return func(*args, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\ADMIN\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\kodimonitor.py", line 76, in onNotification self._on_play_(data) File "C:\Users\ADMIN\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\kodimonitor.py", line 98, in _on_play_ item = xbmc.Player().getVideoInfoTag() RuntimeError: XBMC is not playing any videofile -->End of Python script error report<-- 22:04:59.886 T:13092 ERROR: EXCEPTION: XBMC is not playing any file Anything I can do to avoid this? It happens everytime. I can post a full log if that helps.

Recenty Kodi will crash when I hover to Tv series menu shortcut and it never used to. kodi.log

I've been trying to set up Emby for Kodi on a few devices and it doesn't seem to work. Here's the steps I've been taking: Install Emby for Kodi (tried stable release, beta & latest Git commit): Installs properly Try to select server: Clicking on the server name doesn't work, I get this error in the log: 09:11:33.392 T:9140 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<-- - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS! Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'> Error Contents: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Nicolas\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\dialogs\serverconnect.py", line 112, in onAction if self._connect_server(selected_id): File "C:\Users\Nicolas\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\resources\lib\dialogs\serverconnect.py", line 133, in _connect_server self.message.setLabel("%s %s..." % (lang(30610), server['Name'])) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) -->End of Python script error report<-- Manual connection: seems to work, I enter my computer's IP, it detects users properly, and I can put my password in, but nothing happens after that. This error pops up in the log: 09:12:49.135 T:9140 NOTICE: EMBY.service -> ERROR:: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 14: ordinal not in range(128) Try manual sync through Emby settings: says "Manual sync completed in 00:00:00" and this error shows up in the log: 09:13:53.279 T:10532 WARNING: CPythonInvoker(10, C:\Users\Nicolas\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\default.py): the python script "C:\Users\Nicolas\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\plugin.video.emby\default.py" has left several classes in memory that we couldn't clean up. The classes include: class XBMCAddon::xbmcaddon::Addon 09:13:53.288 T:13328 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.emby/?mode=manualsync 09:13:53.289 T:13328 ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.emby/?mode=manualsync) failed The full log is attached to this post. These errors appear in Kodi on my Windows PC and my Android phone. I am running Kodi 17.3 on both of those. Any ideas on what's going on?

Hi, Scenario: I'm new to emby and experiencing some issues with the Kodi addon and transcoding. At home, i have a 4k tv and use the Samsung SmartTV app. But when i'm traveling, i want to use the Kodi Addon on a RPi3. The resolution in the system settings in Kodi is set to 1080p. In the Emby addon, i specified a bitrate of 9.2k. The problem: If i play a 4k video, it gets transcoded to 9.2k but the resolution stays at 4k --> video disturbed. Please find the log of the transcoding session attached. Question: Can i somehow force Emby to transcode to 1080p? Or even better: Is it possible to adapt the transcoding-resolution to the max resolution of the device? thanks in advance, Andy Log.txt

All, Does anyone have idea how change the description that pop up when Kodi connect to Emby Server, I would like to change the notification that appears to something diff. Cheers!

Hi, I've found a bug in the network credentials add wizard. If the username contains a \ because its authenticating against a domain. It doesn't work, I believe it's doing something with the \ I tried, good number of times reentering it. Reopened Kodi, still no luck. I fixed it but going in to the file manager. Adding a new Source, then when it asked for my SMB credentials I said to remember these credentials for this path. Used my domain\user and then I was able to use Kodi. I hope this can be fixed as I took a while for me to think of another way for Kodi to remember my credentials. Jonny Using Kodi 17.2 I would upload logs but using an Android TV box(Nvidea Shield), so not so easy to grab the logs off it. I'm guessing its converting the character to something else

@Angelblue I am having problems with the lastest version of Kodi-Client: Setup: - Emby Server V 3.2.20.0 - Kodi V 17.3 - Krypton - latest Kodi-Client - Addon mode, direct stream music lib Problem: After a fresh install of Kodi and Kodi-Emby-Client I did a initial sync. Under "music"-> "albums" I dont see the tracks of the album. All Albums are empty. If I got to "music" -> "songs" I see all songs with correct metatdata. -> I did a "repair local database (force update all content). After that everthing was ok. I could go to "music" -> "albums" and I had all my tracks in the albums. -> After a restart and automatic sync the tracks within the albums have disappeared again.... very frustrating. -> It happens with 95% of the albums but not with all of them. The sources are all the same format, on the same server etc... no difference. Any Ideas? Here is my log-file: ***removed*** With older versions I never had this problem. Can you provide a link to an older version? Thank you