Kodi 18: EmbyCon extra password prompts (VersionCheck failure)

[NateVoci 0]

In case this is helpful for others.

In the last month or two I've noticed EmbyCon on both my windows and linux boxes has been prompting for my emby password each time I restart Kodi, or if it's been a long time (eg. a day) since I last supplied the password.

Today I got a chance to investigate what's going on and discovered that the problem is because the VersionCheck function makes a call to a logic app url which results in a 401 Unauthorized response. The downloadUrl function in downloadutils.py as a result clears the saved password.

As a workaround for this I have manually disabled the VersionCheck on my systems by editing service.py and commenting out the VersionCheck().start() statement.

Edited July 4, 2024 by GrimReaper
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[TeamB 2400]

what version of EmbyCon are you using, I thought i removed that version check over a year ago.

edit:

yeah its been removed from the latest version since march last year

https://github.com/faush01/plugin.video.embycon/commit/29725870a4330831122ac57c09f0be13d50f4caa

Edited July 4, 2024 by TeamB

[NateVoci 0]

I'm still on the latest kodi 18 version (1.9.135)

Glad to know it won't be a problem when I get around to upgrading to kodi 20.

Hopefully this is useful for anyone still on kodi 18 in the meantime.

I thought I would update the title of this topic to indicate kodi 18, but don't see a way to edit it.

And thanks for the swift response.

[GrimReaper 3852]

1 minute ago, NateVoci said:

I thought I would update the title of this topic to indicate kodi 18, but don't see a way to edit it.

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FYI, Rookie Member group has a time restriction of 15 minutes for editing own posts.

 

[NateVoci 0]

1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

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Awesome work. Thanks @GrimReaper