[IPTV Merge] Causes addons to freeze (arch64 Kodi 19.4 rpi3+)

I am having an issue with IPTV Merge as when I install it it causes my other addons to not work as I get the spinning wheel. I can back out of them to the home screen so it doesn't totally freeze. I can't uninstall IPTV Merge as this causes Kodi to freeze. I can ssh in and I then delete the iptv.merge directory and reboot and I am back to a working system. I like IPTV Merge as I have four sources that I use to merge. I was running IPTV Merge on 19.3 without issue but I can't back down since I will need python 3.9 and the associated libs to run kodi 19.3. I am currently running Python 3.10.2. Does anyone else have this issue on 19.4? I have run IPTV merge on my test 20.0 so I am not sure why I am seeing an issue on 19.4. Could it be the arch arm64 package?

[matthuisman]

its a python 3.10 issue
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=368069&pid=3096972

Thanks for the help. Python 3.10.4 broke other plugins so I was using 3.10.2. After seeing your links, it appears the issue has been resolved in 3.10.5 so cloned the 3.10.4 tree and compiled python so now the version says 3.10.4+. This version fixed the issues with the other plugins but when I install IPTV Merge it still breaks Kodi. I'm not sure if the issue is with Kodi 19.4 or IPTV Merge as I was running IPTV Merge on 20.0 without issue. BTW, can I use kodi_proxy from your repo to grab the m3u and epg data? I have Simple IPTV set to the addon_data folder with the playlist m3u and epg.xml from my backup along with data.db and settings.xml file. I just need a way to grab the data from my sources

[matthuisman]

IPTV merge uses sqlite and that's what causes the bug. I suspect you havn't compiled a branch that includes the 2nd fix.

Not sure your on other question. Kodi.proxy is mainly used when not using Kodi.

Thanks for the help. I just compiled about an hour or so ago. It looks like the 2nd fix was pushed to 3.10.

python/cpython#92296

I did a git clone 3.10 https://github.com/python/cpython to give me 3.10.4+. Hopefully I pulled the proper branch as I believe 3.11 would give me an issue since Kodi 19.4 looks for python 3.10.

What I meant by kodi proxy is if I could set a cron job to do what IPTV merge does with that being it fetches all the epg data from the sources that I set through the IPTV Merge interface when running 19.3 since I made a backup of my .kodi directory. Like I could run tv_grab_iptv_merge from the command line and it would go to the userdata addon directory and pull the epg data from my sources.

It looks like from reading the code I could install kodi.proxy via the instructions and then just run tv_grab_iptv_merge from the command line and it will populate my epg data properly?

[matthuisman]

Not sure sorry. Give it a go if you like. I don't really offer support for it. It's just something some ppl use to use my IPTV stuff with tvheadend

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kodi proxy actually works very well at least for the epg as it's IPTV Merge outside of kodi. It alters the m3u file so I just use my previous playlist.m3u thus I can use IPTV Merge without installing it in Kodi.

IPTV Merge was working in 20.0 and 19.3 so I'm thinking it's an issue somewhere with Kodi 19.4 since I was using the system for 20.0 (python version etc)

[matthuisman]

maybe you can get me a crash log etc showing the crashing?

It doesn't crash as it just freezes but I can back out. You want a regular log or a debug log? I'll do it in the AM.

[matthuisman]

debug log be great.
I suspect IPTV Simple client is actually freezing as it tried to load in the new playlist / epg?
Does it seem to get pass the actual merging?

All addons hang with the spinning circle when I try to go to them. For the log, I enabled IPTV Merge then went to IPTV Merge addon and then the Youtube addon and it just gives me the spinning circle. It gives an error about focus and GetDirectory failed in the log file.

I was using kodi.proxy but Simple IPTV isn't populating the epg correctly. It just started happening yesterday. The file epg.xml file looks good so I'm not sure what the issue is. Probably not an IPTV Merge issue.

https://zerobin.net/?810433f97e1c511c#Fm1859L+zq3oPyE5AZOEtocZxSSnVmwfSeKhW10kfYw=

Thanks for the help!

[matthuisman]

merge doesnt even get started in that log.
looks like it freezes while iptv simple client is doing stuff.

It seems like Merge is holding focus. I have OpenVPN Manager. Once I have set a VPN to a specific addon and once I click on the addon it changes the VPN. Merge prevents this from happening. Once I uninstall Merge and reboot then everything goes back to normal.