Fixing iVue Guide to work with IPTV Stalker ("failed authorization")

[dara]

Cool. Let me know. If that does the trick, we're lookin' at v3.



Gotcha. I'm not really either, more of a hacker. I just like to automate stuff. Push a button and watch the pretty lights. When you said "middleware", I was instantly impressed...lol. No idea what that is. I'm not current either. Most familiar with vbs, which about 9999 years old, but still supported in windows by default! lol I've used python at work and have been able to do what I needed to.

I found the line that sends the serial number in IPTV Stalker, and was able to comment it out. I'll see if work...

[Drivium]

Might have been a false alarm in my case. Checked windows task manager and there was a python script that was hung up. Killed Kodi, then I killed the python script, restarted KODI and everything works again. Just me?

[dara]

Yeah, it does with the modified ini, and it doesn't screw up PVR Stalker!

For those that want to try this, make this change in the load_channels.py in plugin.video.stalker
Just put a # sign in front of the setSerialNumber(Serial)

def retriveUrl(portal_mac, url, serial, channel, tmp):
	
	setMac(portal_mac);
#	setSerialNumber(serial);
		
	if 'matrix' in channel:
		return retrieve_matrixUrl(url, channel);
		
	else:
		return retrive_defaultUrl(url, channel, tmp);

[Drivium]

Ok, cool. What's weird is that the serial piece for iptvstalker is in the iVue addons.ini by default, yet it doesn't mess anything up. All my script does is mod the mac. Do you get why modding the tecbox ini has this affect?

[dara]

This fixed it for you?

Yeah. I used v2 on a default addons.ini with my linked mac, moved it into the userdata for the iVue, and made that code change. iVue is still sending over that serial number trash to IPTV Stalker, but at least IPTV Stalker isn't sending it on to the server, which doesn't need it. However, the cache for PVR Stalker won't be good for that session, to bring it back you have disable/enable live tv after quitting IPTV Stalker.

If you can figure out how to get rid of the serial number from the .ini, then that code change won't be necessary. I'll leave on my local copy... if the iVue guys want, they might want to make that a mod on their copy in their repo but they will need to renumber the addon version to prevent it from being changed by the rogue 1.2.0.

[Drivium]

Ok. Ill see what affect removing that from the ini has, tomorrow.

[Drivium]

Ok, I can still connect to iptvstalker if I remove all of the references to serial in the ini. I just did it in msword. Your's may be the same. I searched for serial%22%3A+%7B%22 replaced with null (in the "replace with" area, I left it blank). Try it on yours and see if this fixes your issues. If so, I'll mod the script to remove this.

Will be a quick fix if your serial string is the same as mine. I can give the script a specific thing to look for.

On another note, if you decrypt that string, it's a weird sad face. :{

EDIT = if your serial string IS the same, I've got a v3 script ready to go... If its not, can you post what yours is so I can code for the variables ?

Here's an example of what mine looks like (bolded in blue):

2%3A+%22NFPS%22%2C+%22parental%22%3A+%22false%22%2C+%22url%22%3A+%22http%3A%2F%2Fportal.iptvprivateserver.tv%22%2C+%22mac%22%3A+%2200%3A1A%3A79%3ABB%3ABB%3ABB%22%2C+%22serial%22%3A+%7B%22custom%22%3A+false%7D%2C+%22password%22%3A+%220000%22%7D&mode=play&logo_url=http%3A%2F%2Fportal.iptvprivateserver.tv%2Fstalker_portal%2Fmisc%2Flogos%2F320%2F1405.png&
Channel

-d

[Drivium]

Can anyone confirm what their serial string looks like in the tecbox addons.ini file?

[Drivium]

Here is version 3 of the iVue MAC Swap Tool. Gives user the choice to remove references to serial in their addons.ini file. This assumes that their serial matches this: serial%22%3A+%7B%22 as I'm assuming this is a default. Also sexied up the prompts.

Enjoy

Pastebin:

 http://pastebin.com/7ysHbVGm

Link to script:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7UqN53jp_4cZTBSODVXZEctdEU/view?usp=sharing

[tvlarry]

forget Ivue guide, the PVR Stalker Client works better than Ivue, more features and no need to reset cache ever !