Kudos to the IVUE Folks and the folks here (in particular, Dara) for getting this working. I'll relate what I did, in the hope it might help others who are running into problems. I'm using a Fire Stick with Kodi 15.1, so you may have to alter these instructions slightly to fit your set-up.
1. First, I downloaded the current IPTV Stalker mod, plugin.video.stalker 9.0.20.zip See the first post on the first page in this thread for the download link.
2. I sideloaded the zip file to my Fire Stick using adbFire. If you're not sure how to sideload, Google sideload adbFire. It will give you instructions.
==== I believe the file is also available in the IVUE Guide repo. Check the second page in this thread for that information. ====
2. I reset my IPTV Stalker 1.0.18 to Defaults and uninstalled it.
3. I obtained a new Mac Address. You have to get a new Mac Address, even if your current Mac Address is working. Your current working Mac Address will not work with this implementation. I noted that someone said the Mac Address has to be something very random while Dara said it can be very close to your current working Mac Address. Dara's correct. I just changed the last digit in my working Mac Address, increasing it by 1, i.e., A1 to A2.
Have your Donation ID ready. Go here and obtain your new Mac Address:
4. I installed the modified Stalker 9.0.20. I clicked Default first thing after installing it. For good measure, I used adbFire to delete my plugin.video.stalker/settings.xml file. Have userdata set in the pulldown menu under Preset directories in adbFire. Next, click the Delete button. In the ensuing popup window, find plugin.video.stalker/settings.xml and delete it. Technically, the full path that you will see in the window is
/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.stalker/settings.xml
It will take some searching, but it is there.
As Dara mentioned, there is another route to accomplishing this task,
"You may have to delete the old settings.xml and allow a new one to regenerate based on the new update. You can use the file manager in Kodi, through Profile directory, addon_data, plugin.video.stalker."
5. I started the IPTV Stalker addon, entering the new Mac Address in Portal 1. I should have added the new Mac Address in Portal 2 and Portal 3 at this point but did not, so please do that now if you're following these steps to avoid a minor nuisance later on. (See #7 below for elaboration.)
6. I started IVUE. I followed ivueguide's recommendation,
"on ivue guide goto settings then guide fixes and choose delete addons file the bottom option this pulls in the new file which no longer sends the mac or serial error. once you've reset the file open ivue then close it once loaded and open it and you'll be good to use it."
7. Hesitantly, I opened IVUE and selected a channel. Bingo, it worked. However, there was an error message on the lower right, something about improper Mac 2 and improper Mac 3. It was working, but there was still that nagging error message. I decided maybe I needed to put the new Mac Address in Portal 2 and Portal 3 in the IPTV Stalker settings. Yup, after adding the new Mac Address to Portal 2 and Portal 3, the error message disappeared, and all is working fine.
Maybe all the steps weren't necessary, but they got IVUE Guide working with IPTV Stalker and only took 10-15 minutes to perform.
1. First, I downloaded the current IPTV Stalker mod, plugin.video.stalker 9.0.20.zip See the first post on the first page in this thread for the download link.
2. I sideloaded the zip file to my Fire Stick using adbFire. If you're not sure how to sideload, Google sideload adbFire. It will give you instructions.
==== I believe the file is also available in the IVUE Guide repo. Check the second page in this thread for that information. ====
2. I reset my IPTV Stalker 1.0.18 to Defaults and uninstalled it.
3. I obtained a new Mac Address. You have to get a new Mac Address, even if your current Mac Address is working. Your current working Mac Address will not work with this implementation. I noted that someone said the Mac Address has to be something very random while Dara said it can be very close to your current working Mac Address. Dara's correct. I just changed the last digit in my working Mac Address, increasing it by 1, i.e., A1 to A2.
Have your Donation ID ready. Go here and obtain your new Mac Address:
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https://papiao.is/main/search_nfps/4. I installed the modified Stalker 9.0.20. I clicked Default first thing after installing it. For good measure, I used adbFire to delete my plugin.video.stalker/settings.xml file. Have userdata set in the pulldown menu under Preset directories in adbFire. Next, click the Delete button. In the ensuing popup window, find plugin.video.stalker/settings.xml and delete it. Technically, the full path that you will see in the window is
/sdcard/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/plugin.video.stalker/settings.xml
It will take some searching, but it is there.
As Dara mentioned, there is another route to accomplishing this task,
"You may have to delete the old settings.xml and allow a new one to regenerate based on the new update. You can use the file manager in Kodi, through Profile directory, addon_data, plugin.video.stalker."
5. I started the IPTV Stalker addon, entering the new Mac Address in Portal 1. I should have added the new Mac Address in Portal 2 and Portal 3 at this point but did not, so please do that now if you're following these steps to avoid a minor nuisance later on. (See #7 below for elaboration.)
6. I started IVUE. I followed ivueguide's recommendation,
"on ivue guide goto settings then guide fixes and choose delete addons file the bottom option this pulls in the new file which no longer sends the mac or serial error. once you've reset the file open ivue then close it once loaded and open it and you'll be good to use it."
7. Hesitantly, I opened IVUE and selected a channel. Bingo, it worked. However, there was an error message on the lower right, something about improper Mac 2 and improper Mac 3. It was working, but there was still that nagging error message. I decided maybe I needed to put the new Mac Address in Portal 2 and Portal 3 in the IPTV Stalker settings. Yup, after adding the new Mac Address to Portal 2 and Portal 3, the error message disappeared, and all is working fine.
Maybe all the steps weren't necessary, but they got IVUE Guide working with IPTV Stalker and only took 10-15 minutes to perform.
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