Can't connect, Error 0, Can't connect, timeout, error 28

[ganzgustav22]

Why is that?

Whenever I get those messages in Kodi.log, I can login via ssh, issue "wget " and it works just fine, no issue with the server.

Same thing on another device with Televizo IPTV player. Works just fine, never have any issues connecting.

[ganzgustav22]

`2024-05-07 16:47:07.981 T:1484 error : CCurlFile::CReadState::FillBuffer - (0x7f18002200) Failed: Timeout was reached(28)
2024-05-07 16:47:07.982 T:1484 error : CCurlFile::Open - http://url-blah Failed with code 0:

2024-05-07 16:47:07.983 T:1484 error : AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr.iptvsimple - Process - unable to connect to: http://url-blah
2024-05-07 16:47:07.983 T:1484 info : AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr.iptvsimple - ConnectionLost Could not validiate M3U after startup, but ignoring as startup is all we care about.
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[ganzgustav22]

`2024-05-07 16:58:19.966 T:937 error : CCurlFile::CReadState::FillBuffer - (0x7f040f32e0) Failed: Timeout was reached(28)
2024-05-07 16:58:19.966 T:937 error : CCurlFile::Open - http://url-bla Failed with code 0:
2024-05-07 16:58:19.966 T:937 error : AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr.iptvsimple - LoadPlayList - Unable to load playlist cache file 'http://url-blah': file is missing or empty.
2024-05-07 16:58:19.966 T:937 info : AddOnLog: pvr.iptvsimple: pvr.iptvsimple - LoadEPG - EPG file path is not configured. EPG not loaded.
2024-05-07 16:58:19.969 T:845 error : Unknown setting type of 'ffmpegdirectSettings' for IPTV Simple Client
2024-05-07 16:58:49.202 T:937 error : CCurlFile::CReadState::FillBuffer - (0x7f040f32e0) Failed: Transferred a partial file(18)
2024-05-07 16:58:49.202 T:937 warning : CCurlFile::CReadState::FillBuffer - (0x7f040f32e0) Reconnect, (re)try 1
2024-05-07 16:59:00.222 T:937 error : CCurlFile::CReadState::FillBuffer - (0x7f040f32e0) Failed: Requested range was not delivered by the server(33)

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Nope, it's not missing, it's not empty, also not partial. Again, wget on the same host (Pi4) works every single time, again, two other android apps on the same local network also work fine every single time.

[phunkyfish]

It’s possible your provider is blocking kodi. Have you tried entering a different user agent in the add-on settings?

[ganzgustav22]

No it's not my provider, I've tested with different ISPs. Also I'm sure my provider that I use at home doesn't do any Layer-7 shenanigans like looking into http headers.

I think it's that the timeout set in Kodis CCurlFile handler is too short, possibly 10 seconds. Since that playlist is quite large and it seems to be generated on-the-fly by some php code on the iptv server, it takes more than 10 seconds until data starts flowing which makes it time out.

I've opened a bug here now because I believe that timeout is set in Kodi and it's not actually an issue with the iptv simple plugin itself.

xbmc/xbmc#25209

[phunkyfish]

And if you copy the required files locally and load them from there does it work?

I think the addon API allows for settings a read timeout. So it’s possible we need to change something. There was some work done on file read lower level code for Omega, but the fix should likely be in the addon and not kodi.

[phunkyfish]

Let me create a quick PR and we’ll test if changing addon options works.

[phunkyfish]

Can you try this PR: #864

Here is the diff: https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/kodi-pvr/pvr.iptvsimple/pull/864.diff