kodi plex addon error fixed

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Sep 2, 2018·2 min read

plex is a cross platform video organization software and player

plex kodi addon is free.

but it has following error when start plex addon:

File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/E9C10B6B-E485–49DB-BABC-77CFC8EC3751/Library/Preferences/Kodi/addons/script.plex/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/util.py”, line 37, in <module>
 X_PLEX_PLATFORM = platform.uname()[0] # Platform name, eg iOS, MacOSX, Android, LG, etc
 File “/Users/Shared/jenkins/workspace/IOS-ARM64/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/iphoneos11.0_arm64-target-debug/lib/python2.7/platform.py”, line 1232, in uname
 File “/Users/Shared/jenkins/workspace/IOS-ARM64/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/iphoneos11.0_arm64-target-debug/lib/python2.7/platform.py”, line 967, in _syscmd_uname
 IOError: [Errno 10] No child processes

it is because the python code came with kodi has no method named ‘uname’ in platform.pyc

The fix is simple, just hard code the platform info, the problem can be fixed.

Kodi/addons/script.plex/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/util.py

X_PLEX_PLATFORM = ‘iOS’ #platform.uname()[0] # Platform name, eg iOS, MacOSX, Android, LG, etc
X_PLEX_PLATFORM_VERSION = ‘11.1.2’ #platform.uname()[2] # Operating system version, eg 4.3.1, 10.6.7, 3.2$ git diff util.py
diff --git a/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/util.py b/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/util.pyindex 143d576..b43c8bf 100644
--- a/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/util.py
+++ b/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/util.py
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ X_PLEX_CONTAINER_SIZE = 50                         # max results to return in a# Plex Header Configuation
X_PLEX_PROVIDES = 'player,controller'          # one or more of [player, controller, server]
-X_PLEX_PLATFORM = platform.uname()[0]          # Platform name, eg iOS, MacOSX, Android, LG, etc
-X_PLEX_PLATFORM_VERSION = platform.uname()[2]  # Operating system version, eg 4.3.1, 10.6.7, 3.2
+X_PLEX_PLATFORM = 'iOS' #platform.uname()[0]          # Platform name, eg iOS, MacOSX, Android, LG, etc
+X_PLEX_PLATFORM_VERSION = '12.1.1' #platform.uname()[2]  # Operating system version, eg 4.3.1, 10.6.7, 3.2
X_PLEX_PRODUCT = PROJECT                       # Plex application name, eg Laika, Plex Media Server, Media Link
X_PLEX_VERSION = VERSION                       # Plex application version number
USER_AGENT = '{0}/{1}'.format(PROJECT, VERSION)

Kodi/addons/script.plex/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/plexapp.py +305

_globals = {
 ‘platform’: platform.uname()[0],
 ‘appVersionStr’: ‘0.0.0a1’,
 ‘clientIdentifier’: str(hex(uuid.getnode())),
 ‘platformVersion’: platform.uname()[2],
 ‘product’: ‘PlexNet.API’,
 ‘provides’: ‘player’,
 ‘device’: platform.uname()[0],
 ‘model’: ‘Unknown’,
 ‘friendlyName’: ‘PlexNet.API’,
 ‘deviceInfo’: DeviceInfo()
 }$ git diff plexapp.py
diff --git a/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/plexapp.py b/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/plexapp.py
index 089c05c..370e1eb 100644
--- a/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/plexapp.py
+++ b/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/plexapp.py
@@ -302,13 +302,13 @@ class DumbInterface(AppInterface):
None: {}
}
_globals = {
-        'platform': platform.uname()[0],
+        'platform': 'iOS', #platform.uname()[0],
'appVersionStr': '0.0.0a1',
'clientIdentifier': str(hex(uuid.getnode())),
-        'platformVersion': platform.uname()[2],
+        'platformVersion': '12.1.1', #platform.uname()[2],
'product': 'PlexNet.API',
'provides': 'player',
-        'device': platform.uname()[0],
+        'device': 'iOS', #platform.uname()[0],
'model': 'Unknown',
'friendlyName': 'PlexNet.API',
'deviceInfo': DeviceInfo()

Kodi/addons/script.plex/lib/plex.py

‘friendlyName’: ‘Kodi Add-on iOS’, #({0})’.format(platform.node()),$ git diff
diff --git a/lib/plex.py b/lib/plex.py
index 4bb9fd2..9085b60 100644
--- a/lib/plex.py
+++ b/lib/plex.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class PlexInterface(plexapp.AppInterface):
         'provides': 'player',
         'device': util.getPlatform() or plexapp.PLATFORM,
         'model': 'Unknown',
-        'friendlyName': 'Kodi Add-on ({0})'.format(platform.node()),
+        'friendlyName': 'Kodi Add-on iOS',
         'supports1080p60': True,
         'vp9Support': True,
         'transcodeVideoQualities': [

https://github.com/myahmao/plex-for-kodi/commit/427ce50ef51ffb4cec829584d8beaf28fc3b0a65