Does not work with mythtv in Ubuntu

[Alistair Buxton]

My Mythtv backend is running Ubuntu 16.04 and Mythtv 0.28 as packaged in Ubuntu. This plugin claims to support Mythtv "up to 0.28". After configuring it to connect to my the log file says:

23:13:44 T:139767740184320 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)OpenConnection: failed to connect with any version
23:13:44 T:139767740184320 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: Failed to connect to MythTV backend on 192.168.0.4:6543
23:13:44 T:139769239972224 NOTICE: starting zeroconf publishing
23:13:44 T:139769239972224 NOTICE: starting upnp client
23:13:44 T:139767706658560 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
23:13:44 T:139769239972224 NOTICE: ES: Starting event server
23:13:44 T:139767329044224 NOTICE: Thread EventServer start, auto delete: false
23:13:44 T:139767329044224 NOTICE: ES: Starting UDP Event server on 0.0.0.0:9777
23:13:44 T:139767329044224 NOTICE: UDP: Listening on port 9777
23:13:44 T:139767320651520 NOTICE: Thread TCPServer start, auto delete: false
23:13:44 T:139767312258816 NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
23:13:48 T:139767740184320 ERROR: PVR - couldn't get the capabilities for add-on 'unknown'. Please contact the developer of this add-on: Christian Fetzer, Jean-Luc Barrière
23:13:49 T:139767740184320 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)OpenConnection: failed to connect with any version
23:13:49 T:139767740184320 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: Failed to connect to MythTV backend on 192.168.0.4:6543
23:13:49 T:139767740184320 ERROR: PVR - couldn't get the capabilities for add-on 'unknown'. Please contact the developer of this add-on: Christian Fetzer, Jean-Luc Barrière
23:13:55 T:139767740184320 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)OpenConnection: failed to connect with any version
23:13:55 T:139767740184320 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: Failed to connect to MythTV backend on 192.168.0.4:6543
23:13:56 T:139767740184320 ERROR: PVR - couldn't get the capabilities for add-on 'unknown'. Please contact the developer of this add-on: Christian Fetzer, Jean-Luc Barrière
23:13:59 T:139767740184320 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)OpenConnection: failed to connect with any version
23:13:59 T:139767740184320 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: Failed to connect to MythTV backend on 192.168.0.4:6543
23:14:01 T:139767740184320 ERROR: PVR - couldn't get the capabilities for add-on 'unknown'. Please contact the developer of this add-on: Christian Fetzer, Jean-Luc Barrière

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: kodi-pvr-mythtv 2.8.0+git20151119-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Aug 4 23:10:42 2016
Dependencies:
 gcc-5-base 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.1
 gcc-6-base 6.0.1-0ubuntu1
 libc6 2.23-0ubuntu3
 libgcc1 1:6.0.1-0ubuntu1
 libstdc++6 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-12 (389 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422.1)
SourcePackage: kodi-pvr-mythtv
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-06-30 (35 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rick (soljia)]

I am also affected by this bug.

Mythbackend version (using Kodibuntu)

2016-09-20 09:05:52.030193 C mythbackend version: fixes/0.28 [v0.28-2-g15cf421] www.mythtv.org
2016-09-20 09:05:52.030207 C Qt version: compile: 5.5.1, runtime: 5.5.1

Kodi Log

08:57:23 T:10600 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: (CPPMyth)Myth::ProtoBase::OpenConnection: failed to connect with any version
08:57:23 T:10600 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client: Failed to connect to MythTV backend on 10.17.21.38:6543
08:57:23 T:10600 ERROR: AddOnLog: MythTV PVR Client:
08:57:23 T:10600 DEBUG: Calling TransferSettings for: MythTV PVR Client
08:57:23 T:10600 ERROR: PVR - couldn't get the capabilities for add-on 'unknown'. Please contact the developer of this add-on: Christian Fetzer, Jean-Luc Barrière
08:57:24 T:10600 DEBUG: PVR::CPVRClients::RegisterClient - registering add-on 'MythTV PVR Client'

[Rick (soljia)]

Also, receiving this on the backend.

Sep 20 08:57:20 myth mythbackend: mythbackend[2830]: I MythSocketThread(425) mainserver.cpp:7669 (connectionClosed) Control sock(29f95b0) disconnected
Sep 20 08:57:20 myth mythbackend: mythbackend[2830]: I MythSocketThread(425) mainserver.cpp:7669 (connectionClosed) Control sock(29fa290) disconnected
Sep 20 08:57:25 myth mythbackend: mythbackend[2830]: C ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1581 (HandleVersion) MainServer: MainServer::HandleVersion - Client speaks protocol version 75 but we speak 88!

[Rick (soljia)]

Sorry, didn't have debug on for the pvr addon. Attached is a truncated debug log.

[Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton)]

Hi, the problem is that the plugin is simply too old. To get it to work, you have to build it from the latest git source, which is here: https://github.com/janbar/pvr.mythtv

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

the package has been updated multiple times since then, so I'm closing this bug.