Problem Description
After the TV and KODI client has not been used for 6-7 hours (Turned off overnight at ~23:30 and turned back on in the morning), navigate to TV, select a TV channel from the channel list, guide, or a recently watched channel and click OK to switch to that channel. The spinning wheel appears and the TV channel never switches and Kodi is frozen. (I notice that the onscreen KODI Debug information is still happily updating on screen at top left)
I have monitored how long it takes before the problem occurs and deduced that Kodi has to be left running unused for 6 hours until the problem appears (This can be replicated during daytime so seems to not be related to an overnight scheduled activity).
Additionally, when choosing the Recorded TV icon from the KODI TV menus, KODI freezes and no list of recordings is shown indicating that there seems to be a "general lost connection" between client and back end DVBlink server.
Problem only affects KODI PVR Addon, other DVBlink clients using the same Synology based DVBlink back end server continue to work perfectly (Tested: Windows MCE, DVBlink for TVOS, iOS & OSX, DVBlink Browser client). I also don't recall seeing this issue with KODI 16 JARVIS.
KODI Clients Tested:
- Apple Mac OSX 10.11.6 / KODI 17 RC-2 / DVBlink AddOn Version 3.3.9 / DVBlink Server 6.0 Build 13314 Synology (Solomalee)
- Raspberry PI3 Libreelec 07.90.010 / KODI 17 Beta 7 / DVBlink AddOn Version 3.3.8 / DVBlink Server 6.0 Build 13314 Synology (Solomalee)
I notice that KODI reports the PVR Back End server is DVBlink Server V5.0 - that is not correct, V6.0 is installed
User Ateryu has reported the same issue affecting Intel NUC / Windows 10 / KODI 17 Beta
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid ... pid2484249
Work Around
Reboot or restart Kodi before selecting a live TV channel or playing a recording if the client hasn't been used for a number of hours.
KODI Log Files for 2 affected RPI clients
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/144 ... _attic.zip
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/144 ... m_post.zip
DVBlink LOG Files
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/144 ... 8-1145.zip
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/144 ... 9-2232.zip