Pluto TV VOD Series not working

[loveridgem]

Hi,

After I successfully got live pluto working I wanted to add the VOD portion.  The movies all work correctly, but I'm not getting any episode shows.  All of the shows that I put "yes" on in the series filter created files in my plutotv folder like: vod-cache-forged-in-fire.json with the contents: {"statusCode":404,"error":"Not Found","message":"slug not found"}.

Any idea why this is happening?  What can I provide do to help debug this?

Thanks for any help.
Mike

EDIT: I forgot to mention I saw the previous post of this happening to someone else, but I didn't see a resolution.  Is it that Pluto isn't compatible anymore?

[mvallevand]

Yes TV episodes are broken because of the new API for series mentioned in the other thread. I suggest you open an issue on the streamlink github page to hear what they say. I can probably do it in my extra but there is no VOD in Canada for me to test so I was hoping streamlink would figure it out first.

Martin

[mvallevand]

I guess you weren't too concerned about this since you never opened a github issue, but I did see that someone has created a PR for this and it seems to be working with streamlink and it is also working well with a test version of the extra.

Martin

[p37307]

it is also working well with a test version of the extra.

Martin

Martin,
When do you think you will release an update? Would you like a tester? Also, what would be the uninstall process in case someone wants to remove Pluto Tv Extras? 

Thanks

[mvallevand]

I can release it anytime if you interested in downloading the PR version of pluto.py from github and replacing the release version.

Uninstalling isn't too difficult,

- Uninstall streamlink
- Remove the scripts/streamink folder
- For the user folder remove extra-pluto.xml if you install the tuner and vod-pluto.xml if you install vod
- If you install the tuner remove the tuner as you would any NextPVR tuner
- From a browser run http://localhost:8866/service?method=vod.delete

Martin

[mvallevand]

Streamlink just merged in that code, so it is past beta so I will release my update too. For older version of streamlink the worst that happens is the vod will fail when the downloads are requested.

Martin

[p37307]

Streamlink just merged in that code, so it is past beta so I will release my update too.  For older version of streamlink the worst that happens is the vod will fail when the downloads are requested.

Martin

I downloaded the new package from the github link and getting the same error I got on this thread only with seasons. https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...eVOD%28%29

Here's the new errors:

Code:

C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\plutotv>python pluto.py vod
Generating Extra VOD file in C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\
Read page file C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\plutotv/vod-cache-1.json
Read page file C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\plutotv/vod-cache-2.json
Filtered 120 categories
Generating Extra Series VOD file in C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\
Read page file C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\plutotv/vod-cache-1.json
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\plutotv\pluto.py", line 326, in <module>
    vod.GenerateVOD()
  File "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\plutotv\vod.py", line 161, in GenerateVOD
    VODSeries(extras, station)
  File "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\plutotv\vod.py", line 202, in VODSeries
    for season in series_list['seasons']:
KeyError: 'seasons'

[mvallevand]

I haven't uploaded the Extra changes to github or changed the wiki yet so I am not surprised. Should be soon, in the meantime you can install the new required library

pip install beautifulsoup4

Martin

[p37307]

I haven't uploaded the Extra changes to github or changed the wiki yet so I am not surprised.  Should be soon, in the meantime you can install the new required library

pip install beautifulsoup4

Martin

Ok. Maybe that error was the same as before.  I compared to the size and date of the files I already had. Until I came to report back, I had forgotten you made me a special py file in that other thread a while back.

[mvallevand]

Ok it should be there now. The vod series selection list file is now grouped by category to match the categories on Pluto TV. I am hoping this will make it easier to find shows in that large list.

Martin