Locast Issues

[thecow]

I am new to NextPVR and was setting up extra-locast.  Everything seem to setup fine.  I can see the channels and program guide, but when I go to click on a show I get "Failed to start requested stream".  Based off of other help given in this forum I ran "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\locast\locast.bat" 1077.  This gave me the following

Namespace(format='smart', tune='1077', base=None, stream=False, reverse=False, default=None)
1077
extralocast v0.70
Logging into Locast using username ******@gmail.com...

Validating User Info...
User Info obtained.
User didDonate: True
User donationExpire: 2021-07-12 21:44:48
Getting user location...
Getting location via IP Address.
Got external IP **.***.***.***.
Got location as Philadelphia - DMA 504 - Lat\Lon ********\*********
Getting station info for 1077...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\locast\LocastService.py", line 488, in get_station_stream_uri
    videoUrlRes = json.loads(videoUrlReq.text)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\json\__init__.py", line 346, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "C:\Program Files\Python39\lib\json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\locast\locast.py", line 197, in <module>
    print (locast.get_station_stream_uri(opts.tune))
  File "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\locast\LocastService.py", line 495, in get_station_stream_uri
    print("Error when getting the video URL: " + videoUrlReqErr.message)
AttributeError: type object 'JSONDecodeError' has no attribute 'message'

[mvallevand]

That doesn't look good I will have a look.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Where did you get station 1077 from? That doesn't appear to be a Philadelphia station.

Martin

[thecow]

I have no clue . . . I do not have a channel number 1077.

[mvallevand]

You would have to use a number that is in extra.locast.xml you probably are testing from another users LA example Maybe try CBS which is 19611

Martin

[thecow]

I just searched my xml file. "1077" is no where in the file, but "19611" is in there as the CBS channel.

[mvallevand]

I was suggesting using that number and redo the test

Martin

[thecow]

Sorry!  I should have known that was what you meant.

The response in CMD is exactly the same except for the station number.  I tried 19611.

Thanks!

[mvallevand]

Instead of 19611 can you try 566

Martin

[thecow]

Here is the response I get:


Namespace(format='smart', tune='566', base=None, stream=False, reverse=False, default=None)
566
extralocast v0.70
Logging into Locast using username *****@gmail.com...
Validating User Info...
User Info obtained.
User didDonate: True
User donationExpire: 2021-07-12 21:44:48
Getting user location...
Getting location via IP Address.
Got external IP********.
Got location as Philadelphia - DMA 504 - Lat\Lon ************
Getting station info for 566...
Determining best video stream for 566...
Found 3 Playlists
566 will use 1280x720 resolution at 2700000bps
https://phi2.locastnet.org/proxy/phi2/va...ozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0