[mattie47]

Hi all,

I've just installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and installed Kodi:

```

bash:
matt@yoshi:~$ kodi --version

17.6 Debian package version: 2:17.6+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 Media Center Kodi from Debian

Copyright © 2005-2013 Team Kodi from Debian - http://kodi.tv

```

However, after enabling the web interface, I get the following error when navigating to it: "Connection to server lost". Not this isn't the standard 404, and I at least get the outline of the web interface with "profiles | Remove | movies | TV Shows  | music" appearing along the top.

Any thoughts?


Secondly, I've enabled airplay support (and disabled video), but I'm not seeing the server on my iPhone. 

I'm currently migrating from a raspberry pi running OSMC which has been great, to a HTPC running Ubuntu 18.04, and just trying to get things up and running at the moment.

Any help appreciated. 

Thanks,

Matt

[wsnipex]

try with our stable ppa

[mattie47]

Thanks!

Didn't realise Ubuntu 18.04 had been added to the PPA. I tried it a few days ago and didn't have any luck.

Anyway - Have installed via ppa, thanks!

If anyone reading this wants to know what to do:

bash:


sudo -s

!if you installed kodi via the debian standard ppa with ubuntu

apt autoremove kodi

add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

apt update

apt install kodi

I now have the web interface working :-)

I'm also seeing kodi via airplay, however not having much luck in getting it working.

I can use my iPhone with airplay audio on:
- Apple TV
- OSMC


When I try airplay from my phone:

bash:


matt@yoshi:~/.kodi/temp$ tail -f kodi.log

17:37:23.084 T:140697828885696   ERROR: Init: Error opening file pipe://3/

17:37:23.084 T:140697828885696   ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file pipe://3/

17:37:23.084 T:140697828885696 WARNING: PAPlayer::QueueNextFileEx - Failed to create the decoder

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Matt

[wsnipex]

airplay support is pretty much dead. iirc only audio with older ios versions works

[mattie47]

Thanks for the reply. 

I'd been using airplay with audio support for the last year or so with Kodi, and it had been working well. Typically after a fresh Kodi install though you need to untick "video" support with expert level options on, otherwise the airplay device won't appear on IOS. 

I'm running IOS 11 on my iPhone. I don't know if OSMC had done anything specific to the upstream Kodi image to ensure audio support worked, but it's still working with latest Kodi 17 provided by them on a RPI3. 


Thanks,

Matt

[DaVu]

@mattie47 

Just to let you know. It's all documented in our Wiki:

https://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Install_Kodi_for_Linux

[mattie47]

Yep - I'd read those instructions a few days prior to opening the thread, but they didn't help since 18.04 hadn't been added to the stable PPA at that point. I also tried installing the nightly but also ran into issues. 

If the debian packaged kodi had been installed first, doing "apt remove kodi" wasn't enough and I couldn't install the Team-Kodi version. Hence the instructions :-)

[User 421137]

...
If anyone reading this wants to know what to do:

bash:


sudo -s

!if you installed kodi via the debian standard ppa with ubuntu

apt autoremove kodi

add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa

apt update

apt install kodi

I now have the web interface working :-)

Thanks!

I had the same problem on Linux Mint 19 Xfce.
I also had "Connection to server lost" at localhost (and also from an Android device).

I did the same: Uninstall the Linux Mint (Ubuntu/Debian) version of Kodi and switched to the PPA of team-xbmc.


At the first try I had a problem because of the package "Kodi-repository-kodi", which was still installed.

bash:


Unpacking kodi (2:17.6+git20180430.1623-final-0bionic) ...

dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-VRJ7cf/15-kodi_2%3a17.6+git20180430.1623-final-0bionic_all.deb (--unpack):

 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/kodi/addons/repository.xbmc.org/addon.xml', which is also in package kodi-repository-kodi 2:17.6+dfsg1-1ubuntu1

dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Errors were encountered while processing:

 /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-VRJ7cf/15-kodi_2%3a17.6+git20180430.1623-final-0bionic_all.deb

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 

So I removed the package kodi-repository-kodi and installed Kodi again.
After starting the new installed Kodi I got an error: "Starting of web-server faild" (I've used the German interface and I don't remember the message at all). The Web Interface was not available.

I made tabula rasa and I removed Kodi again, deleted the settings direcotry (~/.kodi) and installed Kodi again and Kodi run fine and the web Interface at the localhost runs fine.
I just had to install the PVR package for Tvheadend (Kodi-pvr-hts) manually, set the credentials for the Tvheadend server and everythig is fine now.
BTW: It was a new setup at all and so I didn't had other sources in Kodi yet. I only had to change the localization settings in Kodi (but now I stay at the English Interface).

With deactivated Firewall (Gufw) I can access the Kodi web interface also from my Android device and also Kore (the remote app) is working fine. Even if I had allowed all TCP-Ports for the IP of my Android device, it's not running. But this is another problem, wich I'm sure I get fixed with correct firewall rules.

[fritsch]

dpkg -l |grep kodi | pastebinit

You are doing it wrong!

[User 421137]

dpkg -l |grep kodi | pastebinit

You are doing it wrong!

I?
Y?

I have no pastebinit.

bash:
dpkg -l |grep kodi | pastebinit



Command 'pastebinit' not found, but can be installed with:

bash:
dpkg -l |grep kodi

ii  kodi                                       2:17.6+git20180430.1623-final-0bionic       all          Kodi Media Center (arch-independent data package)

ii  kodi-bin                                   2:17.6+git20180430.1623-final-0bionic       amd64        Kodi Media Center (binary data package)

ii  kodi-pvr-hts                               3.4.27-1~bionic                             amd64        TVHeadEnd PVR for Kodi

[fritsch]

Perfect :-) all fine. If you want pastebinit, apt-get install pastebinit

[Preacher]

I also had "Connection to server lost" at localhost (and also from an Android device).

Orthogonal to this discussion, but... I also regularly get "Attempting Websockets Connection" then "Lost Websocket Connection" messages popping up during web interface usage (when connecting in Firefox from my Macbook).

It doesn't seem to hurt functionality; it's as though each requested action is processed correctly... then the web interface gets impatient after a few seconds of inactivity and drops the connection, popping this message up.  Once I click something else that happens okay... then the same message appears after a wait.

I just put it down to some aggressive AJAX timeout and ignore it after a while, but not sure if it's a related issue.