Connection lost spam

[AlexHaxe]

I am using Kodi on a raspberry pi and my VDR does not run all the time. And in this case Kodi or VNSI client will tell me every x seconds that the connection failed.
Users do not need the information that yet another connection attempt failed. It is redundant and distracting, because it won't stop telling you about the failing connection even when you are watching something from a different source.

VNSI client should tell me once (on startup) that the connection failed and then shut up until the state changes. So unless VNSI client just started or had a connection and lost it, I don't want to see connection lost notifications.

[Jalle19]

Check "do not show connection warnings" in Kodi's live TV settings.

[AlexHaxe]

I am running openelec 5.0.8 (with Kodi 14.2) and there is no such option.

[AlexHaxe]

Also: I do want information about a lost connection, but I do not want it every n seconds, especially if it's not true. How can a connection be lost, if there was no connection in the first place? That doesn't make sense.
The plugin should tell me there is no connection and then keep quiet until the connection was restablished and then breaks again. So if the server side crashes after a few seconds into a new connection or during handshake, then yes show me a notification so I can fix my VDR. But if it's clearly not there / not responding, then just don't bother telling me something I already know over and over again.

[FernetMenta]

you have to distinguish between a lost connection and one that can't be established. if you get this message every couple of seconds, the problem is in some level lower than vnsi. vnsi triggers the message when the connection got lost. if the server is down the connection can't be established again. this should not trigger this message. maybe something got broken with moving platform lib.

[Jalle19]

@AlexHaxe the option is there, maybe you need to change the setting visibility level?
@FernetMenta the addon shouldn't trigger notifications on its own, otherwise the option mentioned above won't work.

[FernetMenta]

@Jalle19 the message you are talking about is a different story and not 100% appropriate here. note that vnsi has this mechanism since forever.

[Jalle19]

Okay

[FernetMenta]

I think I see the issue in vnsi. will try to provide a fix this evening

[AlexHaxe]

@Jalle19 I jave tried multiple skins (apart from the default Confluence), non shows that setting, but I can see a hideconnectionlostwarning option in guisettings.xml. It says default is true but the actual value is false.
If I try to change the value, it gets reset to false after the next start of Kodi. Even if I kill the process. So maybe this is an openelec thing.

[FernetMenta]

@Jalle19 @opdenkamp this is an issue in platform code:
https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/platform/blob/master/src/posix/os-socket.h#L324
connect returns true when it should return false.

[opdenkamp]

see Pulse-Eight/platform@079eded
don't think that kodi has pulled this in yet, but I don't have time to do pull requests right now, sorry.

[FernetMenta]

@wsnipex what needs to be done to get those patches?

[wsnipex]

see https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/project/cmake/addons/depends/common/platform/platform.txt
but its already using version 1.0.10

[wsnipex]

oh, ubuntu packages will need a bump though