What's the deal with Comet?

How come sooo many Comet titles crap-out immediately upon selecting from the Syncler search hits list? (Magnify package, TorBox.)... It's with the same error message as on Real Debrid titles with the little triangle exclamation point icon ever since the debacle some weeks ago.

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 10 days ago

Heads-up! If you're self-hosting the Providra server app on the same device as Syncler, it will hog port 8080 — the default port for inter-process-communication with Kodi when used as your default external player — and prevent it from playing videos by Syncler.

Change the port in Kodi settings > Services > Control > Allow Remote Control via HTTP/Port to, say, 8082... then with Kodi still running, in Syncler settings > Playback > Player/Kodi > Setup, select Kodi, then if you scroll down a little, you'll see it automatically set the port to what you just did in Kodi. Done!

Alternatively, you can change the port Providra uses in its settings. But you then MUST uninstall/re-install with Run Default Setup the Providra package in Syncler for any change to take effect — NOT merely do an Update Package!

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 13 days ago
▲ 3 r/Nuvio

Do updates' downloaded APK installation files get automatically deleted afterward?

If not, where are they, so I can delete them in my file manager?

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 14 days ago
▲ 7 r/alexa

Call for all of you to make an en masse feedback campaign to preserve Alexa Request Sounds

It seems that firmware updates are being rolled-out that remove Request Sounds. (The little chimes that acknowledge your wake word, and after a command is completed.)

You won't believe what a user-hostile loss this is until it happens to you!... And it's mission-critical for the blind.

Some are saying that it's a bug that will be remedied in a future update, but others are saying that it's on purpose, and Request Sounds are being phased-out.

Please consider making a feedback plea for reversing this abomination.

[ EDIT ] June 19:
My Request sounds were back when I woke-up this morning. I guess they pushed-out another firmware update overnight.

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 19 days ago

I'm on the official store checkout page, and earlier it said I could make my key payment in Litecoin, but I can't see how to change its address from Bitcoin to Litecoin.

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 24 days ago

What did I do wrong?

Will someone who knows Coinbase please walk me through what I must have done wrong trying to pay for something? I bought Litecoin on Coinbase and tried to transfer it to my Coinbase wallet ("Base") but there's $0 in my wallet, and my Coinbase transfers shows it went to some address I-don't-know-who-it-is.

[ EDIT ] [ SOLVED ]
On a lark, I cleared the Base app's cache, which made the switch-to-legacy toggle appear in my profile, and after switching to legacy, voilà, my funds appeared!

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 24 days ago

Trakt v3.8.2 add-on stopped working

Kodi 21.2...
It worked when I first installed it; it always put-up its icon when starting a video, and indicated scrobbling when pausing.

Then it stopped working. I re-authorized my Trakt account in its config, and I see my username.

I can't figure out what's up.

Also, what happens when I do a Run? I never could tell what Run does, even when it was working.

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 24 days ago
▲ 11 r/Nuvio

If I put Easynews++ directly in Nuvio instead of in AIOStreams, am I safe from a ban?

(I'm brand new to Usenet, and don't really understand the ban situation.... I gather it's from them seeing one IP address scraping when it's in AIOStreams, and another when playing the video from Nuvio?)

I'm going to try using panteLx's discontinued Easynews++ as long as it holds out.

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 25 days ago

Is Syncler's catalogs, is Trakt "History" the same as what's called Trakt "Watched" in other apps & add-ons?

Or are History and Watched two separate things?

memo: I know that Trakt "Watching" is a separate category from "Watched."

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 26 days ago
▲ 2 r/alexa

My Echo suddenly stopped making its Start of Request & End of Request sounds

My other Echo still makes those acknowledgement beeps when using the wake-word & after the command is completed.

I tried disabling and re-enabling in:

Alexa app (Android mobile) > Devices > my Echo Plus > ⚙ (settings) > General/Sound > Request Sounds/Start of Request & End of Request (toggles)

...but it didn't bring them back. I also unplugged the Echo to no avail. And I asked her (Alexa+) about it, and she said she had no control over it directly, and to use the Alexa app.

Has this ever happened to you? How do I get the beeps back?

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 1 month ago

Getting a lot of bad links with TorBox, just like with Real-Debrid.

"TorBox source failed." Not on all titles, but on ones it does, there are many.... Syncler v2, Magnify Scrapers package.... As with Real Debrid, mostly Comet ones. (What's the deal with Comet, anyway?)... I have my sort settings to "Bring Uncached Sources to the Bottom," but my offending ones are at the top.... On titles this occurs, doesn't help if I disable my VPN, so I guess it's not a banned IP address.... I understand that TorBox doesn't have API "endpoints" disabled like Real-Debrid had to after last year's episode, so I wonder why some TorBox titles have so many bad links?

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 2 months ago

Is anyone using Kodi as your player?

Why does Kodi display a seemingly random text string instead of the video filename with TorBox streams?

I think it's the hash, because Kodi subtitles add-ons still seem to get the right subtitles.... Other players show the actual filename. Only happens with TorBox, not Real Debrid, Premiumize, or All Debrid. How can I get Kodi to show the actual filename, as displayed among the player controls with the Confluence skin?

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 2 months ago

Is TorBox Pro for easier, turnkey Usenet in any way disadvantadeous...

...when it comes to older & niche titles? (I'm brand new & ignorant of Usenet, but I've read that going separate indexers, providers, etc. has other technical advantages that make it better and the added technical complexity worth it, but I'm here asking just in terms of any difference in the breadth of availability of more obscure titles.)

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 2 months ago

I am new to TorBox, coming from years of RD. When I visit the website and go to my dashboard, it indicates that I have hundreds of downloads ready. Am I supposed to clear them out after viewing?... With RD, I watched cached titles that someone else had already downloaded to the debrid, and for both debrids I have always had enabled in my scraper app's settings, "Enable cloud sanitization" (which avoids adding new items to personal cloud during resolving to keep library sanitized), and I thought that with Torbox I was only watching already-downloaded cached titles because those are the category I choose, but I'm confused.

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 2 months ago

I'm bewildered by how to get it to work. I loaded a face shot of myself, cropped closely around my face, but even with Match Sensitivity set to Low Similarity, when I do a Test Action while holding my phone in front of me the same as when I took the face shot, my saved result to boolean variable always says false.... I'm wanting to use this in a macro that will keep my phone awake while my face is in front of it — am I misconstruing how this thing works?

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u/SchmyeBubbula — 2 months ago