Library won't load, videos won't play

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Description: As of a few days ago, the library loads only blank thumbnails which don't load anything when clicked. I can access a movie's info page from the thumbnails on the Home screen (which do load correctly), but the movie will not play, instead it shows it's loading-splash screen forever. When exiting Plex for Kodi, the screen shows the three-dot loading animation forever until i use backspace-key to return to previous kodi menu.

Details:

• Add-on version: 0.3.4
• Kodi version: OSMC 2022.09-1
• OS Platform: Ubuntu
• Hardware: RPi3

Checklist

• [ ] I have included a link to a log (or at the very least a link to a forum post with a log) from a session that had the issue
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[crxm]

I updated OSMC last night and ran into the same issue. I found this thread on the OSMC forums which discusses the issue:

https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/september-update-killed-plex-on-my-vero-4k/93651

According to the thread, it looks like this addon relies on a python command (thread.isAlive()) which has been deprecated in the more recent version of python provided by the update.

A patched version of the addon was posted by a user in the thread which has been reported to resolve the issue, although I have no tested this myself yet. It looks like updates have been made to replace the deprecated command in the develop branch back in April, as seen in this commit:

https://github.com/plexinc/plex-for-kodi/commit/984a572248fe5c1af7451dc3d36a3e7bd82c6dd9

Is a new release planned which would include this fix in the near future?

[ruuk]

Submitted an update to the Kodi repo which should fix this: https://github.com/xbmc/repo-scripts/pull/2358