Kodi PVR IPTV "No information available" issue

by garretsetokill

I recently installed Kodi 18.2 on my newly purchased Amazon Fire Stick (Android 7.1.2), and was trying to stream live TV channels through the PVR IPTV Simple Client (version 3.5.7). I've tried several different M3U playlist URLs that with the same result each time:

I get notified about x amount of channels loaded, then I go to TV and all of the channels are listed on the left half of the screen, but nothing plays, and the right half just shows gray with the text "No information available". I have followed every setup step I saw online to the T with no luck.

Is there something I may have overlooked or failed to enable? Thanks in advance for any help! I hope this is the right sub for this question, since it got deleted from r/Addons4Kodi

Sylocule

If you’re trying free providers, that’s probably the reason. Free hardly ever works.

Best bet is to sub to a provider. Head over to /r/iptvresellers or /r/iptv4us and ask around or grab a few trials.

As an aside, there are plenty of standalone apps that support IPTV better than Kodi (TiviMate, GSE, Smarters, IPTV Extreme, XCIPTV, PerfectPlayer).

PhillyIdol

I def 2nd u/Sylocule.

I use a Fire stick and found Kodi to be a bit 'difficult', as you're using one program inside another program (so 2 hops) to then connect to the stream. You'd def have better results (well, as best as free can be ;-) if you used one of the standalone apps mentioned (1 hop)