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Seren - Modular Multi-source Addon

Seren is a modular provider based, cloud service streaming software that is tightly interwoven with Trakt. Seren provides the freedom to view media from a single menu system from service providers of the users choosing. Please Note: This addon requires the use of a compatible cloud service. all GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. Version 3, 29 June 2007 https://github.com/nixgates/plugin.video.seren https://github.com/nixgates/plugin.video.seren Last updated: November 14, 2024. The information contained within the Seren software (the "Service") is for general information purposes only. The author assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions in the contents on the Service, nor does it assume responsibility for any material provided by any external services. The use of the Service does not author the user to engage in any kind of illegal, criminal or tortious activity through the use of the software, including infringement of any third party intellectual property rights (including without limitation copyright, trade marks, patent, trade secrets and confidential information), fraud, child pornography, trafficking in obscene material, violation of applicable export restrictions, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, hacking, sending of viruses or other harmful files or illegal posting of computer passwords or computer code. The user is responsible for all their activity in connection with the use of the Service and the author reserves the right to report any potentially criminal activity to appropriate law enforcement agencies. The user must not transmit to or via the Service, any material that may infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party, or any defamatory, derogatory or offensive material or publication. In no event shall the author of this software be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages or any damages whatsoever, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tort, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Service or the contents of the Service. The author reserves the right to make additions, deletions, or modification to the contents on the Service at any time without prior notice. The author of this software does not warrant that the software is free of viruses or other harmful components. Seren may contain links to external websites that are not provided or maintained by or in any way affiliated with the author. Please note that the author does not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any information on these external websites. resources/images/ico-seren-3.png resources/images/fanart-seren-3.png resources/images/logo-seren-3.png resources/images/poster-seren-3.png resources/screenshots/screenshot-01.jpg resources/screenshots/screenshot-02.jpg resources/screenshots/screenshot-03.jpg resources/screenshots/screenshot-04.jpg Changelog 3.0.1 [FEATURE] Handle Kodi database version for Omega 21 Changelog 3.0.0 [PERFORMANCE] Drop support for Python 2.x (Kodi Leia and below) [PERFORMANCE] Optimize codebase for Python 3.x (Kodi Matrix and above) [PERFORMANCE] Improvements to Smart Play [PERFORMANCE] Improve playlist creation [PERFORMANCE] Don't use strptime [PERFORMANCE] Small perf improvement to supported file type checks [PERFORMANCE] Optimize from_widget detection [PERFORMANCE] Optimize movie release date handling [PERFORMANCE] Use cache for pull_all if not page 1 and ignore_cache = True [FEATURE] Introduce support for direct sources [FEATURE] Better support for adaptive sources [FEATURE] Better passing of movie aliases to providers [FEATURE] Smoother resolver flow [FEATURE] Convert add-on settings to new format [FEATURE] Add AV1 filter [FEATURE] Rework alias passing to scrapers [FEATURE] Better identification of WEB and BLURAY sources [FEATURE] Support clearlogo from TMDB [FEATURE] Prioritize Trakt airdate metadata [FEATURE] Update Seren logo for 3.0.0 [FEATURE] Icons for all menus [FEATURE] Support package and provider icons [FEATURE] Add Hebrew localizations [FEATURE] Update pytz to 2022.7 [BUG] Improve Player resiliency and error handling (re-factor) [BUG] Fix Multiple issues with player up next popup and track watched reported [BUG] Fix Task Done error (re-write Threadpool) [BUG] Fix Smartplay not working after 2nd episode watched [BUG] Improve Database handling and Foreign Key references (DB schema refactor) [BUG] Increase RD timeout [BUG] Fix Trakt bookmark handling [BUG] Fix TVDB Normalization error [BUG] Fix Most TV Show Episodes/Seasons don't have certification (MPAA) [BUG] Fix Awake from sleep sometimes misses plugin calls [BUG] Fix Seren not playing some cached files from Premiumize [BUG] Fix sort_select tries to read invalid settings [BUG] Fix Local time conversion not happening for movies releases [BUG] Fix Clear logo overlap on getSources window [BUG] Fix Widgets Disappear on Error [BUG] Fix two bugs with Trakt watched/unwatched actions [BUG] Fix missing seeds count when Manual Caching [BUG] Fix typo in German localizations [BUG] Remove rogue \ in translations Changelog 2.2.4 [BUG] Fix bugs related to foreign key constraints Changelog 2.2.3 [BUG] Fix Trakt Scrobbling and Playing Next [FEATURE] Update pytz to 2022.6 Changelog 2.2.2 [BUG] Trakt scrobbling hitting rate limiter [BUG] Improve onWake and sleeping service calls [FEATURE] Update pytz to 2022.5 [FEATURE] Fixed 'info_text' item property for themes Changelog 2.2.1 [BUG] Error on fresh install from update news [BUG] Discover TV Shows Genre multi-select not working [PERFORMANCE] Limit search to title and aliases only Changelog 2.2.0 [FEATURE] Complete refactor of source sorting [FEATURE] Add enhanced filtering options [FEATURE] Improve release title info detection [FEATURE] Improved source statistics, filtering and pretermination [FEATURE] Updated default seren skin [FEATURE] Window class refactors [FEATURE] Add adaptive source selection when smartplaying [FEATURE] "Original" for TMDB for High artwork size [FEATURE] Allow deleting single search terms from search history [FEATURE] Base List Types for Genres default setting switch [FEATURE] Add trakt user blocked notification. [FEATURE] Auto clean torrent cache [FEATURE] Re-open settings at correct place [FEATURE] Add verbiage in our news function about source sorting changes [FEATURE] Update pytz to 2022.1 [FEATURE] Add Kodi 20 Alpha1 Videodb support (Note: Kodi 20 is not officially supported yet) [PERFORMANCE] Lazy load dependencies and optimize imports [PERFORMANCE] Improve performance of pre-emptive termination checks [PERFORMANCE] Improve performance of source sorting and cloud scrapers [PERFORMANCE] Improve performance of source filtering [PERFORMANCE] Optimize TVDB [PERFORMANCE] Optimise year generation code for menus [BUG] Fix background updating of shows [BUG] List cache on first boot for widgets broken [BUG] Marking an episode as unwatched via CM does not remove last_watched_at in DB [BUG] Marking show watched/unwatched shouldn't affect specials [BUG] Handle error response from OMDb [BUG] Increase read timeout for trakt when milling all seasons [BUG] Try close session for trakt.tv [BUG] Double widget refresh can occur when playback ends and trakt manager [BUG] Trakt Manager --> Hide Show [BUG] Duplicate episodes when trakt_id changes [BUG] Tvdb fallback is not working as it should [BUG] TMDB Show meta never up to par [BUG] TMDB air_dates have no time component [BUG] Fix TMDB Rate limiting handler [BUG] My Lists don't pull all lists [BUG] Duplicate my lists lists when no_paging enabled [BUG] Remove a4kSubtitles Integration [BUG] IndexError from sort_sources [BUG] TVDB errors when there is no item in the iterator [BUG] Shuffle Play not working when "Flatten Season Episodes" enabled [BUG] Seren not passing aliases to a4kScrapers for movies [BUG] Cloud Scrapers don't find episodes that include year after title [BUG] Change NoPlayableSourcesExcetion to log at info level [BUG] Fix getSources progress calculation [BUG] Fixup adaptive handling since the source sorting and statistic changes [BUG] Limit flip multiple providers to the current package [BUG] Ensure we have a valid integer value for torrent seeds [BUG] Fix Premiumize transfer progress values [BUG] Return gracefully when we have no valid zipfile from install package [BUG] Handles source sizes in KB [BUG] Fix focus issues on windows [BUG] Fix provider module import issues [BUG] Improve handling of Kodi object cleanup Changelog 2.1.9 Fix PM Application Authorization Fix show pack retrieval in torrent cache Fix a4kSubtitles import path for case sensitive filesystems Use addon id in setting cache prefix for kodi window properties Fix focus broken in provider window with no providers Changelog 2.1.8 Fix prescrape cache result being ignored Fix get_sources to return all relevant torrent hashes from torrent cache Some minor cache performance improvements Changelog 2.1.7 Fix MyFiles listings for all FileWalkers Fix Rescrape item should overwrite torrent cache Added info meta up to par check in fallback logic Fix playback history normalization needed for Quick Resume context menu bug Fix reset playback progress for shows/seasons/episodes Handle Cloudflare 530 error for Trakt Fix Premiumize.me space_used now returns value in TB Handle bugs in Premiumize.me API for list files gracefully. Changelog 2.1.6 Work around Sqlite on Leia under Windows does not support boolean named values Ensure we fetch all pages for syncing ratings and ignore cache for bookmark/hidden sync Fix collections.Mapping import for Python >= 3.3 Changelog 2.1.5 Workaround trakt shitty season data Added trakt list sort types for Watched, Collected and My Rating Fix trakt season milling for updated shows Fix mill_if_needed queries for seasons and episodes Use cache for first load of widgets for trakt lists Force a cache clear on release version changes Update seasons statistics again, with even more fallbacks Ensure we clean up AD/RD cloudfiles if we can't identify the file to play Fixed typo in url for widget refresh from activities sync Allow widget refresh while playing for foreground tasks Fix air dates not always showed correctly for shows/seasons Fix tzlocal call to pytz.tzinfo.build_tzinfo and update pytz to 2021.3 Hide trakt auth option if we are already authed Change icons to transparent background Use an empty content type value for menu containers Added 'an' to the list of excluded sort tokens Update Dutch translations Update French translations Add Polish translations Changelog 2.1.4 Genre and Next Page icons Improve widget refresh logic Update show/season statistics after reinserting from updated meta Perform trakt sync on system resume Support kodi standard addon localisations Fix downloads Fix hide shows from episodes/season items Add "Auto-Delete Torrents" for AD Fix RD torrents not auto-deleting Fix broken cache cleaning Don't use show OMDB data for seasons Remove update checker Localize custom windows Use show ids for setUniqueIDs Always mill specials Optimise TVDB threading Optimise filter_dictionary and safe_dict_get Increase requests connection pool size Don't use dict.keys() when unnecessary Some minor fixes and optimisations to tools and globals Minor performance improvement to the sqlite row factory Optimise TZ initialisation Debounce onSettingsChanged callback in SerenMonitor Added database indices to episodes, movies, hidden and bookmarks tables Changelog 2.1.3 Workaround Kodi's lack of multi-process settings management Fix Trakt updated endpoints now only support 30 days from "now" Fix call to get_url in RD account status check and enhanced PM and AD account status checks Fix Trakt IDs being sent wrong to windows Changelog 2.1.2 Fix RD auth when there are existing values in settings.xml Get debrid premium status immediately after auth and improve values/handling Make Trakt auth for widget loads needing auth to wait for auth Ensure all trakt API instances always get latest auth tokens Fix Trakt revoke auth issues that led to bad values in settings.xml Don't wipe user data in trakt sync db on trakt revoke auth unless next authed user is different Fix clipboard copy to work on Linux under Matrix and and add MacOS support Fix season milling requires update check Fix adding unaired items to watchlist from search when hide unaired is enabled Fix eternal trakt IDs for trakt addon ratings/scrobbling for episodes Fix trakt list sorting direction for rank sorting Don't cache personal trakt lists Reorder code path in GlobalLock to avoid rare race condition Fix Long life service manager does not exit when kodi requests it to Change InputStream Helper dependency to optional Gracefully handle bad dates in OMDB indexer Improved settings cache thread locking Handle None/empty values better in settings cache VACCUM during DB rebuild (reclaim disk space) Changelog 2.1.1 Fix RD losing auth issue Improve OAUTH refresh flow edge case coverage for Trakt and TVDB Re-implement retry on db lock during sql execution Fix an issue with GlobalLock run_once exiting too early Fix several shows views on demand insertion of missing data Fix movies genres on demand insertion of missing data Update season episode count after episode milling (fixes seasons showing incorrectly as watched) Fix minimum size filter Changelog 2.1.0 Major re-work of metadata updates and merging Fix air dates not being updated Fix missing artwork not being updated Fix meta data merging Improved meta data fallback processing Improve global and sync locks, reduce thread locking Improve caching code to reduce required requests. Additional caching for metadata indexer endpoints Improve database handling code Improve timezone detection fallback handling Make Seren python version agnostic Implemented a true settings cache Brought back test windows feature for skin developers Moved to kodi module version of unidecode Updated pytz to latest release Fix mysql Kodi database support under Leia Removed youtube dependency Workaround for type error in CacheAssist quality filter Fix resolver window error when no sources found Remove argv usage from SmartPlay Reworked forced widget refresh approach Logging cleanup Changelog 2.0.19 Fix handling of unicode in URLs, TV Networks and Searching issues on Leia Fix TV show years Fix PM CacheAssist status updates Only try to auto-cache if auto-cache is actually enabled Change default threadpool size and provide user settings Increase timeout configuration setting maximum permitted value Make pre-scrape respect new maximum value for timeout Change approach for deaccenting clean_title and transliterate actor names During prescrape, don't pop up the too restrictive filters window and just use unfiltered list for sorting Fix Kodi Bookmark Clearing with MySQL DB support Temporarily disable totaltime progress indicators as they break our resume on Matrix Fix TVDB session issues Fix XBOX Database Issues Fix database pickling issues Fix Kodi crashes in Leia Fix Kodi crashes in Matrix (with exception of reuselanguageinvoker enabled when stopping playback combined with widgets) Change default value of reuselanguageinvoker to False and force use addon provided value on upgrade Ensure we release all Kodi objects to prevent memory leaks and crashes Ensure we close all requests sessions to prevent memory leaks Workaround occasional python bug with strptime in lambda functions Made Kodi version detection algorithm more resilient and cover pre-release versions Logging enhancements Added Arabic translations Changelog 2.0.18 Fix the thread pool issues Added logic to push down the country_origin to be used by the scrapers Original title swap now only occurs for display, use unicode everywhere Fixed normalization function retuning unnormalized values Fix for genre multi-select always showing same items Fixed local TZ conversion for dates in Upcoming, Source Select and OSD Real Debrid use status_codes to determine what are good requests Make sure we have all parts for the calculation of the bookmarks Added regex to parse semver out of version label Re-implemented update checker that will work regardless of repo changes Changelog 2.0.17: Fix for shows search and TVDB empty data Fix handling of timestamp creation to be UTC compliant Fix timezone code taking unix path on Windows Added a fall through for android getprop timezone detection Handle invalid dates from metadata indexer when obtaining year value. Fix Matrix UI spins on closing download manager Add check for invalid list position in download manager returned by an empty list Fix isFolder bool for download manager Fix resume progress indicators Calculate resumetime at bookmark insert for movies Add support for clearing bookmarks on Matrix Fix view_type has no attribute isdigit bug Ensure studio info value in seasons/episodes Add provider package version information to existing logging item Handle removal of legacy provider meta file both on uninstall and upgrade Replaced seekTime with execute of BigSkipForward Fix Simplejson decode error not caught bug Handle exception instances from a4ksubtitles Fix pagination for genre multi-select Fix paging of Finish Watching has same items bug Fixed show pack suffixes and checking of 1x1 episode naming Updated missing codes and added it-IT, fr-FR and ar-SA translations Update Danish language strings Changelog 2.0.16: Fix addon update check Fix trakt module attempting to refresh when not authorised Changelog 2.0.15: Fixed python depend Changelog 2.0.14: Fixed scraping issue if title is not present at IMDB Added workarounds for syncing trakt database on xbox Fixed Trending/Popular Trakt lists repeating Seperated sort and pagination setting for Trakt collection Applied sort and pagination settings for collection to unfinished shows in collection Re-worked date handling to use UTC for all internal uses and convert to local on display Fixed pagination on recently watched shows menu Fixed source sorting issue for py3 Fixed race condition in pre-term for py3 File size now displayed on resolver dialog Updated some dutch translations Fixed hosters not being handled correctly at scrape Fix reuselanguageinvoker default Fixed background sync attempting to run when no Trakt auth present Changelog 2.0.13 Fixed settings not sticking when using reuselanguageinvoker Fixed reuselanguageinvoke status not sticking after toggling Reuselangugageinvoker state now forced on startup Reduced Trakt retries on server failures Increased backoff timeout for retries Fixed playback for special episodes failing Eased timeout issues for bookmarks Fixed non-direct, non-debrid hosters appearing in source select Fix spanish translation file name Fixed title sorting for lists with articles Fixed paging on new shows Changelog 2.0.12 Fix for source select, tested on 4 skins Changelog 2.0.11 Take preventative measures to reduce overloading Trakt servers Increase local show/season statistic refreshing Fixed cloud source sorting Fixed HEVC source sorting New shows api call now pulls english and local language from Trakt Modified database commit method to allow for xbox support Reformat source select screen again to allow better filename displaying Fixed next button showing on next up menu Removed pycryptodome dependency, this will need to be requested on a per provider basis Fixed pre-term Fixed empty search results raising exception Fixed auto episode resuming Fixed superficial exceptions in play dialogs Updated danish language strings Changelog 2.0.10 Fixed issue with milling seasons to often Added checks when attempting to cache magnet Fixed tvshows new Fetching of RD account details after auth fixed Fixed spanish translation folder name Reformat of source select to allow larger file name sizes Fixed race condition in ThreadPool Added fallback for text color if skin color could not be inherited Add legacy param support for smart play playlist creation Fix hide the hiding of unaired episodes from non mixed episode lists Removed default action setting until a appropriate workaround for kodi setting is achieved Wrapped player interactions with Trakt API with Try/Excepts to allow network failures Added fallback method if no thumb art is available Added temporary workaround for ratings issue in add_directory_items Fixed keep-alive in player module. (Fixes dialogs, playlist creation, marking as watched if not caused by network failure) Allowed exceptions in cache check to allow for debrid providers who are offline Replaced ok dialogs for connection issues with notifications Changelog 2.0.9: Fixed RD cloud scraping Fixed issue if all providers were disabled scraping would run as if all were enabled Fixed smartplay and legacy paramas support Fixed bug causing failure when checking art from TMDB Fixed user lists menus Added spanish translation Fixed backing out from menu when opened from widget (having to backout multiple times) Fixed season watch markers Fixed hidden_items handling with New Shows menu Changelog 2.0.8: Temporary Workaround for trakt items not providing trakt_id Better RD episode resolving Better episode identification during resolving Catch WindowsError exception when handling skins Fix text highlight selection Cool down background service on failure Changelog 2.0.7: Fixed All debrid torrent resolving Fixed movie resuming Fixed issue with limited providers running at scrape Fixed AD re-auth Changes to attempt to fix XBOX support and ascii issues with timezones Fixed unaired episodes showing blank Fixed AD User info fetching Fixed ghost providers Fixed TypeError with pre-termination Changelog 2.0.6: Create Skins directory if missing Allow failure in pre-term until investigated Changelog 2.0.5: Allow more failures that will require to be investigated further in the future Changelog 2.0.4: Safe get release title when cloud scraping Allow and log failures in maintenance process Changelog 2.0.3: Added default value of None for skin color when attempting to pull color from user's skin Changelog 2.0.2: Force table re-fresh is sync database fails to rebuild when updating Changelog 2.0.1: Fix last_meta_update value to reflect new Seren version Changleog 2.0.0: Added Download Manager Complete re-write of Trakt Sync Database Metadata handler introduced and complete re-write of handling of metadata Settings that modify metadata can now be changed on the fly and do not require a rebuild Users can now manually resolve a file from the source select screen Users can now manually cache a specific source from the source select screen Complete re-write of menu handling Introduced globals module to handle global variables for interpreter Implement re-use language invoker setting from Kodi Pre-emptive termination now disabled for background Pre-scrapes and timeout set to max for background scrapes New artwork and custom dialogs Metadata now upadted on the fly when updated item encountered from Trakt Next Up menu now populated from local database Sync has been fleshed out to include even more meta data during cycle Failures to auto resolve now prompt user in case they wish to manually interrupt Items are now able to supply multiple images for any given type for skins that make use of it Support for Python 3 Global thread lock now implemented for required methods (prevents multiple syncs occuring at once and other locks) InputStreamAdaptive support Providers now have the abiity to implement settings Provider packages can now elect to make use of their own background services Provider packages can now offer images for each provider Cache and Sync database items are now pickled Complete re-write of resovler module and consolidated code Kodi 19 support All Debrid implementation now fully featured Sources can now be sorted by filesize low to high for users that wish to do so Forcing widget refresh after playback now optional Zip manager implemented for handling of zip files Skin Manager rework Automated resolving now more reliable OMDB API implemented Feedback provided at scrape if no providers are found Feedback provided at scrape if no debrid providers are setup Debrid account status now visible from Seren settings