Doesn't accept user/pass

[psonnosp]

Hi!

When I run texturecache.py c tvshows I get this

C:\Program Files\Kodi Texture Cache Manager>texturecache.py c
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Kodi Texture Cache Manager\texturecache.py", line 8663, in <module>
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "C:\Program Files\Kodi Texture Cache Manager\texturecache.py", line 8353, in main
    if not checkConfig(argv[0]): sys.exit(2)
  File "C:\Program Files\Kodi Texture Cache Manager\texturecache.py", line 7893, in checkConfig
    data = wcomms.sendJSON(REQUEST, "libPing", checkResult=False, useWebServer=True)
  File "C:\Program Files\Kodi Texture Cache Manager\texturecache.py", line 2230, in sendJSON
    return self.sendWeb("POST", "/jsonrpc", id, request, {"Content-Type": "application/json"}, timeout=timeout)
  File "C:\Program Files\Kodi Texture Cache Manager\texturecache.py", line 2177, in sendWeb
    raise httplib.HTTPException("Remote web host requires webserver.username/webserver.password properties")
http.client.HTTPException: Remote web host requires webserver.username/webserver.password properties

even though both webserver.username and webserver.password are correct in the cfg-file. And it's only when I use c I get the error, nc, s, d, and P works just fine but maybe those commands is executed in a different way?

So how do I fix this?

[RolandFelnhofer]

Same applies to me, more than a year later.

[RolandFelnhofer]

I have solved the issue. - At least for me.
webserver.username and webserver.password do not hold the username and password of a the web server holding any content to cache, it's the password and username of the Kodi web server!

[psonnosp]

Great to finally get a response but sorry I don't follow, what did you do to solve it?

[RolandFelnhofer]

I initial thought, that 'webserver.username' and 'webserver.password' are used to access the media file source. I access them from this installation via https but this was an error. It's the password for the Kodi web server API.
I had also special characters in my password which are encoded in guisettings.xml.
All I finally did, was, to copy and decode the value from '<setting id="services.webserverusername">' and '<setting id="services.webserverpassword">' in guisettings.xml to 'webserver.username =' and 'webserver.password =' in texturecache.cfg (which i placed into ~/.config/

Then it worked!

First I was also confused because 'texturecache.py config' doesn't show 'webserver.username' and 'webserver.password', even they are set.