It does not detect livestreamer in mac

[craked5]

Hey! First let me say thanks for doing this awesome program!
I installed it on my mac and when i try to watch a stream it tells me that it cannot detect a Livestreamer installation. Livestreamer is certainly installed and on the $path variable also.

Thanks for the help in advance, awesome job!

[craked5]

I got it! Thanks anyway mate!

[bastimeyer]

Hi, thanks!
Did you set the livestreamer location manually in the settings or how did you solve the issue?
This actually was an old issue which was fixed by #24... On OSX, certain apps don't have access to some env variables (including $PATH). The fix was to set $PATH inside the Info.plist file with default paths.
https://github.com/bastimeyer/livestreamer-twitch-gui/blob/cdb856eab4c913238f0a50a793200ecb742cb55f/build/tasks/configs/nodewebkit.js#L11-L13
So I'd like to know if there actually is another issue...

[craked5]

Hey! I did set the livestreamer location manually or else it wouldnt find livestreamer!
Thanks!

[bastimeyer]

Could you please start the application with the --remote-debugging-port=8888 parameter and open http://localhost:8888 in your browser? What I'm looking for is the value of process.env.PATH from the dev console.
Also, you're using the latest version, right?

[craked5]

Yep, using the latest version!
The process.env.PATH returns this: "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"

[bastimeyer]

Please check if you find the following inside the livestreamer-twitch-gui.app/Contents/Info.plist file:

    <key>LSEnvironment</key>
    <dict>
      <key>PATH</key>
      <string>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin</string>
    </dict>

[craked5]

Yep its exactly like that! I checked that earlier when i read the issue #24
Should i do something anywhere else?

[bastimeyer]

tbh, I don't know what to do from this point on... I personally don't use OSX, so I have no idea why this is failing. The Info.plist file should also be fine. Last time I've checked this in my VM, it was all working correctly... Which OSX version are you using? How do you start the application?

[craked5]

Well its fine by me mate, i can just do it manually!
I have the latest version, 10.10.2.
I started in the terminal with: open /Applications/Livestreamer\ Twitch\ GUI.app --args --remote-debugging-port=8888
Normally i just click the app.

Thanks for the help dude :)

[bastimeyer]

The thing is that I don't know if it's still an issue with the osx builds or if this just happens on your machine. But ok, can't do anything right now... 😩

[craked5]

Ye that sucks, an idea would be to put the manual path as default. I dont know if it would work.

[Wraul]

It appears that in OS X 10.10 the PATH environment variable isn't possible to set with LSEnvironment in Info.plist.
Other environment variables works just fine though.

If this is intentional or a bug I don't know.

[bastimeyer]

Ye that sucks, an idea would be to put the manual path as default. I dont know if it would work.

Yep, that's the only solution that I can come up with, too. Although I must say, that I hate it to build in those kind of exceptions into the application code itself.

It appears that in OS X 10.10 the PATH environment variable isn't possible to set with LSEnvironment in Info.plist.
Other environment variables works just fine though.

If this is intentional or a bug I don't know.

Oh apple, you **** 😡

[bastimeyer]

@craked5
Would you please be so kind and test my fix 1870260? Thanks!!!

git clone -b osx-livestreamer-fallback-fix https://github.com/bastimeyer/livestreamer-twitch-gui.git
cd livestreamer-twitch-gui
sudo npm install grunt-cli bower
npm install
grunt release && open build/releases/livestreamer-twitch-gui/osx64/livestreamer-twitch-gui.app

[SkylerLipthay]

@bastimeyer I'm running on Mac OS X 10.10.2 and I can confirm 1870260 fixes this problem!

[bastimeyer]

ty, @SkylerLipthay

[craked5]

Hey dude sorry for not saying anything soon, but my 2010 mac just died for good i think!
Well i am relieved to see that its fixed! Thanks for the help dude, take care :)

[bastimeyer]

np, I'm glad this nasty bug is finally fixed

[bastimeyer]

v0.7.2 released...