AAA Stream taken down

dara

dara

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Nov 23, 2014
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#1
It looks like AAA Stream was taken down, not by the makers, but by the guy who was hosting it on his repo. It looks just like what happened to MashUp a while ago, because the add-on now just has the ads for the box sellers. Apparently, the repo host got ticked that the aaa stream group wanted to take support to their own webpage, and a bunch of accusations of stolen code, etc. You can check out their facebook page for their side of the story. I'm trying to see if I can fix it myself on the pre-updated add-on, not good so far.

Hopefully it will come back, but its probably going to be under a different name than AAA Stream
 
#4
here is their post on FB:

mportant Message to our Loyal & Genuine Fans

Dear Users you are probably aware of the situation we find ourselves in, if not let me explain it all started when we asked to be removed from Metalkettle’s repo because we felt we could provide a better service to our followers through our website, he was not happy about this and started accusing us of ripping the code of other devs and bad mouthing us on Twitter and of course some of their followers believe anything they say
In the meantime it has come to our attention these same users have joined our facebook page and are relaying pics and status’s back to the puppet master, one being that we charge for our services, firstly all devs on all their addons ask for donations its not mandatory but they do push the message, secondly like them we do have a donations section but if u don’t want to donate thats cool that don’t mean you cant use aaa
To make things worse Metalkettle through his repo has inflicted in simple terms a virus into our addon so it will update to a home page that only shows the folder to our retailers that are selling their own boxes (Not Ours) , hence why we posted a video of what to do to recover the add on without this virus on it, some people managed some people didn’t
We as a team don’t care what these people try and do to us but what we do care about is our followers we feel he is trying to dictate to you what you should watch and what you shouldn’t by blocking us and bad mouthing not just us but many other devs and groups, why should you its your choice thats what XBMC/Kodi was made for not dictatorship!!
So what we have decided to do is start a new group named AAA Stream Users II and for you to join this group you will have to send a Friends request to Bargainhunters Bargainhunters or Triple A Afterdark thats just so we can determine that you are not an imposter, don’t worry you can delete BB or after dark once you have joined the group we don’t want to invade your privacy
I hope this has cleared up a few things or two and has not spoiled your viewing pleasure with us as we are doing our upmost to resolve this situation in the form of our own repo but first let us get back in touch with you and get you back on AAA
Sorry about this long statement but had a few things to get of our chest, See you in the other group
AAA Team
 
#6
this is where i got it from. he tells you how to do it also. hope it helps.

Code: 
https://seo-michael.co.uk/how-to-install-aaa-streams-add-on-xbmc-kodi/
 
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#7
I'm not sure it that's a permanent solution. Metal Kettle was the guy who bombed the code, and to prevent the update, you have to uninstall his repo. You can get the add-on on the website, so you can install it back again.

Can one of the mods check my upload limits? I fixed and renamed the add-on, and modified the code to prevent the update, but it looks like I'm stuck at 1M total.

edit: Metal Kettle claims he didn't modify the code, but someone out there did it through a website update. Be careful out there.
 
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#9
http.//aaastream.com/
Just uninstall the old one go to Add-ons on the left popup change Auto updates from ON to Notify then re-install aaa-stream

don't update until they fix the problem
 
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#10
Here is the modified add-on. It won't pull an automatic update, and even if you hit the update icon, it shouldn't update. Use at your own risk, it doesn't appear that there is anything malicious in the code, but who knows for sure.

Edit: USE ONLY IF YOU WISH NO AUTOUPDATE THROUGH A REPOSITORY SOURCE, OR THROUGH THEIR WEBSITE. If you already have the TV BOXES only on the add-on, you will need to uninstall and reinstall the add-on from an exterior source. Read on for a link.
 
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#11
Reply from Metal_Kettle:

I find it appropriate I give a response.
Yes AAA Streams did ask to be removed from my repo as it was causing problems for them. Even though it doesn't matter where an addon is installed from whether it be from zip or repo. If the code is bad it will fail. I agreed, but politely asked them to remove my code in exchange. This was met with a foul mouth response (screen shots on Twitter somewhere). It was this hostility and disrespect for other developers work (not just my own) which caused me to ask the question of their ability above copying and pasting, on the only communication method open to me as I was banned from there facebook group.
The addon has not been infected with a "virus" it was s very some code change which a man of citrics aledged abity should be able to reverse. I have since removed the update from my repo (and posted instructions on how to reinstall) earlier today. But if he knew anything about how xbmc/KODI worked he could have solved the problem in 5 mins after the update was pushed.
To start a private group on Facebook can only mean 2 things. 1. They have something to hide. 2. They cant cope with confrontation with users unknown to them (as we have already seen with various banning actions on their group and their poor support when being asked questions).
The underlying problem still exists however; their addon is based on leeching code (code which takes time to write and figure out) and paste ditecy into the addon. Think of a developer and you can bet your bottom dollar their code has been hacked (as citric himself called it) and pasted in AAA Streams.
In reply to citrics rather bold statement of "all devs on all their addons ask for donations", that is simply not true. I for don't want people profiting from my code when I never ask or accept any donations, never have, never will.
Thanks for reading.
 
#14
It looks like they fixed the updated code for v1.9.3Build41. Here is a tutorial that has a link to another source for the add-on. As I posted earlier, you may have to remove repositories that had the add-on to prevent the update that will only show TV Boxes, such as SuperRepo (Helix), until they remove it from their repository.

Code: 
 http://tutorial-iptv-xbmc.blogspot.com/2015/02/aaa-stream-live-tv-update-add-on-for.html

Use my modified addon only if you want no connection to any auto update method.
 
#15
Oo
dara said:
It looks like they fixed the updated code for v1.9.3Build41. Here is a tutorial that has a link to another source for the add-on. As I posted earlier, you may have to remove repositories that had the add-on to prevent the update that will only show TV Boxes, such as SuperRepo (Helix), until they remove it from their repository.

Code: 
 http://tutorial-iptv-xbmc.blogspot.com/2015/02/aaa-stream-live-tv-update-add-on-for.html

Use my modified addon only if you want no connection to any auto update method.
Click to expand...

I tried this code for to d/l, when it's done I open it up it says TV BOXES
 
#16
tonyboy said:
Oo

I tried this code for to d/l, when it's done I open it up it says TV BOXES
Click to expand...

You have a repository that still has the old .31 code. It has been known to be in an unrefreshed MetalKettle repository, as well as SuperRepo all (Helix). You could u uninstall the current AAAstream, and relinstall it with the one on the tutorial, or just install the modified one I posted earlier.
 
#19
Hilarious. xunitytalk now has a detector for aaastream, and they now give you an ultimatum to dump them or aaastream. It looks like my mod may be the only way to have both on your system. I hope not to get banned by xunity LOL!
 
#20
LOL. Don't get in trouble Dara!! For me is getting harder and harder to maintain my attraction to Xunity, It's unfair for anyone to dictate what addons are in my box. IMHO
 
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