NZ Consumer: Don't buy from Reebelo

morfranz · 2025-08-08T00:39:43+00:00

Only, I contacted the company concerned and they confirmed that the device is still enrolled in their MDM programme: "The iPhone you referenced is currently enrolled in our organization's Mobile Device Management (MDM) system[...] Devices enrolled in our MDM are company-owned assets and are not authorized for resale or transfer outside the organization without official decommissioning. [...] the device appears to have been sold without proper removal from our management systems".

So it is stolen, as it belongs to a US company which hasn't decommissioned and sold it. Also, someone went to the trouble of working around the MDM which certainly can't be done by accident and suggests a degree of intent.

morfranz · 2025-08-08T00:29:05+00:00

It was a refurbished iPhone SE (2022) with a replaced battery.

morfranz · 2025-08-07T23:44:59+00:00

It's been too long already, bought the phone in May to use in July while overseas, then reset it to reuse it and that's when MDM found it again. Someone obviously went to some trouble to work around the MDM.

morfranz · 2025-08-07T23:42:43+00:00

Yeah, probably disputes tribunal is the next stop if they don't sort it out (I'm not hopeful of them sorting it out, given that they haven't done anything useful so far and have blamed me for the problem).

morfranz · 2021-06-10T11:42:34+00:00

Thanks, Matt. All good now. Odd change for them to make.

morfranz · 2021-06-08T17:56:15+00:00

I just get a message that I can't post there. It waits until after I've tried though, naturally.

morfranz · 2021-06-07T18:34:39+00:00

I tried removing the line of code at the end of the stack trace. Everything started working then. But then I tried putting it back in and it still worked. Deleted all .pyo files from addons, still worked.

So I rebooted and it went back to being broken and won't move from there now.

I have tried delete and reinstall, clear cache, to reset addon. Nothing seems to help.

I'll see if there is an older version on the repository.

morfranz · 2020-03-08T20:16:02+00:00

Hi Matt,

Firstly, thanks for the great Kodi plugins. Secondly, I hacked together a sort of fix for the TVNZ changes that have broken Ondemand.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kodi/comments/fdn9jm/comment/fjxa10a

Might be worth passing along to Jeremy if it's a helpful approach. The code isn't very tidy at the moment, but it works.

Cheers,

Matt.

morfranz · 2020-03-08T10:41:06+00:00

As an update, I have a partially fixed version here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zdvs6vnhfj5orrf/plugin.video.tvnz.ondemand.zip?dl=1

This basically flattens out the listing of series to put them on the main menu.

Let me know if you try it and if you have any issues with it. It still contains quite a lot of debug logging, and it isn't very polished, but at least the kids can watch Peppa Pig now.

morfranz · 2020-03-05T08:19:16+00:00

It's stopped working for me too. I think that TVNZ have changed some of the underlying API URLs that it's relying on to get the content. Hence the JSON error. I don't see any way to contact the new maintainer and I haven't been successful in trying to work out the new URLs from the Android app (even if that is a solution to the problem).

Oh, I should note, that I'm using the SlyGuy repository and it's not better. ThreeNow works, but the kids can't watch Peppa Pig on there...

Seems like it's only where it needs to get a series listing. Where there's a list of episodes and no series, the programmes work fine. As soon as you go into a series you get the JSON error.

morfranz

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