There are 3 ways to obtain an AFL Live pass in 2018:
- Receive a free subscription as an eligible Telstra customer as long as you continue to meet the requirements (post-paid mobile plan, $30+ pre-paid recharge)
- Purchase a weekly/monthly/yearly subscription directly from the afl.com.au website
- Purchase a weekly/monthly/yearly subscription as an 'in-app' purchase from the AFL app on your mobile/tablet device, whether it be from Google Play or Apple?s App Store
Be sure to set the correct subscription type in the add-on's settings.
Telstra can verify your eligibility through the AFL app as long as you're connected to their mobile network. However, the Kodi add-on is unable to emulate the AFL app's method of authorising over the mobile network so it is an absolute requirement of the Kodi add-on to use a Telstra ID for this. The same would go for using the AFL app on a WiFi only tablet. In other words, although you can easily get the AFL app playing videos on your phone, some extra steps need to be taken to be able to use your subscription in Kodi.
Telstra's requirement is that an eligible service (postpaid mobile, $30+ recharge prepaid) be linked to your Telstra ID. This must be done on Telstra's website. Follow this link: http://hub.telstra.com.au/sp2017-afl-app and either register a new Telstra ID or use an existing one to confirm that your Telstra ID has an eligible service attached.
There are a few exceptions to Telstra's system that are incompatible with the free Live Pass offer. Home broadband customers and any Telstra IDs that are linked to home broadband accounts are incompatible/ineligible. There may also be other service types that cause this issue, please let us know if you encounter this so we can share the info here for other users. The work around for these instances is simply to create a new Telstra ID and re link your eligible service to that.
For this subscription type, having a Telstra ID is an absolute requirement before you can make the purchase so you should already have and know your Telstra ID login and password.
There is no easy way for us to retrieve the credentials required to have the Kodi add-on 'log in' using any sort of username and password. Luckily though the AFL app will actually display our login token for us, all we have to do is enter it in the Kodi add-on settings. Instructions are handily available from the Kodi add-on settings itself, and also right here:
Open the AFL app on your device and obtain your LIVE PASS subscription. Once logged in the purple T at the top right of the home screen should turn green. Press on the green T which will open the settings, and go into "AFL Live Pass Subscription". Scroll to the bottom of the screen to find the mis-uuid token. Enter the 32 digit hexadecimal number that comes after "mis-uuid-" into the subscription token setting.
So we're just after the part of the line that looks something like this: 78621848a80f9c4428bb0e2e2b06afec The token will only use the numbers 0-9, and letters a-f. All lowercase. It's not going to be much fun entering this in if you're using a tv remote control, if you have access to anything else like a usb keyboard or smartphone remote control for Kodi then definitely save yourself the frustration.
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