arte.tv mediathek plugin fails

Running kodi-16.1 on Tumbleweed with kodi from packman.

The arte.tv plugin fails to play or offer anything:

Code:
17:21:34 T:140683760936704 WARNING: CreateLoader - unsupported protocol(plugin) in plugin://plugin.video.arte_tv/?url=&mode=playLiveStream
17:21:47 T:140683037886208 WARNING: Previous line repeats 1 times.
17:21:47 T:140683037886208   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                            Error Type: <type 'exceptions.IndexError'>
                                            Error Contents: list index out of range
                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.arte_tv/default.py", line 379, in <module>
                                                playLiveStream()
                                              File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.arte_tv/default.py", line 298, in playLiveStream
                                                listitem = xbmcgui.ListItem(path=match[0][0] + match[0][1] + " swfUrl=http://www.arte.tv/flash/mediaplayer/mediaplayer.swf live=1 swfVfy=1")
                                            IndexError: list index out of range
                                            -->End of Python script error report<--
17:21:47 T:140684834033536   ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [plugin://plugin.video.arte_tv/?url=&mode=playLiveStream]
17:21:55 T:140683037886208   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                            Error Type: <class 'urllib2.HTTPError'>
                                            Error Contents: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.arte_tv/default.py", line 369, in <module>
                                                listVideosNew(url)
                                              File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.arte_tv/default.py", line 60, in listVideosNew
                                                content = getUrl(url)
                                              File "/home/kodi/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.arte_tv/default.py", line 314, in getUrl
                                                response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
                                              File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 154, in urlopen
                                                return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
                                              File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 435, in open
                                                response = meth(req, response)
                                              File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 548, in http_response
                                                'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
                                              File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 473, in error
                                                return self._call_chain(*args)
                                              File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
                                                result = func(*args)
                                              File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 556, in http_error_default
                                                raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
                                            HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
                                            -->End of Python script error report<--
17:21:55 T:140684834033536   ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting plugin://plugin.video.arte_tv/?mode=listVideosNew&regionFilter&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.arte.tv%2fguide%2fde%2fplus7%2fselection.json%3fregions​%3dALL%252Cdefault%252CDE_FR%252CSAT%252CEUR_DE_FR
17:21:55 T:140684834033536   ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(plugin://plugin.video.arte_tv/?mode=listVideosNew&regionFilter&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.arte.tv%2fguide%2fde%2fplus7%2fselection.json%3fregions​%3dALL%252Cdefault%252CDE_FR%252CSAT%252CEUR_DE_FR) failed