[jbinkley60]

I have an addon which directly populates the Kodi DB tables and doesn't leverage a scraper.  It populates all of the tables including path, file, actor, movie, episode, genre, art, actor_link etc...  I don't use an internal Kodi scraper because the data is being copied from another database source which has scraped all the metadata, artwork, actor info etc..  Everything works fine in that I can display all the metadata, play the video files etc from the Kodi skins (i.e. Estuary, Confluence etc.., ), play trailers etc.  Basically everything works fine except I see one behavior I don't understand and was hoping one of the Kodi team members could explain. 

Initially I left the strScraper field blank in the path table since I am using an external scraper source.  However, when I leave it blank I cannot get the skins to display the cast member names and images in the info screen (i.e. DialogVideoInfo.xml even though the actor, actor_link, art tables and such are populated properly..  If I add the appropriate strScraper entry in the path table, they appear properly (i.e. metadata.tvshows.themoviedb.org.python and metadata.themoviedb.org).  I am trying to figure out why the scraper entry is needed if the database tables are already populated properly for the associated movie or TV show ?   All other metadata displays properly and all views work correctly without an strScraper entry for the path, except displaying the cast members.  I am not understanding the path table strScraper dependency here.     


Thanks,

Jeff

[jbinkley60]

After a bit more digging, I believe I found the answer.  Set the strScraper value to metadata.local.  That seems to work fine.  I couldn't find it documented anywhere but found it in the code for another addon.


Jeff