2016-04-25, 09:17
(2016-01-25, 19:31)BobCratchett Wrote: It's likely to be the known problem with some add-ons including YouTube which seems to be caused by the way they pass variables through the uri. For whatever reason, when they do it in the way that YouTube does it, Kodi uses a cached version when opening a link directly to it. To know whether it is this issue or not, look at the path for the shortcut - if it doesn't have a ?[variable]=[value] part at the end, it most likely is.
You can try and fool Kodi into not using a cached version by changing the action - 'Change Action' > 'Custom Shortcut >' (the last one in the list) and add a property to the path. So, YouTube's Popular Right Now would change from:-
Code:ActivateWindow(10025,"plugin://plugin.video.youtube/special/popular_right_now/",return)
to something like:-
Code:ActivateWindow(10025,"plugin://plugin.video.youtube/special/popular_right_now/?variable=$INFO[System.TotalUptime]",return)
(The name of the variable, nor the value, actually matter - though I like $INFO[System.TotalUptime] as it will always be different each time the shortcut is accessed, guaranteeing Kodi sees it as a fresh path each time and therefore can't use a cached version. But just ?a=1 should be enough for Kodi to not always use the cached version...)
Had same issue with some different plugins - THANKYOU @BobCratchett, been scratching my head over this one for some time!
Solution worked brilliantly!!