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1. The channels widget doesn't work at all now, it just displays "no information available" :

It takes a few minutes before the EPG data is available. At system start it will indeed show "No information available". Once the info is there, the widget will refresh and show the correct results. Nothing to do about that.

2. Google images are still not Auto populated, but work if i "manually" scrape them.

Yes they are but the old "wrong" data is still in your cache now. You can refresh the cache by using the manual refresh button (like you already found out).
To completely wipe the cache, delete folder script.module.simplecache from addon_data

3. When skin helper does not find any results, the default background image in the channels window is being replaced by the channel icon and not the fallback image defined in the <texture> parameter and looks horrible... Maybe this might be because the old method was using SkinHelper.PVR.Thumb which was different from the default Listitem.Art.Thumb and didn't clash with Kodi defaults. Perhaps a way around this would be to save google results as "landscape" image instead of "thumb"?

See my answer at 3)... The wrong data is still in your cache. Please refresh the cache and tell me if it's fixed.

4. Widgets are constantly refreshing when i exit any window back to the homescreen.
The old method of refreshing after video playback or library update was much better in my opinion, considering the average user wouldn't spend enough time on the home screen to allow the widgets to fully refresh... especially if the widgets are pulling info from the internet, this constant reload will cause low end machines to bog down and heat up pretty quickly, which is what's happening to me on the RPi

It depends on the skin. Some skins use the same container for all their widgets, meaning that the widget is constantly reloaded. Other skins have a seperate container for each widget, this takes a little more memory consumption but widgets are kept in memory and are not needingless refreshed all the time. I think you'll have to take a look at your skin's implementation of widgets.

I don't know what to tell you...

I fully deleted the cache many many times and still nothing shows up.
Last night I even did a complete rebuild of my libreelec setup and installed everything from scratch.... It's been on all night and the widget still says "no information available" and all my channels show no google results unless I manually search them. Imdb results seem to work ok... Just not google


Just to make sure, I just wipes the cache again and still nothing. And my fallback image is still being shown as the channel logo and not the fallback image.

##EDIT##

Ah huh!
So i found the issue with the Artwork.
After installing skin helper for the first time I removed the information from the "Skip if genre contains any of these genres" from the Skin Helper Artwork Module and left it blank, and artwork would not appear. But i just realized if i put a "0" in the "skip if genre contains any of these genres" field then deleted the cache the artwork started to appear properly even the fallback image is working properly! ... it appears to be a bug, if the field is left empty.

PVR channels widget still does not show any information. I might add that the channels widget was working before the last update by the way.

Hope this helps, and thanks for all your hard work :-)