[drinfernoo]

would it be possible to allow a list only to recycle after a maintained time frame?

example:
i want a widget on my screen that show me all movies from only one movie collection and change this collection every monday

so a setting on this list that block recycle until next monday or min. 7 days later

widget: Lets watch this collection this week ... (or something like this)

is there a way i can do this?

Currently the longest time frame is every 12 hours. I'm not against allowing longer times, but I haven't been implementing many new features lately.

Open a request on GitHub, and I'll see if I get to it.

[GriffeyJuni0r]

Is it possible to use AutoWidget to display only the live sports currently playing (from PVR IPTV Simple) as homescreen widgets?

I know you can create channels as widgets from PVR channels with AutoWidget, but it would be great to use the 'Search' results filtered from PVR IPTV Simple (MLB Baseball, NBA Basketball, ect.) that so only any live sporting event displays on the homescreen.

[max_p]

Hey @drinfernoo I just tried installing AutoWidget on my shield, but the only repo found in the file manager was for the OpenDevTools. When tried to follow the link in my browser, I got 404 error for both the Autowidget stable and Autowidget dev repos. Have i missed something?

[Tobby]

Hello. 

Wanted to let you know that I've found an issue with AutoWidget. It works great however it for some reasons cripples the scraping if it occurs at the same time as the widget refresh. Wasn't a big deal until I decided to rescrape my entire library and it only scraped for 10-20 minutes befoe it stopped. Looking through the log files I saw a common denominator in AutoWidget and when I deactivated it the issue stopped.

I made a thread about it in general support since I thought it was a problem with the scraper functionality in Kodi rather than your add-on, but since I got no response there I still wanted to let you know. There's a partial log file as well if you're curious.
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=363165

[scott967]

Hello. 

Wanted to let you know that I've found an issue with AutoWidget. It works great however it for some reasons cripples the scraping if it occurs at the same time as the widget refresh. Wasn't a big deal until I decided to rescrape my entire library and it only scraped for 10-20 minutes befoe it stopped. Looking through the log files I saw a common denominator in AutoWidget and when I deactivated it the issue stopped.

I made a thread about it in general support since I thought it was a problem with the scraper functionality in Kodi rather than your add-on, but since I got no response there I still wanted to let you know. There's a partial log file as well if you're curious.
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=363165

Can't really do any useful investigation with that partial log.  sorry.

scott s.
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[drinfernoo]

Hey @drinfernoo I just tried installing AutoWidget on my shield, but the only repo found in the file manager was for the OpenDevTools. When tried to follow the link in my browser, I got 404 error for both the Autowidget stable and Autowidget dev repos. Have i missed something?

My bad! I did some repo maintenance early this morning and bungled the URLs for the file manager. I've just fixed them so they should show up again

[drinfernoo]

Hello. 

Wanted to let you know that I've found an issue with AutoWidget. It works great however it for some reasons cripples the scraping if it occurs at the same time as the widget refresh. Wasn't a big deal until I decided to rescrape my entire library and it only scraped for 10-20 minutes befoe it stopped. Looking through the log files I saw a common denominator in AutoWidget and when I deactivated it the issue stopped.

I made a thread about it in general support since I thought it was a problem with the scraper functionality in Kodi rather than your add-on, but since I got no response there I still wanted to let you know. There's a partial log file as well if you're curious.
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=363165

That log isn't very helpful, as mentioned, but I can tell you now that there's not much I can do about it. Part of how AutoWidget works is that it has to do a "fake" library update in order for widgets to know that they have new content. Without this update, widgets would only change whenever you rebooted Kodi.

AutoWidget runs its service every 15 minutes, but by default, only refreshes widgets every 2 hours, if you modify active widgets, or change pages in a paged widget. I worked very hard to reduce the number of updates necessary for proper functioning as much as  I could, but there still have to be some of them.

I would recommend doing exactly what you've done: disable AutoWidget until your full library is done scraping.

[Tobby]

Hello. 

Wanted to let you know that I've found an issue with AutoWidget. It works great however it for some reasons cripples the scraping if it occurs at the same time as the widget refresh. Wasn't a big deal until I decided to rescrape my entire library and it only scraped for 10-20 minutes befoe it stopped. Looking through the log files I saw a common denominator in AutoWidget and when I deactivated it the issue stopped.

I made a thread about it in general support since I thought it was a problem with the scraper functionality in Kodi rather than your add-on, but since I got no response there I still wanted to let you know. There's a partial log file as well if you're curious.
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=363165

That log isn't very helpful, as mentioned, but I can tell you now that there's not much I can do about it. Part of how AutoWidget works is that it has to do a "fake" library update in order for widgets to know that they have new content. Without this update, widgets would only change whenever you rebooted Kodi.

AutoWidget runs its service every 15 minutes, but by default, only refreshes widgets every 2 hours, if you modify active widgets, or change pages in a paged widget. I worked very hard to reduce the number of updates necessary for proper functioning as much as  I could, but there still have to be some of them.

I would recommend doing exactly what you've done: disable AutoWidget until your full library is done scraping.

Well that explains it. That's fine, really. It's not like I rescrape my library every day, so it's not much of a hassle. I was really scratching my head before I found the reason behind the issue though.

However I assume you're doing a refresh when Kodi starts and that interrupts the library scan on startup before it's finished. Would it be possible to skip the refresh on startup if I have library scan set to run at startup anyway? Either with a toggle in the add-on settings, by reading the toggle to scan on startup or not running the refresh while already scraping. Not a dev, so I don't really know which of the options is within the scope of possibility. I would be grateful of you considered it though.

Also I can try getting a better log file from startup if you, or @scott967 are interested.

[drinfernoo]

Hello. 

Wanted to let you know that I've found an issue with AutoWidget. It works great however it for some reasons cripples the scraping if it occurs at the same time as the widget refresh. Wasn't a big deal until I decided to rescrape my entire library and it only scraped for 10-20 minutes befoe it stopped. Looking through the log files I saw a common denominator in AutoWidget and when I deactivated it the issue stopped.

I made a thread about it in general support since I thought it was a problem with the scraper functionality in Kodi rather than your add-on, but since I got no response there I still wanted to let you know. There's a partial log file as well if you're curious.
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=363165

That log isn't very helpful, as mentioned, but I can tell you now that there's not much I can do about it. Part of how AutoWidget works is that it has to do a "fake" library update in order for widgets to know that they have new content. Without this update, widgets would only change whenever you rebooted Kodi.

AutoWidget runs its service every 15 minutes, but by default, only refreshes widgets every 2 hours, if you modify active widgets, or change pages in a paged widget. I worked very hard to reduce the number of updates necessary for proper functioning as much as  I could, but there still have to be some of them.

I would recommend doing exactly what you've done: disable AutoWidget until your full library is done scraping.

Well that explains it. That's fine, really. It's not like I rescrape my library every day, so it's not much of a hassle. I was really scratching my head before I found the reason behind the issue though.

However I assume you're doing a refresh when Kodi starts and that interrupts the library scan on startup before it's finished. Would it be possible to skip the refresh on startup if I have library scan set to run at startup anyway? Either with a toggle in the add-on settings, by reading the toggle to scan on startup or not running the refresh while already scraping. Not a dev, so I don't really know which of the options is within the scope of possibility. I would be grateful of you considered it though.

Also I can try getting a better log file from startup if you, or @scott967 are interested.

The drawback to not having them refresh on boot would be that if a widget is scheduled to refresh at boot, it won't refresh until the service runs again, a minimum of 15 minutes later. I feel that this would detract from the dynamism of the add-on... However, unless your entire library is being scraped at every boot (probably unnecessary), there shouldn't be too big of a problem there.

[Tobby]

That log isn't very helpful, as mentioned, but I can tell you now that there's not much I can do about it. Part of how AutoWidget works is that it has to do a "fake" library update in order for widgets to know that they have new content. Without this update, widgets would only change whenever you rebooted Kodi.

AutoWidget runs its service every 15 minutes, but by default, only refreshes widgets every 2 hours, if you modify active widgets, or change pages in a paged widget. I worked very hard to reduce the number of updates necessary for proper functioning as much as  I could, but there still have to be some of them.

I would recommend doing exactly what you've done: disable AutoWidget until your full library is done scraping.

Well that explains it. That's fine, really. It's not like I rescrape my library every day, so it's not much of a hassle. I was really scratching my head before I found the reason behind the issue though.

However I assume you're doing a refresh when Kodi starts and that interrupts the library scan on startup before it's finished. Would it be possible to skip the refresh on startup if I have library scan set to run at startup anyway? Either with a toggle in the add-on settings, by reading the toggle to scan on startup or not running the refresh while already scraping. Not a dev, so I don't really know which of the options is within the scope of possibility. I would be grateful of you considered it though.

Also I can try getting a better log file from startup if you, or @scott967 are interested.

The drawback to not having them refresh on boot would be that if a widget is scheduled to refresh at boot, it won't refresh until the service runs again, a minimum of 15 minutes later. I feel that this would detract from the dynamism of the add-on... However, unless your entire library is being scraped at every boot (probably unnecessary), there shouldn't be too big of a problem there.

Wouldn't they refresh at startup anyway since my library is scanned?

No obviously I don't rescrape my entire library at every start up, but still the library scan gets interrupted before it has had time to look through the first disk, which kind of defeats the purpose of having the library scan on startup toggle enabled at all.

[drinfernoo]

Well that explains it. That's fine, really. It's not like I rescrape my library every day, so it's not much of a hassle. I was really scratching my head before I found the reason behind the issue though.

However I assume you're doing a refresh when Kodi starts and that interrupts the library scan on startup before it's finished. Would it be possible to skip the refresh on startup if I have library scan set to run at startup anyway? Either with a toggle in the add-on settings, by reading the toggle to scan on startup or not running the refresh while already scraping. Not a dev, so I don't really know which of the options is within the scope of possibility. I would be grateful of you considered it though.

Also I can try getting a better log file from startup if you, or @scott967 are interested.

The drawback to not having them refresh on boot would be that if a widget is scheduled to refresh at boot, it won't refresh until the service runs again, a minimum of 15 minutes later. I feel that this would detract from the dynamism of the add-on... However, unless your entire library is being scraped at every boot (probably unnecessary), there shouldn't be too big of a problem there.

Wouldn't they refresh at startup anyway since my library is scanned?

No obviously I don't rescrape my entire library at every start up, but still the library scan gets interrupted before it has had time to look through the first disk, which kind of defeats the purpose of having the library scan on startup toggle enabled at all.

If the service doesn't run at boot, the content of the widget won't have "been told to" change, so a library update won't update the widget.

Also, that would not work for people that don't run a library update on boot, anyways.

I'll mull this over.

[Tobby]

The drawback to not having them refresh on boot would be that if a widget is scheduled to refresh at boot, it won't refresh until the service runs again, a minimum of 15 minutes later. I feel that this would detract from the dynamism of the add-on... However, unless your entire library is being scraped at every boot (probably unnecessary), there shouldn't be too big of a problem there.

Wouldn't they refresh at startup anyway since my library is scanned?

No obviously I don't rescrape my entire library at every start up, but still the library scan gets interrupted before it has had time to look through the first disk, which kind of defeats the purpose of having the library scan on startup toggle enabled at all.

If the service doesn't run at boot, the content of the widget won't have "been told to" change, so a library update won't update the widget.

Also, that would not work for people that don't run a library update on boot, anyways.

I'll mull this over.

Okay, I see. Do you think it's the service or just the refresh that disturbs the library scan? I had AutoWidget set to refresh pretty often so it's hard for me to tell.

Also thank you for the add-on. It's really great and having widgets updating automatically takes Kodi one step closer to working like a streaming service. Appreciate your help.

[drinfernoo]

Wouldn't they refresh at startup anyway since my library is scanned?

No obviously I don't rescrape my entire library at every start up, but still the library scan gets interrupted before it has had time to look through the first disk, which kind of defeats the purpose of having the library scan on startup toggle enabled at all.

If the service doesn't run at boot, the content of the widget won't have "been told to" change, so a library update won't update the widget.

Also, that would not work for people that don't run a library update on boot, anyways.

I'll mull this over.

Okay, I see. Do you think it's the service or just the refresh that disturbs the library scan? I had AutoWidget set to refresh pretty often so it's hard for me to tell.

Also thank you for the add-on. It's really great and having widgets updating automatically takes Kodi one step closer to working like a streaming service. Appreciate your help.

Well, I would guess that it's the library update that happens during normal operation if the service.

I don't know that I can really see any way around it

[Rijs43]

Hi,

Tried to search in the forum as well..

How can I ensure the Genre Title is displayed in the widget title? Now it shows only Genre (Cycling).

I remember this was not the case in the early stage..

Thanks.

[drinfernoo]

Hi,

Tried to search in the forum as well..

How can I ensure the Genre Title is displayed in the widget title? Now it shows only Genre (Cycling).

I remember this was not the case in the early stage..

Thanks.

https://youtu.be/J7i4bW8H-kU