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The person who migrated this to Matrix asked me to take a look (he's more of a C++ person, Python is more my thing).  I think whatever the issue is in in the actual Watchdog module (which is an outside module for which this addon is basically just a wrapper). I'm going to try updating the Watchdog module to the current version to see if that helps. In the meantime, I found that if you change the advanced setting for network share polling internal from 4 seconds to 30 seconds (or more) that the CPU usage goes down significantly.

Do you think you can get it to work with LibreELEC 9.2.3 (Leia)? The issue is that it constantly triggers a library update, as well as artwork beef is also constantly scanning.

Regards,

Shedrock

The script is mostly just a wrapper for Watchdog, which is maintained completely outside Kodi and used for lots of different things.  It can be very finicky (in my personal experience), is reacting to external things that we can't control, and behaves differently on different platforms.  So I think that's a really long way of saying "probably not." If you are having an issue with both watchdog and artwork beef, you may want to look into what's causing both of those things to think there have been updates (I don't actually know much about artwork beef, so it's possible watchdog's library update is causing artwork beef's downloads).

Even having said all that, if you can provide a link to a Kodi debug log with the behavior, I can try and take a look.