[Montellese]

Happy to report that there is no more crashing from the home screen widgets.

Thanks for the confirmation.

In all 3 cases there was no crash. However, the information in the dialog was different for the local files. For both the imports from Emby and from Kodi (via UPnP), a few buttons were disabled in confluence, and missing in Estuary. The buttons are Refresh and Trailer (movies). In the case of the refresh button, the path shows when it is selected in Estuary. The path is always visible in confluence. Play, Your Rating, Show Fanart, Same Director and Choose Art were the buttons common to all.

Had similar observations with the windows laptop but was unable to browse for network sources with smb, so wasn't able to test local files with it. The results for imported entries were the same

This is on partly on purpose. Right now the media import framework does not support refreshing a single item manually which is why the "Refresh" button is disabled. "Trailer" isn't implemented yet (neither for UPnP nor for Emby) which is why it will always be empty and therefore not shown in the info dialog.

Poster and Fanart, for music video artists, are not imported from Emby. I know there are places for them in Kodi, because I see them for some of the artists. However, I am unsure of where they are from because they are different from the ones on the Emby server. Tbh I am not even sure how to get them directly into Kodi because the scrapper does not even pick up the artwork in the folder.

Actor/Artist artwork is already on the TODO list. The problem with UPnP is that it supports actors/artists and their rules out of the box (i.e. no Kodi-specific stuff required) but it does not support artwork. For Emby I'm importing the artwork URLs but for some reason Kodi doesn't pick them up and I haven't looked into it in more detail yet.

Was a bit surprised to see 3 entries of the same show for TV Shows. I expected the episodes from the second and third sources to the added to the show entry for the first. It actually happened partially in the case of one show. There was only two entries for that show with one having double entry for each episode.

That shouldn't be the case. I have added logic that tries to match TV shows based on either the unique ID returned by the scraper or by tvshow title and year. It works fine for a use case I have in my test library but I have not tested it very extensively.

I also noticed while looking at the path in confluence that some Emby import items have a path that contain ...stream?MediaSourceId=... while others contain ...stream.mkv?MediaSourceId=... I bring this up becuase there is a neat little feature of Emby for Kodi which is not available with Media Import. The abilty to play .strm files from the Emby server using a Kodi plugin. I use it with You Tube .strm files for music videos. Somehow Emby for Kodi passes the stream details to Kodi which uses the appropriate plugin to play it. I know it works very well with You Tube .strm files, cannot speak for any other plugin. It is nice to just make a .strm file for a music video instead of downloading it. Hopefully play count is updated on YouTube. I know some Indie artists use their play count on YouTube to show their popularity.

I haven't spent much time on this yet. I just picked the first solution that I came across in the Emby wiki which would allow full control over playback of the stream. A problem with .strm files might be that it won't work if you don't have the required plugin installed and media importing from emby should not have to rely on any add-on being installed.

Media import from another Kodi device giving issues. Strangely movie import work fine and I can play a movie, but tv series episodes say not in library anymore when trying to play and do I want to remove it. Imported all the correct tv series and episodes. Just don't want to play.

I can take another look at it but last time I tried it it worked fine so would be nice to get a debug log.