[shedrock]

@Angelinas - Hope all is well. I didn't want to start a new thread, so I figured I would just ask you here. Do you know if a skin.helper.widgets that works with Kodi Matrix? I can't seem to get the "Episodes Airing Today" to work.

Regards,

Shedrock

[Fuchs2468]

Hello @Angelinas.

I discovered a mistake in the settings.xml of "script.skin.helper.backgrounds".
I have converted the old settings.xml with "script.settings-convert" version 0.0.12, which has fixed the error.

Here my settings.xml

[djhifi]

Angelinas do we need to keep updating our scripts manually from the github "Community created add-ons for Kodi" or is there any repository that automates this process on KODI client?

[Angelinas]

https://github.com/kodi-community-addons...-1.0.3.zip

[Fuchs2468]

Hello @Angelinas . 

I would first like to thank you for your update of "script.skin.helper.service".

Could you help me. I made a mistake with my repo.
I was testing and then accidentally loaded the wrong content for "script.skin.helper.service-1.1.39" onto the repo.
The error has been corrected by me but the problem is all users of "Titan_Mod" who have received the update from me are using the wrong version.
Except for reinstalling or a version update to version 1.1.40, Otherwise I can not update version 1.1.39.
Could you please update the version of "script.skin.helper.service" to 1.1.40?

I would be very grateful.

I am currently testing "script.module.metadatautils-1.0.43" .
This version causes errors. I have no PVR display
I will keep you informed about my tests.

[Fuchs2468]

The reason for the error with the PVR display in windows is your last change in "script.module.metadatautils".
I don't get a "Skin Helper Service Widgets" error in android anymore but on android I also don't get a PVR display but only an IMDB logo. 

python:
if xbmc.getCondVisibility('system.platform.android'):

    SUPPORTS_POOL = False

But could it be that maybe something needs to be changed in this definition?

python:
def process_method_on_list(method_to_run, items):

I don't know if this is relevant: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3033...ssing-pool
Unfortunately I am not a python programmer.   

I will also provide log files when I have more time.

[Fuchs2468]

Hello @Angelinas .

Today I was able to solve the problem with "script.module.metadatautils-1.0.43" for Windows and Android.
The following code must be changed in "script.module.metadatautils".

utils.py old:

python:
try:

    from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool

    SUPPORTS_POOL = True

except Exception:

    SUPPORTS_POOL = False



if xbmc.getCondVisibility('system.platform.android'):

    SUPPORTS_POOL = False

replace with utils.py new:

python:
try:

    if xbmc.getCondVisibility('System.Platform.Android'): raise Exception('Using Android threading')

    from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool

    SUPPORTS_POOL = True

except Exception:

    SUPPORTS_POOL = False

The reference for my change was the update of @Lunatixz .
See the following links:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=315513&pid=3071230#pid3071230

https://github.com/Lunatixz/KODI_Addons/commit...

here is my "utils.py" with patch: utils.py


 

[AchillesPunks]

Do this this would fix the crashing issue?

[Ismadder1]

THE FAULT WITH CAUSING THE MACOS ON KODI 19.2+  TO  GO INTO A BOOTLOOP IS THE SKIN HELP SERVICES 1.1.39 IS THERE A FIX FOR THIS YET

[Ismadder1]

https://paste.kodi.tv/ibuxumukuj.kodi

[leschranz]

Hi,

I am playing around with the widgets on my homescreen and a couple of questions came up regarding script.skin.helper.widgets.

• I would like to have a widget that recommends movies or tvshows based upon my watched history but at the same time the results should not include i.e. concerts or documentaries. My library is tagged accordingly already but it seems like it is not possible to use the script with more than one tag.
  
  
• I would also like to do something similar for music to separate audiobooks which would require a filter either by album type, path or genre.
  

Maybe I have simply overlooked something obvious but I would be grateful if someone could point out wether my ideas are doable with the script or not. Thanks!

[Angelinas]

I checked directly with the audiodb folks via email and they did confirm that my api key is still valid and working. I have tested it manually by issue various api calls using my api key and they all work fine and return the correct data. So I’m not sure at this point why my audiodb api key is not working correctly thru metadatautils (Meta Data and Artwork Module).

As I wrote in skin part post ...I use "ascii" key, you need to change line to remove "encode" and "decode"
​​https://github.com/kodi-community-addons/script.module.metadatautils/blob/master/lib/helpers/theaudiodb.py#L198
change in 

Code:

endpoint = 'https://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/%s/%s' % (self.api_key, endpoint)

[wags1]

@Angelinas Thank you for helping. I’m not a dev but I’ll try to figure out where exactly I need to make that change and get it done.

Just so I understand, this would be a problem for anyone that uses a paid audiodb api key? My key is just a regular 4 digit number. It’s not any sort of special api key. So basically it’s currently not possible to just enter a audiodb api key thru the settings menu for the Metadata and Artwork Module and have it work? Is there any way in the future that might be fixed? If it will eventually get fixed I might just wait instead of trying to mess around in the code myself.

Very sorry for the basic questions but while I have done some basic changes to xml files I’m not very skilled.

[wags1]

I checked directly with the audiodb folks via email and they did confirm that my api key is still valid and working. I have tested it manually by issue various api calls using my api key and they all work fine and return the correct data. So I’m not sure at this point why my audiodb api key is not working correctly thru metadatautils (Meta Data and Artwork Module).

As I wrote in skin part post ...I use "ascii" key, you need to change line to remove "encode" and "decode"
​​https://github.com/kodi-community-addons/script.module.metadatautils/blob/master/lib/helpers/theaudiodb.py#L198
change in 

Code:

endpoint = 'https://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/%s/%s' % (self.api_key, endpoint)

@Angelinas Thank you very much! I was able to find the right py file in my Kodi instance and replaced that line with what you provided and it fixed the problem. I would have never found the fix on my own so THANK YOU!

[latts9923]

@Angelinas
I and some other users have noticed that if we are using v1.0.40 of script.module.metadatautils from the marcelveldt repo on our Leia system that our metadata fails to show if we clear our simplecache.db. If I revert to a mod build of 1.0.37 it works just fine.

I noticed this difference on line 15 of imdb.py...

In v1.0.37 it uses BeautifulSoup4...

xml:


import bs4 as BeautifulSoup

In v1.0.40 it is...

xml:


import BeautifulSoup

I was going to update v1.0.40 with this change, but I wanted to check with you first to see if you were still maintaining the add-ons in the olderversions folder of the marcelveldt repo.