[newsbeast]

To solve the slow loading of sections on lower powered platforms please disable views you don't use in the skin settings, forced views, enable/disable views. By default all views are enabled which takes time to load.

Very strange that your skinsetup got messed up by installing the beta repo. That shouldn't happen at all.
Would it be possible for you to grab your kodi logfile for me ?

My kodi setup was stock -- no forced views and not more that 10 video addons. Some local music a few local films, a weather script and artwork downloader that runs at startup. Always let these run first before using kodi as well.

Unfortunately I restarted kodi before looking for the log, and because of the state of kodi could not access any features at all.

Lesson learned

There appears to be an update to the skin helper in the beta repo or a cause to update to a newer shin helper script. I just might try the beta spotify repo again for fun to see if it trashes the setup another time....

As for logging: is that usually in the events tab, or can I fetch it from the file manager as well?

Thanks

The Beast