[wheemer]

I'm wondering if the widgets could have some sort of cache? I find on initial launch they take a very long time to display anything. It would be great if they just showed last results from cache first as they refresh in the background.

I'd rather be able to see something instead of spinning circles, that sometime seem to almost lock up Kodi. Widgets for EmbyCon seem to be extra touchy.

Also is there any way to allow EmbyCon to populate the library info on the settings info overlay?

There is no cache for widgets. Time for displaying widgets depending of many things like hardware : hard drive speed, location of your database (local or mySQL), kind of widgets you use (if they needed internet connexion or not). Mine load in few seconds. 

Well my widgets all take a few minutes to load completely, definitely not seconds. It is because of all those variables which may be more on some machines that I was asking for some sort of cache. On a windows machine where kodi is quit and relaunched a lot this provides a negative experience for sure. It's disappointing you will not consider adding a cache of some sort. Hopefully you change your mind at some point, because I think it would really help. On libreelec sometimes kodi locks up while the skin is waiting for the widget to populate. Which is only fixed by rebooting.