[drinfernoo]

This acts correctly in arctic horizon, i think it has something to do with adding the widget from favourites

What do you mean? The only skin I've run into that does it this way is Xonfluence.

The problem facing embruary is that because the addon is a program addon you cant navigate to it from the widgets section is there a way to change the addon type to a video addon?

I'll do some testing in Embruary. If it has configurable widgets, there should be no reason why it won't work. AutoWidget isn't a video add-on, because it doesn't provide video, and can make widgets from anything, including other addons besides video. That's why it's a program add-on. 

This is on a fresh install after adding the widget auto widget just runs an error from then on and does not change the widget.  Heres the full log

https://pastebin.com/zazcWmkN

I've just fixed this in 1.3.7

I've not gotten a chance to play with Embruary yet, but it would be helpful for me if you'd try this release, and if your widgets still are not refreshing, please open an issue on GitHub with a full log.