[drinfernoo]

Wouldn't they refresh at startup anyway since my library is scanned?

No obviously I don't rescrape my entire library at every start up, but still the library scan gets interrupted before it has had time to look through the first disk, which kind of defeats the purpose of having the library scan on startup toggle enabled at all.

If the service doesn't run at boot, the content of the widget won't have "been told to" change, so a library update won't update the widget.

Also, that would not work for people that don't run a library update on boot, anyways.

I'll mull this over.

Okay, I see. Do you think it's the service or just the refresh that disturbs the library scan? I had AutoWidget set to refresh pretty often so it's hard for me to tell.

Also thank you for the add-on. It's really great and having widgets updating automatically takes Kodi one step closer to working like a streaming service. Appreciate your help.

Well, I would guess that it's the library update that happens during normal operation if the service.

I don't know that I can really see any way around it