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Library Refresh - Work in process add-on that updates libraries automatically - LinogeFly - 2024-02-09
Hello guys!
Just a little invitation to try an add-on that I have been working on for the past few months. It's called Kodi Library Refresh.
It is inspired by and does the similar thing to what Library Watchdog add-on used to do. The add-on watches for file system changes for your Kodi media sources and updates the library (or libraries) automatically whenever there are changes detected.
I found Library Watchdog add-on several months ago. It somewhat worked for me, but there were issues. For example, it was not cleaning the library at all if I deleted or moved files. Pretty quickly I found out that the add-on was not supported anymore, unfortunately. I dived into the code myself, fixed that issue with cleaning, but soon bumped into something else that didn't work for me. Eventually I gave up fixing my findings. It was easy to break existing, fine working features as the add-on didn't have any tests. So partly for fun, as a little hobby project, partly because I wanted an automatic library update feature for my Kodi setup, I decided to make an add-on for myself and then see if I can get it into a good shape, so it can be shared and published.
I haven't try to publish the add-on to the official Kodi repository yet mainly for two reasons:
- It's not yet well tested. For example, have no idea if it works on macOS, I only tested on Linux and Windows. I basically only piloted the add-on in my LibreELEC setup and a little bit on Windows too. I'm sure there are issues to be discovered from other Kodi setups.
- It doesn't support network media sources yet, only local media sources.
The add-on's page is available on GitHub here. The zip installation file can be downloaded from latest releases page, look for kodi-library-refresh-x.x.x.zip file under Assets.
So yeah, give the add-on a try, if you like, and hopefully someone find it useful. Feel also free to let me know if it works, or if it doesn't, in your particular Kodi setup.