feature request

[daveftw84]

aggressive widget reloading

[jojobrogess]

I think that's here, I don't know if it works within the skin though.

[daveftw84]

sadly that doesnt work

[jojobrogess]

If I can read this right:

def refresh_video_widgets(self, media_type):
        '''refresh video widgets'''
        log_msg("Video database changed - type: %s - refreshing widgets...." % media_type)
        timestr = time.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S", time.gmtime())
        self.win.setProperty("widgetreload", timestr)
        if media_type:
            self.win.setProperty("widgetreload-%ss" % media_type, timestr)
            if "episode" in media_type:
                self.win.setProperty("widgetreload-tvshows", timestr)

def onNotification(self, sender, method, data):
        '''builtin function for the xbmc.Monitor class'''
        try:
            log_msg("Kodi_Monitor: sender %s - method: %s  - data: %s" % (sender, method, data))
            if sys.version_info.major == 3:
                data = json.loads(data)
            else:
                data = json.loads(data.decode('utf-8'))
            mediatype = ""
            if data and isinstance(data, dict):
                if data.get("item"):
                    mediatype = data["item"].get("type", "")
                elif data.get("type"):
                    mediatype = data["type"]

            if method == "VideoLibrary.OnUpdate":
                if not mediatype:
                    mediatype = self.last_mediatype # temp hack
                self.refresh_video_widgets(mediatype)

            if method == "AudioLibrary.OnUpdate":
                self.refresh_music_widgets(mediatype)

            if method == "Player.OnStop":
                self.last_mediatype = mediatype
                if mediatype in ["movie", "episode", "musicvideo"]:
                    if self.addon.getSetting("aggresive_refresh") == "true":
                        self.refresh_video_widgets(mediatype)

        except Exception as exc:
            log_msg("Exception in KodiMonitor: %s" % exc, xbmc.LOGERROR)

Looks like it doesn't require skin implementation, it should just work.
I wonder what your logs say, could be that there's just no change so no need to aggressively update.