Hello World Service Addon?

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I’m trying to combine the Hello World Addon and the service tutorial and just trying to get it installed and see the log output in the kodi.log. Getting the standard ‘Addon Failed to Install’ Error. Below is the error from the kodi.log (I set it to debug log output prior to attempting this install run):

Quote:23:38:11 40654.023438 T:1963433984 DEBUG: CAddonInstaller: installing from zip ‘smb://MYSERVER/Public/script.hello.world-master.zip’
23:38:11 40654.035156 T:1963433984 DEBUG: CSMBFile::Open – opened smb://MYSERVER/Public/script.hello.world-master.zip, fd=10001
23:38:11 40654.078125 T:1963433984 DEBUG: CSMBFile::Close closing fd 10001

Which doesn’t seem to give me any information as to why it failed to install. Couldn’t find anything in the kodi.log that indicated any issue with the xml or python files. I’m wondering if it has anything to do with how I’m zip-ing up the addon. The directory structure in the zip file is as follows:

script.hello.world-master
-addon.xml
-addon.py
-service.py
-reousrce directory

The code is ripped from the github copy of the hello-world addon which on its own installs fine. All I did was add the serivce python file and line to the addon.xml. Is there any special settings I need when zipping it up (compression level, etc)? Or is there something fundamentally wrong with my code? Thanks in advance for any help![/quote]

Below are the addon files:

addon.xml

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<addon id="script.hello.world" name="Hello World" version="1.0.0" provider-name="zag">
    <requires>
        <import addon="xbmc.python" version="2.1.0"/>
    </requires>
    <extension point="xbmc.python.script" library="addon.py">
        <provides>executable</provides>
    </extension>
    <extension point="xbmc.service" library="service.py" />
    <extension point="xbmc.addon.metadata">
        <platform>all</platform>
        <summary lang="en">Popup Hello World</summary>
        <description lang="en">Example Script to show hello world</description>
        <license>GNU General Public License, v2</license>
        <language></language>
        <forum>http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=209948</forum>
        <source>https://github.com/zag2me/script.hello.world</source>
        <website>Kodi.tv</website>
        <email>[email protected]</email>
        <assets>
            <icon>resources/icon.png</icon>
            <fanart>resources/fanart.jpg</fanart>
            <screenshot>resources/screenshot-01.jpg</screenshot>
        </assets>
        <news>Updated the addon to use new addon.xml metadata</news>
    </extension>
</addon>

addon.py

Code:
import xbmcaddon
import xbmcgui

addon       = xbmcaddon.Addon()
addonname   = addon.getAddonInfo('name')

line1 = "Hello World!"
line2 = "We can write anything we want here"
line3 = "Using Python"

xbmcgui.Dialog().ok(addonname, line1, line2, line3)

service.py

Code:
import time
import xbmc

if __name__ == '__main__':
    monitor = xbmc.Monitor()

    while not monitor.abortRequested():
        # Sleep/wait for abort for 10 seconds
        if monitor.waitForAbort(10):
            # Abort was requested while waiting. We should exit
            break
        xbmc.log("hello addon! %s" % time.time(), level=xbmc.LOGDEBUG)