First up let me say fantastic skin – easy to use with a mouse and pleasant on the eyes. I find it much nicer than Estuary.
I seem to have a problem with favourites.xml – specifically, Black Nova crashes and gets corrupted because it can’t find my path substituted favourites.xml file located on my server – instead it looks in the local profile directory, As I’m not a skinner, I’m not sure whether it’s Black Nova or an addon script it uses. This is the relevant section in the kodi error log:
10:36:35.463 T:8264 NOTICE: ADDONS: Using repository repository.xbmc.org
10:36:35.518 T:8264 WARNING: JSONRPC: Could not parse type "Setting.Details.SettingList"
10:36:36.587 T:9236 NOTICE: WakeOnAccess [MYCLOUD] trigged by accessing : smb://MYCLOUD/kodi/userdata/Julie/favourites.xml
10:36:36.589 T:9236 NOTICE: WakeOnAccess success exit, server already running
10:36:36.801 T:9236 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.IOError'>
Error Contents: (2, 'No such file or directory', u'C:\\Users\\Mick\\AppData\\Roaming\\Kodi\\userdata\\profiles\\Julie\\favourites.xml')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Mick\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.favourites\default.py", line 146, in <module>
Main()
File "C:\Users\Mick\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.favourites\default.py", line 22, in __init__
found, favourites = self._read_file()
File "C:\Users\Mick\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.favourites\default.py", line 46, in _read_file
self.doc = parse(self.fav_file)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 1918, in parse
return expatbuilder.parse(file)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line 922, in parse
fp = open(file, 'rb')
IOError: (2, 'No such file or directory', u'C:\\Users\\Mick\\AppData\\Roaming\\Kodi\\userdata\\profiles\\Julie\\favourites.xml')
-->End of Python script error report<--
10:36:49.862 T:8264 ERROR: Control 701 in window 10000 has been asked to focus, but it can't
10:36:59.548 T:8264 ERROR: Previous line repeats 12 times.
10:36:59.548 T:8264 NOTICE: Storing total System Uptime
10:36:59.548 T:8264 NOTICE: Saving settings
10:36:59.553 T:8264 NOTICE: Saving skin settings
10:36:59.556 T:8264 NOTICE: stop all
10:37:00.317 T:8264 NOTICE: stop player
10:37:00.317 T:8264 NOTICE: stopping upnp
10:37:00.546 T:8264 NOTICE: clean cached files!
10:37:00.592 T:8264 NOTICE: closing down remote control service
10:37:01.165 T:8264 NOTICE: stopped
10:37:01.366 T:8264 NOTICE: destroy
10:37:01.366 T:8264 NOTICE: unload skin
10:37:01.389 T:8264 NOTICE: unload sections
10:37:01.392 T:8264 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://masterprofile/
10:37:01.397 T:8264 NOTICE: application stopped...And this is the snippet of my advancedsettings.xml file that has the path substitution:
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>special://profile/playlists/</from>
<to>smb://MYCLOUD/kodi/userdata/Julie/playlists/</to>
</substitute>
<substitute>
<from>special://profile/favourites.xml</from>
<to>smb://MYCLOUD/kodi/userdata/Julie/favourites.xml</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>For reference I am using Kodi 17.1 RC1 with a MySQL setup (individual DB’s located on a local MySQL server). I have also put user playlists and favourites on the local server so users can move from device to device without having to redo playlists & favourites.[/php] Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug in the script somewhere?