Access series via favourites without refreshing the cache

[Air-w0lf]

Hi,

I have been pinning a number of series to my Favourites from the plug-in. When I access some series from Favourites, the plug-in seems to get stuck in an infinite loop - Page 1, 2, 3, 4 ... 7 and I am forced to hit the back button and cancel out. An error pops up saying "connection error" when I do that.

When I quit Kodi and come back in then everything works fine. But then the next time I try, the above problem reappears.

Is this some kind of cache corruption problem?

I can supply logs if necessary.

[Air-w0lf]

Here is a log file of me accessing the "Superstore" favourite first, with no issues. Then I try to access "The Expanse" and get stuck in the loop I described.

kodi.log

[Air-w0lf]

And here's another log of me getting stuck in a loop accessing "The Expanse" via Favourites. I cancelled out of it and quit Kodi ("Connection Error" also popped up.)

Restarted Kodi, tried again and it worked fine. Attached are both logs - first one gets stuck in the loop, second one works fine.

kodi-0.log
kodi-1.log

[Varstahl]

The favourites store a link to the season with a full path, for example Home > PrimeVideo TV Series > The Expanse > Season 1. When the cache expires, before accessing the season, it needs the rest of the catalog path to reach to it, which is why it starts scraping. At the moment there is no way to go cacheless.

What you can do, though, if caching is lengthy for you, is change the default time after which the cache expires. It's going to be in the next release pretty soon, a few days I would guess.

I'll keep this open as an enhancement. This problem shouldn't appear for movies, so I think we can work around it, although there's no code in place for it at the moment.

[Air-w0lf]

Understood - thanks for the explanation.