Kodi 19.1 Skin helper / Widget error (on 1 profile)

Help and Support Vero 4K / Vero 4K +
1

Hello,

I recently upgraded from kodi 18.1 to kodi 19.1

I’m using 2 profiles: Adults / Kids
Skin: Amber 3.4.26 (own repo)

every time when I log in with “Kids” profile I receive following errors

  • Skin helper service error
  • Skin widget error

Whe I login with “Adults” profile everything works fine.

Before I upgraded i used the addon “script.screensaver.logoff-1.1.1.zip” that is not compatible anymore and had to uninstall.
I noticed that in the guisettings.xml from Kids profile there is still an entry of the addon. Not sure if I can delete this from the xml

/.kodi/userdata/profiles/Kids$ cat guisettings.xml | grep ‘logoff’
setting id=“screensaver.mode”>script.screensaver.logoff</setting

Here is also a link from the logfiles: https://paste.osmc.tv/widemijepe

Any advices would be greatly appreciated,

best regards,

2

Both scripts have been ported to v19, but haven’t been updated in the Kodi repo yet. Therefore, they won’t work. See here: skin helper service

3

Hi Chillbo,

thanks for th answer! Just updatet Skin helper service" to “script.skin.helper.service-1.1.39” (found on the link you provided)

Do you know where I can find the updatet “Skin Widget” addon? Thanks!

regards,

4

Best to install this repo and pull all addons and dependencies needed from there: https://github.com/kodi-community-addons/repository.marcelveldt/raw/master/repository/repository.marcelveldt/repository.marcelveldt-1.0.3.zip

5

Hi,

yes, I installed this repo but did not found any “Skin Widget”. I still receive the “Skin Widgets” error when I login to the Kids profile. The other error instead does not appear anymore.

kind regards,

Sarge

6

Which version of the Skin Helper Service Widgets is installed on your system - 1.0.44?

7

Hi,

I installed Skin Helper Service Widget 1.0.45 from MARCELFELDT rep 1.0.3. On the “Adults” profile I didn’have installed those widgets and I don’t have an error like “Skin Widget”

8

Then might need to contact the current maintainer of the addon. I’m afraid I can’t help with script specific errors that are not under our control.

9

Hm, the script error may comes from xmbc? Then I ask them in a forum. Thanks!

021-08-20 10:22:49.523 T:2940 ERROR : EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<–
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
Error Type: <class ‘AttributeError’>
Error Contents: module ‘xbmc’ has no attribute ‘abortRequested’
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/osmc/.kodi/addons/service.skin.widgets/default.py”, line 804, in
Main()
File “/home/osmc/.kodi/addons/service.skin.widgets/default.py”, line 67, in init
self._fetch_info_randomitems()
File “/home/osmc/.kodi/addons/service.skin.widgets/default.py”, line 140, in _fetch_info_randomitems
self._fetch_movies(‘RandomMovie’)
File “/home/osmc/.kodi/addons/service.skin.widgets/default.py”, line 166, in _fetch_movies
if not xbmc.abortRequested:
AttributeError: module ‘xbmc’ has no attribute ‘abortRequested’
–>End of Python script error report<–

10

Hi,

find a solution: had to update the addon from the following link
https://github.com/scott967/service.skin.widgets/archive/refs/heads/python3.zip

best regards,

Sarge