This is from July 2024…
Mind if I ask why?
I’ve been reading the Kodi Wiki. Thanks for the validation. 
It seems to have a high potential of not working correctly and sometimes causing various problems. The biggest issue from years back was that it would sometimes hit before the sources were fully up and Kodi would think they were missing and sometimes automatically remove the library items. This should no longer be the case as Kodi has since done a mitigation such that if an entire source goes MIA it will ask before removing any individual items (this was for people who enabled library clean on update), but you can still get failed scans and lockups.
Another is people would use this as their sole method of kicking off a library update which is silly IMO. You can map the function to the remote to avoid waiting for the reboot or bother going into a library and navigating the slideout menu. If you have a OSMC remote you can hold down (long press) the OK/enter button when your on the home screen and this will initiate a video library update. If your adding new content from a PC you can also kick off a library update remotely via the web interface, phone app, or via JSON-RPC. The latter is what I do as I have a script on my PC that does this on multiple devices at the same time and I just run that after adding new content to my server.
I’m not saying it’s a hard “don’t do” though. It works for some people. I could see it being a good option perhaps for someone who normally leaves their device powered off.
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The Library Watchdog add-on (if it’s still going) has been notorious for causing problems in the past.
Sam
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Thanks for the thorough explanation. Much appreciated.
And thank you for the heads up.
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