Re: Grilo addon for Kodi

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2018-04-24 at 17:34 -0400, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> > > I had trouble getting the gi module to import from the context of
> > > the
> > > Kodi process, so I separated the Grilo functionality into a
> > > daemon
> > > process (grilohttpd) which bridges HTTP and Grilo sources. Kodi
> > > addons are stateless, so grilohttpd has the nice side effect of
> > > providing a persistent cache of the things available through a
> > > Grilo
> > > source. I would be interested to hear any theories on why gi
> > > might
> > > have been malfunctioning in my earlier attempt.
> >
> > What errors did you get trying to import and then use gi in Kodi?
>
> From what I could tell, the "import gi" statement would never
> complete. The Kodi process would continue to respond to input (e.g.,
> I could "esc" out of the plugin), however the plugin itself would
> continuously display its progress spinner.

Any chance you could get a backtrace from that? Any other errors in the
journal or in the application's output?