ha, yeah those kodi forums are somethin else.

for ease of use, ive separated kodi from the scraping (mediaelch!), forcing it to go local for initial data load.

ive only really forced updates in kodi for necessity, which is almost never.

youre right, the lack of client/server architecture sucks donkey balls. forced me to jump through a lot of hoops to get a default, auto configuring install for house machines.

i wish kodi would just incorporate something like jellyfin natively... they work so well together anyway.