[crazyhands911]

@mikeSiLVO Thank you for taking on Amber!

I just updated to Omega and the new Amber Repo. I'm having issues with all of my customized Home Menu items not working. I've tried to redo them all and still nothing. All I can get them to do is take me to the Videos screen, with the options like Files, Playlists, etc. I was trying to set them up using Video Library>Sources>Then my Source, like "Anime">Create Menu Item to Here. Then I'll choose to Display as TV Shows or Movies as applicable. The menu action looks just like it did in Nexus:

ActivateWindow(Videos,special://profile/addon_data/script.skinshortcusts/2.xsp,return)

Then if I navigate to this location and open 2.xsp I show the same stuff as I do on my Nexus build:

<smartplaylist type="tvshows">
    <name>Anime</name>
    <match>one</match>
    <rule field="path" operator="startswith">
        <value>smb://CrazyNAS/Anime/</value>
        </rule>
    </smartplaylist>

I've also tried adding some Kodi Commands like Update Video Library or Clean Video Library back to my Power Submenu, but once you click on them, they do nothing. That action is just UpdateLibrary(video,,true)

Am I drastically overlooking something that has changed in Omega that is preventing from this feature from working still?

[crazyhands911]

@mikeSiLVO @Karellen
I've done  a little investigation and testing. I am running Kodi on a new laptop that I just got. If I run it on Nexus 20.5, all of my settings, databases and menu items/shortcuts work and I can watch videos just fine.

I installed Omega 21.1 and while things look similar, the customized menu items don't work properly and if I go to watch a video via Files, I can see the files, but the whole system crashes.

In the debug log below, I attempt to navigate to my shared smb folder "Movies" via the Home Menu like normal to watch the same film. Worked perfectly in 20.5, but I must ultimately go thru Files in 21.1 and then the same movie didn't work on 21.1 and caused it to crash.

Debug Log

I did notice some errors in the debug log regarding databases, which I assume are related to the database conversions that typically happen when you upgrade to a full new version of Kodi. However, I don't know what they mean or what I need to do to correct them. I also don't see how the database migration issue would affect the ability to play a video via Files, since that is going directly to the source file, unless it still requires some proper link to the database for things like tracking it being watched I guess.

I did attempt to watch the same item in the Estuary and I had the same issues.

I'm using phpMyAdmin and MariaDB 5.5.68 on my NAS, in case any of that information is pertinent.

[cooljimy84]

I get the exit code 134 when running the 4.0.0 pre2 skin version of this on kodi 21.2

/usr/include/c++/14.2.0/bits/unique_ptr.h:447: typename std::add_lvalue_reference<_Tp>::type std::unique_ptr<_Tp, _Dp>::operator*() const [with _Tp = CLog; _Dp = std::default_delete<CLog>; typename std::add_lvalue_reference<_Tp>::type = CLog&]: Assertion 'get() != pointer()' failed.
/app/bin/kodi: line 216: 7 Aborted (core dumped) ${KODI_BINARY} ${ENV_ARGS} $SAVED_ARGS
Crash report available at /home/media-pc/.var/app/tv.kodi.Kodi/data/kodi_crashlog-20250129_085441.log

Log attached to github issue