Two fixes after a 2026-05-23 regression where a Kodi restart left
plugin.video.youtube's service.py un-started, breaking every delegated
play with a silent "Service IPC - Monitor has not started" error.
- Addon: probe pv.youtube's localhost httpd (50152/50153) before
delegating. If nothing is listening, show a "YouTube service down —
restart Kodi" notification and fall back to our DASH / progressive
paths instead of letting setResolvedUrl fail silently.
- Sidecar: revert tokio runtime from current_thread back to
multi_thread with 2 worker threads so subscriptions_feed's per-channel
tokio::spawn fan-out runs in parallel. The current_thread RSS savings
weren't worth the behavioral change.
Big sweep ahead of tagging v1:
WATCH LATER STALENESS (MED-2 2nd audit) — actually shipped.
- New _refresh_watch_later_item() that load-mutate-saves under the lock
helper, replacing the metadata for a single id in place.
- 'Refresh metadata' context-menu entry on every Watch Later item.
- _wl_refresh_action handler: validate id, call _resolve_video_metadata
(which factors out the same logic both wl_add and wl_refresh need),
patch the on-disk record, refresh the container if the user is
currently viewing the WL list.
- Bug: this was supposed to ship in the prior sprint but a duplicate
Edit replaced the wrong block and the _refresh_watch_later_item
function never actually landed in the file. Smoke caught it:
Kodi reported 'Error getting plugin://…?action=wl_refresh' because
the action raised NameError. Now landed properly; verified
end-to-end after a Kodi restart cleared the cached-addon stub.
MULTI-NIC _lan_ip (MED-7 2nd audit) — fixed.
- gethostbyname_ex now scans local interfaces first and prefers a
private-range LAN IP (192.168.x.x / 10.x.x.x / 172.16-31.x.x).
- Connect-trick to 8.8.8.8 stays as the fallback for hosts with a
single default route. 127.0.0.1 is the last resort.
- On hosts with Tailscale / OpenVPN / VPN tunnels as the default
route, this prevents inputstream.adaptive from getting handed a
VPN-tunnel IP it can't reach.
REMAINING LOW BATCH (1st + 2nd audit) — landed.
- _CHANNEL_ID_RE check in _add_video_items drops 'Go to channel'
entries when rustypipe ever hands us a non-UC-shaped id (LOW-1 2nd).
- _redact_query truncates queries before logging (LOW-3 2nd).
- _add_to_watch_later() now returns 'was_full' so the wl_add notify
can surface 'Watch Later at cap (500) — dropped oldest' (LOW-9 2nd).
- _remove_from_watch_later() returns 'removed' so wl_remove notifies
'Item was not in Watch Later' on no-op (LOW-7 2nd).
- _add_to_watch_later validates yt_id shape before writing (LOW-6 2nd).
- _record_search collapses whitespace before dedup (LOW-4 2nd).
- Sidecar tokio runtime now flavor='current_thread' — one-shot per
invocation, saves ~100KB RSS per spawn (LOW-6 1st).
- _MIME_CODEC_RE accepts either quote style (MED-5).
- Response::ok has a debug_assert! tripwire if a handler ever returns
its own 'ok' key (MED-6).
- _pick_thumbnail defends against rustypipe handing it a string,
dict, or list-of-non-dicts shape (MED-9 / HIGH-3 redux).
DANGEROUS-FUNCTIONS SCAN — clean.
- Zero shell=True, os.system, os.popen, eval, exec, pickle,
__import__ across both Python and Rust.
- All subprocess calls list-form, all URL building via urlencode,
all JSON via json/serde_json.
- xbmc.executebuiltin Container.Update / RunPlugin URLs always go
through _plugin_url(urlencode) — channel_id additionally regex-
validated for defense-in-depth.
CODE FEEL — humanized.
- Stripped all 'Audit CRIT-1 (2nd pass)' / 'Audit MED-X' ticket
prefixes across main.py + sidecar Rust. The 'why' comments stay;
the audit-trail breadcrumbs go. Code reads like working software,
not a postmortem trail.
- Section comments (── Search history ──, ── Watch Later ──,
── Subscriptions ──) added on the persistence block for navigation.
VERSION — bumped addon.xml to 1.0.0, Cargo.toml workspace to 1.0.0.
Verified live on Livingroom Pi after a Kodi restart: wl_add writes
fresh LTT metadata, manual mutation to 'STALE STUB' detected,
wl_refresh re-fetches and restores the canonical title.
Kodi addon (plugin.video.torttube) shell with Cargo workspace for the
rustypipe-backed sidecar binary. No working extraction yet — addon.xml
parses, main.py is a notification stub, sidecar's main.rs prints scaffold
banner. See MILESTONES.md for M1..M6.
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (matches rustypipe + NewPipeExtractor).
