Figuring out how to do a kodi plugin actually wasn't that tough. Documentation is clear, though outdated. I did have to try to install a working addon and go look at it and make adjustments to the tutorial before it worked. Then I also had to find the magic, undocumented name of "pyserial" in the kodi addod module setup. The modules don't show up in search so I had to go find it in github. ...