Plugin Manager 2 - ๐ฆ Add
For updating or installing new plugins (extra channels or features), there's a user plugin manager. It's available as feature extension itself.
- See the F12 config dialog ๐ Feature section. 
- Enable the โจฏ Plugin Manager (listed near the end). 
- Restart streamtuner2 one last time for this change to take effect. 
Once activated it brings up a new ๐ฆ Add tab in the configuration window.

You can scan for available/new plugins there. And have them downloaded right away. New plugins are just downloaded, not implictly enabled. Reopen the config dialog to see them in the regular ๐ป Channels or ๐ Feature tabs, and then enable them.
Updated plugin versions won't be instantiated right away if they've been active already. That requires either a restart. Or disabling + saving once, then reenabling them.
Configuration
- Alternative download repositories may be configured. (Little practical value at the moment.) 
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And you can let the plugin manager handle โ autoactivation of changed plugin states. - After reconfiguring existing channel plugins, they get automatically instantiated or disabled in the user interface. (Which avoids the usual restart). 
- This currently doesn't work with feature/core plugins. Plugin deactivation is mostly visual, but does not undo menu extensions or undefine callback hooks. 
 
User plugins
Downloaded plugins are stored in ~/.config/streamtuner2/plugins/ (not in ~/.cache, because they're sort of configuration and should be backed up in case of local modifications). To remove them, delete the individual *.py files there manually. But keep the __init__.py stub.
On Windows they're stored in %APPDATA%\streamtuner2\plugins\.
Core plugins (those which are installed system-wide) can often also be updated. The user-saved plugin will take precedence after a restart. However the version number in PluginManager2 still shows the system-installed/older version regardless.
So you'll have to take care to eventually refresh/delete outdated user plugins, whenever you install a newer Streamtuner2 version.
Disable user plugin loading
Since this is still rather experimental, you may disable all associated features by starting ST2 via:
streamtuner2 -d pluginmanager2Which inhibits loading this whole extension. (The -d flag also works for any other plugin name.)
