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I have a local only server, and my android device reconnects daily to the same network, but syncing does not start automatically and watched states are not synced with the server, except on random occasions that I don't quite understand. I have to navigate into the server settings from the android device and manually start the Convert media and Transfer media tasks, which 'works' but only if the Android client sent the watched states to the server. I know about the two locations to manage downloads on android: The lower middle Downloads button on the home screen that lets you navigate into TV or Movies and play them The gear icon next to a Downloads row on the home screen which lets you see conversion progress and manage downloads I have used Plex Downloads for a long time and it worked great but their recent Android overhaul completely broke the basic functionality (automatically downloading N episodes, and refreshing on reconnect). Emby Downloads playback is overall a better experience except for this syncing issue. So, in short, there is a problem with the Emby Android app syncing watched states for Downloaded episodes. If the server gets that sync data, that episode is deleted locally, and the next unwatched episode is Converted and Downloaded when scheduled. I have not found any scheduled task which activates syncing watched statuses from Android > Server. To get Emby Downloads to work I have to: Reconnect to the servers network after watching episodes elsewhere Connect back to the server in the app using the saved IP config Manually mark each episode that was watched on Android as a watched episode on the Server Manually delete the downloaded watched episodes on Android Manually trigger the Conversion task through server settings Server Version 4.8.11.0 Android Version: 3.4.67 Other info if it matters: I have the android client go into airplane mode every night I am not using Emby Connect so direct IP connection and no communications with the server while away from the servers LAN The success rate of syncing watched status with the server is roughly 20% (2-3 out of every 8-10 watched episodes sync watch states)

Been using Emby for a while for personal use, loving it. Recently decided to add another family member with their own ID since they watch shows on a different schedule than me. The question comes up, though, for something both of us are going to watch and then delete, is there any way to see when both User-1 and User-2 have watched the show? Thanks.

Hey everyone I have finished a script I've been working on. The script will get a user's watched items from emby and then unmonitor them in the relative *Arr app before deleting them from your emby library and filesystem if it has been more than 14 days from the episodes air date (the time limit isn't in place for movies only episodes). You can also blacklist movies and tv shows for the script to ignore feel free to check it out over on GitHub Github - EmbyArrSync

Hi All, Any advice you can give to make this go smoothly would be greatly appreciated. I'm about to move from one SMB datastore to another one called exactly the same, just bigger. I'm moving all the files to a temporary SMB store, then back to the original server, with the same name, but with a larger data store for the library, as I am adding new disks. Fortunately, the last time I will do this is as the SMB server has all its bays full (for the movies, but TV still has 1 bay....) In order for the movies to be listed in the same order as now, I've read through the question last time I asked on the forums, and was told "So you can copy the file whenever you like, emby will still use the 'Created' date in the emby library order." I'd like to double-check that a simple copy from the existing SMB share, to another SMB share, then back to the original server to a new SMB share, with the same name as the original, will keep the correct order of movies. I'd also like to ask how I can ensure the Watched status is also retained. Where is this data stored? Can I copy the data off, and back after the files have been copied back to the "new" smb share? At present, I have "Save artwork into media folders" Which isn't that reliable, as it took 3 days to download the media last time I did this. Does this now work better? I'm on 4.7.13.0. Thank you for your help

Hi, Would it be possible to add the 'watched status' style tick to Audio Books and EPublications ? I have a extensive library of Movies & TV Shows, and once I've watched them, they can then be given a green tick to remind me of the watched status. I also have an extensive library of Audio Books, however, I can't at a glance see what I've listen to or not as there is no way to add a 'Listened To' tick to Fanart Icon/pic on the Audio Book page or a 'Read' tick to EPubs. Thanks

Hello everyone, iam trying to create a script which will allow me to backup the watched statuses of multiple users in my household. I have the following code to get the movies list from my current installation. The issue is when i query the movie list that is returned, i do not see the watched status of the movies. Can anyone please point me in the right direction. Thanks Jay $embyServerUrl = "http://localhost:8096" $embyUsername = "dummy" $embyPassword = "xxxxxx" $embyClientName = "PowerShellScript" $embyDeviceName = "PowerShellScriptEpisodeFiller" $embyDeviceId = "1" $embyApplicationVersion = "1.0.0"; $authUrl = "{0}/Users/AuthenticateByName?format=json" -f $embyServerUrl Function Get-StringHash([string] $String,$HashName = "MD5") { $StringBuilder = New-Object System.Text.StringBuilder [system.Security.Cryptography.HashAlgorithm]::Create($HashName).ComputeHash([system.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($String))|%{ [Void]$StringBuilder.Append($_.ToString("x2")) } $StringBuilder.ToString() } function Get-EmbyAccessToken { [CmdletBinding()] param ($username, $password) $authUrl = "{0}/Users/AuthenticateByName?format=json" -f $embyServerUrl $sha1Pass = Get-StringHash -String $password -HashName "SHA1" $md5Pass = Get-StringHash -String $password $postParams = (@{Username="$username";password="$sha1Pass";passwordMd5="$md5Pass"} | ConvertTo-Json) $headers = @{"Authorization"="MediaBrowser Client=`"$embyClientName`", Device=`"$embyDeviceName`", DeviceId=`"$embyDeviceId`", Version=`"$embyApplicationVersion`""} Write-Verbose ("authUrl={0},Username={1},sha1Pass={2},md5Pass={3},params={4}" -f $authUrl, $Username,$sha1Pass,$md5Pass,$postParams) return (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $authUrl -Method POST -Body $postParams -ContentType "application/json" -Headers $headers) } function Get-EmbyMovieList { [CmdletBinding()] param ($AccessToken) $url = "{0}/Items/UserData?format=json&recursive=true&IncludeItemTypes=Movie" -f $embyServerUrl $embyHeaderWithAccessToken = @{"X-MediaBrowser-Token"=$user.AccessToken} Write-Verbose ("authUrl={0},Header={1}" -f $url, $embyHeaderWithAccessToken) return (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -Method GET -ContentType "application/json" -Headers $embyHeaderWithAccessToken) } function Write-Feedback() { param ( [Parameter(Position=0,ValueFromPipeline=$true)] [string]$msg, [string]$BackgroundColor = "Yellow", [string]$ForegroundColor = "Black" ) Write-Host -BackgroundColor $BackgroundColor -ForegroundColor $ForegroundColor $msg; $msg | Out-File "c:\Users\kodi-client\Desktop\movielist.json"; # <<< or add a param to location } $authResult = Get-EmbyAccessToken -Username $embyUsername -Password $embyPassword $user = $authResult.Content | ConvertFrom-Json $userAccessToken = $user.AccessToken $movieList = Get-EmbyMovieList -AccessToken $userAccessToken Write-Feedback $movieList #Write-Host ($movieList)

Hello People, First, I would like to thank the emby team for continuing to upgrade and improve emby software... Keep up the good work. Off course, with change (even for the better), there is always pain, and I have one of those currently i think... I have just noticed that majority of Watched Status are missing... but some are still there... in short, Watched Status has gone pear shaped. This is very important for me and my users, but especially for me, as my memory is not very good, and I am now ending up starting a movie, and finding out 10 minutes later "i have seen this already.. :-)" I am sure there is technical reason for it, and someone is working on solving it... but for now i have the following question: Will this be fixed in a way were all the watched status will come back?? or Do i have to restore an earlier backup of emby server??. I have it backed up every week, just in case things like this happens. Thanks for all your effort.

Hi, I'm using emby on Synology with the wiki installation procedure, no Docker or something else. I have added trakt and use Emby for Kodi plugin. Emby server is : 3.0.5781.5 I watched a TvShow, It's marked as watched ( in webUI and Kodi ) and Trakt is informed. Great. But, next day, Tvshow loose the watched status and it's the same thing in webUI or Kodi :/ This is happening with previous releases of emby server too, updates doesn't change... An ideas to find what's wrong ? logs or something ? Thanks

Hi there, I've searched through the forum, but could not find a post that definitively answers with for MB3 Server. Are there any plans to synchronise the Watched Status of Metabrowser with Mediabrowser? Metabrowser saves the watched status in the Movies.xml file as follows: <Watched>True/False</Watched> Even a manual synchronisation would feature would be useful, as it is much easier to manage watched status within Metabroswer. Anyway, keep up the great work on MediaBrowser, I've been a long time user of MB2.6 and only recently upgraded to MB3, and am absolutely loving it. Cheers.

Hi folks, I was just using, for the first time, the web client via my phone (SG3) to remote play TV episodes. The remote function works brilliantly to the point where I'll probably remove my MS remote from the system from here on. I only have one issue - I watched 3 episodes from different TV shows (to completion - 100%) and none of them were marked as watched anywhere. any ideas why? Server: 3.0.5061.25570 MBC: 3.0.90.0 B11-3.1 ROC: 1.0.62 or Chocolate: 3.0.1.2 Firefox 25.0 on server and phone