ajcdk 3 Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 Hi, Rather new guy to Emby here, but loving it so far. I've really taken a liking to the webhooks plugin to dim/undim lights in my living room when playing something, but it is a bit wonky sometimes when I watch a TV show. I noticed that when it goes to the next episode, it'll send the "playback.stop" almost instantly followed by "playback.start", meaning my lights will turn up the brightness and then immediately dim them again. I have tried to counter this effect in my PHP script by using a text file and a timer delay; basically when playback stops, it writes a string, then waits. If it then receives playback.start during that delay, it'll overwrite the text file, and after that delay it'll read the text file again, which should then keep it from undimming the lights. This fix doesn't always work though. So I'd really love a native solution to this in the Webhooks plugin. Alternatively, feedback from someone who has experienced the same challenge and found a solid fix would be very welcome. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37045 Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Hi, that's more or less the convention in our api. It tells you that playback has stopped on the first file, and then you get a notification for the second one. What you can do is check the NextMediaType value, and if that's null, then that tells you that nothing will be playing next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajcdk 3 Posted February 21, 2022 Author Share Posted February 21, 2022 Hi Luke, thanks so much for your reply. I looked into your suggestion of checking the value of "NextMediaType", but that doesn't seem to be part of the data sent. Does it have another key name, that I'm just missing? I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out with what is admittedly a bit of a champagne problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37045 Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 @ajcdk. There will be some play queue info in the next update to the webhook plugin: Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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