How to set the PlaybackPositionTicks field for an Item

[HawkXP71 99]

using the "Users/<userID>/PlayedItems/<itemID> API call I can set if an episode/movie has been played. 

However, I cant find how to set at that position it was last played to.

Is this possible?

[HawkXP71 99]

The other user data on the item I would like to modify is PlayCount and LastPlayedDate  as well

Edited July 11, 2022 by HawkXP71

[Luke 37095]

Hi, where are you looking for the api methods?

[HawkXP71 99]

http://swagger.emby.media/?staticview=true

[HawkXP71 99]

11 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, where are you looking for the api methods?

Do you have any thoughts on being able to set the Tick Position Count, and setting the LastPlayDate?

[Luke 37095]

Have you looked through the user data methods on swagger?

[HawkXP71 99]

On 7/12/2022 at 8:22 AM, HawkXP71 said:

Do you have any thoughts on being able to set the Tick Position Count, and setting the LastPlayDate?

Could you be a bit more specific.  In general I have  however, there are 5 major services with User in their name, the only one that seems to apply is the UserLibraryServer

However, in the swagger, I only see how to set/unset if its a Favorite and the rating.

In the Playstate Service, I can toggle the played state via /Users/{UserId}/PlayedItems/{Id} 
/Users/{UserId}/PlayingItems/{Id}/Progress doesnt seem to set the progress, only read it.

And any change, setting the favorite or played, changes the LastPlayDate

 

 

[Luke 37095]

What other methods do you see in the PlaystateService?

[HawkXP71 99]

5 minutes ago, Luke said:

What other methods do you see in the PlaystateService?

POST/Users/{UserId}/PlayedItems/{Id}

Marks an item as played

DELETE/Users/{UserId}/PlayedItems/{Id}

Marks an item as unplayed

POST/Users/{UserId}/PlayingItems/{Id}

Reports that a user has begun playing an item

DELETE/Users/{UserId}/PlayingItems/{Id}

Reports that a user has stopped playing an item

POST/Users/{UserId}/PlayingItems/{Id}/Progress

Reports a user's playback progress

[HawkXP71 99]

Using the "Progress" api
http://mediabox:8096/Users/<userID>/PlayingItems/<mediaid>/Progress?api_key=<apikey>

and the follwoing in the data for the post

{
    "PositionTicks": "10"
}

Here are the results from the log, it "reports" back where it currently is, however, not in the data sent back from the server.  I have no read where its reporting it
 

2022-07-13 12:25:38.980 Info Server: http/1.1 POST http://host2:8096/Users/823e15cd455744859ec898feb27bd4f0/PlayingItems/222955/Progress. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0
2022-07-13 12:25:39.027 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 204 to host3. Time: 47ms. http://host2:8096/Users/823e15cd455744859ec898feb27bd4f0/PlayingItems/222955/Progress
2022-07-13 12:25:57.769 Info PlaybackReporting - EventMonitorEntryPoint: Adding PlaybackInfo to playback_trackers : be875b9574774ca58c487f1a290dff83--222955
2022-07-13 12:25:57.769 Info PlaybackReporting - EventMonitorEntryPoint: Saving PlaybackInfo to DB

[Luke 37095]

OK I guess that static view is a little out of date, but this is what you want:

POST /Users/{UserId}/Items/{ItemId}/UserData

You can update the whole userdata object that way.

[HawkXP71 99]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

OK I guess that static view is a little out of date, but this is what you want:

POST /Users/{UserId}/Items/{ItemId}/UserData

You can update the whole userdata object that way.

THANKS!  Is there anyway to get truely "live" api calls? (even if you point me to the git location for the source)

Also, do you have an example? I assume the UserData is posted data, not parameters?

[Luke 37095]

You'd have to use the non-static view of swagger by clicking the api link at the bottom of your server dashboard.

[HawkXP71 99]

4 hours ago, Luke said:

You'd have to use the non-static view of swagger by clicking the api link at the bottom of your server dashboard.

Im on a synology box, that means my emby connection is not secure (http not https) however now the live api reports an error in this.  is there a way around this issue? 

[Luke 37095]

You'd have to be either on https or localhost.

[HawkXP71 99]

48 minutes ago, Luke said:

You'd have to be either on https or localhost.

I was afraid of that.

However, I was able to just look at the API reported and searched and was able to learn enough.  The request body is a UserItemDataDto

Im sending the following json

{
    "IsFavorite": false,
    "LastPlayedDate": "2022-07-15T21:35:13.000Z",
    "PlayCount": 10,
    "PlaybackPositionTicks": 366,
    "Played": true
}

The IsFavorite isnt changing to "false" on the system, I request the item from the server, and there is no change.

 

 

 

 

[Luke 37095]

OK yes looks like it's currently not checking IsFavorite, so for now I would use the dedicated endpoint for that.

[HawkXP71 99]

It does work

14 minutes ago, HawkXP71 said:

I was afraid of that.

However, I was able to just look at the API reported and searched and was able to learn enough.  The request body is a UserItemDataDto

Im sending the following json

{
    "IsFavorite": false,
    "LastPlayedDate": "2022-07-15T21:35:13.000Z",
    "PlayCount": 10,
    "PlaybackPositionTicks": 366,
    "Played": true
}

The IsFavorite isnt changing to "false" on the system, I request the item from the server, and there is no change.

 

 

 

 

It does work using the Users/{userid}/FavoriteItems/{itemId} post/delete API

[HawkXP71 99]

On 7/15/2022 at 4:18 PM, Luke said:

OK yes looks like it's currently not checking IsFavorite, so for now I would use the dedicated endpoint for that.

Should I file a bug on this? If so, how?

[Luke 37095]

We'll take a look at it. Thanks for reporting.