Suggestion: Down for maintenance

[Houfino 36]

No one? 8 years? It's a bit silly to wait
People need to solve and information for everyone
 

[MEB 26]

My suggestion would be a new home screen section that we can enable and takes priority over the other sections and is forced at the top of the screen and cant be disabled by users that are not admins.. That new section we can customize with messages or images as we see fit. We could use it as a upcoming maintenance message or a message that some items might not be available if we did some hardware upgrades.

I would think that would be easier to add than trying to intercept the log in page.

[Betonhaus 9]

Many times when my server has gone down for maintenance it was down-down, and emby wasn't running and wouldn't be able to send a down for maintenance notification. Would it be better to have a system where you can post a scheduled maintenance warning something like a week a head of time, where user clients get a small notice a head of time and when the scheduled time nears it gives a warning that the server may be going down soon, then if the client can't reach the server during the posted maintenance time it gives a notice of how long the maintenance was posted as being (with an option to retry connecting anyways), and the message goes away when the client reconnects after the maintenance period is over?

 

That would be easier then setting up a way to "park" your domain or ip address with a global maintenance notice.

Edited December 30, 2024 by Betonhaus

[embylad892746 31]

I actually disagree that this should be done in emby. A lot of users when they do maintenance will be shutting down more than just emby, e.g a reverse proxy as well so accessing anything emby might not be possible for some people.

A lot of big companies handle this by having an external service (not hosted on same server as their main application)  e.g company.com/status and will list any ongoing activities that affect uptime. 

I think uptime-kuma supports this.

[Neminem 886]

Jep Uptime Kuma can do this.

louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

[lundblad 9]

Please add this somehow :)))

Edited January 5 by lundblad

[Neminem 886]

You need to install this louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

And make that public, and tell your useres to check status on that page if they have issues.

[lundblad 9]

8 minutes ago, Neminem said:

You need to install this louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

And make that public, and tell your useres to check status on that page if they have issues.

Thank you!

[bandit8623 126]

shouldnt have to install a third party app/plugin we know how secure plugins are......  make this part of thje msg system pls and thanks.  people on here complaining about not having 2 auth but yet install plugins from wherever..  good security...

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built in msg that pops up for users thats a timeframe the server could be or will be down.  "sticky"  top of all clients

Thx

Edited January 18 by bandit8623

[ebr 15665]

6 hours ago, bandit8623 said:

built in msg

Hi.  Build into what?  If the server is not running...

This is why a separate solution is maybe a much better one in this case.

[Happy2Play 9441]

7 hours ago, bandit8623 said:

built in msg that pops up for users thats a timeframe the server could be or will be down.  "sticky"  top of all clients

Well from a beforehand message sure but when the server is down there can be no messages as nothing is running to provide the message.

But yes a Notice box that can carry across all clients would be nice.

 

 

[bandit8623 126]

54 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Well from a beforehand message sure but when the server is down there can be no messages as nothing is running to provide the message.

But yes a Notice box that can carry across all clients would be nice.

 

 

A banner at login is not as good as banner when logged in.  Once logged in I'm never seeing that login screen 

[Happy2Play 9441]

5 minutes ago, bandit8623 said:

A banner at login is not as good as banner when logged in.  Once logged in I'm never seeing that login screen 

True as that is just an example as it carries over to home page also but personally think this notice should exist at login also.

Something like the bottom one across every page would work.  But everyone will have their own wishes on what this should be as all Emby can possibly provide is something to post before that fact not something while your downtime is actually happening.

[bandit8623 126]

36 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

True as that is just an example as it carries over to home page also but personally think this notice should exist at login also.

Something like the bottom one across every page would work.  But everyone will have their own wishes on what this should be as all Emby can possibly provide is something to post before that fact not something while your downtime is actually happening.

love it

[bandit8623 126]

2 hours ago, ebr said:

Hi.  Build into what?  If the server is not running...

This is why a separate solution is maybe a much better one in this case.

the server should be running.  this would give admins time to put up a banner for a week or so to warn users ahead of time when server may be down.  or a mass message feature that pops up for a specific amount of time when users login. set time and duration.

 

thanks

Edited January 18 by bandit8623

[embylad892746 31]

Right now, if you really want to add pre-warning of down-time to Emby, users you can just write your own basic script using API calls that print pop-up messages to users: send a pop-up message to user one time (or as many times as you want) whenever they start watching something within your "warning period".

 

 

[Happy2Play 9441]

Not sure if it still works but @chefcreated a plugin awhile back.

chefbennyj1/Emby.MessageUsers: Create messages to send to user devices. Send messages when the users log into their accounts.

 

[lundblad 9]

Hi all! i'm not a coder, but I was wondering if it might be possible for Emby to create something simple like a docker container that we could run on another machine or in the cloud. So that when users on like android Emby app try to connect to my server while it's offline, their Emby app taking the custom downtime message from there? Or redirected to that container, which would just display a custom message instead of the default, server offline/down or what it now says.

Or maybe just Emby could let us add 2 lines of custom text we can apply before server goes down that appears when the server is down? 2 rows of text explaining why and how long it might take to be back? I assume Emby has servers for connect, so maybe this could be doable? I don’t really know how it all works at all, just curious!

Alternatively, is it possible for me to run a copy of my Emby server on another machine using the same user config files, and just create a single library with an image or video that shows some kind of info message? That way, users would at least see something instead of getting an error. Or would the Android app recognize it's a different server and not connect at all?

Is it possible to redirect users who are watching in the browser to another site or display a message when the site is down?

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I honestly have no idea, I’m just thinking out loud! 
My English isn’t very good, so I got some help from ai lol.

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Thanks! 

Edited Monday at 08:08 PM by lundblad

[yocker 282]

When your server is down you could manually redirect the Emby traffic to an Emby server on another machine.
On that machine, have a single library and the picture for that shows "Server is down between this and this time". That way it would work for people using the Emby app.

When you have planned a downtime use a library picture like that or a plugin to notify people when they run a video that the server will be down.

I have plans to move my reverse proxy to another computer so that if the server is down and gives an error 404 users are instead redirected to another instance of Emby running on a low powered machine i have running anyway.