User can "download to" every devices

[yarez0 22]

Hi guys, 

 

One of my user notice me that when he goes to MOVIES - SUGGESTIONS and he clicks on the download button near LATEST MOVIES, he had access to the DOWNLOAD TO page and he can push everything he wants to any device registered in the server.

 

 

is there a way to mask the DOWNLOAD TO options to users or anything else to force user to synchronize, if we wants to, only on his own device ? 

 

webapp seeams to be the only bug, on the iOS app the same download button send to the DOWNLOAD page

 

thx

[neik 858]

You have to restrict the user to the devices he is allowed to use in the server dashboard then he will be restricted to the selected devices (shared ones).

[yarez0 22]

Do you mean the option ALLOW REMOTE CONTROL OF SHARED DEVICES in the REMOTE CONTROL option of the user ?

[neik 858]

No, I mean "Device Access" in the "Access" tab. ;-)

[Luke 38508]

That will make your login process more complicated so just be aware of that.

[yarez0 22]

you both right, this is to complicated to manage, I have to let my user register a device and the delete manually from his profile all other devices but then, he can't register any another device like another web browser or any other device.

 

maybe I can create a topic in the "feature request" page ? 

 

in the beginning this one was created because my user reports me that he access to the DOWNLOAD TO page via the cloud button, the same button goes to the DOWNLOAD page on the device in the iOS page

[Luke 38508]

This is something I'd like to revamp in future updates, yes.

[Thomas64 38]

yarez0 - you had asked "is there a way to mask the DOWNLOAD TO options to users or anything else to force user to synchronize, if we wants to, only on his own device ? "

 

You can remove the ability of the user to Download altogether. On the Profile Setup for the user, there are options for limiting what access the individual has. It is an all or nothing solution - so wouldn't help if you actually wanted to allow the user to download items.

 

(I personally have items such as social media, deleting, and downloading disabled for everyone except the "admin" account.)

[M3th0s 14]

Apologies for reviving this post, but is this something that is still being looked into? The device setup is still quite cumbersome and for people that want to download stuff I have to go user by user and limit it to their devices (assuming I know which devices belong to who!!)

 

Thanks in advance

[Luke 38508]

Yes it's something we'll be looking at revamping in upcoming updates. Thanks for the feedback.

[nonyhaha 4]

Hello @Luke, I am also looking forward to this feature. Many thanks.

[codelogic 2]

Any update on this?  I was just made aware by a user - been running emby server for 10 months and didn't know about this.  

 

[Luke 38508]

Not yet, sorry. It's on my list for review.

[Luke 38508]

Hi, this will be revamped in Emby Server 4.6. It will follow the user's remote control permissions. If they don't have permission to control other user's devices, then they won't be able to download to them either. Thanks for the feedback.

[Unlinkable2 0]

Ty

Edited March 2, 2021 by Unlinkable2

[sundevil67 23]

I know this is an old thread, and perhaps my contribution is topic-adjacent, but I experience some very odd behavior related to the "download" function. I just tested 3 different shows from the "Continue Watching" row, using the 3-dot menu. One led to downloading a file called "Download.html". The 2nd actually initiated a download for an MKV file, and the 3rd prompted me to save a file titled with the episode number, with no extension at all - just "4". The "download to..." option just leads to a "failed" entry on the intended device (and the "manage downloads" area of my web app). It's been like this for quite a long time, but something I don't really ever use, so I never mentioned it. Is this something others running the Mac server contend with I wonder?

[Luke 38508]

5 hours ago, sundevil67 said:

I know this is an old thread, and perhaps my contribution is topic-adjacent, but I experience some very odd behavior related to the "download" function. I just tested 3 different shows from the "Continue Watching" row, using the 3-dot menu. One led to downloading a file called "Download.html". The 2nd actually initiated a download for an MKV file, and the 3rd prompted me to save a file titled with the episode number, with no extension at all - just "4". The "download to..." option just leads to a "failed" entry on the intended device (and the "manage downloads" area of my web app). It's been like this for quite a long time, but something I don't really ever use, so I never mentioned it. Is this something others running the Mac server contend with I wonder?

HI, have you explored the remote control permissions for this user?

[sundevil67 23]

16 hours ago, Luke said:

HI, have you explored the remote control permissions for this user?

Oh yeah, this is my primary user account & has access permission for all libraries. It's interesting though... When I just tried the "Download" option from the 3-dot menu again, I was prompted to save "Download.html". I then repeated the exact same operation, and was prompted to save "4" (it is episode #4).

If I wait for the download & rename the file "4" to "4.mkv", it will work - but I am most interested now in figuring out why it prompts to save the HTML file sometimes & prevents the download, and more importantly, how to fix the "Download To" function. I don't think it's relevant, but I've also never figured out how to remove all of the extra devices .. or why it's collected over 1000 in the first place

Edited April 22 by sundevil67

[Luke 38508]

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Oh yeah, this is my primary user account & has access permission for all libraries. It's interesting though...

Hi, this isn't what I asked. Have you checked the remote control permissions for the Emby user? What are they?

[Luke 38508]

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When I just tried the "Download" option from the 3-dot menu again, I was prompted to save "Download.html". I then repeated the exact same operation, and was prompted to save "4" (it is episode #4).

If I wait for the download & rename the file "4" to "4.mkv", it will work - but I am most interested now in figuring out why it prompts to save the HTML file sometimes & prevents the download, and more importantly, how to fix the "Download To" function. I don't think it's relevant, but I've also never figured out how to remove all of the extra devices .. or why it's collected over 1000 in the first place

Sounds like you're using the browser context menu to save the web page rather than the emby context menu to do Emby-specific operations.

[sundevil67 23]

On 4/22/2024 at 12:27 PM, Luke said:

Sounds like you're using the browser context menu to save the web page rather than the emby context menu to do Emby-specific operations.

No; I'm very clear on the difference.

I saw an attempt at downloading the file on one of my devices, and I think it might have completed had the internet connection been more stable. Nothing on my iPad though for the "download to". The feature isn't important enough to me to spend more time troubleshooting; I just thought I might find a quick fix when I saw the thread. 

[sundevil67 23]

On 4/22/2024 at 12:27 PM, Luke said:

Hi, this isn't what I asked. Have you checked the remote control permissions for the Emby user? What are they?

All available permissions allowed on my own account

[Happy2Play 9061]

On 4/22/2024 at 5:24 AM, sundevil67 said:

I don't think it's relevant, but I've also never figured out how to remove all of the extra devices .. or why it's collected over 1000 in the first place

 

Browsers are the worst as they accumulate with versioning updates.  

 

You have two options

Multi-select the devices and select delete from the context menu

or

Device List Cleaner plugin