philnick 0 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Dear Emby I have the latest Nvidia Shield Server and the latest Nvidia Shield client running on the Nvidia Shield. This is excellent because I also have IPTV and subscribe to your live TV and DVR function which makes this literally a totally all in one solution. Everything runs great with one exception that I cannot find a solution to which is when I manually add a downloaded film to the specified movies folder on the Shield how do I get Emby to see it. The only way I can get it to see it at the moment is to logon to my computer and access the server though the browser and make it do a metadata refresh. This is a bit of a pain and any added content should really show up in emby without having to do this. I have set a schedule trigger to do a scan when I start Emby however this does not work. Is there another solution to this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlo 4328 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 On some OS you can hook an event that notifies you a new/changed content and Emby will use that if available. I don't think this is available on the Shield TV. What you can is manually update your library or maybe change the schedule for the "Scan Media Library" job found under Scheduled Tasks in the web admin. You can click right on the job to open a new window that allows you to change how often this job runs. Instead of a default like 12 hours maybe you could change it to 1 or 2 hours depending on how long it takes for this to run and how often you are adding content. BTW, the job will tell you how long it took to run the last time it ran which is good to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36882 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Quote I have set a schedule trigger to do a scan when I start Emby however this does not work. Hi, why do you feel this doesn't work? What exactly did you configure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnick 0 Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 Here is a picture of the two tasks and triggers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14861 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 That is just one task (with two triggers) but why do you feel it isn't working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnick 0 Posted July 25, 2020 Author Share Posted July 25, 2020 Because as I stated in the first message, for example when I manually add a film to the movies folder on the shield it does not automatically appear in the Emby movies section...I have to manually use my laptop and tell the movies section to do a scan and then it will appear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14861 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 How long did you wait for it to show up? Based on your settings, it would take up to an hour to be visible automatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnick 0 Posted July 25, 2020 Author Share Posted July 25, 2020 And that is the point I am trying to ascertain. Is there another mechanism for forcing an update to happen immediately like there is on the laptop? As when you add something you normally want to start watching it straight away. I guess that the response will be no there isn't... So please put this down to be added as a future development to have an option for a manual scan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution ebr 14861 Posted July 25, 2020 Solution Share Posted July 25, 2020 The server in general has the option to monitor the file system for changes and react automatically. This option is called "Real Time Monitoring" and is in the library settings for each library. However, not all file systems support that type of functionality and, unfortunately, the server on Android currently does not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnick 0 Posted July 25, 2020 Author Share Posted July 25, 2020 Thank to for your answer. Can they be an option added to manually force a Re-Scan then within a future upgrade... Maybe within the ... 3 dots Options menu... This would then solve the problem completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14861 Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 1 hour ago, philnick said: Can they be an option added to manually force a Re-Scan then within a future upgrade... Maybe within the ... 3 dots Options menu... Where are you asking for this? It can already be done there from the web app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnick 0 Posted July 25, 2020 Author Share Posted July 25, 2020 The sole purpose of this thread was to ask if you can do this from within the shield client...I know it can already be done within the web app... That was stated in the first message... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14861 Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 Okay, a manual scan option in that app is possible for the future. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahole 3 Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 Was this ever done?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36882 Posted October 16, 2023 Share Posted October 16, 2023 3 hours ago, Ahole said: Was this ever done?? Hi there, what are you asking for exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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