mirror watched state

[mastrmind11 717]

Is there a way to mirror watched state across 2 accounts so that I can keep my admin account for admin-y stuff but have a side account for when I am external so that I can keep it passwordless?  My admin password is not fun on a remote but it also my main account for viewing, and when I'm out of the house it isn't a fun login procedure.  I'm sure I'm not alone, so curious how others are handling this.  Cheers

Edited August 12, 2020 by mastrmind11

[Q-Droid 639]

Is that info in the DB? Might need to work up some SQL to copy that activity between the accounts.

 

[Happy2Play 8273]

You could periodically do it with the Server Configuration Backup plugin as it allows you to map userdata to any user.  On a restore deselect everything and only select the users data you want to map to another user.

 

57 minutes ago, Q-Droid said:

Is that info in the DB? Might need to work up some SQL to copy that activity between the accounts.

 

Yes it is the userdatas table of the library db.  You would need to look in the users.db to know what userid belongs to the users.

Edited August 12, 2020 by Happy2Play

[mastrmind11 717]

so in short without scripting something up, no dice.  rgr, thought i'd throw it out there.  perhaps throw in a FR.  cheers

[Luke 37048]

@chef may have some tips.

[chef 3745]

Hey @mastrmind11 so we want to sync watched data across two accounts?

 

We need to do an initial sync, and then updated watched status from one account to the other when it changes?

 

Let's do this! 

[Gilgamesh_48 943]

On 8/12/2020 at 3:45 PM, mastrmind11 said:

Is there a way to mirror watched state across 2 accounts so that I can keep my admin account for admin-y stuff but have a side account for when I am external so that I can keep it passwordless?  My admin password is not fun on a remote but it also my main account for viewing, and when I'm out of the house it isn't a fun login procedure.  I'm sure I'm not alone, so curious how others are handling this.  Cheers

I use Trakt for that. I have two accounts on my main server and a total of three servers and Trakt keeps them synced up nicely. I have seen others talk about having issues with multiple users but, for me, Trakt just works and keeps all my servers and accounts synced up just fine.

[Q-Droid 639]

2 hours ago, chef said:

Hey @mastrmind11 so we want to sync watched data across two accounts?

 

We need to do an initial sync, and then updated watched status from one account to the other when it changes?

 

Let's do this! 

Hey, while you're at it you could work on role hierarchy and an RBAC model. Imagine being able to use roles for settings, access, ratings and even watch history.  Wouldn't that be cool? 

 

[chef 3745]

26 minutes ago, Q-Droid said:

Hey, while you're at it you could work on role hierarchy and an RBAC model. Imagine being able to use roles for settings, access, ratings and even watch history.  Wouldn't that be cool? 

 

Oh boy. I think that Role Based Access Control is a core thing. 

But, that would be cool wouldn't it

Then my wife wouldn't have to ask me to change parental controls for my boys account. She could do it, and I wouldn't worry about her changing item delete settings while she was messing with it.

[chef 3745]

I have the layout setup. 

 

I think after the initial sync, we can create a scheduled task which will run and make sure everything is sync'd up properly, but  should we also tie into the playback event Arguments to update the sync'd account lists as well? That would allow for a more real time sync.

Goin' for lunch, see ya back in a bit! 

Edited August 16, 2020 by chef

[chef 3745]

I've got the accounts watched status syncing. 

 

I'm gonna run it through a couple preliminary tests to make sure it works, then I'll put a copy here.  Then I can add stuff it might be missing

 

 

Edited August 17, 2020 by chef

[chef 3745]

@mastrmind11 It looks as though now we can log the watched states between two account profiles after running the scheduledTask.

So the only thing now will be to sync the two accounts together, by marking the media item  "IsPlayed"  param to true. Should be interesting.

Edited August 17, 2020 by chef

[chef 3745]

Uh oh, I'm stuck.

 

I've always written code which acted upon the information in Emby, I've never tried to manipulate it before. 

I've got to figure out how to target played state of a userItem, change it, and save it to the database.

 

                var user1 = UserManager.GetUserById(syncProfile.UserId1);
                var user2 = UserManager.GetUserById(syncProfile.UserId2);

                //Query Movie and television episodes ID's  only for testing
                var queryResultIds = LibraryManager.GetInternalItemIds(new InternalItemsQuery() {IncludeItemTypes = new [] {"Movie", "Episode"}});
                
                foreach (var id in queryResultIds)
                {
                    //Here is a baseItem
                    var item = LibraryManager.GetItemById(id);

                    //DO these two profile users have a sync'd watch status for the item
                    if (item.IsPlayed(user1) && !item.IsPlayed(user2))
                    {
                        //No! the watched statuses are different
                        Log.Info($"\n{user1.Name}: {item.Name} is Played equals: {item.IsPlayed(user1).ToString()} \n {user2.Name}: {item.Name} is Played equals: {item.IsPlayed(user2).ToString()}");


                        //How to set the IsPlayed(User user) parameter?
                        //Try to set the played ticks to the entire RuntimeTicks??                     
                        item.PlaybackPositionTicks = item.RunTimeTicks.Value;
                        
                        //Also, once we've tried to access an items userData, how do we save it back to the database??
                        //Does LibraryManager do this? or do we have to use UserManager??
                        LibraryManager.UpdateItem(item, item.Parent, ItemUpdateType.None);

                        Log.Info($"\n{user1.Name}: {item.Name} is Played equals: {item.IsPlayed(user1).ToString()} \n {user2.Name}: {item.Name} is Played equals: {item.IsPlayed(user2).ToString()}");
                    }
                }

 

Trial and error time....

[ebr 14910]

Hint: look at the progress/playback reporting API.

[chef 3745]

 

27 minutes ago, ebr said:

Hint: look at the progress/playback reporting API.

Thank you sir. Got it! Moving on

[chef 3745]

@mastrmind11

 I have something working, but I am foreseeing a big issue with putting the plugin out into the wild.

 

If the plugin is synchronizing a new account back to an admin account, then we have to be careful not to overwrite all of the playback progress info in the admin account when a fresh account is sync'd to it.

You know what I mean? The fresh account wouldn't have any playback progress, so syncing nothing back to the admin account would overwrite all the progress... on everything...

 

This is why, I'm going to PM you with the DLL, and not post it public here. If someone misused it they could probably mess up their whole library.

 

To run things properly:

1. First sync the admin play state progress status to the new account

2.Then switch to sync back to the admin account moving forward.

 

Ya know what I mean?

 

 

 

 

 

[mastrmind11 717]

10 hours ago, chef said:

@mastrmind11

 I have something working, but I am foreseeing a big issue with putting the plugin out into the wild.

 

If the plugin is synchronizing a new account back to an admin account, then we have to be careful not to overwrite all of the playback progress info in the admin account when a fresh account is sync'd to it.

You know what I mean? The fresh account wouldn't have any playback progress, so syncing nothing back to the admin account would overwrite all the progress... on everything...

 

This is why, I'm going to PM you with the DLL, and not post it public here. If someone misused it they could probably mess up their whole library.

 

To run things properly:

1. First sync the admin play state progress status to the new account

2.Then switch to sync back to the admin account moving forward.

 

Ya know what I mean?

 

 

 

 

 

I hear you, so maybe only allow sync 1 way... ie, dont allow unmarking something watched (or make it an advanced option to allow for it with a big warning?).