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Apologies if this feature is already there (or requested) somewhere. I'd like to know when emby is recording (or just using) a tuner. Perhaps at the top of the TV guide there could be small icons representing my tuners that change color when they're in use. I like the way nPVR's tray icon turns red when recording. I think it would be useful to know at a glance my available tuners are when I'm going through the TV guide via the Roku (or whatever device). That would also let me know how busy the system already is before I might start another stream/recording. It would also be sweet if each icon displayed exactly which tuner it represents, maybe having the last two digits of the tuners mac address displayed in the icon. Not sure if any of this would be possible. Hope this makes sense. Thanks, Bobby

Hi, I would like to have an option to choose H265 instead of H264 in the Transcode option. It will be smaller for all bad bandwidth (2~5Mbit ADSL), but will have a great quality. Mobile phone can benefit of it greatly too with the 4G and the limitation of download.

I'd like to be able to allow users to download home videos and things, but not movies.

I suggested in a totally different thread a bit ago about possibly adding Discogs as a meta fetcher... https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/79280-duplicate-music-artists-entries-how-to-get-rid-of-them/ That thread has had a few +1 reply posts. As such i figured adding it to the feature requests was the proper way to gauge interest. If you have used MP3tag you should be familiar with Discogs. Its a GREAT alternative to Musicbrainz.

a user should also be able to set the start and end time of a recording. example: if the first hour of a movie is missed and a re-airing is scheduled, a user can set emby to only record the first hour. disk space will not be wasted, no wasted drive activity,etc.

I would be nice if when you added a Live TV Source you could edit a descriptive and unique name instead of all M3U Tuners just showing as "M3U Tuner". Today when I was testing locast2plex would be nice if I could name that Source "locast2plex" rather than having it simply show as a HD Homerun. Would be nice if there was a way to mark a tuner as disabled rather than simply deleting it. I was testing the locast2plex today and wanted to get rid of my other tuners to insure I was watching the Locast streams and I had to go delete them and then of course later had to re-add then and redo my channel mappings. Sure would have saved me a bunch of time if there was a simple checkbox to just disable/enable a source. Regards,

I think the problem is because you change the default WinTV LiveTV buffer and Rec path folder and don't used the same path in Emby but you can tell Emby them put them on D:\ drive if that where you want them. Bear in mind you have check those temp folder as sometime they don't clear them self out and will fill your harddrive. https://s3.amazonaws.com/hauppauge/manuals/wintv_8_help_us.pdf see page 8 on reset back and reboot see that helps

A while ago I wrote a plugin called DashbordExtras which put things like drive space, weather data, CPU usage, and (although I removed it from the plugin) GPU usage for Nvidia gpus, on the dashboard. https://github.com/chefbennyj1/Emby.DashboardExtras

The app. Can you please try the beta version?

@cayars I am a locast supporter. I use locast for my local channels everyday. Works very well for me. I also have an HDHomerun (actually 2 of them) to use as a backup if my broadband is down. Why locast? First, I believe in what they are doing and want them to keep doing it. Second I use the locast preferentially over the HDHomerun because I live in a somewhat fringe area and dont get great reception on all the channels in my metro area so I get better quality on a lot of the streams via locast.

@reggi In development shit will break, and a do over is prone to happen. Love what you are trying to do, for all of us, Thank you. People just need to realize, that this is alpha, beta. But NOT stabile.

Probably, maybe later today.

It is a update within beta server 4.5.0.19

It will. What I'm interested in is why it wouldn't restore...

I would like to see an indication from the emby icon in the taskbar... maybe pulsing or change color idk

I took a look and it did appear that my pooling solution settings changed (possibly during an update) to balance "immediately". I have corrected this and will follow up in a week or two with if it fixed my problem. It looks like it may have been balancing drive capacities while media files were playing causing the playback to stop. Thanks for all the help so far!

We're taking care of this in billing support. Will remove in a while...

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?).

Gotcha, thanks CBers. I've "disconnected" Tapatalk from Emby now.

Not on the MiBox s. Xiaomi borked it in the last f/w upgrade but we got Amazon Prime Video. Always a trade off. Fortunately these channels are usually recorded, not played live and MCEBuddy cleans them up when I convert them to HEVC.

@steamhead some hints to help you out with getting back "just" audiobook data while using the items endpoint in swagger 1. Audiobooks content type is a similar content type to Music - but with less features in the gui - but works the same in the api (mostly) 2. i think you missed out a couple of things when using the API - that catch new users out 2.1 always ensure you have "recursive" set to true - otherwise it only searches the top level of info so without that you usually get zero results or not what you expect. Its set to false as default. In some cases it does not apply but setting it does not break anything so always worth setting. 2.2 to focus the results on your Audiobooks library you need to add ParentID to the api url - you can find this easily by going to the home page of your Audiobooks library and look at the url in the browser as ParentID will be at the end of the url. If you have more than one Audiobook library then you can specify both or more. 2.3 If you want to return say all the albums from your audiobook library you also should specify IncludeItemTypes = MusicAlbum otherwise you will get Artists and other types returned etc - unless you want this info as well etc. I tend to go for just one itemType at a time to simplify processing the results. for 2.1 to 2.3 these options are set in swagger to generate the correct url - for testing - which i think you have figured out already 2.4 So as an example for my audiobooks library if i want a list of all Albums - setting the above options gives me.. .../emby/Items?Recursive=true&ParentId=3aeb99515c5a4d67fe12f482a99e3d6c&IncludeItemTypes=MusicAlbum&api_key=<api_key> 2.5 Or if i wanted all the tracks(songs) i have in my Audiobook library ..../emby/Items?Recursive=true&ParentId=3aeb99515c5a4d67fe12f482a99e3d6c&IncludeItemTypes=Audio&api_key 2.6 setting other options in swagger will reduce/filter the returned data set as necessary and also allow you to sort the data etc etc e.g searching for "Terry Pratchett" tracks - sorted ascending .../emby/Items?Recursive=true&SortOrder=Ascending&ParentId=3aeb99515c5a4d67fe12f482a99e3d6c&IncludeItemTypes=Audio&Artists=Terry%20Pratchett&api_key=<api_key> i could have used ArtistID as an alternative to Artists and added a Sortby parameter - DateCreated in this case e.g. .../emby/Items?Recursive=true&SortOrder=Ascending&ParentId=3aeb99515c5a4d67fe12f482a99e3d6c&IncludeItemTypes=Audio&SortBy=DateCreated&ArtistIds=21651&api_key=<api_key> etc etc Have fun

This is not natively in Emby but you might wanna check this out:

You got 9 months of free use of a system you enjoy using (I assume) and were told upfront what the cost was in the app store. That pretty generous, even if not intentional. Feel free to, try to use JellyFin, but I'll save myself from saying it later, so "Welcome Back" . Kidding aside, you should try other systems if price is a consideration to you. No one system is always going to meet every need or requirement of a user and we realize that. We do think we're worth the price of a Starbucks high end coffee for our apps or for a monthly Emby Premiere license. The drink will be gone if 15 to 20 minutes but you're Emby app purchase will be good for a lifetime. Honestly JellyFin Server isn't a bad option and we can say that honestly, after all it's based on a fork of Emby server from 2+ years ago before many of the code and database speed improvement were made to Emby. We wish you the best and hope you find what you're look for, Carlo

I haven't read the whole thread but know the concept pretty well. I've got a "few" clients I could use to help test if needed including Web, Roku, Xbox, Chrome cast, Fire TV, Android TV on different devices, Android Mobile, Theater, Samsung, Kodi and probably something else I didn't think of. Hit me up if needed. There are other titles as well such as "Moderator" & "Support" <sniff, sniff> :), but there are others that are key to many things as well without any of those tags and if you didn't know better would never know if you didn't read specific sections of the forums. Wouldn't be a bad thing to have a "Team Emby" type thing for anyone involved as part of Emby or a different color (if possible) or something like that.

Yes it is getting closer. We're working hard on it.

I've had around 23 channels in use that I know of. This was done using Qty 3 HDHomeRun Prime units each with 3 tuners, 2 HDHomeRun Quatro's each with 4 tuners. Setting the Quatro's up in Next PVR allows you to watch/record more than 4 channels if there are multiple channels per mux you want. So I can pull ideally 9 channels off one Quatro in my market. I also had a couple of IPTV providers as well. This wasn't done on purpose as a test but was a Sunday during football/NFL season and I just got "lucky". I've never tried to find a max. My setup has 1 TB SSD for Window server use and it's temp files. I have a 1 TB SSD used to record to and I've got a smaller 256 GB "throw away" SSD I used for temp use for transcoding, converting and things like that. I don't worry about hammering this SSD as it's a sub $50 replacement or so when needed. The pixelation or "green flashes" you mention are usually caused by IO issues which the SSDs help tremendously with. So based on the fact you're getting this on occasion, I'd think you're close to the edge. A cheap "throw away" SSD should fix that right up. Keep in mind in DVR settings you can set a master recording directory or can set separate movie and TV show recording areas which I do also to different drives (SSD for me). I typically cut commercial and convert to H.265 for longer term storage and off the SSD they go.

The header option in Movies/Filmes would affect all other content type headers also as discussed in other topics. You would have to modify the specific js file. May need a translation, but is the second image User Settings (user icon). Display and Home Screen? Would appear that "navMenuOption" is set to display !important. div.dynamicRoutes a[title="Display"], div.dynamicRoutes a[title="Home Screen"] {display: none !important;} This affect the admin from getting to these options also if needed. Don't remember what this code was removing but what you have posted has a lot of additional spacing in comments and in the code that breaks the code. /*----Remove Sub-Menu----*/ .itemsViewSettingsContainer .btnFilter, .itemsViewSettingsContainer .btnViewSettings {display: none;} /*Per Library Filter and 3 dot menu buttons*/ /*----Remove selection from the menu and emby the menu----*/ div.dynamicRoutes h3:nth-child(9) {display: none;} /*Remove "Emby Web header" on User icon screen*/ div.mainDrawer-docked a:nth-child(-n + 3) {display: none !important;} /*Remove "Display and Home Screen" on dashboard*/ div.mainDrawer-docked h3:nth-child(8) {display: none;} /*Remove "Emby Web" header on dashboard*/ commented each code and verified working Looks like this code goes to these topics. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/85069-help-with-css/&do=findComment&comment=871426 "Remove selection from the menu and emby the menu" Still looking for the other.

+1000

I just purchased the app unlock for the Amazon emby for Android tv app. When I try and restore the unlock i get a message that the unlock was not purchased. I'm running the latest beta. And yes it's the Amazon version pushed to my device from my Amazon account. Update: I uninstalled the beta and installed the latest released version and I was able to restore the unlock.

But besides that, this confirms what @Happy2Play said. (users are not set to follow their split out topics).

This is definitely the issue as i have just faced it, Thanks to @ebr for helping me out with this as it has resolved all of my issues now @2Jay2 if you can ask your server admin to remove his premiere key for 5 mins this will allow you to unlock the app its when he has his premiere key activated and limit exceeded the unlock app feature doesn't pop up in the amazon app but as soon as he removes that premiere key it does

I am encountering a very similar problem to what pellimark is experiencing. I have a similar box the X96 Max plus running Android Pie and when I run emby for android TV I can get past the login screen. I am able enter my credentials but when it starts to boot I get a blank screen for several minutes, sometimes it crashes, and sometimes I have to reboot the box. I uninstalled and reinstalled the app several times to no avail. I tried Plex and Jellyfin, both of which worked. This leaves me wondering why Emby is having difficulty with this OS or perhaps it's due to the new chip set being an S905x3. I read through this thread and some of the discussion is leaning towards specialised versions of Android, for TV versus Stock. I have sent you the logs from the app at approximately 11:40 PM UTC. Your help in resolving this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

beautiful, thank you very much you have been so helpful tonight keep up the good work the app is amazing and is worth every penny

We're pleased to announce our Emby Theater app is now available in the Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/emby/id992180193?ls=1&mt=8 The app works very well as a desktop app for your Mac as well as an HTPC connected to your TV. Enjoy these screens below and check it out in the app store ! View the full article

Make sure to like the first post so your vote gets counted. I'd definitely like to see this implemented. I keep restarting my server and forget to check if something is recording.

I guess my data and ease of recovery are more important to me than disk space or the cost of drives. I do not like the idea of waiting for a long recovery process if I have a drive failure and I do not like the idea of not being able to read any file on my backup without any "special" software and I do not trust any system, like parity disks, where I do not have immediate access to any file on any drive in my backup I also do not trust "cloud" storage. As I said before I run DrivePool and have duplication turned on for my primary live system. I have a second set of drives that are also pooled )but do not have duplication) and I run a good backup software that does not encrypt the drive or files in any way. (I actually have two sets of those backup drives) I keep one live and run incremental backups nightly. The other set is kept in a fireproof safe. I rotate the two backups about monthly. So if I have a major failure, like a fire or lightening strike the destroys everything in my media center the worst case is that I loose about one months worth of stuff that was new in that month. If I have a failure that also destroys the drives in my fireproof safe then my problems are MUCH greater than just a little media. I used to store one set of backups off site in a safety deposit box but I decided that was just too much trouble for what small extra protection it gave, Hard drives get cheaper all the time and the value of my time keeps going up (Partially because it just does like everything else and a larger part because my health prevents large efforts to be expended.) My values are different from others but the actual operation of my system is simple and, should I have a major failure it would take little effort to get back into operation. I should also say that in a normal failure (one drive goes bad) my viewing is never interrupted and I just have to get a new drive to replace the busted one and add the new drive to the pool. Everyone has different ways of attacking the "backup" problem but, to me, within reason, I think cost of drives should be one of the last things considered. It is said that "Time is money" but I believe "My time is much more valuable than money."

Hi boycotEmby, No tin foil hat conspiracy going on. It has always been the intention to be a paid app for viewing, just like it says on the different stores and Emby website. This is the way it was previously, then something happened that gave some people extended free use, but that was never the intention as it was always meant to require a low cost purchase or be used with an Emby server with a Premiere license just as all our website information has always stated. It was nothing more than a small bug that gave some users extended access, nothing more, nothing less. You basically got an extended free trial beyond the normal 2 weeks which hopefully you got value from. The app is still the same as it was always designed to be with a small one time cost for playback if not used with an Emby Premiere Server which can unlocked all server features as well as all app platforms. We know our users value what they get from our servers, apps and vast support systems as we work very hard as a team 24/7 to achieve a high level of customer satisfaction that is rarely found these days online. You're more than welcome to disagree with this and you're more than welcome to say so, but we simply ask you to watch your language on our site as we try to keep our site family friendly. If you feel the need to move on to a different platform, we wish you the very best, we really do! Life's to short to get worked up over an app that only costs a couple of bucks after you know how good it is. All the best!

If I have "Enable smart parent control" checked, then none of the trailers play still. However, they seem to be working now if that's unchecked.

Correct.

Returned in beta 4.5.0.19 Fix multi-select delete option not showing

Yes correct, plus will be nice to see like a badge of how many users are online. The things I love about Emby is the almost instantaneous playback and fast towards and their library management. Leaves Plex in the dust. ALl my friends have said what a fantastic experience Emby has been. To me they need to have a good admin panel which they lack sorely. This is one area where Plex shines as you can easily see everything in one screen and a quick glance tells me how many are watching with the number at the top. Very handy. I mean this: https://lnkk.me/rRu7o18q and the stats. https://lnkk.me/E0unrgDz

I listen to a lot of electronic/dance music, and there's a lot of cases where multiple musicians may collaborate on a song. Likewise I have purchased a number of compilation albums where a specific musician may only contribute one or two songs out of a dozen or more. I'd like to be able to view all the songs I have in my library that were made by/involved a specific artist. However, if I go to an artist page, I only get a list of albums that they were involved in, even though 90% of the songs in some of the albums have nothing to do with them. Would it be possible to add a view somewhere (such as on the artist info page) that will allow showing all the songs in a library made by that specific artist?

Hi there, has this helped?