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What I find missing in the Roku's season display is the opening placement focussed on the next unviewed episode - which is implemented in the web app and the Android mobile. Paul

Would it be possible to disable the downloads section from the main screen? I prefer using the button, instead of listing the downloads per songs. I remember a while back I made a feature request to show the download items per albums/artist or series, but, that feature hasn't being implemented yet. Screenshot below:

Pretty simple suggestion. I have multiple users for my Emby server. If I want to do continuous maintenance on the media, I have to tell everyone. some of them are harder to reach than others ( i.e. no Facebook or Skype chat etc. ) It would be great if say... on the admin panel, I could hit a check box that enables 'maintenance mode', where the server still runs does everything as normal, but instead of the login screen it displays a maintenance page saying the server is unavailable. Even better if I were able to directly put a reason in a text box that would then display on the login screen as well. Not really sure what others would think of this, but for me it would be quite helpful. mostly if I want to make sure no one is trying to access content I know won't work until I've done a full library scan again. Thanks for reading. -Kyle

CURRENT STATUS: SSO: Not yet planned LDAP: Development COMPLETED - BETA AVAILABLE >180 direct endorsements >30 MONTHS (>2.5 years) >12,000 views PLEASE BUMP - - - - - PLEASE LIKE - - - - - PLEASE BUMP - - - - - PLEASE LIKE - - - - - PLEASE BUMP This would greatly expand Emby's usage, and possibly more enterprise level adoption, user templating, user groups, SSO, etc. There are also users who have completely abandoned Emby and ended subscriptions due to the lack of this necessary basic functionality. Note: SAML2 is also part of this request. (header auth is also acceptable, at a minimum.) Context: I am trying to use something like openfire as a Instant Messaging solution which already supports LDAP and SAML2. So this would allow the current user of emby to seamlessly use web-based instant messenger with the same username and password as Emby without the need to enter them into a form. This would also allow universal login to be shared with my home PC's, Spiceworks, Ombii, Organizr, etc. The multitude of possible flexible functionality this could add is truly incredible. THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE, myself and others cannot manage a userbase with proprietary passwords for a single service (with no self-service password reset/recovery), when things that have only months of development implement it within days, easily. Status: LDAP - Development Completed - BETA AVAILABLE! Common LDAP solutions to test against:​Open LDAP​ (Open Source) [use this] ApacheDS OpenDJ 389 Directory Server Microsoft Active Directory SSL is NOT actually needed, but Emby team insisted on it anyways: Simply offering a toggle option for auth to send plaintext or encrypted passwords would work just fine. It is ironic to claim the need to be overly security conscious of user passwords, while lagging behind on basic SSL. If SAML is implemented, a SAML request/response can just be signed by an x509 and it is just as secure as TLS using SSL. SSL does not need to be natively supported, as it is perfectly possible to run it through an SSL reverse proxy tunnel and have the same effect. SSL Feature Request: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/33983-ssl-integrationsupport/&do=findComment&comment=322526As of now username and password is encrypted client-side as security as SSL is not natively implemented. Emby team has said this impedes the adoption of both SSO and LDAP. Please see our SSL request topic; like, comment, and endorse it to show how many people would enjoy/gain from this basic security. Ways to satisfy this FR: Direct LDAP connector SAML2 connector General SSO functionality (SSO Header, etc) Allowing user header auth NGINX auth support RADIUS Authentication Other features that are inherently possible if this is implemented: Self service passwords Ability for users to invite users/guests Expiring Accounts (after duration/trigger) Unified credentials for many services Corporate level authentication security User groups Mass User management Update 1: I encourage others to work on this but I am currently seeing what I can do to develop a solution to this myself. If you have experience in this LDAP/SSO/SAML2/SSL/.NET contact myself, @@Luke, @@ebr or the Emby team to let them know, any help is greatly appreciated! By everyone! Update 2: I know there is always the question of "well how many users actually want/will use this", so I compiled a list of some of the other threads/sites where people request this (to apparently no effectiveness in motivating the team). Update 3 (18 MONTH UPDATE): This request has now hit 18 months in age, NO progress made thus far whatsoever. ( ) Update 4: This FR is now the 4th most liked post ON THE ENTIRE FORUM and the 3rd most liked FR ON THE ENTIRE FORUM (ever), the 1st most liked active FR ON THE ENTIRE FORUM and over 4000 views. Counting endorsements besides those on this thread show over 115 direct requests/endorsements for this basic functionality. Lets get this moving guys, this is getting to be a bit much. Almost 2 years waiting on this now. Source Update 5 (9/20/2017): This feature request is now the MOST DESIRED REQUEST EVER MADE TO EMBY, sadly, that has not merited any progress at all. The staff has been working on things they believe Emby users want or may want, but it is clear what people want. We can only hope now our wishes are respected instead of being told what we want and having our requests dismissed. Source Update 6 [2 year update] (10/17/2017): Two years and not a single bit of progress has been made. TWO YEARS!!! To say this is disappointing is an understatement. The entire reason I went from Plex to Emby was because of local user management. THIS IS THE ONLY REASON, so naturally I wanted to have complete control over my users, but after TWO YEARS, still nothing. Update 7 (3/6/2018): DEVELOPMENT HAS STARTED!!! Check Luke's recent comments, if you want to test it out, download the latest beta and install/configure the LDAP plugin to test and give feedback!!! Update 8 (4/6/2018): Development on the LDAP connector has completed from what I gather, not sure if this is only a beta or a primary release; SSO is still a plan for the future but has not been touched. Progress made by other users (looks to be nearly, if not fully complete): https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/pull/1885 https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/pull/2139 Exploits shown by other users against Emby (emphasizing the need for a centralized authentication solution): https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/12335-unauthenticated-access-over-the-internet-to-logs-folder/ https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/20376-all-folders-visible-to-all-users-after-upgrade/ Related FR that could be helpful: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/46635-support-for-logging-users-in-though-url-scheme/?hl=user Any of these could be interesting to have compatibility with: http://lemonldap-ng.org/welcome/ https://github.com/Jasig/cas http://passportjs.org/ https://www.nginx.com/resources/admin-guide/restricting-access-auth-request/ LDAP/SSO/SAML Requests (~180 endorsements) [>12,000 views] > 95 endorsements on this post ~ 30 endorsementshttps://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/1146 > 35 endorsementshttps://www.bountysource.com/issues/24943821-authenticate-users-using-ldap > 14 endorsements​https://feathub.com/tidusjar/Ombi/+122 > 4 endorsementshttps://www.reddit.com/r/emby/comments/5o44wd/creating_deleting_updating_users_with_the_api/ Interview, in article comments user said lack of LDAP STOPPED him from using Emby (Emby is actually losing customers due to the lack of this NECESSARY basic functionality):https://www.linux.com/news/software/multimedia/856128-exclusive-interview-emby-founder-luke-pulverenti Duplicate, user had no progress on first 2 posts (no one from Emby actually tracked this or even replied to him):http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/861-mb3-and-active-directory/ http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/867-mb3-and-active-directory/ Auth announcement, user 'Drashna' in comments requested LDAP/ADhttp://emby.media/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-177-manage-your-home-with-emby-users/ Various similar requestshttps://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/2494 https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/issues/2493 https://forum.yunohost.org/t/integration-emby/912 http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/13081-active-directory-integration/ http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/11200-media-browser-3-server-ldap-active-directory/ External SQL auth request:http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/27986-emby-and-shared-mysql-database/ http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/23509-authenticate-users-via-external-mysql-database/ http://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/12001-external-login-to-mysql/ #ADFS #SSO #LDAP #ActiveDirectory #MSAD #SAML #SAML2.0 #SAML1.1 #PingFederate #OKTA #LemonLDAP #JASIG #authentication #auth #TLS #SSL #Usergroup #usertemplate #header #authheader #headerauth #security #hardening #authhardening #authenticationheader #externalauth #centralauth #centralizedauth #centralizeddb #exploit #authexploit #security #loginhardening #authenticationhardening #accesscontrol #.NET #SelfService #RADIUS

Hallo an Alle! Ich habe mir die emby Software in der letzten Woche auf meine Synology Diskstation installiert, einen externen Zugriff eingerichtet und läuft soweit. Der erste Eindruck war so gut, dass ich mich zum Sponsern über die Lifetime Lizens hab hinreißen lassen. In den Einstellungen unter Startseite habe ich mir die Liste so angepasst, dass auch Weiterhören dort auftaucht. Aber egal was ich höre, Wiedergabe eines Musik-Albums, einer Playlist, eines Hörbuches... nie wird mir Weiterhören angeboten. Bei Serien und Filmen wird Weiterschauen aber angeboten. Woran kann das liegen?

A checkbox in the server settings somewhere to hide the domain and IP address in log files so they can be uploaded for troubleshooting without needing to be edited.

While Emby already has recommendations built in based on previously watched items I find they are not all that helpful. They seem to be based on genre only, for example, because you watched a comedy here are other comedies in your library. I do like how the also directed by/appear in recommendations work though. What would be great is if Emby could incorporate Trakt's recommendations as they are much more sophisticated. Trakt's recommendations are not only based off of what you have previously watched but also what your Trakt friends and other Trakt users have watched. It takes user ratings and trending/popular media into account. Ideally Emby would include full Trakt integration allowing users to rate media after watching, view lists and recommendations, and view upcoming media all from within Emby but for now I think recommendations would be a nice addition. Trakt has the potential to give Emby that community feel and allow users to discover new media, find something to watch, and recommend media to other users. http://docs.trakt.apiary.io/#reference/recommendations

Hi, is it still the case, that the Emby App on the Apple TV 4K is not able to play HDR Content ? Is the Devolpment Team working on it ? When I using Infuse connected to Emby, the Movie is direct playing and my TV switching to HDR Mode If I´m using the Emby App ( I like the GUI more, then those from Infuse) Emby Server switching to Hardware Transcoding Mode and I don´t get HDR. For know I pay for Emby and for Infuse, that feels not correct. Special when a 3rd Party App is working better then the native Emby App

Mentioned in another post but figure I would give it light here in the QNAP section. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massive-qlocker-ransomware-attack-uses-7zip-to-encrypt-qnap-devices/ Thanks to @g_k_s

Oh, and I recently came across a pamphlet in which successive openings were printed alternately in portrait and landscape orientations, so in effect the pages flipped horizontally and vertically in turn! Be careful what you wish for (even joking)... Paul

It's not a hostile community... and as far as i am aware having the actual developers in these forums dealing with end users and taking feedback (positive criticism) is a uncommon practice in todays world. Things can change depending on the productive feedback they receive. Have seen it done many times thru the years. Can i suggest: "How to Win Friends and Influence People"

thanks @Luke. I have to say the apps I currently have installed on the VM run very smoothly. Regarding hardware transcoding, my NAS doesn't offer that anyway. I may test it out. Just curious if anyone has any personal experience.

It's also working for me. I'm still testing different formats, but so far it has worked perfectly. I'll post again tomorrow after further testing to confirm. Thanks!!

I have played TV for ~5 hours through Bluetooth and all seems to be working well. I will continue to test but am cautiously optimistic that the issue is resolved. Will keep you posted if something changes.

Yes occasionally you may have to just update nuget and recompile, without actually making code changes.

It was with two existing users, both of which had been on that Roku the prior day. The first time we went to use it the next day, we noticed the issue and tested both accounts. The server version is 4.5.4.0.

Only change was to use the latest version of MediaBrowser.Server.Core huh

Correct me if i am wrong... (i'm having one of those days) With the horizontal scroll wasn't it impossible to actually see the entire episode name without selecting it? There was a limitation to the amount of characters that could be displayed? Making it a horrible view if you wanted more information immediately. I have seasons with 100+ episodes and find the vertical scroll to be much more informative. I wasn't a vertical scroll fan on android originally! The OP most likly has a valid point on the difficulty of how this is displayed on smaller TV's. If a description / episode summery is not important, maybe there is some programmers secret code that could turn off the description (as an option) and greatly increase the font to just display the episode number / name?

Indeed. You can have both. There should be a way to have both. A nice looking list that serves a defined purpose and larger text with larger images. The trade off here is larger means less can exist on the screen. The Roku has a finite amount of room to build an application inside of. You get 4MB in zip form and 25MB in extracted form (including runtime execution space). So your code and the runtime environment must all fit together like old school BASiC in the 80's. Because of this we have to work harder on Roku to provide a stunning experience. You will see the fruits of the efforts soon.

I don't see how the direction of scroll affects the possibility of presenting the scroll at a position other than the start. Paul

Hmm. OK, there is still the possibility of drivers. Transcoding in Emby can press the video driver hard if you are doing it, and it's highly recommended to get the latest video driver from Intel or nVidia rather than relying on Windows update for them. Paul

Seems like it was the HDMI cable which is odd since it worked for a while and then suddenly didn't anymore until a complete Shield reboot. Worked again for a bit then stopped. I switch to another HDMI and it works now. Thank you @cayars. @ebrThank you. I do but it wasn't the problem. I'm glad it's solved. I enjoy trailers before a movie more than I thought I would. I never used this option during my plex times but gave it a try with Emby and it's a nice feature. That's why I was a bit annoyed when the sound didn't work anymore but now everything is fine.

Thank you for reporting. We should have this fixed in the next beta round. Reference: Fix #1103: [ExpandedDetailsView] Play focused episode not series from start If you watch your episodes in chronological order you may not have noticed this. The problem is the focus was on the "Play Next Up" button when you press PLAY. It was not using the focused row position. Instead it would act like you just pressed "Play Next Up" and you would get whichever episode was next. It could even be episodes in previous seasons than you expected. If you had all episodes watched and pressed PLAY on any episode it would always start at the very first episode of the very first season you have in that series. We have corrected this. When you press PLAY it will play in the video player the episode you are focused on. When you press OK it will enter into details view for the episode you are focused on.

That and my incompetency in Javascript.

With the latest experimental version 5.2.07 build 55 I see that the Emby Coverart is visible in Kodi while I have disabled this in the Emby for Kodi settings. In Kodi I use the Kodi coverart because that is more visible than the Emby Coverart. Now I have both. A Kodi database reset did not work. embyserver-63754579986.txt

Hi Version 2.1.0 is related to the Subscene plugin, which I explained in the relevant forum about the impossibility of using the Subscene site. For this reason, a new plugin was created for the Subf2m site, the latest version of which is currently 0.0.3 and is being developed completely independent of the Subscene plugin. The Subf2m site is not as powerful as the Subscene site but has an acceptable database of subtitles. I am also developing another plugin for another subtitle site that combines the best output.

Hi Beta version 0.0.4 was created compatible with the latest Emby beta. This version can be downloaded from the following address https://github.com/nRafinia/Emby.Subtitle.Subf2m/releases/tag/Beta

Personally I'd prefer not to see this integration. My use-case is that I want Emby to work even if there is no web. For now it's been extremely useful when there are internet outages in the area. In the future I could see my family moving to an area that doesn't have great internet. For me this is where Emby really shines. I love how I can store all of my metadata on the server itself and still enjoy a rich experience without great internet. This is honestly one of the big reasons that I made the move from Plex to Emby in the first place. I can appreciate the convenience of having web-service integration with Emby, but I'm also very cautious of anything that could add an internet requirement to using it. This is exactly the sort of thing that happened with Plex. At first it was just little web videos that were tied in, and now more and more content is being pulled from sources other than your server. Which is fine, and I hope that they do well with the direction that they've chosen. But for me, I want Emby to remain offline-friendly. I still enjoy other streaming services, and I've got no problem pushing two buttons on my remote to open the respective Apps for those services. I'd just prefer to see them left separate from Emby. Emby is about my personal media and that's what makes it such a cool thing. Again, I'm speaking about my personal preference, but in a thread where we're discussing what to add, this sort of perspective needs to be expressed.

I was just getting ready to be that user... Exactly this! Would like to see the loop back to the top return after hitting the last episode though. Realize it was a roku only feature...

Okay, that makes sense and thank you for the quick reply. I look forward to 4.6.

Don't remember that screen before but all other clients have that view for Season level. So if it was something different then it has been corrected to the proper view per client unification.

The Client honors (should) the Server User-Home Screen settings.

To avoid confusion can you post screenshots to ensure everyone is talking about the same location. As I don't see a difference in the Roku vs the Web Client.

@ebr@Luke would there be a issue with old server and newer client authentication? But don't necessarily know client version. Version: 4.3.1.0 2021-04-18 08:14:43.226 Error HttpServer: Error processing request *** Error Report *** Version: 4.3.1.0 Command line: /system/EmbyServer.dll -programdata /config -ffdetect /bin/ffdetect -ffmpeg /bin/ffmpeg -ffprobe /bin/ffprobe -restartexitcode 3 Operating system: Unix 4.19.41.0 64-Bit OS: True 64-Bit Process: True User Interactive: True Runtime: file:///system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll Processor count: 4 Program data path: /config Application directory: /system SQLitePCL.pretty.SQLiteException: Constraint: NOT NULL constraint failed: Tokens.DeviceId SQLitePCL.pretty.SQLiteException: Exception of type 'SQLitePCL.pretty.SQLiteException' was thrown. at SQLitePCL.pretty.SQLiteException.CheckOk(sqlite3 db, Int32 rc) at SQLitePCL.pretty.StatementImpl.MoveNext() at Emby.Server.Implementations.Security.AuthenticationRepository.Create(AuthenticationInfo info) at Emby.Server.Implementations.Session.SessionManager.GetAuthorizationToken(User user, String deviceId, String app, String appVersion, String deviceName) at Emby.Server.Implementations.Session.SessionManager.AuthenticateNewSessionInternal(AuthenticationRequest request, Boolean enforcePassword, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at MediaBrowser.Api.UserService.Post(AuthenticateUserByName request) at Emby.Server.Implementations.Services.ServiceController.GetTaskResult(Task task) at Emby.Server.Implementations.Services.ServiceHandler.ProcessRequestAsync(HttpListenerHost appHost, IRequest httpReq, IResponse httpRes, RestPath restPath, String responseContentType, CancellationToken cancellationToken) at Emby.Server.Implementations.HttpServer.HttpListenerHost.RequestHandler(IRequest httpReq, ReadOnlyMemory`1 urlString, ReadOnlyMemory`1 localPath, CancellationToken cancellationToken) Source: SQLitePCL.pretty TargetSite: Void CheckOk(SQLitePCL.sqlite3, Int32) Is there a point when client become incompatible with server version?

@darkside40 is right and wireshark doesn´t lie..... i have the same problem a feature for adding MAC and IP would help a lot

Okay it has been a while since i tested this feature an i was never able to get it to work. Today i thought to give it another try, but the result is the same, my Emby Server (Docker running on unRaid) wont wake up. I know WOL is working, i do it all the time, but it seems the Emby Clients are not capeable. So i fired up Wireguard to see what the Emby Clients are actually sending. My iOS client sends nine WOL Packets. The first two have a payload of 00:00:00:00:00:00 as Mac Address, so we can consider them useless. The other seven features various old Mac Adresses or even Mac's i dont know. They all are directed to 255.255.255.255. My Android TV Client send only one Packet with the 00:00:00:00:00:00 to the 255.255.255.255. This cant work. Would it be possible (short term) to modify the clients so that the user could configure the WOL options, especially the MAC and the Broadcast Address, because i know that in my Network the 255.255.255.255 will not work. I know i am not the only one with that kind problems here in the forum. Also a payload of 00:00:00:00:00:00 makes it impossible to intercept that packages on another machine which creates a correct WOL package as workaround.

Poor, poor little Shield TV Server. LOL That's a pretty big system media wise IMHO to try and run on a small device like a shield.

The new version of the Roku app has been released. If you run into this issue, just force an update of the channel. Thanks.

Hi @Luke - If you are looking at Audiobook handling ... as well as looking at how the information is presented in different readers and also how Picard for example handles data it might be useful to look at this doc which is the start of a standard on way audio books are published. It is published by the W3C publishing group and although it is only in draft it may give some insight on the future direction of audiobook standards. World Wide Web Consortium Draft Standard

It does exist. If you acquire your media legally, you will cease to have this problem.

My apologies if there is already a feature request for this, I searched but couldn't find anything. My experience is with the Roku and Android TV apps but it may apply to other apps as well. With the "Up Next" and "Recently Added" rows on the homescreen one almost never needs to dig down deeper to find something to watch. A view I think is missing is a random unwatched movie view which would allow more spontaneous selections when you can't decide what to watch. I am an indecisive person and when given a choice of a 1000 movies I will never decide on one, but give me a choice of 20 movies and I will find something quick. I realize this would be a personal preference having this view so if it could be made an option like how the "Show Premieres Row" currently works in the Android TV app everyone would be satisfied. Yes I am aware of the filtering options but the point is to take as much user intervention out of the process and help one pick a movie they might have not otherwise chosen.

Hi, there's currently no option for this, but now that we have the bottom tabs to take you to downloads, we'll look at improving this. Thanks.