Premier Validation

[WhackOBill 8]

If I lose my internet, it's my understanding that my Premier Lifetime will continue to function for 7 days from that point, including Emby Theater and Emby for iOS within my home.  Is that true?

I ask because we're in hurricane season and I've lost my internet for up to 4 days ... once the power goes out in a large area, the generators used by the cable company and the cell carriers for their towers generally run out of fuel about 24 hours later.  That means no cable internet and no iPhone or hotspot access for days.

I have a generator that runs my house for about 6-1/2 days once power goes out.  During this time, there's really nothing to do other than watch shows on Emby while the weather rages.  If I were to lose Emby after a day or so, my wife would probably walk me out into the backyard and put a bullet in the base of my skull.

If Emby validates Premier each day and I can be confident that I'll not lose it for at least 7 days from that point, then I feel like I'm in good shape.  If there's a chance I'll lose Emby after being a Lifetime Premier user because of some idiocy in this code, I'm going to need to look to move off of this thing.

Having a sticky somewhere explaining to people how Premier Validation works and what the potential liabilities are would be great.  Right now, as far as I can tell, there are just some mushy  statements spread across a bunch of posts in this forum.  For example, do clients validate from the server, or do they too have to hit the internet for validation?  Is the caching of the validation the same duration across all clients?  Would it not make sense for a client to hit the server first for a validation record before having to reach out to the internet?

I just want this stuff to work when it's needed most.  And to me, this mechanism is a potential problem.

[Carlo 4561]

Generally speaking it will be about a week from it's last validation.  This means for the server as well as last time you used the specific app.

What I would do just as a backup is use something like an Android TV box connected to your main TV.  On that box load Kodi and set it up with direct access to your movie and TV Show folders.  This way no matter what you have a backup in place for at least your main TV.  You could also install this on a PC as well if you really wanted to.

Sure Kodi is clunky compared to Emby but it's a backup only and would help if needed. I'm in the northeast and we get hit once every couple of years with a hurricane or bad snow storm that knocks out the infrastructure as this is what I have setup "just in case" as well.

I dislike Kodi overall but when you set it up with direct access to files it's ok for a backup system.

[WhackOBill 8]

After reading more, it seems the real flaw here was in allowing more than one server to use the same Premier key.  If you had a key for each server, they could keep their own client count per key and the clients could validate against that ... entirely within the home.

Is it true that I can "pay" for the clients, like the iOS client, and that will allow them to connect to my server without checking the Premier limit?  In that case I could drive my TV from an iOS device in a pinch and not have to worry about being locked out by the Premier Validation check.

Thanks for your reply BTW.

[Carlo 4561]

Any client that has a Premiere License is fine but once at the limit you can't add new clients.

You can purchase app unlocks on some clients but keep in mind this only unlocks playback but won't help if you are using Premiere Features such a LiveTV as that will still require a Premiere license.

You can install the Premiere License on multiple servers and that's fine.  What you have to consider however is if these servers have different devices connecting they they all use up your license count.  If you had 2 servers and 20 clients that use both servers that's still only 20 licenses since it's the same client.

[ebr 16199]

19 hours ago, WhackOBill said:

After reading more, it seems the real flaw here was in allowing more than one server to use the same Premier key.  If you had a key for each server, they could keep their own client count per key and the clients could validate against that ... entirely within the home.

Hi.  Unfortunately, such a system would make it more cumbersome for users (having to get new keys when they re-install a server or move machines) and also make it too easy to abuse the system.

[Guest]

Hey,

I have been an EmbyPremier subscriber for several years now and today I received a message to upgrade to an above plan as my concurrent connection limit has been reached.

So I subscribed to the plan above, for 75 simultaneous connections and paid with a credit card and I have already received the invoice and receipt email sent by you, but the new EmbyPremier key has not been sent.

My question is whether the old key will be valid for the new plan, as the message for plan migration is kept in EmbyServer.

Thank you for your urgent attention, and the e-mail is registered: grupovirtua@hotmail.com

 

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When purchasing the migration to the new plan above, I did not cancel the previous plan.
Is that the reason I haven't received the new Premier key?

[Carlo 4561]

Your key won't change as @ebr will update this info on the backend side. I believe this is something he does manually so give him a bit of time to get this done for you.

 

 

[ebr 16199]

Hi.  Billing support addressed your issue.  Thanks.