Watch History - An Emby Channel Plugin

[Cheesegeezer 3104]

Just now, Dibbes said:

@Cheesegeezer What's this Youtube plugin?  Don't think I've seen it in the catalog

It's a personal project. It would violate Emby T&C's so wont ever be released.  Sorry

[Dickydodah! 154]

2 hours ago, Cheesegeezer said:

It's a personal project. It would violate Emby T&C's so wont ever be released.  Sorry

could be released as a Jellyfin plugin with a port to Emby available for those who know how  

[Pog22 52]

Is it possible to use this but anonymise the user? As in show the watch history but don't name the user?

[Cheesegeezer 3104]

19 minutes ago, Pog22 said:

Is it possible to use this but anonymise the user? As in show the watch history but don't name the user?

Hi Pog, yes this is in the works, i just haven’t had time to complete and release yet. 
 

Edited March 5, 2023 by Cheesegeezer

[Cheesegeezer 3104]

@softworkz would it be possible for you to lend an eye on the my source code. No rush at all, but would really appreciate your expertise please.

TV Episodes prove to be a big problem for this plugin.  

Movies is absolutely fine.  I have 3 users :- me, kidsTest and Sophie.  i have divvied up my movies (7 or 8 in my dev machine) so kids watched the 1 kid movie, i have watched 4 movies and sophie has watched the other 2.  

Movies watch history is perfect everyones displays.

TV shows is a completely different kettle of frogs.

this only shows the my episode history for all users, even tho i have collected all the users watched episodes.

There is no play counts in the table either.... 

I'll point out i'm using 4.7.9 nuget and also 4.7.11 Server 

 

 

Be great if you could help me... or if there is a reason why things aren't populating correctly.

 

Edited March 6, 2023 by Cheesegeezer

[Luke 42077]

Are you trying to have it match the data from the original library item?

[Cheesegeezer 3104]

3 hours ago, Luke said:

Are you trying to have it match the data from the original library item?

I am gonna say yes.. the point is to be a watch history but tv shows don’t play ball where movies definitely do

[softworkz 5066]

On 3/6/2023 at 11:50 AM, Cheesegeezer said:

@softworkz would it be possible for you to lend an eye on the my source code. No rush at all, but would really appreciate your expertise please.

The truth is that I know less about the subject than you do, so I would need to work through all of this from the ground up.

But if you have a specific question, I can try to get an answer for you.

[Luke 42077]

Does the Series from the channel have all of the same ProviderIds as the series from the library?

[Cheesegeezer 3104]

8 hours ago, Luke said:

Does the Series from the channel have all of the same ProviderIds as the series from the library?

Thanks look,  i will double check when i get some time... 

Lambing has started, snow is in full effect.. trying to keep the cows, sheep, horses, chickens, ducks, dogs, and cats all happy.... as well as keeping Mrs.Cheese happy too hahaha

 

[mbakirov 2]

Would it show a history from a library i have no access to? 

[akacharos 31]

On 3/5/2023 at 12:00 PM, Cheesegeezer said:

Hi Pog, yes this is in the works, i just haven’t had time to complete and release yet. 
 

I am really eager to get this feature, so I can enable this plugin. Going to each user's section is not that intuitive and my friends won't like others digging into their viewing habits.
However generic Watch History is a thing anyone will use to get recommendations on what to watch. 

So @Cheesegeezer, it is happening and it's a just a matter when?

[Dicken 16]

Hey, is this still being worked on here? Or is it on hold for now. The plugin looks very promising .

[joekrill 6]

This plugin is causing an issue for a lot of people, and I'm not sure they even realize it. It causes movies to appear multiple times in various places. In particular: Collections, Search, and when viewing a person/cast member under the section that shows movies they are in. I'm not sure why it only happens to movies, and it's only in particular contexts, but it's very annoying. And a search for "emby duplicate movies" shows this happens a lot, and in many cases with no real resolution. They may not all be cause by this plugin, but this plugin definitely causes the issues. I was having the issue myself and as soon as I uninstalled this plugin, the issue completely went away. @LukeI've noticed in many of these threads you've replied and tried to help, so this might be useful information for you.

[LwejC 2]

How do I get rid of this plugin? I deleted it in the plugin section but it's still showing on the home page I just wanted to have a look at it and decided it wasn't for me

 

[Junglejim 385]

53 minutes ago, LwejC said:

How do I get rid of this plugin? I deleted it in the plugin section but it's still showing on the home page I just wanted to have a look at it and decided it wasn't for me

 

It creates a virtual library, so go to your admin settings (Server/Library) and remove it from there.

[Ninko 78]

Has this plugin been removed from the catalog?

[Luke 42077]

1 hour ago, Ninko said:

Has this plugin been removed from the catalog?

Yes it creates duplicate entries in the database, which users just run up reporting as problems. 

once we have smart views/playlists then it should be reworked to be based off that.

[MBSki 1114]

2 minutes ago, Luke said:

Yes it creates duplicate entries in the database, which users just run up reporting as problems. 

once we have smart views/playlists then it should be reworked to be based off that.

What if you just saved every watched date stamp rather than overwriting each time? 

[Luke 42077]

1 minute ago, MBSki said:

What if you just saved every watched date stamp rather than overwriting each time? 

That would create more accurate data to base this sort of thing on, which isn’t a bad thing but wouldn’t solve the above issue.

[MBSki 1114]

4 minutes ago, Luke said:

That would create more accurate data to base this sort of thing on, which isn’t a bad thing but wouldn’t solve the above issue.

It wouldn't solve duplicate entries? Not sure I understand. If the code is correctly adding a date/time stamp after watching a video, why would it create duplicate entries? Now if the code is NOT working I can see how there'd be a problem.

[Luke 42077]

All of the content of any channel plugin gets saved as database entries. In order for it to display its section and items, it has to add those entries to the database. So it creates records that are clones of things you already have.

 Then those duplicates start showing up all over the place and users think it’s library scan related and start reporting issues about it.

 I’m assuming it’s the same situation with top picks.

[MBSki 1114]

30 minutes ago, Luke said:

All of the content of any channel plugin gets saved as database entries. In order for it to display its section and items, it has to add those entries to the database. So it creates records that are clones of things you already have.

 Then those duplicates start showing up all over the place and users think it’s library scan related and start reporting issues about it.

 I’m assuming it’s the same situation with top picks.

Yea, unless YOU add the code to the server rather than relying on the plug-in. So you save the data and let the plug-in manage how to display the data.

[softworkz 5066]

15 minutes ago, MBSki said:

Yea, unless YOU add the code to the server rather than relying on the plug-in. So you save the data and let the plug-in manage how to display the data.

That's not the way channel plugins are working. Channel plugins are about providing the content data itself and have little influence on the presentation.

[MBSki 1114]

18 minutes ago, softworkz said:

That's not the way channel plugins are working. Channel plugins are about providing the content data itself and have little influence on the presentation.

Does it have to be a "channel" plug-in? Not sure I even know what that means.