"Alexa Next" issuing FFWD command rather than next [on Emby Theatre]

[ginjaninja 605]

Emby Stable.

Havent found all the circumstances when it goes wrong......may have something to do with Emby Theatre client type.

To reproduce

[default device has been set to Emby Theatre]

talking to Alexa DOT..

"Play Album Reflections by Artist Carly Simon

[Play back starts on default device]

"Alexa Next"

The current track playback fast forwards 30 secs (FFWD) rather than Next.

(Alexa Pause and Alexa Resume are working), (Alexa Previous goes back 30 secs in track)

 

2024-01-08 16:37:52.316 Info Server: http/1.1 POST https://‌‍‍XXX.XXX.XXX‌:8920/emby/Sessions/65d7a779cfe1278ea1d2fc27b3c4b4dd/Playing/NextTrack?Command=NextTrack&ControllingUserId=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. UserAgent: node-fetch
2024-01-08 16:37:52.436 Info Server: http/1.1 POST http://‌‍‍192.168.4.162‌:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress?X-Emby-Client=Emby Theater&X-Emby-Device-Name=X670e&X-Emby-Device-Id=X670e&X-Emby-Client-Version=3.0.20&X-Emby-Language=en-gb&reqformat=json. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) EmbyTheater/3.0.20 Chrome/112.0.5615.165 Electron/24.3.0 Safari/537.36
2024-01-08 16:37:52.437 Debug SessionManager: OnPlaybackProgress TimeUpdate 1704730242918
2024-01-08 16:37:52.439 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 204 to ‌‍‍192.168.4.163‌. Time: 2ms. http://‌‍‍192.168.4.162‌:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress?X-Emby-Client=Emby Theater&X-Emby-Device-Name=X670e&X-Emby-Device-Id=X670e&X-Emby-Client-Version=3.0.20&X-Emby-Language=en-gb&reqformat=json

the debug log seems to show Emby received a next track command ..so maybe this is an Emby Theatre Issue more than Emby Alexa Issue?

[hatharry 113]

Alexa is sending the correct command by the looks of your logs. I've tried to replicate the issue with no luck. Does it happen randomly or with a certain album?

[ginjaninja 605]

On 16/01/2024 at 00:31, hatharry said:

Alexa is sending the correct command by the looks of your logs. I've tried to replicate the issue with no luck. Does it happen randomly or with a certain album?

i can reproduce the issue just by using swagger, so its an emby theatre issue nothing to do with Alexa.

 

[Luke 42077]

What did you send to Theater?

[ginjaninja 605]

On 22/01/2024 at 20:01, Luke said:

What did you send to Theater?

https://XXX.XXX.XXX:8920/emby/Sessions/65d7a779cfe1278ea1d2fc27b3c4b4dd/Playing/NextTrack?api_key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

 

[Luke 42077]

How about if you click it in the ui?

[ginjaninja 605]

18 hours ago, Luke said:

How about if you click it in the ui?

Apologies i think i caused confusion. I was using Emby Theatre WMC. Not Emby Theatre...although WMC generally works i think softworks said to use this client on the Beta and i moved back to stable [4.7.14] which might explain why Alexas not working as expected for the "next track" function. [The ui next track button works as expected in WMC]

(next track command works as expected on Emby Theatre from windows store)

Edited January 29, 2024 by ginjaninja

[Luke 42077]

So there’s no issue here?