Real Time Monitoring not Detecting New Files but Library Scan Does

[vmcosco 24]

I recently moved Emby from running in Windows to running in Docker on Ubuntu Server.  I did define the user and group in my docker compose.  Media is still hosted on a Windows machine so it is mounted via CIFS and FSTAB.  Everything is working as expected: Emby can see all of the media files, Emby can write metadata and image files to the media folders, etc.  The only issue is that Emby is not picking up new files/media when it is created.  For example, two new episode files were created last night at 9:35 PM and 11:20 PM.  They did not get added to Emby until the scheduled libraty scan at 1:30 AM.

Is real time monitoring not possible with my setup? Permissions seem correct because everything else is working.

[Luke 42077]

HI there, can you please provide a specific example?

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[vmcosco 24]

A new media file was added to the directory of an existing show last night at 9:35PM.  There is no evidence of this in the Emby log.  I have real time monitoring enabled for the Library that includes the directory.  The expectation is that when this file was added, Emby would detect the new file and add the episode to the library.  However, the new episode was not added to Emby until 1:26AM which is when the scheduled task for Scan Media Library ran and shows as such in the log.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Will need to see server log for specific example but could server not getting the events per the setup.  But someone else or dev will have to comment on that part.

2 hours ago, vmcosco said:

Media is still hosted on a Windows machine so it is mounted via CIFS and FSTAB.

 

[darkassassin07 652]

CIFS/NFS doesn't support realtime monitoring. Gonna have to use scheduled library scans. (I've got this setup too)

[vmcosco 24]

1 hour ago, darkassassin07 said:

CIFS/NFS doesn't support realtime monitoring. Gonna have to use scheduled library scans. (I've got this setup too)

Thank you.  That was what I suspected.  How frequently do you do library scans?  I have always left at 12 hours since Real Time worked when my server was on Windows.  When the scheduled scans run they only take about 1 minute.

[darkassassin07 652]

Every 3 hrs. I want newly added media to be picked up reasonably quickly, but don't want it running super frequently. Probably doesn't really matter all that much tbh.