embyforkodi (next-gen) 12.X.X support

[RonB26 14]

Thanks quickmic.

 

Tried to factory reset, and I ended up with 4 of each item.  It appears that every
time I rebooted, it duplicated everything.

Looks like I'll have to wipe Kodi, and start over.  This time I'll use 12.3.2 and see how it goes.

 

[quickmic 1703]

2 minutes ago, RonB26 said:

Thanks quickmic.

 

Tried to factory reset, and I ended up with 4 of each item.  It appears that every
time I rebooted, it duplicated everything.

Looks like I'll have to wipe Kodi, and start over.  This time I'll use 12.3.2 and see how it goes.

 

Don't sync playlist libraryies, that's the issue.

[RonB26 14]

OK, thanks for the heads up!

[quickmic 1703]

54 minutes ago, RonB26 said:

OK, thanks for the heads up!

Can you assign me a test account on your server? Something must be different on your server. I see exactly what happens in the log, but not why.

[RonB26 14]

I would be happy to if I could, but  I'm using t-mobile internet which does not allow opening outside ports.

 

[quickmic 1703]

26 minutes ago, RonB26 said:

I would be happy to if I could, but  I'm using t-mobile internet which does not allow opening outside ports.

 

Well, I found another bug, but not sure if it's addressing the issue you reported. I'll fix it in next version.

Edited September 22, 2025 by quickmic

[RonB26 14]

47 minutes ago, quickmic said:

Well, I found another bug, but not sure if it's addressing the issue you reported. I'll fix it in next version.

No problem.  I'm currently in the process of starting a fresh install with E4K 12.3.2

I only had a backup of E4K 12.1.2 using Kodi backup utility.  Unfortunately, The Backup utility
does not allow selective restore of add-ons, and Kept restoring 12.1.2
 

So I won't be able to test further until I finish starting from scratch.

 

Thanks again for the help and all your efforts!

[quickmic 1703]

 

New PUBLIC TESTING version available 12.3.4:

Delta changelog 12.3.3 -> 12.3.4

fix remove Musicgenre sync

[Pejamas 57]

For some strange reason on 12.3.3 and previous versions, anything movie related seems to lock up my kodi. The movie starts, controls become unresponsive and the kodi directory baloons from 1-2GB to 5-8GB causing the storage to get full and locking up the whole system. TV works fine, happening on all my devices with movies so not sure whats going on. Log attached.

EDIT: I changed the skin and the issue seems to have fixed itself, odd. Never had a skin cause a playback issue before.

kodi.log

Edited September 26, 2025 by Pejamas
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[quickmic 1703]

3 hours ago, Pejamas said:

For some strange reason on 12.3.3 and previous versions, anything movie related seems to lock up my kodi. The movie starts, controls become unresponsive and the kodi directory baloons from 1-2GB to 5-8GB causing the storage to get full and locking up the whole system. TV works fine, happening on all my devices with movies so not sure whats going on. Log attached.

EDIT: I changed the skin and the issue seems to have fixed itself, odd. Never had a skin cause a playback issue before.

kodi.log 245.08 kB · 1 download

"skin.arctic.zephyr.mod" causes the issue?

[Pejamas 57]

18 minutes ago, quickmic said:

"skin.arctic.zephyr.mod" causes the issue?

yep that was the skin causing the issue

[RonB26 14]

@quickmic

I'm having a strange issue with dynamic nodes/documentaries/folder view.

I have been seeing shows from the root folder that have not been placed in a folder
showing up in other folders.

For example: 
Folder\Show\Show.mp4

Will show up in other folders such as:
Folder\Show(and shows above)\Season\Show.mp4
I end up with 25-30 shows that should not be in that folder.

I'm not seeing this issue in My Roku boxes or Emby android app. 

If you need further info, or a log. Let me know.

Thanks!

 

 

[quickmic 1703]

15 hours ago, RonB26 said:

@quickmic

I'm having a strange issue with dynamic nodes/documentaries/folder view.

I have been seeing shows from the root folder that have not been placed in a folder
showing up in other folders.

For example: 
Folder\Show\Show.mp4

Will show up in other folders such as:
Folder\Show(and shows above)\Season\Show.mp4
I end up with 25-30 shows that should not be in that folder.

I'm not seeing this issue in My Roku boxes or Emby android app. 

If you need further info, or a log. Let me know.

Thanks!

 

 

Thanks, I'll check that. Is it synced content?

Edited October 4, 2025 by quickmic

[RonB26 14]

8 hours ago, quickmic said:

Thanks, I'll check that. Is it synced content?

Thanks!

No, dynamic.  Kodi doesn't play well with mixed content.

[TheFreeMan 30]

Howdy quickmic!

Looks like you've done a lot of work since I last stopped in. I'm going to give 12.3.4 a try, because I've been dealing with all sorts of frustrations in 12.2.0.

Just confirming: the audio, image & video plugins have not had any updates, correct? It looks like the version numbers haven't changed since I last grabbed them. 

Hope this resolves some of the issues & frustrations I've had over the last month or so.

[TheFreeMan 30]

Oh man... After uninstalling 12.2.0 and installing 12.3.4, everything. just. works.

At least so far!

I was having issues with Next Episode & Continuing lists not working - those both seem to work now!

Does E4K sync on a schedule or as needed? I removed several shows from Emby's (via Emby's interface) "Next Up" listing and they haven't removed from E4K. If it syncs on a schedule, then that would make sense - I'm not likely to have done it right before a scheduled sync...

The other issues I was having was when a video would end (TV show, Movie, or even just a file - sports events don't tend to fall into organizational categories that Emby/Kodi can deal well with), Kodi would just hang. I'd get a black screen and nothing would happen - I've left it for 12 hours and come back and it was still that way. Don't know if this was something weird with E4K 12.2.0, or if there's something more sinister going on in my underlying Kodi/LibreELEC install. I'll have to keep an eye on that and will report back.

--- UPDATE ---

Watched a show and when it ended, it went back to the menu like it should have. Very happy about that! It's been very frustrating having to reboot the box after every episode... 

Only issue I've noted so far is that when the episode ended, it was still in the "Next Up" listing. I selected the context menu, and it showed "Mark Unwatched". I did so, then "Mark Watched". When I manually marked it watched, it disappeared from "Next Up". I was having that issue a while back with the 11.x version, too... 

Annoying, but in comparison to what I've been dealing with, most livable. Thanks for all your hard work, quickmic!

Edited October 4, 2025 by TheFreeMan

[quickmic 1703]

14 hours ago, RonB26 said:

Thanks!

No, dynamic.  Kodi doesn't play well with mixed content.

Currently I'm not able to trigger the issue on my setup. I used a mixed content library as well but seems to be fine. I assume my folder structure is a bit different than yours. I continue testing...

[quickmic 1703]

8 hours ago, TheFreeMan said:

Does E4K sync on a schedule or as needed? I removed several shows from Emby's (via Emby's interface) "Next Up" listing and they haven't removed from E4K. If it syncs on a schedule, then that would make sense - I'm not likely to have done it right before a scheduled sync...

There is no scheduler, modified content should be instantly processed by Kodi but there are many questions.

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I removed several shows from Emby's (via Emby's interface) "Next Up"

What does that mean? Did you delete content? Did you mark content as watched or something else? There is no specific pattern for "Next up", modifications are generic (for all contents) and synced to Kodi.

If you modified only "Next up" you may changed the node on the server, which will not do anything on Kodi as the content is not modified, only the view on Emby.

Anyway, I think I need a lot more details just to say, if it's a bug or by design.

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Only issue I've noted so far is that when the episode ended, it was still in the "Next Up" listing.

Again, you are talking about a specific node (on the server I guess?). Next up is also available on Kodi and even here in at least 4 different versions. Just guessing you mean the "next up" for a specific skin (which is not a plugin feature nor a Kodi standard feature). However, without details I cannot begin to review.

General recommendation, don't focus on "next up" nodes. When you say, e.g. the progress is wrong, then all nodes/views etc would be affected, not only a single node.

Only when everything/everywhere is correct beside in the "next up" and it's clear what "next up" node you are talking and how it's embedded into you skin (or probably not embedded at all) and the skin refresh is not the issue (trigger a skin refresh manually to test it, do not mark as matched etc.), then I can start a review.

 

 

Edited October 5, 2025 by quickmic

[Home2008 21]

HI, I can't use this version because I have serious problems with live TV in Kodi. As soon as I install it, live TV freezes every 20 to 30 minutes. I get an error message about an add-on for this script. However, this only happens on my Nvidia Shield 2019 Pro. Not on Windows 11. I'll attach the log file here. Emby Server is 4.8.x Version.

kodi.zip

Edited October 5, 2025 by Home2008

[quickmic 1703]

26 minutes ago, Home2008 said:

HI, I can't use this version because I have serious problems with live TV in Kodi. As soon as I install it, live TV freezes every 20 to 30 minutes. I get an error message about an add-on for this script. However, this only happens on my Nvidia Shield 2019 Pro. Not on Windows 11. I'll attach the log file here. Emby Server is 4.8.x Version.

kodi.zip 23.83 kB · 0 downloads

You are using "pvr.hts" and that's not used by the plugin. Also the log shows an issue with script.embuary.info/script.module.arrow plugin. -> Not part of the e4k.

I recommend (to all users), don't use skin helpers. Mostly they are poorly maintained and causing only troubles.

If you have a specific issue with liveTV via e4k plugin, I'm glad to help.

Edited October 5, 2025 by quickmic

[Home2008 21]

Ok, I delete this First.

[TheFreeMan 30]

10 hours ago, quickmic said:

What does that mean? Did you delete content? Did you mark content as watched or something else? There is no specific pattern for "Next up", modifications are generic (for all contents) and synced to Kodi.

Hey, I've been dealing with this a lot, so of course I know what I'm talking about. I'm shocked you can't read my mind!

In the Emby web interface, I clicked on the 3-dot menu for a series that was in the "Next Up" listing, then selected "Remove from Continue Watching", as shown in the screen shot attached.

 

On Kodi, I have a main menu item (using the Aeon Nox Silvo skin) called "Next Up". It activates:

Add-ons | Video add-ons | Emby for Kodi Next Gen (Video) | Synced nodes (my emby server name) | Next Episodes (Mixed content) | Create menu item to here

This node brings up the "Next Up" list from Emby, but doesn't seem to recognize that I've done the "Remove from Continue Watching" in Emby itself. 

Now, it is odd, I think, that the context menu in Emby calls it "Remove from Continue Watching". To me, that's to pick up where you left off in a particular episode or movie. However, the behavior in Emby is to remove it from the "Next Up" listing.

If I select the 3-dot menu for an episode that I stopped playing part way through, I do not get an option to "Remove from Continue Watching", only to "Mark Played".

 

If you need me to reproduce & provide a log file, just let me know, happy to do so.

[quickmic 1703]

18 minutes ago, TheFreeMan said:

Hey, I've been dealing with this a lot, so of course I know what I'm talking about. I'm shocked you can't read my mind!

In the Emby web interface, I clicked on the 3-dot menu for a series that was in the "Next Up" listing, then selected "Remove from Continue Watching", as shown in the screen shot attached.

 

On Kodi, I have a main menu item (using the Aeon Nox Silvo skin) called "Next Up". It activates:

Add-ons | Video add-ons | Emby for Kodi Next Gen (Video) | Synced nodes (my emby server name) | Next Episodes (Mixed content) | Create menu item to here

This node brings up the "Next Up" list from Emby, but doesn't seem to recognize that I've done the "Remove from Continue Watching" in Emby itself. 

Now, it is odd, I think, that the context menu in Emby calls it "Remove from Continue Watching". To me, that's to pick up where you left off in a particular episode or movie. However, the behavior in Emby is to remove it from the "Next Up" listing.

If I select the 3-dot menu for an episode that I stopped playing part way through, I do not get an option to "Remove from Continue Watching", only to "Mark Played".

 

If you need me to reproduce & provide a log file, just let me know, happy to do so.

I'll check that tomorrow, but I'm quite sure the "remove from continue watching" is only a modification of Emby's server node. The view if you will, and is not reported in any way to Kodi and never will.

It's like you remove a node on Kodi, it will also not affect the view's on Emby server.

The only node on Kodi which could address this (probably not in realtime) are dynamic nodes, as they uses the info from Emby server directly and even here I'm not sure (Depends on the API implementation on Emby server).

In other words, Emby server reports content's metadata to Kodi. watched/unwatched/progress etc, but not view information.

 

Edited October 5, 2025 by quickmic

[TheFreeMan 30]

Thought to double check to be sure it wasn't a skin issue, so I switched to the default Estuary skin.

In the Skin settings, I went to

Main menu items | TV shows - Edit Categories | (Installed the Library Node Editor plugin as prompted ) | EMBY: Next Episode (Mixed content)

For a minute, I thought that was working, but then I scrolled through the list further to the right and hit the "More..." icon, where it gave me a listing of all the shows that I have, at one point or another watched at least one episode of (but haven't yet watched all episodes). Maybe it will be easier for you to reproduce using the default skin.

This isn't critical, or show stopping, but it's somewhat annoying.

Since the Aeon Nox skin shows the most recently played series on the left and the least recently played one on the right, I like to scroll to the far right (or just wrap around one click to the left) and play an episode from the show that it's been the longest since I last watched. With the 5 or 6 series that I'm no longer interested in watching (some are kids shows that my grand kids watch, others are series that I'm just not into right now) hanging out there at the far right, I've got to scroll past them to find one that I am interested in.

1.  It's a convenience thing
2. Yes, I could mark the whole series (or by season) watched, but that would break things for the grand kids (not that they care that much, they spent an entire morning watching the same episode of the same show over. and over. and over. and...)
3. Yes, I could even delete from disk those shows that aren't doing it for me right now, but hey, tastes change and I may want to watch them in the future

[TheFreeMan 30]

35 minutes ago, quickmic said:

I'm quite sure the "remove from continue watching" is only a modification of Emby's server node. The view if you will, and is not reported in any way to Kodi and never will.

Ah. Hum. Interesting. Disappointing.

35 minutes ago, quickmic said:

The only node on Kodi which could address this (probably not in realtime) are dynamic nodes

Do you have a pointer to which dynamic node I might choose to get this info? I looked through them first (not being entirely sure of the difference between "synced" and "dynamic" nodes), and didn't see anything that looked like a viable candidate.

If you can't do it because Emby doesn't expose the info to you, there's nothing to be done and I'll live with it. If there is something, then it would be great if we (and by "we", I mean you ) could find and implement it.

Also, didn't notice your response while I was typing up my follow up testing with the Estuary skin - makes sense that it wouldn't work their, either.

Edited October 5, 2025 by TheFreeMan