Recording Indicator

[Lyfesaver 133]

It would be nice to have some sort of indicator here that a recording is active. I know it says it in the activity log off to the right but I am not used to reading that before I do a manual restart.

Ideally, I would like the power icon to be the same icon but red and pulsing like an old school recording indicator but I will take anything.

[MBSki 1114]

If you're in the dashboard don't you see a big icon of the show that's being recorded? You can also move "recordings" up to the top on the home page so you see it every time you open the app and a recording is in progress. I also check upcoming recordings before a restart just to make sure I'm not restarting when a show is about to start recording.

[Lyfesaver 133]

24 minutes ago, MBSki said:

If you're in the dashboard don't you see a big icon of the show that's being recorded? You can also move "recordings" up to the top on the home page so you see it every time you open the app and a recording is in progress. I also check upcoming recordings before a restart just to make sure I'm not restarting when a show is about to start recording.

I see nothing of the recording outside the Alerts feed

 

If you mean in the Now Playing section

 

My recordings have never shown there, if that is what you meant.

For instance, as you can see from the feed a recording (ep 220) is active yet I have no way of knowing it atm outside the feed.

Edited October 9, 2025 by Lyfesaver

[Neminem 1518]

Try enabling this 

[ebr 16169]

1 hour ago, Lyfesaver said:

before I do a manual restart.

I think the system should warn you when you request a restart.  Something like:

              There are three active playback sessions and one active recording.  Restarting will terminate these. Are you sure?

[Lyfesaver 133]

6 minutes ago, ebr said:

I think the system should warn you when you request a restart.  Something like:

              There are three active playback sessions and one active recording.  Restarting will terminate these. Are you sure?

That's a fair point and it probably does but I think a quick glance while on dashboard is not a bad idea either. Save me from checking feed or going to home page. 

Edited October 9, 2025 by Lyfesaver
typo fix (click to quick)

[Lyfesaver 133]

Actually..... dollars to donuts I bet there is an API endpoint somewhere for `isRecording` or something that I can add to the HA sensor and show it on that dashboard. Which would be much more handy for my purposes as I keep my HA dashes in ways I can read more easily than I do the Emby dash.

So, API for monitoring and the message to keep me from restarting on a recording. I am sound as a pound, y'all. 

[ebr 16169]

34 minutes ago, Lyfesaver said:

That's a fair point and it probably does but I think a quick glance while on dashboard is not a bad idea either

Agree.

[Lyfesaver 133]

On 10/9/2025 at 8:17 AM, ebr said:

I think the system should warn you when you request a restart.  Something like:

              There are three active playback sessions and one active recording.  Restarting will terminate these. Are you sure?

Hmmm.... maybe not, ebr. I mean it could just be my install. I think it possessed as there are two other active issues in the forums I have where I can repro my issue but others cant. Maybe this is another one like them

[Lyfesaver 133]

DAMNIT!!!!!!! 

 

I did it again. This hecking suuuuuuuuuuuuucks

[Lyfesaver 133]

@LukeWhy did you "Thank" me being frustrated over ruining more recordings because I did not know they were active?

[Luke 42077]

There is an active recordings section that should be there. do you have any custom css?

[Lyfesaver 133]

56 minutes ago, Luke said:

There is an active recordings section that should be there. do you have any custom css?

[Lyfesaver 133]

FFS, I did it again.

I guess my only option at this point is to not restart using the server app. Create a button in HA that uses the API to restart the server only if there are no active recordings

[denz 501]

As far I can remember the active recordings were always right below the server details so it’s odd how come you don’t have it

[Lyfesaver 133]

GOD F$&@*#G DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!

My life for some kind of damn alert that there is an active recording!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[visproduction 315]

Of course this feature working inside Emby is preferred.  Has anyone tried one of these apps?
https://geekflare.com/cloud/windows-server-monitoring/

It seems like a server monitoring app can have a lot of depth and features that would be very difficult to emulate.  Maybe one of these does exactly what you need to have.  Running it as a separate program that gets updated and bug fixed as well, seems to be a good solution.

[Lyfesaver 133]

16 minutes ago, visproduction said:

Of course this feature working inside Emby is preferred.  Has anyone tried one of these apps?
https://geekflare.com/cloud/windows-server-monitoring/

It seems like a server monitoring app can have a lot of depth and features that would be very difficult to emulate.  Maybe one of these does exactly what you need to have.  Running it as a separate program that gets updated and bug fixed as well, seems to be a good solution.

I have my HA showing me when a recording is active but I keep forgetting to look before I restart my server. 

I only ever access the server side of things via website so what I am going to do is use CSS to hide the restart button and when I go to restart I will be like "Ahh ya, check HA and restart via HA"