Continue watching not working

[caffeineshock 18]

Hi everyone,
for a while now Emby hasn’t been showing the next episode of partially watched TV shows on the home screen. This happens no matter which device I use: Nvidia Shield, Android phone or tablet, or even in the browser, so it seems to be completely device-independent.
In general, the “Continue Watching” section doesn’t get updated with new episodes at all. Shows I’ve already started just don’t progress to the next episode, even though my watch status is tracked correctly.
Has anyone else run into this issue or knows what might cause it? Any hints or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

[GrimReaper 4739]

Could you provide a specific example with few screenshots, as I don't see any issues with CW row tracking?

[caffeineshock 18]

I don't know what you want to see

It's just any TV show I start watching, no matter which (tried several). After watching 1 2 10 episodes, a season 2 or 3,does not matter, the TV show does not appear in "continue watching". Movies however still do appear if stopped between 5% and 90% (my setting for continue watching. Same setting for TV shows). 

Screenshot of a show that never appeared in "continue watching", no matter if I finish an episode, a season or after 20 minutes. But 8t does not matter, not a single TV show appears in the list (it worked in the past) 

[GrimReaper 4739]

32 minutes ago, caffeineshock said:

I don't know what you want to see

Something in the likes of: "Server version 4.9.1.90, local Web app: Played Stranger Things S05E01, stopped halfway through, not appearing in CW row".

But since it's affecting all of your TV shows, it might be something systemic - you can play an episode and post debug server log afterwards in order for potential errors to be glimpsed, if any.

How to Report a Problem

 

Edited December 22, 2025 by GrimReaper

[caffeineshock 18]

didnt expect it to matter in this case, but yeah, sure

thanks for looking into it 

timestamp tv series: start 16:08 end 17:02 which does not appear in "continue watching";

timestamp movie start 15:47 end 15:48 does appear in "continue watching"

 

embyserver.txt

[Lessaj 467]

I don't know if this would be related but your Trakt plugin is just throwing 401 Unauthorized errors every time it's makes a call. Do you use Trakt? It would probably be best to remove it for now. You have quite a lot of plugins, I wouldn't be surprised if one of the devs asks you to try removing a number of them and restarting the server to see if that helps. But Trakt currently sticks out like a sore thumb for unauthorized errors.

[Luke 42077]

Also have you checked your Emby user Home Screen settings?

[caffeineshock 18]

56 minutes ago, Lessaj said:

I don't know if this would be related but your Trakt plugin is just throwing 401 Unauthorized errors every time it's makes a call. Do you use Trakt? It would probably be best to remove it for now. You have quite a lot of plugins, I wouldn't be surprised if one of the devs asks you to try removing a number of them and restarting the server to see if that helps. But Trakt currently sticks out like a sore thumb for unauthorized errors.

i did see it as well, uninstalled it, restarted emby, nothing has changed 

 

34 minutes ago, Luke said:

Also have you checked your Emby user Home Screen settings?

yes i did. i do have a row for "continue watching" but it lists everything but tv-shows: movies, documentaries (which is a tv-show library, but a different one) BUT no regular tv-shows. this 1 library is missing and idk why. so yes, i did check the homescreen setting. 

as i said, i didnt change anything. not on the server or any client. 

 

setting in a browser:

 

not a single tv-show in there (yes i know i can scroll to the right, there are more elements)

 

there must be several. here is a show that im currently watching that is not listed in "continue watching"

 

[GrimReaper 4739]

4 minutes ago, caffeineshock said:

this 1 library is missing and idk why. so yes, i did check the homescreen setting. 

setting in a browser:

When you scroll further down, is this toggled On for library in question?

[caffeineshock 18]

10 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

When you scroll further down, is this toggled On for library in question?

No way I did miss that... Thank you l. It was the solution