*Request* Are you still watching on by default.

[Jrod696 28]

Amazingly enough this past 2 weeks I have had 3 people fall asleep and or fall asleep and then go to work when watching a series and it just played and played and played.

On the server side I had the "Are you still watching" turned on in their user profile under playback but it does not appear to send to the client. In all 3 cases I had to contact them to go in and go to Settings > Playback > Are you still watching, and enable it.

It would be amazing if in the clients this could enabled by default and or the setting in the user profile on the server overrode that setting.

Honestly I would prefer the latter because I personally can't think of a reason why I would ever want a user to be able to turn that off.

 

Edited December 31, 2025 by Jrod696

[Luke 42077]

Hi, it should be on by default. What client did you test with?

[Jrod696 28]

3 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, it should be on by default. What client did you test with?

All of them were using the app from Fire Stick, and I cant say for sure but knowing all 3 people they were using the Android TV version

[Luke 42077]

21 minutes ago, Jrod696 said:

All of them were using the app from Fire Stick, and I cant say for sure but knowing all 3 people they were using the Android TV version

The Android TV version I think is the one exception that handles it client-side and doesn't tie into the shared setting. Perhaps @ebrcan change that.

So yes that one will require setting up.

[ebr 16169]

Yes, the option was first implemented in that app so it is a local preference at this point but I had thought we were keeping that option as a local device/app-specific setting.  All the others are sharing one setting?

I did just change the default to ON.

[speechles 2055]

1 hour ago, ebr said:

All the others are sharing one setting?

The Roku also doesn't share the setting. It has its own, same as Android TV, that defaults to ON.

[Luke 42077]

@Jrod696has this answered your question?

[Jrod696 28]

1 minute ago, Luke said:

@Jrod696has this answered your question?

Yep, I marked EBR's response as the solution, one question is that live push or will it show up on the next client update?

[Luke 42077]

13 minutes ago, Jrod696 said:

Yep, I marked EBR's response as the solution, one question is that live push or will it show up on the next client update?

Next update. And it's only the default that is changing, thus it likely won't affect users who have already configured options in the app.