[Plugin] Watch Party

[yocker 1830]

6 minutes ago, Oratorian said:

@yockerI send you a pull request.

I went through your code a bit and created a structured Readme.md

https://github.com/yocksers/WatchParty-for-Emby/pull/2

Many, many thanks! 

I will look into it a little later today.

[Carlonchis 4]

Hi @yockerthe link is dead. Is it still active?

[Oratorian 68]

2 minutes ago, Carlonchis said:

Hi @yockerthe link is dead. Is it still active?

Has been dead for a while now.

[yocker 1830]

1 hour ago, Carlonchis said:

Hi @yockerthe link is dead. Is it still active?

That's strange.. The github is indeed missing, wonder if i deleted it by accident when i cleaned up in my github.

I will look into adding it again, until then here's a dll.

 

WatchPartyForEmby.dll

[BillOatman 599]

On 8/13/2026 at 12:25 PM, yocker said:

That's strange.. The github is indeed missing, wonder if i deleted it by accident when i cleaned up in my github.

I will look into adding it again, until then here's a dll.

 

WatchPartyForEmby.dll 512 kB · 3 downloads

Just goes to show you that nothing good happens when you clean things

[tuumke 0]

14 hours ago, BillOatman said:

Just goes to show you that nothing good happens when you clean things

Doesn't give any confidence in the project either if you ask me. 

[yocker 1830]

1 hour ago, tuumke said:

Doesn't give any confidence in the project either if you ask me. 

I've had a couple of private repos, guess it got deleted by accident when i removed those.

At any rate, i will reupload it when i get around to it.
For now people can download the dll given here in the forum.

[MAX92 101]

I put the file in Emby-Server\programdata\plugins but impossible after to open the menu Extension.
When I delete the file watchpartyforemby.dll, it is OK again.

[yocker 1830]

19 minutes ago, MAX92 said:

I put the file in Emby-Server\programdata\plugins but impossible after to open the menu Extension.
When I delete the file watchpartyforemby.dll, it is OK again.

Please give me a log file so i can investigate.

[MAX92 101]

Sorry, try again and it's working.
Now I have to try. Thanks a lot

[MAX92 101]

I don't understand why I have no user 

Because They are watching the movie

[Neminem 1850]

I guess Logs from that

No logs no issue, only hear say

[yocker 1830]

2 hours ago, MAX92 said:

I don't understand why I have no user 

Because They are watching the movie

There seems to be a bug with that. I will look into it when i have the time.
That said, i encourage you to try 

As there are a few limitations i never got fixed in my plugin.
For example a library scan or a long wait would be needed for any new strm files to show, i never got Emby to automatically start a scan of the library, also something i need to fix.

It's all on my todo list but this plugin is on low priority atm.

[MAX92 101]

It's OK for me. thanks a lot for this plugin.

Emby Watch Party is not for my because it's only work on web player. I need EMBY Android player.
 

[Oratorian 68]

2 hours ago, MAX92 said:

It's OK for me. thanks a lot for this plugin.

Emby Watch Party is not for my because it's only work on web player. I need EMBY Android player.
 

We are already trying to get EWP to the Android market, atm it's a rough internal beta since I need to learn Androids SDK from scratch.
So if you know somebody able to make Android apps, our api's are both well documented.

[MAX92 101]

Personally I don't need an Android app, I just wish I could use it on Emby for Android 

[Oratorian 68]

9 minutes ago, MAX92 said:

Personally I don't need an Android app, I just wish I could use it on Emby for Android 

Sadly not, Emby has no native WatchParty support yet, but EWP 3.0 mimics Emby's UI to a degree, so there is some sort of familiarity. And it is mobile friendly so you can just use chrome or any mobile browser.

[MAX92 101]

It's to use it on my Zidoo home player...

[yocker 1830]

I will look into improving and fixing bugs in the plugin but sadly my time is limited.

 @OratorianIf you want your plugin to work in the apps then It's relatively easy to get it to work. Have it make a strm file (mostly so people not in the party wont be affected) and listen for PlaybackStart/Progress/Stopped events in Emby.