Ghost session problem still not fixed ?

[vincen 74]

Hi

Since I use Emby (around a little more than 2 years now), I have always had that issue with Android users. They often don't disconnect/finish properly stream sessions and so I have a bunch of ghost sessions that stay there forever  Only way to get rid of them is to restart Emby server..... as they don't show any stop buttons like sessions that are running and not hanging.

Is it planned to get that issue fixed ? as it's there since at least 2 years (happen a lot more with devices like Chromecast but happens also with regular android clients).

Thanks

Vincèn

[kikinjo 302]

This was never fixed, in latest android unified app 95% of clients are non stop ghosts but now with bonus feature, now you don't have controls at all (stop pause, etc..)

Look at it as "new feature"

/s

[vincen 74]

2 hours ago, kikinjo said:

This was never fixed, in latest android unified app 95% of clients are non stop ghosts but now with bonus feature, now you don't have controls at all (stop pause, etc..)

Look at it as "new feature"

oki so will have to live with it for a long time yet

[yocker 1502]

You can use this plugin i had an AI make me back when i had the same problems.
Added the code as well in case people want to go through the code it made.

SessionKiller.dll SessionKiller.zip

[Luke 42372]

On 4/29/2026 at 3:16 AM, vincen said:

Hi

Since I use Emby (around a little more than 2 years now), I have always had that issue with Android users. They often don't disconnect/finish properly stream sessions and so I have a bunch of ghost sessions that stay there forever  Only way to get rid of them is to restart Emby server..... as they don't show any stop buttons like sessions that are running and not hanging.

Is it planned to get that issue fixed ? as it's there since at least 2 years (happen a lot more with devices like Chromecast but happens also with regular android clients).

Thanks

Vincèn

Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred:

How to Report a Problem

Thanks!

 

[vincen 74]

6 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi there, please attach the Emby server log from when the problem occurred:

@Luke thanks but already posted in past and problem was not fixed and not posting anymore in all matters any logs here for confidentiality reasons..

[vincen 74]

On 4/29/2026 at 3:29 PM, yocker said:

You can use this plugin i had an AI make me back when i had the same problems.
Added the code as well in case people want to go through the code it made.

SessionKiller.dll 13 kB · 1 download SessionKiller.zip 65.44 kB · 2 downloads

Thanks for the share @yockerunhappy I'm unable to check the source code so can't use the plugin (sorry but 0 faith in AI stuffs

 

[Neminem 1679]

1 hour ago, vincen said:

unhappy I'm unable to check the source code so can't use the plugin

Well run the source code through AI to find any bugs, thats called AI checking AI

here har a list of most of his plugins, I have helped test most of them.

yocksers (yock) / Repositories

Edited 1 hour ago by Neminem

[yocker 1502]

1 hour ago, vincen said:

Thanks for the share @yockerunhappy I'm unable to check the source code so can't use the plugin (sorry but 0 faith in AI stuffs

 

Understandable.

I just couldn't be bothered doing anything my self as i have enough to do with my other plugins.  

Edited 1 hour ago by yocker