Playback Progress Reporting Stops Immediately

[corey 317]

Please see attached logs. In this case I played a movie for about a minute before stopping playback. I did this to try and capture logs for reporting here. Earlier in the evening I was watching something else and the Emby Dashboard Activity reported a start / stop of playback immediately even though I watched the entire episode (~54 minutes).

I've tried reconfiguring the plugin and rebooting the device. Neither has worked.

As shown in the Emby Server logs Emby sees playback progress reporting stop nearly immediately:

2026-08-21 00:46:47.256 Info SessionManager: Playback start reported by app Emby for Kodi Next Gen 11.1.27 on CoreELEC Living Room playing Spider-Man: Far From Home. Position: 3646972 ms. PlaySessionId: 4eae90f67af340c6a28928c39583008c. IsPaused: False
2026-08-21 00:46:47.259 Info PlaystateService-0HNNRKFM96BMS:00000006: http/1.1 Response 204 to host2. Time: 5ms. POST http://host3:8096/Sessions/Playing. 
2026-08-21 00:46:47.265 Info PlaystateService-0HNNRKFM96BMS:00000007: http/1.1 POST http://host3:8096/Sessions/Playing/Stopped. Source Ip: host2, UserAgent: Emby for Kodi Next Gen/11.1.27
2026-08-21 00:46:47.265 Info VideoService-0HNNRKFM96BN0:00000001: http/1.1 GET http://host3:8096//emby/videos/893207/stream?static=true&MediaSourceId=mediasource_893207&PlaySessionId=156f0acd1d034b9dac088e413a0f055a&DeviceId=d63eb230-9e99-46e8-9e2b-7295a6be2daf&api_key=x_secret6_x. Source Ip: host2, Accept=*/*, Host=host3:8096, User-Agent=Kodi/21.3-p3i (X11; Linux aarch64) CoreELEC/21.3 App_Bitness/32 Version/21.3-p3i-(21.3.0)-Git:aml-4.9-21.3, Accept-Charset=UTF-8,*;q=0.8, Accept-Encoding=deflate, gzip, Range=bytes=0-
2026-08-21 00:46:47.266 Info SessionManager: Playback stopped reported by app Emby for Kodi Next Gen 11.1.27 on CoreELEC Living Room playing Spider-Man: Far From Home. Position: 3646972 ms. PlaySessionId: 4eae90f67af340c6a28928c39583008c. IsPaused: False
2026-08-21 00:46:47.267 Info SessionManager: Removed playSession 4eae90f67af340c6a28928c39583008c from session e9eda925c5d54626f7338ba3faec2337
2026-08-21 00:46:47.268 Info PlaystateService-0HNNRKFM96BMS:00000007: http/1.1 Response 204 to host2. Time: 3ms. POST http://host3:8096/Sessions/Playing/Stopped. 

The Kodi logs show the item playing for more than a minute. 

2026-08-20 20:46:45.562 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onPlay ]
2026-08-20 20:46:45.652 T:4062     info <general>: EMBY.helper.playerops: [ SetSubtitle ] True
2026-08-20 20:46:45.702 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onPlay ]
2026-08-20 20:46:46.203 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onAVChange ]
2026-08-20 20:46:46.512 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onAVChange ]
2026-08-20 20:46:47.219 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onAVChange ]
2026-08-20 20:46:47.219 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: --> [ onAVStarted ]
2026-08-20 20:46:47.228 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.helper.playerops: [ GetPlayerInfo ]
2026-08-20 20:46:47.228 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ Queue playing item ]
2026-08-20 20:46:47.250 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: --< [ onAVStarted ]
2026-08-20 20:46:47.250 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onPlay ]
2026-08-20 20:46:47.251 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ Playback was not stopped ]
2026-08-20 20:46:47.311 T:4091     info <general>: EMBY.helper.playerops: [ SetSubtitle ] True
2026-08-20 20:46:47.770 T:4015     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.websocket: [ UserDataChanged ] [{'PlayedPercentage': 46.974270859563624, 'PlaybackPositionTicks': 36469720000, 'PlayCount': 11, 'IsFavorite': False, 'LastPlayedDate': '2026-08-21T00:46:47.0000000Z', 'Played': True, 'ItemId': '893207'}]
2026-08-20 20:46:47.773 T:4015     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.websocket: UserDataChanged skip by ItemSkipUpdate / Id: 893207 / ItemSkipUpdate: ['893207', 'KODI893207', '893207']
2026-08-20 20:46:49.305 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onAVChange ]
2026-08-20 20:47:26.958 T:4108     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.monitor: VideoLibrary_OnUpdate process item: {"item":{"id":187,"type":"movie"}}
2026-08-20 20:47:26.968 T:4108     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.monitor: VideoLibrary_OnUpdate process item: {"id":187,"type":"movie"}
2026-08-20 20:47:26.968 T:4108     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.monitor: VideoLibrary_OnUpdate skip reset progress (ItemSkipUpdate) 893207
2026-08-20 20:47:26.969 T:4108     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.monitor: VideoLibrary_OnUpdate ItemSkipUpdate: ['893207']
2026-08-20 20:47:27.251 T:3957     info <general>: EMBY.hooks.player: [ onPlayBackStopped ]

kodi.log embyserver.txt

Edited yesterday at 01:23 AM by corey

[quickmic 1749]

Did you try an update to 12.X version of the plugin? 12.X version has a lot of changes also reporting progress to Emby.

Edited 1 hour ago by quickmic

[corey 317]

@quickmic— I’m not given the option to update to 12.x in the Kodi interface. I only see version 10.x and 11.x. What’s the best way to upgrade to it?

Edited 57 minutes ago by corey

[quickmic 1749]

By instilling it form Emby's Kodi repository

https://kodi.emby.tv/

Or sideload it via Kodi addon's install from zip. There is an emby source available.

[corey 317]

30 minutes ago, quickmic said:

By instilling it form Emby's Kodi repository

https://kodi.emby.tv/

Or sideload it via Kodi addon's install from zip. There is an emby source available.

@quickmicI am using the https://kodi.emby.tv/ repository and it doesn’t give me the option for 12.x. I’d prefer not to side load so I can get updates more easily. Any guidance on why I might not be seeing it when using that repo?

I just tried uninstalling Kodi for Emby, removing the sources, re-adding the repo, reinstalling it all and I only see 11.x still. 

if it helps (since it’s unclear in the docs) I have been installing the “service” add-on which has an 11.x version. The “video” add-on is 10.x

Edited 23 minutes ago by corey