LG TV is Internet blocked: Emby App asks for premiere / lags when pressing play

[Utini 15]

My LG TV is blocked from accessing the internet but can community with my Emby server on LAN. The Emby server has internet access and a fully valid Emby premier license.

When I'm open the Emby app on the LG TV and try to hir "play" it quite often won't do anything. Like the button doesn't work.

Then after a few mins I get several times the same pop which asks me to get Emby premiere or wait 10 seconds to continue.

Seems like a bug? 

Latest Emby server and Emby LG.app.

 

[Neminem 1916]

It not a bug, the app needs to phone home to Emby to validate premiere license.

Even though your server internet access.

[Neminem 1916]

But if you can allow the TV to access https://mb3admin.com

I thing that will solve your issue.

[Utini 15]

47 minutes ago, Neminem said:

But if you can allow the TV to access https://mb3admin.com

I thing that will solve your issue.

I will try but Instill think it's a bug or bad coding.

The Emby LG app should only need to connect to my local server. And that server is connecting to Emby to validate if it's a premiere license or not.

No need for the Emby LG app to do that.

[ebr 16771]

6 hours ago, Utini said:

I will try but Instill think it's a bug or bad coding.

The Emby LG app should only need to connect to my local server. And that server is connecting to Emby to validate if it's a premiere license or not.

No need for the Emby LG app to do that.

Hi.  Unfortunately, there is a need for us to do that.  The apps will need periodic access to validate.  They can survive short outages but will need to validate about once per week.

[Utini 15]

28 minutes ago, ebr said:

Hi.  Unfortunately, there is a need for us to do that.  The apps will need periodic access to validate.  They can survive short outages but will need to validate about once per week.

Thanks for the clarification.

I don't understand why the client needs external network access. It obviously makes sense for the server but not for the client.

This could be an issue for a lot of people who don't want their smart tv on the internet due to privacy reasons as well

Thanks for the workaround idea though. Haven't tested it yet.

[Utini 15]

Allowing outgoing to https://mb3admin.com fixes the issue. 

[Utini 15]

@Luke@ebr@Neminemnope still the same issue even when excluding the domain. Weirdly I can't see anything from Emby that seems to get blocked? See the screenshot. 

Could Emby be on any "common" blocklist from nextdns?

[Luke 43131]

can you force close the app and test again?

[Utini 15]

23 minutes ago, Luke said:

can you force close the app and test again?

Not sure how to force close the app on LG TV? It happened after the TV has been off for nearly 24h though.

[Luke 43131]

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Could Emby be on any "common" blocklist from nextdns?

Not that we know of, but you could test that from your server machine, right?