No Emby Premier without Internet :(

[dafunk60 3]

So my internet went out for a while today.  This provided me with an excuse to take a much needed break from working at home so I figured I'd watch some TV.  I fire up Emby in my web browser only to find it telling me I need an Emby Premier license, which I have.  While I appreciate the need to validate a license from time to time, a grace period would be nice, especially for lifetime license holders.  Ideally I would be shown a message along the lines of "Your Emby server cannot reach emby.media to validate your license.  If connectivity is not restored in X days Emby Premier functions will stop operating." and be able to use the service I paid for & host with my own resources.

 

Not sure if this is the right place to post this as it's a feature request more than anything.

 

[rechigo 366]

Emby already does this (somewhat), it only makes a request to mb3admin.com to check licensing once per week (I think, might be more or less), looks like you might have gotten unlucky

 

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Edited March 22, 2020 by rechigo

[mastrmind11 722]

yeah, bad timing.

[Spaceboy 2573]

Yeah it should do the request daily but not need to complete it for a week without cutting you off

[ebr 16209]

Hi.  As they said, we do cache these validations.  When was the last time you used this same server and app?  Which app was it?

[Q-Droid 991]

I agree with @@Spaceboy. It should be a single daily check with a duration of one week so that the licenses are valid for a rolling time period, not fixed intervals.

Edited March 22, 2020 by Q-Droid

[ebr 16209]

I agree with @@Spaceboy. It should be a single daily check with a duration of one week so that the licenses are valid for a rolling time period, not fixed intervals.

 

That is already how it works.

 

What I suspect is the OP had not fired up the system for over a week.

[dafunk60 3]

Thanks for the replies everyone.  It has been a little under a week since I opened Emby in my web browser and logged in with the same user as I did yesterday.  After reading the responses, I suspect, as mentioned, that it was just bad timing.  I figured since the server had been up & running the whole time it would have been doing the daily check but I gather its the clients checking the license not the server.

 

Thanks again!