Mark watched acting weird

[Happy2Play 9780]

So Emby is only writing database information per library setting and Kodi comes along and writes a nfo and then Emby reads that nfo and creates problems as it does not contain all required Emby informations, sound about right?

[artstar 17]

17 minutes ago, cayars said:

Emby will update the NFO if you enable "Save user watch data to nfo's for:" and select a username in the NFO plugin setup.

Oh! I never even thought of that plugin. I do have that set up for the user name that Kodi is logging in with.

Perhaps ultimately I should just uninstall this little bugger, considering I don't have the nfo option ticked in any of my libraries?

 

[artstar 17]

1 minute ago, Happy2Play said:

So Emby is only writing database information per library setting and Kodi comes along and writes a nfo and then Emby reads that nfo and creates problems as it does not contain all required Emby informations, sound about right?

Exactly!

[Happy2Play 9780]

20 minutes ago, cayars said:

Emby will update the NFO if you enable "Save user watch data to nfo's for:" and select a username in the NFO plugin setup.

Note Emby does not use this information, only Kodi.

[Happy2Play 9780]

3 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

So Emby is only writing database information per library setting and Kodi comes along and writes a nfo and then Emby reads that nfo and creates problems as it does not contain all required Emby informations, sound about right?

 

2 minutes ago, artstar said:

Exactly!

@Luke does that sound right for the Kodi add-ons?

[Carlo 4561]

The option I'm referring to is an Emby function and nothing to do with Kodi.

[Happy2Play 9780]

2 minutes ago, cayars said:

The option I'm referring to is an Emby function and nothing to do with Kodi.

Sorry Emby does not read watched statuses from nfo files, unless something has changed.

Enable this to save watch data to Nfo files for other applications to utilize.

 

Edited August 25, 2020 by Happy2Play

[artstar 17]

Righto then. I've changed the setting in the NFO plugin to "None" for the user setting. Let's see how we go with that when I test it again tonight. I'd say this ought to solve my problem.

Thanks guys!

[Happy2Play 9780]

2 minutes ago, artstar said:

Righto then. I've changed the setting in the NFO plugin to "None" for the user setting. Let's see how we go with that when I test it again tonight. I'd say this ought to solve my problem.

Thanks guys!

If kodi is writing nfo files then I see this to remain a issue with missing metadata.

[artstar 17]

I'll report back with the results and let you know. Fingers crossed all the same!

[Luke 42078]

12 hours ago, artstar said:

I'll report back with the results and let you know. Fingers crossed all the same!

Great, thanks !

[artstar 17]

Hi guys,

I'm starting off with an apology for wasting everyone's time.

Setting the user to "None" for Emby's NFO plugin didn't stop the nfo file creation.

Ultimately, what I found was that it was the Embuary add-on in Kodi that was actually producing the nfo files all this time. The moment I disabled the "Metadata Editor," no more nfo files were being written.

Again, sorry for wasting everyone's time on this.

[Carlo 4561]

Glad you got it figured out.

[Luke 42078]

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Setting the user to "None" for Emby's NFO plugin didn't stop the nfo file creation.

Hi, why would you expect it to stop the nfo file creation? Did you read the help text underneath the option?

[artstar 17]

6 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, why would you expect it to stop the nfo file creation? Did you read the help text underneath the option?

Simply because I'm a moron who didn't RTFM.