Roku showing twice in devices

[GiGo 108]

As title, my Roku device is showing up twice in Active Devices (I only have 1 Roku);

 

I have sinced paused the show and started watching another show, it showed up twice for the first minute then disappeared, the show I am watching now is Direct Playing rather than Transcoding, but same behaviour for either, I have just updated to Server 4.6.0.21, but I think I saw it on 4.6.0.10 also. Log file attached if it helps.

embyserver.txt

[roaku 842]

Do you have both the release version and beta versions of the Roku app installed?

[speechles 2055]

There were recent adjustments to "protect" the device name and http encode it. The server can then work with special characters in the device name. It looks like the server is not showing plain text for those encoded entity and instead shows them bare. This means spaces become %20 rather than spaces. It might be the apps fault too. I can look into this on the app side.

@Luke Should the device name be sanitized of special characters or should we be percent encoding them? The server is not unencoding percent encoded entity. Is it supposed to?

Edited January 29, 2021 by speechles

[GiGo 108]

2 hours ago, roaku said:

Do you have both the release version and beta versions of the Roku app installed?

I do have both installed, as I thought i thought it could be that, but the version number on the devices show the Beta version number

2 hours ago, speechles said:

There were recent adjustments to "protect" the device name and http encode it. The server can then work with special characters in the device name. It looks like the server is not showing plain text for those encoded entity and instead shows them bare. This means spaces become %20 rather than spaces. It might be the apps fault too. I can look into this on the app side.

@Luke Should the device name be sanitized of special characters or should we be percent encoding them? The server is not unencoding percent encoded entity. Is it supposed to?

Glad you are aware of it.

[cybergrimes 93]

6 hours ago, speechles said:

It might be the apps fault too. I can look into this on the app side.

I'm seeing it with iOS devices too for awhile now.

 

[Spaceboy 2573]

9 minutes ago, cybergrimes said:

I'm seeing it with iOS devices too for awhile now.

 

 

me too

[Happy2Play 9780]

Yes this has actually been reported in several topics.  I see it for my Roku and IOS.

[seanbuff 1315]

Fixed in next release apparently.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Okay that implies a client update, so all clients need to updated?

[Luke 42077]

It's an issue in the iOS and Roku apps and is resolved in their next updates. thanks.