Is there a means of checking whether the server is currently streaming content from the command line? I’m trying to automate library backup but don’t want the process to start if someone is streaming. None of the logs I’ve examined have obvious playback status indicators.

You should be able to get what you want by looking at this script: [image] Bash Script to Warn/Alert Users of Imminent Shutdown? General Discussions And 4 the fun of it, I created a bash script You’ll need to customize first 4 lines #!/bin/sh PMS_IP='192.168.1.14' TOKE…

That worked great, thanks! I had one minor tweak: It should be calling bash and not sh based on the array usage.

Here’s the code I used: #!/usr/bin/env bash PMS_IP='TBD' TOKEN='TBD' CLIENT_IDENT='SomeRandomStringWithoutSpace' #Start by getting the active sessions sessionURL="http://$PMS_IP:32400/status/sessions?X-Plex-Client-Identifier=$CLIENT_IDENT&X-Plex-Token=$TOKEN" response=$(curl -i -k -L -s $sessionU…

[image] tiziojoe: It should be calling bash and not sh That’s OS Distro dependent :wink:

Check streaming status from command line? (linux)

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dane22 July 29, 2021, 7:51pm 2

You should be able to get what you want by looking at this script:

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