Continue Watching - Home Screen

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Sorry if this is the wrong category, but i need some help or information regarding the Home screen.

On all my devices: TV, Phone, Web etc i am unable to see the ‘Continue to Watch’ screen.
I have tried all my devices, restarting the server, cleared database/bundles, reindex etc.

Nothing seem to solve this issue.

Thanks in advance.

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Continue Watching only appears after

  • a movie has been watched for at least 1 minute but not past the 90% mark
  • an episode of a tv show has been watched and there are still further unwatched episodes in that show
  • The libraries, where the above items are stored, must have been “pinned” to the left sidebar in your plex client.
  • The libraries, where the above items are stored, must NOT be marked as “Exclude from Home screen[…]” in their properties.

All of the above only applies to currently supported, genuine Plex clients. https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/player-apps-platforms/
When accessing a Plex server via a generic DLNA-compatible player, there is no Continue Watching.

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I had atleast 10 items in that section and now its gone, i also just watched something for a few minutes and refreshed, nothing.

The clients that i use are:

Samsung TV (2024)
Samsung S23 Ultra
Desktop webversion (plex.tv/web)

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  1. activate debug logging (not ‘verbose’!)
  2. quit Plex Server
  3. wait 1 minute
  4. start Plex Server
  5. wait 2 minutes
  6. either refresh one movie or add one movie into your library
  7. wait 3 minutes
  8. fetch log files and attach them here
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Plex Media Server Logs_2025-02-12_12-10-43.zip (2.9 MB)

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Your server is still in the process of scanning libraries, updating metadata etc. Don’t expect it to be fully ready before this hasn’t been finished.

Side note: if you want your [tmdb-xxxxxx] numbers in your file and folder names to be useful, enclose them in {}, instead of [] .

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No activity anymore, so heres a new log file
Plex Media Server Logs_2025-02-12_12-52-29.zip (2.9 MB)

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Keep your server switched on at least for one night, so it can perform its database maintenance routines.

What about the other points of my first response?

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  • a movie has been watched for at least 1 minute but not past the 90% mark
    yep, but there is nothing here not even the category ‘continue to watch’

  • an episode of a tv show has been watched and there are still further unwatched episodes in that show
    Yup - have many movies/series that fall under this category

  • The libraries, where the above items are stored, must have been “pinned” to the left sidebar in your plex client.
    Yup - all common libraries have been pinned (in all apps over and over again)

  • The libraries, where the above items are stored, must NOT be marked as “Exclude from Home screen[…]” in their properties.
    All library items are shown in other categories, the only problem is Continue to Watch

FYI i havent changed any settings i just noticed that it was gone.

–Will return tomorow probably with the same result

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Did you perhaps change something in
Settings - [server] - Manage - Libraries
and enable both the “Recently Released” as well as “Recently Added” hubs for the Home page?

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nope: FYI i havent changed any settings i just noticed that it was gone.

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Goodmorning, heres the new log
Plex Media Server Logs_2025-02-13_08-19-36.zip (3.6 MB)

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still no change

14

Anyone?

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After searching for days this was the solution of my issue with continue to watch not showing.
A corrupted database, got it fixed by using GitHub - ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair: Database repair utility for Plex Media Server databases

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