Plex status/session

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http://{ip_address}:32400/status/sessions?X-Plex-Token={plex_token}

The above command is supposed to return data similar to the data below. When
I issue that command I always get this result
[edit] not sure how to properly post this data the \ character seems to work

<MediaContainer size="0"> </MediaContainer>

I’ve tried every token listed in the device.xml output. What am I doing wrong.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MediaContainer size="1">
    <Video addedAt="1667839612" art="/library/metadata/286254/art/1667839616" createdAtAccuracy="epoch,local" createdAtTZOffset="0" duration="734166" guid="com.plexapp.agents.none://dcb84084c59465d53f8698a7c75a343a00d1b00f?lang=xn" key="/library/metadata/286254" librarySectionID="14" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/14" librarySectionTitle="Other videos" originallyAvailableAt="2022-11-07" ratingKey="286254" sessionKey="2" skipCount="4" subtype="clip" thumb="/library/metadata/286254/thumb/1667839616" title="tos-1720x720-cfg01" type="movie" updatedAt="1667839616" viewOffset="0" year="2022">
        <Media id="350106" videoProfile="main" audioChannels="2" audioCodec="aac" container="mp4" duration="734166" height="720" optimizedForStreaming="1" protocol="dash" videoCodec="h264" videoFrameRate="24p" videoResolution="720p" width="1720" selected="1">
            <Part id="350466" videoProfile="main" container="mp4" duration="734166" height="720" optimizedForStreaming="1" protocol="dash" width="1720" decision="transcode" selected="1">
               <Stream bitrate="2147483647" codec="h264" default="1" displayTitle="720p (HEVC Main)" extendedDisplayTitle="720p (HEVC Main)" frameRate="24" height="720" id="273542" language="English" languageCode="eng" languageTag="en" streamType="1" width="1720" decision="transcode" location="segments-video" />
                <Stream bitrate="256" bitrateMode="cbr" channels="2" codec="aac" default="1" displayTitle="English (AC3 5.1)" extendedDisplayTitle="English (AC3 5.1)" id="273543" language="English" languageCode="eng" languageTag="en" selected="1" streamType="2" decision="transcode" location="segments-audio" />
            </Part>
        </Media>
        <User id="1" thumb="https://plex.tv/users/64045869dc35e78e/avatar?c=1661361687" title="APlexUser" />
        <Player address="127.0.0.1" device="Windows" machineIdentifier="k5y3j33nmvjvd0uhvnd9zi2x" model="bundled" platform="Firefox" platformVersion="108.0" product="Plex Web" profile="Firefox" state="playing" title="Firefox" version="4.87.2" local="1" relayed="0" secure="1" userID="1" />
        <Session id="rxiscwekkvkpukgi3pm9nklp" bandwidth="10000000" location="lan" />
        <TranscodeSession key="/transcode/sessions/rl42k5xbxdly8rld3itfqq4f" throttled="0" complete="0" progress="5.3000001907348633" size="-22" speed="6.9000000953674316" error="0" duration="734167" remaining="93" context="streaming" sourceVideoCodec="hevc" sourceAudioCodec="ac3" videoDecision="transcode" audioDecision="transcode" protocol="dash" container="mp4" videoCodec="h264" audioCodec="aac" audioChannels="2" transcodeHwRequested="1" transcodeHwEncoding="mf" transcodeHwEncodingTitle="Windows (Media Foundation)" timeStamp="1671053495.3404744" maxOffsetAvailable="39.018666666666668" minOffsetAvailable="0" />
   </Video>
</MediaContainer>

Mod-Edit: added code tags

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A playback from your server needs to be in progress while you fetch this page. Otherwise you will always only see the first response above.

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The activity icon is circling when plex is recording. Are you saying that there is no way to determine that plex is recording something?

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This API call is only designed to list playback sessions.
I am not sure if there is one for ongoing recordings.
There might be one, but I don’t know what it is. You might be able to glean it from the developer console of your web browser while a recording is being indicated in the web app.

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I found a way around the issue. Use the activities api and search the returned information for “Recording” If “Recording” found don’t shutdown the computer.

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