Hi all, I’m running Plexamp Headless on multiple Raspberry Pi’s and I’ve noticed that when you pause the playback and resume it after some time, e.g. next day or even after multiple days, it consistently does not show in the Plex Dashboard as playing, and nothing get recording in the playback histo…

Hi Elan, yes, you are correct, it does in fact do that. I did not notice that, sorry for the confusion. After starting a new Playback, when the device shows up in the Server Dashboard again, the Playback History from before gets added. I’ve attached the logs from when I tried to resume to this Pos…

I’ve managed to consistently reproduce this error by restarting the PMS whilst Playback is paused, it will then throw the 401 Unauthorized Error. It will keep playing though and also fetch new Songs, but it will only send the playback history to Plex and what’s currently playing once one starts som…

Noted, we’ll try to improve this scenario in the future. However, I’m a bit surprised it’s returning a 401, are you running some sort of proxy in front of the server? Otherwise I would assume the connection would fail completely. In either case, though, it makes sense to me to retry sooner.

I checked again, restarting my server, and it works as expected. Once the next track starts playing, it resumes sending progress to the server and flushes saved state. Your logs above just show the period where there is a failure, but not once the server comes back online again.

I do have my Plex available through a reverse proxy, so I can reach my web frontend through a custom domain, but I do also just have the port 32400 forward, so I assume Plexamp would by default just connect directly? That’s weird, I’ve checked again and for me it does not recover on the next song, …

Well then post a complete log and we’ll have a look.

I’ve attached the (now hopefully complete) logfile. It should contain the following actions: Pausing the currently playing track Restarting the PMS Resuming → Client not showing as playing Skipping two tracks → Client not showing as playing, Songs not yet in history Me starting a new playlist → Cl…

I see the requests into the server here: success, then error, then success again; from the perspective of Plexamp, it’s reporting playback status (as well as batching any missing events), so I’m not sure what to recommend, it may be a server issue. Server logs should have some indication of playback…

I can see the 401 Erorrs in the Server log, but sadly there isn’t much more information than that. I’ve tried a couple of times, but I couldn’t anything more useful in the server logs. Mar 16, 2025 22:44:59.027 [128543496870712] DEBUG - [HttpClient/HCl#8e] HTTP/1.1 (0.1s) 200 response from GET http…

Plexamp not showing in Server Dashboard on Resome after Idle

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elan March 3, 2025, 7:00am 2

i highly doubt it’s missing the playback history, Plexamp buffers playback events and batches them to the server at a later time if it has trouble reaching the server.

Please reproduce the issue and upload Plexamp logs so we can have a look.

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Plexamp not showing in Server Dashboard on Resome after Idle

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