Post-play auto-advancement stop not working anymore in Web-App?

I remember it used to work for me, especially since I usually go to bed watching tv-shows, and waking up to my computer having gone to sleep due to no activity. Now-a-days Plex continues to play episodes forever.

According to https://support.plex.tv/articles/202605013-play-queue-post-play-screen/

"Auto-advance refers to the countdown timer on the Up Next item, which plays automatically once exhausted. It will be shown whenever there’s an Up Next item, except in the following circumstances:

If the user has opted out of auto-advance in the client preferences.
If videos have been playing without user intervention for more than two hours, and the video that just completed is > 20 minutes in length. In this case, the Up Next item will still be shown and selected such that a single click plays it.

These considerations are designed to try and make things work smoothly for users in as many scenarios as possible. For instance, these considerations should help:

  • prevent having a whole television season get played through if you fall asleep"

I barely have any television shows below 20 minutes in length, and as an example last night it continued playing through an entire season and a half of Arrested Development while I slept, I surely hadn’t had any user interaction as I slept.

I don’t seem to be able to edit my post, unfortunately the copy-pasted text had tabs in them when pasted which caused the markdown to format it as a code-block, apologies.

Good spot. When we added the ‘auto play’ checkbox in the postplay screen we lost the sleep/binge protection.

Not that it helps your use case, but we added support back in the Chromecast and the web app will be following soon. Apologies for all those missed wonderful Arrested Development moments!

Are there any other apps that currently support sleep/binge protection?

Just asked around - Android (mobile and TV), iOS and Apple TV all support the 2 hour protection. Hopefully we’ll get web and the TV apps up to spec soon!

What about the Plex Media Player? I got some RPI3’s lying around, would gladly set that up if it offers sleep/binge protection.

No, PMP uses the same underlying logic. It will be fixed when the web and TV apps are - sorry!