Hello All, Has anyone noticed that Continue Watching has been playing up lately? For example, when a new season of a show is release they are more often than not showing up in Continue Watching.
I have seen other posts about this from a while ago, but no resolution.
I have “Weeks to consider for Continue Watching” set to 104.
I have “Include season premieres in Continue Watching” turned on.
I’ve tried turn off Include season premieres in Continue Watching, restarting the server, turning it back on and restarting but that didn’t help.
I’ve also tried to repair/optimise the database. No luck.
His utility should do a few more things then what you possibly did.
Continue watching should work based on I believe the metadata views table and then a calculation that the last episode of something you’ve watched falls within your 104 weeks AND the next episode is available (that’s my simplistic logical reasoning, but as I don’t work for Plex or have that actual knowledge it is really just a guess on my part).
Have a look at the play history for a problematic series. Does it show what you expect (all episodes played)?
Currently, as implemented, if you mark a show as unwatched, Plex will also delete its entire play history for all its episodes. This may have the knock-on effect of causing it to not be visible in continue watching when a new season rolls around.
It’s a strange problem, to be sure. I’ve not ever seen something similar on my own server/clients.
Database issues were the first thing I thought of given the problem description, but since you’d performed a repair before posting, I discounted that. It may however be worth you having a look at your relevant Plex Media Server.log file to see if it reports a “corrupted” or “malformed” database. You should just be able to search for either/both terms to see if the condition is detected.
Another thing which might be interesting would be to “reset” your continue watching hub when the issue next occurs. That is, set the “Weeks to consider for Continue Watching” to 0 on each server contributing to that hub; then restart the server and refresh/reload the client. You’ll know you got this right if there is no longer a continue watching hub. Then set it back to 104(?) and restart the server/clients again.
Regarding your example above (Naked and Afraid), your watch history shows that you watched the season 15 finale (episode 11). What should have shown in continue watching after that? Is it your expectation that some other unwatched episode should have shown (episode 9, perhaps?) next?
Confirming no “corrupted” or “malformed” errors in the log.
I haven’t tried to reset, i will try that the next time i see this issue.
Re Naked and Afraid, that was just an example. I expect that if i watched all the eps of the last season that when there is a brand new season it shows up in continue watching. In other words how the season premieres feature is meant to work.
I’ve been using plex for many many years, it has been fine in the past, this issue only just started happening 3-4months back.
