I’m having an issue where at 2:37AM i have 9 active streams, 8 of them are paused and I never have anyone active at this hour, some of them are stuck on paused. I’ve noticed this happening throughout the day and usually restarting Plex removes the sessions. Its happened 3 times now, so I believe fo…

I’ve noticed this with the 'Plex Experience" player on my AppleTV, but not a problem with the current player.

looks OK to me… [Screenshot 2025-05-19 at 11.28.30]

My database has remained at a similar size to what it usually is. Worth mentioning that when it does happen the server also doesn’t honour the “Pause duration” setting which for me is set to 15 minutes. I think this is because the client at the other end isn’t actually connected and its probably a …

[image] ItsThatJA: Worth mentioning that when it does happen the server also doesn’t honour the “Pause duration” setting which for me is set to 15 minutes. Not sure what you mean by this. What kind of Pause is that? Is that a setting in Plex?

Yes, its this one. [Screenshot_20250519_230642_Firefox]

This setting is just a thing for misbehaving users and client devices. Don’t get into the habit of pausing playback indefinitely. Particularly on the web app and the Plex for Desktop app, always use the :stop_button: to fully close the player controls. The server will store the playback position f…

Sessions not being removed from dashboard

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