Continuing the discussion from Plex Media Server : [image] Plex Media Server (View History) No longer create a view history entry for items marked as played (#10888) Can I ask what is the reasoning around this change ? Seems like another step in the wrong direction :frowning: EDIT: For contex…

This has been something we’ve wanted to address for years now (the original internal issue is from 2019). Basically we don’t want to create watch history for views that are not organic, with the addition of the Discover activities this just became more important as most of the time you’re not manua…

sorry, what is stored at plex.inc? I was sure plex was only a local thing up to now.

[image] pommesmatte: [image] drzoidberg33: Basically we don’t want to create watch history for views that are not organic, with the addition of the Discover activities this just became more important as most of the time you’re not manually marking something as watched on your server because …

[image] speedyflipper: The only entries being added to history are watched completely on a client. Marking via API or Web UI are not adding to history or the database. This seems to be the intended behavior after this change and I find it useful that way. Always bothered me, that marking as…

I understand the rewatch vs unwatch debate but not adding any history if manually watched will cause more issues. For example, I only discovered this after I watched a season of except one episode never got marked played when watched. Then after manually marking it watched, it became the only episo…

BTW, I thought I had asked this already but appears I didn’t. With this new change should a Movie which is manually marked as watched, without actually being watched still be added to the Recently Played row on the recommended tab ?

[image] anon5074910: With this new change should a Movie which is manually marked as watched, without actually being watched still be added to the Recently Played row on the recommended tab ? Yes. This hub is looking at the watch state and not the watch history of items. The logic used in tha…

Can’t you throw it in your Watchlist? Then use the Watchlist as the “I am going to see this (again)”. It won’t impact Played/not by just being in the watchlist.

Now that this has moved out of Beta is there way to avoid this. It greatly messes up how I use Plex. I use the API to mark items as watched when watched outside of Plex and have a scripts to correct the watch time. In addition, the scripts remove “invalid” views which are what I believe you are try…

Reading this info from another thread: [image] Continue Watching is buggy? Unable to figure out why Plex Media Server Ahh ok that makes sense then. Continue Watching looks at Watch State and Watch History. With the recent change in PMS, only actual watching will create Wa…

Is there any API to create Watch History that we can ask the Infuse devs to call after marking an episode as watched?

View History Change in 1.40.0.x server version

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anon5074910 February 22, 2024, 2:51pm 43

Continuing the discussion from Plex Media Server:

OMG – can this be true ?

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