Emby is Jellyfin's upstream ancestor and speaks a near-identical MediaBrowser
API, so the existing Jellyfin stack is parameterised by a `MediaBrowserDialect`
rather than forked. `JellyfinClient`, its auth service, endpoint discovery, LAN
discovery, and the add/edit connection screens all take the dialect and keep one
implementation; `MediaBackend.emby` and `ConnectionKind.emby` carry it through
the neutral models, the Drift `kind` discriminator, downloads, and caches.
Every divergence below was measured against a live Emby 4.9.5 server, not
inferred from documentation, and each is documented at its capability getter.
Jellyfin's request strings stay byte-identical so nothing about its behaviour
changes.
Routes and auth
- Emby only accepts the pre-10.9 user-scoped item routes (`/Users/{id}/Items/…`,
`/Users/{id}/PlayedItems/…`, `/Users/{id}/FavoriteItems/…`); the unprefixed
forms Jellyfin 10.11 added return 404.
- The API is also served under a legacy `/emby` prefix, and both dialects accept
the token as `X-Emby-Token` or `api_key=`.
- Emby answers only its own LAN discovery datagram ("who is EmbyServer?") and
ignores Jellyfin's; its default HTTPS port is 8920.
- No `/QuickConnect` route exists, so Quick Connect stays Jellyfin-only.
Row fields Emby withholds
- `ProductionYear`, `OfficialRating`, `PremiereDate` and `DateCreated` are absent
from list rows unless named in `Fields`, which would otherwise strip the year
and age-rating badge from every card in the app.
- `UserData.LastPlayedDate` never appears on a list row under `Fields=UserData`,
`EnableUserData=true` or the user-scoped `Ids=` form — only on the single-item
detail route, or when the Emby-specific `UserDataLastPlayedDate` token is
requested. Without it every recency-ordered surface silently degrades to
library-add time, and `JellyfinApiCache.applyWatchState` stamps
`DateTime.now()` on watched rows, so an offline watch-state pull would rewrite
the cached play time of everything it walked.
Continue Watching and Next Up
- Emby computes Next Up per series only: the library-wide `/Shows/NextUp` query
returns nothing under every parameter combination tried. The shelf is
therefore reconstructed from a played-episode recency scan plus one
`/Shows/NextUp?SeriesId=` per distinct series, bounded by a shared wall clock
that covers the scan as well — per-request timeouts cannot bound the pass
because `MediaServerHttpClient` times the connect and receive phases
independently. Rows are stamped with their series' newest play from the same
response that ordered them, so no per-series enrichment request is needed.
- `/Shows/NextUp` ignores `NextUpDateCutoff`, and no server-side played-date
filter exists to delegate to (`MinDatePlayed` and `MinDateLastPlayed` are
ignored; `MinDateLastSaved`, `MinDateCreated` and `MinPremiereDate` filter
unrelated dates), so the 365-day window is applied to the scanned dates.
- The resume route returns items with no saved position, including plain next
episodes, so the Emby resume leg reads from `/Items?Filters=IsResumable`.
- Emby is ahead of Jellyfin in one place: `/Users/{id}/Items/{id}/HideFromResume`
makes Continue Watching removal a real capability.
Everything else
- `/Sessions/Playing` and `/Sessions/Playing/Progress` reject a body with no
`PlaySessionId` (HTTP 400), so playback reporting always sends one.
- Passing any `MediaTypes` value to the playlist query returns an empty list.
- There is no aggregate `/Items/Filters` route; the four filter facets are
reassembled from `/Genres`, `/OfficialRatings`, `/Studios` and `/Tags`.
- Metadata writes take name-pair lists (`Genres: [{'Name': 'Action'}]`); the
plain string array is accepted and then silently discarded.
- Custom artwork uploads must be base64 text, not raw bytes — which was broken
for Jellyfin too and is fixed for both.
- Trickplay, media segments and lyrics 404 on Emby, so scrub previews are absent
and intro/credit markers fall back to chapter names.
Verified against a local Emby 4.9.5 and a Jellyfin 10.11.11 control server:
onboarding, browse, detail, playable stream URLs serving real bytes, subtitle
sidecars, watch-state write and restore, hubs, cross-server aggregation and
search across both backends simultaneously.
ConnectionRegistry.upsert already preserved isDefault on conflict but
rewrote created_at from the in-memory model. Re-signing in rebuilds the
connection with DateTime.now() under the same stable id, so the row's
creation time jumped forward on every reauth.
That was cosmetic while created_at only drove list ordering. It is now
behaviour: it picks which connection lends a profile its picture, so
re-adding the originally-first connection could hand the avatar to a
later one. remove() also promotes the oldest remaining row to default
and was reading the same restamped value.
Preserve the existing row's created_at on conflict, reusing the lookup
upsert already performs for isDefault.
A local profile had no picture of its own and always fell back to
initials. It now borrows the user picture of the connection it was
linked to first — oldest Connection.createdAt, ties broken by
connection id, since the join table carries no creation time.
Jellyfin links resolve to /Users/{id}/Images/Primary, keyed by the
PrimaryImageTag now captured at authentication and refreshed from the
/Users/Me body checkHealth already fetches. That endpoint is anonymous
on every Jellyfin release, so the URL carries no api_key and the access
token stays out of the image cache key. Plex links resolve the Home
user the link points at against PlexHomeService's live cache, so no
account-level lookup is needed and the picture tracks Plex's own
refresh.
The picture is derived per snapshot and never written back onto a
Profile: ProfileDetailScreen upserts the model it holds, so a
persisted URL would go stale and outlive the connection it came from.
Plex Home profiles are untouched, including one whose Plex avatar is
unset — it keeps its initials rather than borrowing a lent connection's
picture.
close#1667
Introduces shared seams for paginated views, D-pad reorder, media control
routing, async singletons and the device method channel, then points the
open-coded copies at them.
Also removes unused models and duplicated provider/server plumbing, folds
the twice-implemented artifact store in the server, and factors the
repeated Flutter toolchain prologue in CI into a composite action.
Drops dead code across services, models, utils and widgets, including the
connection auth service, which had no implementer, and the Live TV DVR
provisioning models, which had no caller.
Tests that only covered deleted behaviour are removed or trimmed. No
behaviour change.
FFmpeg's protocol lookup is case-sensitive, so a stored "Https://" base
URL reaches mpv verbatim through the direct-play string concat and fails
with "Protocol not found" (API calls survive because Dart's Uri
lowercases the scheme). Canonicalize at Jellyfin URL intake and in the
connection constructor so persisted configs self-heal on load, and
register mpv-escaped (https\://) redaction variants so option-value
logs stop leaking the server host.
close#1465
Delete unused registry members (ProfileConnectionRegistry.insertIfAbsent /
removeAllForProfile, ProfileRegistry.reorder, ProfilesView.countFor,
ConnectionRegistry.getDefault) and their orphan tests, refreshing the stale
docs that named removeAllForProfile as the profile-delete cleanup path.
Repair the "one default per profile" join-row invariant: the connectionId FK
cascade (foreign_keys=ON) silently drops a profile's default row while its
other rows survive, leaving it defaultless. Add promoteMissingDefaults, share
a deterministic re-promotion helper with remove(), and re-promote in
removeAllForConnection.
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