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.
109 lines
4.3 KiB
Dart
109 lines
4.3 KiB
Dart
import '../connection/connection.dart';
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import '../models/plex/plex_home_user.dart';
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import '../services/jellyfin_mappers.dart';
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import 'profile.dart';
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import 'profile_connection.dart';
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/// Picture URL per profile id, `null` meaning "render initials".
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///
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/// A [PlexHomeProfile] owns its picture: Plex serves a per-home-user avatar
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/// and [Profile.virtualPlexHome] already carries it, so those pass through
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/// untouched.
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///
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/// A [LocalProfile] has no picture of its own. It shows the user picture of
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/// the connection it was linked to **first** — the oldest by
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/// [Connection.createdAt], ties broken by connection id so the choice is
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/// stable. If that connection has no picture the profile falls back to
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/// initials; we deliberately do *not* skip ahead to a later connection, so the
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/// avatar stays a property of "the first connection" rather than of whichever
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/// backend happens to have an image today.
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///
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/// The join row is not a usable ordering key: `profile_connections` has no
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/// creation timestamp, and `tokenAcquiredAt` is rewritten every time the
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/// binder re-mints a Plex Home token.
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Map<String, String?> resolveProfileAvatarUrls({
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required List<Profile> profiles,
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required Map<String, List<ProfileConnection>> connectionsByProfile,
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required Map<String, Connection> connectionsById,
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required Map<String, List<PlexHomeUser>> plexHomeByConnectionId,
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}) {
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return {
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for (final profile in profiles)
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profile.id: _avatarForProfile(
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profile: profile,
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links: connectionsByProfile[profile.id] ?? const [],
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connectionsById: connectionsById,
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plexHomeByConnectionId: plexHomeByConnectionId,
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),
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};
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}
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String? _avatarForProfile({
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required Profile profile,
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required List<ProfileConnection> links,
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required Map<String, Connection> connectionsById,
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required Map<String, List<PlexHomeUser>> plexHomeByConnectionId,
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}) {
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final own = profile.avatarThumbUrl;
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if (own != null && own.isNotEmpty) return own;
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// A Plex Home user with no avatar set keeps its initials. Plex owns that
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// profile's identity end to end, so it must never borrow the picture of a
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// connection it happens to have been lent.
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if (profile.isPlexHome) return null;
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ProfileConnection? firstLink;
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Connection? first;
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for (final link in links) {
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// A link whose connection was removed can't contribute a picture, and it
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// must not win the ordering either.
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final connection = connectionsById[link.connectionId];
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if (connection == null) continue;
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if (first == null || _isEarlier(connection, first)) {
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first = connection;
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firstLink = link;
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}
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}
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if (first == null || firstLink == null) return null;
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return connectionAvatarUrl(connection: first, link: firstLink, plexHomeByConnectionId: plexHomeByConnectionId);
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}
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bool _isEarlier(Connection candidate, Connection incumbent) {
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final byCreatedAt = candidate.createdAt.compareTo(incumbent.createdAt);
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if (byCreatedAt != 0) return byCreatedAt < 0;
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return candidate.id.compareTo(incumbent.id) < 0;
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}
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/// Picture a single connection contributes to [link]'s profile, or `null`.
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///
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/// Plex resolves through the join row rather than the account owner: a profile
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/// borrows a *specific* Home user (`userIdentifier`), and that user's live
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/// [PlexHomeUser.thumb] is the picture Plex shows for it. Reading the live
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/// cache also means the avatar tracks Plex's hourly refresh for free.
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///
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/// Jellyfin and Emby use the same `/Users/{uid}/Images/Primary` route, so the
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/// shared [JellyfinConnection] arm is dialect-agnostic.
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String? connectionAvatarUrl({
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required Connection connection,
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required ProfileConnection link,
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required Map<String, List<PlexHomeUser>> plexHomeByConnectionId,
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}) {
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return switch (connection) {
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JellyfinConnection(:final baseUrl, :final userId, :final primaryImageTag) => jellyfinUserImageUrl(
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baseUrl: baseUrl,
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userId: userId,
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tag: primaryImageTag,
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),
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PlexAccountConnection() => _plexHomeUserThumb(plexHomeByConnectionId[connection.id], link.userIdentifier),
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};
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}
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String? _plexHomeUserThumb(List<PlexHomeUser>? homeUsers, String homeUserUuid) {
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if (homeUsers == null || homeUserUuid.isEmpty) return null;
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for (final user in homeUsers) {
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if (user.uuid != homeUserUuid) continue;
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return user.thumb.isEmpty ? null : user.thumb;
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}
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return null;
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}
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