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.
Plezy is edge-to-edge on Android whether it asks to be or not: targetSdk is
36, Android 15 enforces edge-to-edge for apps targeting 35+, and Android 16
disables the windowOptOutEdgeToEdgeEnforcement escape hatch. The only
SystemUiMode.edgeToEdge call in the app fires on video-player exit, so on
API 35+ the window is edge-to-edge from the first frame and
MediaQuery.padding.bottom is a real ~48dp overlap under 3-button navigation.
MainScreen's phone layout hides that. It supplies a bottomNavigationBar and
never sets extendBody, so Flutter's Scaffold strips padding.bottom from the
body MediaQuery and every tab is already safe. Routes pushed on the profile
navigator are full-screen siblings of MainScreen with no bottom bar, so they
receive the untouched inset and nothing consumes it - the last settings card
and the final log lines render under the back, home, and recents buttons.
Three shared hosts own most of those routes, so the inset is consumed there:
FocusedScrollScaffold (25 screens, counting the SettingsPage wrapper) and
FocusableDetailScreenMixin.buildDetailScaffold (4) now append a trailing
SliverSystemBottomInset, and the four screens that build their own Scaffold
around a CustomScrollView append it directly.
The new widget codifies the convention this repository had already written
down but open-coded - insets baked into the scroll content rather than a
SafeArea around the scroll view - so content still paints under the bar while
the scroll extent grows enough to bring the last row above it. It reads
padding from its own context and collapses to zero height wherever the inset
is already zero: desktop, Android TV, tvOS via _AppleTvScale, and inside
MainScreen's tab bodies. No platform branching, and it stacks additively with
the music detail screens' existing mini-player spacers, which is correct
because the mini-player itself floats above the navigation bar on a pushed
route.
Scroll views that are not sliver lists take the inset in their own padding:
the companion remote's ListView, the auth screen's scroll container, and the
two SliverFillRemaining sign-in forms, whose children size themselves from
the extent remaining before them and so cannot be helped by a trailing
sliver. The logs empty state is left alone for the same reason inverted - it
already fills the viewport, and a trailing inset would only add scroll slack.
Verified on a Pixel 7 running Android 16 (API 36) with 3-button navigation:
Settings, Logs, and Video Playback all end clear of the bar.
close#1766
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.
- start binder before navigating from auth, mark isBinding synchronously
- overlap plex.tv resource refresh with optimistic cached-metadata connect,
reconcile tokens/membership in background once it lands
- cached endpoint probe gets a head start on the race instead of serially
blocking it
- defer phase-1 HTTPS upgrade off the splash critical path
- per-server connect progress stream for incremental splash checkmarks
- startup timing instrumentation (bind/fetch/race/connect elapsedMs)
The auth screen was calling connectAndInitialize without a clientIdentifier,
causing MultiServerManager to fall back to a throwaway timestamp ID for all
probe requests during first login. This meant Plex registered a new device on
every login, not just the first ever install.
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