Is multi user support only for users in the household?

[Splinter7914]

I have users that are added to my house hold IE "Plex Home" these users are getting mapped just fine.

Then I also have users that have access to my libraries.

When I run command watchstate console backend:create only the users in Plex Home are being found in plex. Is this expected?

This command does not show the users that have access to my library being.

[arabcoders]

Hello,

indeed this is working as expected, as you do not have access over those users. and plex doesn't consider them local users.

However, if you have access to their plex admin token, you can add them manually. I plan to add a flag to the command to allow you to override the plex token, but sadly this most likely will need a mapper file.

[arabcoders]

Hi,

Ok let me clear things up, we never had external users support before.

Plex uses external auth system, we generate access token to access your local users, as those invited users are not local users to your own plex account they don't show up. we really cant do anything about that unlike jellyfin/emby which all users are local.

You are able to see some information about them via the API thats how Tautulli possibly show their progress. However, to sync their progress you need a way to actually use the API as said user which you need to create access token for, you aren't able to or meant to be able to generate those access-tokens without the plex admin token.

I will see if it's possible to do something about it.

[Splinter7914]

Interesting, What I recall when we had that sync option for multi user support that it was syncing progress for these users that it is unable to sync today. May be I was mis reading the logs.

Anyhow appreciate this project. No rush from my end for this would be nice and I will be available to test it out if you need some one to take it for a spin.

[arabcoders]

No worries. You can technically do it manually by setting their plex token and it will work right now. however it will fail eventually as the token need to be regenerated via the plex admin token.

You are probably was seeing emby/jellyfin users being synced which is quite normal and expected :-)

[arabcoders]

I have added initial support to generate access-tokens for external users 71dd9e8 it's up in :dev branch and will be merged to master next week most likely.

Thanks for pointing out Tautulli had support for them, i looked over their implementation and they are using probably deprecated endpoint which will probably be removed in the future. However, to ease the setup for users right now i have implemented similar implementation.

However, keep in mind, it's still in early stages and things might be broken.

[Splinter7914]

Oh wow. Will check it out once the main branch gets it. I wonder if that API will ever go away, Tautulli has always had that info. Also Plex Dash app also shows history from other users. May be it uses the same api (hopefully)

[Splinter7914]

Tried it out and create command created user.

Also curious if the mapper file should take preference over auto mapping in case the auto mapping ends up mapping the wrong user.

Thanks for the quick enhancement.

[arabcoders]

Tried it out and create command created user.

Also curious if the mapper file should take preference over auto mapping in case the auto mapping ends up mapping the wrong user.

Thanks for the quick enhancement.

Hello, np. And yes mapper.yaml has higher prio than automatic match, this is to give user a freedom in altering the association