Question: Partial Watch Progress & Multi-User Sync Support

[UsamaWaheed]

Hi,

First off, thanks for building WatchState — I’ve got it set up with a 2-way sync between my Plex and Emby servers, and it’s working great for watched episodes. I just had two questions:

• Partial watched progress

Right now, I can see full “watched” syncs working perfectly. Is there also support (or a planned feature) for syncing partial watch progress?
For example, if I watch 10 minutes of TV_Show S01E01 in Plex, will WatchState sync that position to Emby so I can continue from the same point, and vice versa?

• Multi-user sync

If I want to sync watch states for multiple users between the same Plex and Emby servers, what’s the recommended approach?
Do I need to add multiple backends for the same server (one per user), or is there a built-in way to configure multiple users for sync in a single backend?

Thanks again for your work on this project!

[arabcoders]

Hi and welcome

Partial watched progress

It's already implemented and called watch progress should work out of the box if you add the webhooks it will be reflected almost instantly, otherwise the sync only happens during import/export cycle.

Multi-user sync

Once your own main user profile setup is complete, visit the help section about multiuser setup it explains everything.

[UsamaWaheed]

Thank you so much for the quick response!! Appreciate it!

• Partial watch state:

Here’s what I’ve observed — if I watch something in Plex, that partial watch progress (TV_Show_S01E02 for ~10 minutes) doesn’t seem to sync to Emby . I’ve tried both the normal import/export and force import/export, but the position never comes across. Fully watched items do sync correctly for e.g., TV_SHOW_S01E01 watched fully shows up as watched in both. On the Emby side, I do see TV_SHOW_S01E02 appear on the home screen, but without the synced 10-minute progress. Not sure if I’m doing something wrong — I can share logs if that would help.

• Webhooks setup: Realtime sync would be fantastic!

On the Plex side, I was able to enable Webhooks and point them to the WatchState webhook URL. On the Emby side though, I’m a bit lost 😅. I installed the Webhooks plugin, but I don’t see any settings to configure. Am I supposed to set this up with a JSON file? If yes, could you guide me through it, maybe with a sample JSON I could try?
Other than this just enable webhooks in the backend, correct?

Really appreciate your help — I’m a complete noob with webhooks and just want to make sure I set this up properly.

[arabcoders]

No worrier, if you have some progress on some times and do an import it should trigger an event called on_progress. checkout the events page and see if you have any registered if so open them and you would see why its not syncing. or via the tasks logs.

regarding emby i think you need emby premiere to activate it, i the help menu we have entire guide documentation for webhooks and how to enable them, please reference them it should explain how to add webhooks for all supported platforms.

[UsamaWaheed]

Thank you so much! Everything is working. Your guide was perfect!