Checked the app's Emby-API assumptions directly against Emby's own
real OpenAPI spec (swagger.emby.media, pointed at a real server) after
a "watch status per user seems broken" report.
PlaystateService.reportProgress was wrong: POST
/Users/{UserId}/PlayingItems/{Id}/Progress does exist at that exact
path, but the spec declares PositionTicks/IsPaused as *query string*
parameters, not body fields - and a third parameter, MediaSourceId, is
*required* and wasn't being sent at all. The request body schema this
endpoint does list (Api.OnPlaybackProgress) covers unrelated fields
(PlaylistIndex/Shuffle/SleepTimerMode/...), none of these. So the
original guess sent PositionTicks/IsPaused somewhere Emby never reads
them, while omitting a parameter required just to accept the call -
almost certainly meaning every progress report was failing outright,
silently (best-effort by design, so nothing broke loudly).
Fixed: reportProgress now sends MediaSourceId/PositionTicks/IsPaused
as query parameters, no body at all. MediaSourceId comes from
PartyStreamService's own cache - CatalogService.negotiateStreamTarget
already resolves a real one for every party's shared stream
negotiation, so PartyStreamService now caches it alongside the target
path (negotiateStreamTarget's return type changed from a bare string
to {targetPath, mediaSourceId}) and exposes it read-only via a new
getCachedMediaSourceId(partyId) - deliberately passive, never triggers
a negotiation of its own, so a party where no one has started
playback yet this session simply has nothing to report; index.ts's
sweep skips it rather than paying for an extra PlaybackInfo round trip
every tick just for this.
While checking this, the other two flagged Emby-API assumptions (the
ffmpeg direct-stream URL, the /Playlists/{Id}/Items endpoint) were
re-checked against the same real spec too - both already correct, no
missing required parameter, consistent with them having been tried
for real successfully before.
Updated the 5 negotiateStreamTarget call sites in catalogService.test
to read the new {targetPath, mediaSourceId} shape, the 7
negotiateStreamTarget mocks in partyStreamService.test to return it
(plus 2 new tests: cache exposes mediaSourceId, a failed response
drops it too), rewrote playstateService.test's request-shape
assertions for query params instead of a body, and re-pointed
embyClient.test's generic body-encoding test at an arbitrary example
instead of implying it's still PlaystateService's real shape.
Verified: full typecheck/test/build (92/92 tests). docs/architecture.md
and README.md updated - the "Sync watch-party progress back to Emby"
section now documents the confirmed-wrong-then-fixed shape instead of
a standing TODO(verify), and README's "Not verified" paragraph moves
this (and the other two, now-confirmed) assumptions to "Resolved".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This app has been read/proxy-only toward Emby so far. Queued right
after the playlist feature, asked for directly: while someone's in a
party, push their progress to Emby's own PlaystateService, so their own
Emby library (resume position, last-played state) stays in sync with
the watch/listen party, under their own account - not just the host's,
and not just this app's own memory of it.
Scoped to periodic progress reporting only for v1 - no explicit
start/stop calls (Emby's own "now playing" list won't show this app's
streams, and "mark fully watched" isn't guaranteed the way a clean Stop
near 100% would trigger it). Steady Progress calls alone already cover
the actual ask; wiring clean start/stop into every transition (item
change, leave, party destroy, a device takeover) is real complexity for
a secondary payoff - left as a documented follow-up.
- server/src/types.ts: PartyMember gains embyToken (null until known,
same shape as this session's own deviceId addition) - never sent to
the client, toPublicState's member mapping doesn't grow it.
- server/src/emby/EmbyClient.ts: fetch() now optionally takes
method/body (JSON-encoded once, here) - every existing GET-only call
site unaffected, both are optional.
- server/src/services/PlaystateService.ts (new): reportProgress(token,
userId, itemId, positionTicks, isPaused) - POSTs to
/Users/{userId}/PlayingItems/{itemId}/Progress. Catches and logs its
own failures (new Logger.playstate) rather than throwing - this runs
on a timer with nothing to catch a rejection, and one bad token or a
transient Emby hiccup must never touch real playback.
- server/src/services/PartyService.ts: new setMemberEmbyToken (records
a member's own token) and getCurrentPlaybackState (video: the host's
own tracked position - there's no per-follower tracking today, a
reasonable approximation given the player's own drift correction;
music: the one shared, server-authoritative position every member
already sees the same way). The one real piece of logic here is pure
and unit-tested on its own, same shape as this session's
absoluteToRelativeIndex/splitPlaylistByMediaType.
- server/src/realtime/SocketGateway.ts: attach()'s getSession callback
widened to expose embyToken - it was already being passed the full
EmbySession (AuthService.getSession), just typed down to {userId,
userName} before anything downstream could read the rest. The "join"
handler now also records member.embyToken alongside deviceId.
- server/src/index.ts: setMemberEmbyToken called after each of the 4
REST create/join call sites, so a member has a valid token from the
moment they're a member, not only once their socket first connects.
New ~20s setInterval (same shape as the existing removeIdleParties/
TranscodeService.reapIdleSessions timers): for every active party,
getCurrentPlaybackState once, then reportProgress for every connected
member with a known token.
- server/test/embyClient.test.ts, partyService.test.ts,
playstateService.test.ts (new): the new body-encoding path (and that
a plain GET stays untouched), getCurrentPlaybackState's video/music/
empty branches, setMemberEmbyToken, and that reportProgress's request
shape is right and a thrown failure never propagates.
- docs/architecture.md, README.md: design + the deliberate v1 scope and
the follower-position approximation spelled out.
No client changes - this is a pure server-side background process with
nothing for the browser to render or react to.
Verified: full typecheck+test+build on both projects (71/71 server
tests, 9 new). No Emby server is reachable from this dev environment,
so the actual endpoint/body shape is unverified end-to-end - flagged
explicitly in the docs, the third such Emby-API assumption this session
(after the ffmpeg direct-stream URL and the Playlists endpoint, both
fine once actually tried).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every attempt to see Emby's actual error message by hand failed the same
way: hls.js's own error reporting only ever exposes the generic HTTP
reason phrase, never the real response body, and Emby's own live log
view didn't reliably surface the exception's headline message either -
across several different items and failure modes this session. Emby's
own access log confirmed a real, several-KB text body really was being
sent every time (Content-Type: text/plain, Content-Length: 5190) - it
just never survived being reported back through either of those paths.
Fixed at the root: EmbyClient.fetch - the one function every Emby call in
this app goes through (fetchJson's JSON API calls and proxyResponse's
streaming/image proxy alike) - now logs Emby's status and full response
body itself straight to docker logs whenever a call fails.
- server/src/emby/EmbyClient.ts: new private logErrorResponse, called
from fetch() only when !res.ok. Reads the body via .clone() so the real
caller still gets an untouched, fully readable response (a body can
only be consumed once, and this had to not break either of the two very
different ways this app's callers read one - fetchJson's .json(),
proxyResponse's .text()/pipe). pathAndQuery is logged with api_key
redacted - this can be called with Emby's own TranscodingUrl verbatim,
which can carry one (same concern as CatalogService's logStreamRequest).
- server/src/Logger.ts: new emby() method, same shape as party()/stream().
- server/test/embyClient.test.ts (new): body/status logged and readable
by the real caller afterward, api_key redaction, and silence on a
successful response (only failures are worth logging, same discipline
as this app's existing logging).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
