Marking As Watched in Plex is not being picked up as viewed in Maintainerr #1831
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This is not a bug per say, we've always used watch history for view counts and Plex no longer creates those entries on the server for Mark as Watched. There's an open feature request to look into your specific request. Though the solution will only work for your specific user as far as I can tell from my initial look at an implementation. |
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Gotcha, that's good to know. I did have to do some workarounds with a smart collection and then hook Maintainerr into that in order to delete things. Given the lack of a watch history entry, I would guess this is more of a feature request like you're saying. |
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You can use Tautulli to achieve this, for what it's worth. It does a much better job, because plex also has oddities such as that "mark as unwatched" will not decrease / remove the view count (nor will deleting the viewing activity), and even watching an item for a second will cause the viewing to be logged. Tautulli is more intelligent and only counts sessions longer than a certain threshold and only counts watches once they reach a certain mark in the content. I recognize it's one more thing to install but I ended up doing it after experiencing a lot of frustration with the plex watch status in the API. |
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In Plex if I choose to mark an item as watched (having never hit Play on it ever), the viewCount in Plex increments to 1, but Maintainerr is not picking up that change; it continues to see it as 0.
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viewCount="1"
Expected behavior
Maintainerr should pick up the viewCount regardless if the item in Plex is watched or simply marked as watched.
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Additional context
In Plex if an item is never played but marked as watched, it does NOT show in play history. I'm unsure if this matters because viewCount for an item in Plex still shows an incremented viewCount.
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