tldr: accidentally named two devices the same thing. start a remote stream from emby/jellyfin app and it starts on both devices! now i can sell the HDMI matrix?
i fucks with emby/jellyfin. i enjoy Kodi as my front end, it works with my preferred remote, and the json library is robust.
after finding out about the Arctic Zephyr reloaded skin, i have been pimping the GUI to be the absolute perfect skin for my libraries, customizing everything to the tiniest degree, omg i am in love. I'm not quite done yet but once it is, I'd put money on it going toe to toe with any of the proprietary bullshit people suffer through to watch video content these days. (apple tv or roku versions of everyone's favorite corpo apps, even Android TV kinda sucks. )
sorry, I've gotten off track.
anyways, after the days work, i make a backup with the addon, sling it to the other Kodi box (an old chromebook out of the dumpster) and hit restore without realizing i still had the box checked to restore the entire config)
so now i unknowingly have two Kodi's reporting to emby as the same machine. no errors popped up anywhere.
started a movie in the living room with no subtitles. so i hop into the emby app on my phone to get that handled. stop the and restart the movie directly from the emby app, when i see the bedroom lights start their "movie starts after 8pm on weekdays" scene. whoa?
turn on the tv in the room and it's playing the same thing!
about 30 minutes later it ended up getting enough out of sync to notice the audio, but i had already set it up for audio from snapcast (home assistant automation that sets Kodi to output the audio 1.25 seconds ahead and routes it to RCA out for house audio) so i only noticed cause IM AN AV NERD.
i wonder if this info Is enough to get a legit plugin for this going?
sorry for the rant! hope everyone's day is chill!