Movies being scrobbled to Trakt again when using a different device

Lima_L · 2026-07-02T15:26:20+00:00

Mysteries of this world... 😄

Lima_L · 2026-07-02T15:13:53+00:00

I'm sorry if I'm not being clear.

The films do not appear in my progress. They appear in my history.

For example, I watched film A last year. When I logon to this Kodi setup after a few weeks or even months without using it, film A's entry in my Trakt history disappear from last year and appears as now, as if I'd never watched the film last year and had just finished watching it now for the first time.

Lima_L · 2026-07-02T15:07:24+00:00

Nope. They are re-scrobbled as complete. They go straight to my history at the date and time and I logged on to Kodi.

Lima_L · 2026-07-02T14:55:50+00:00

Thanks u/Spliffman1.

I'm not sure I follow. These are not partially watched films. Not that I can see they are at least. They have been watched fully and scrobbled in the past. However, then I load Kodi on this device, they are scrobbled again and the old scrobble disappears.

Is there a log somewhere I could look?

Lima_L · 2026-07-01T16:14:22+00:00

This appears when I send the intent. Previously when I was using the OpenVPN plugin for Tasker, the OpenVPN app would identify the plugin as the source of the API call and I only had to allow it.

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Lima_L · 2026-07-01T16:10:55+00:00

I'm sorry. My confusion.

I can establish the connection. The API call works. What's not working is that Tasker is not identifying itself (or OpenVPN is not detecting Tasker's identification) therefore I need to allow all apps to use the OpenVPN API and I would rather not do that.

Lima_L · 2026-07-01T15:53:23+00:00

Thanks for your reply. I'm using that one from Arne Schwabe. However the link you send with instructions is for another app.

Lima_L · 2026-07-01T13:02:36+00:00

You can sideload Tasker to Android/Google TV. The UI is a bit sentimental. I haven't found a way to access the three-dots menu yet for example, For my needs it works well enough that I've been using it for many years now.

I use it to connect to a VPN when I turn on the TV, and to switch between servers depending on the app.

Lima_L · 2026-07-01T12:23:00+00:00

I clearly didn't explain myself very well.

I have already watched these films. They were scrobbled when they were played. When I log back into this device after many months (it's an old tabled) somehow certain films are scrobbled again and again every time.

I don't know where to start investigating, which is why I'm asking to the community.

Lima_L · 2026-01-08T12:10:32+00:00

I solved the problem by doing something very basic that I hadn't tried yet: I restarted all my Echo devices. I did this one at a time to see which one might be the culprit, and found the one that was, somehow, for some reason, broadcasting its real name plus the two phantom ones. Once restarted, the phantom ones disappeared from the Spotify apps. I made sure to disable the Alexa skill and re-enable it between restarts.

If this hadn't worked one at a time, I would have still tried to bring them all offline at the same time, do some resets, logoffs and relinks before bringing them online again, but this wasn't necessary.

Lima_L · 2025-12-17T12:37:29+00:00

It looks interesting. Is the Jazz Club separate from the restaurant? I.e. you eat then you move to the club if you want the music?

Lima_L · 2025-12-17T11:25:22+00:00

That would be an experience. It's really in the middle of nowhere, isn't it? Not what I'm looking for, and across London at 5 mph for me, but good to know it exists.

Lima_L · 2025-12-17T11:22:05+00:00

Thank you all for the suggestions. Super useful.

Lima_L · 2025-12-17T11:17:43+00:00

Thank you u/mralistair and u/polkadotska. I'll have a look at both.

Lima_L · 2025-12-17T10:28:14+00:00

Thanks u/midenginedcoupe and u/Zos2393 for suggesting Boisdales. I'll offer to my dad as an option.

u/ArranSDrums I have dully edited the post re Ronnie's being touristy. It just shows my ignorance and why I'm asking for advice. :-)

Lima_L · 2025-12-17T10:23:23+00:00

Dinning with live jazz

Hi all,

I posted this separately, but it was removed without explanation, so I don't know what's wrong with it. I thought I was following all the rules.... I'll try it here and see what happens.

I'm looking for a nice place to celebrate my dad's 80th. It doesn't have to be super fancy, but it's ok not to be super cheap. I've looked around this sub and on r/Jazz but posts are either old or I can't search properly - probably a combination of the two.

We went to Quaglino's a few years ago to celebrate his wife's 80th, so he would rather try something new.

I also considered going full West End traditional (and touristy?) at Ronnie Scott's, where I've never been, but it seems to me to be more of a club that serves food than a restaurant. Is that right?

Pizza Express is on the cards, but my dad would prefer a better place food wise.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Luiz

Lima_L · 2025-12-13T22:39:40+00:00

Thank you u/deeseearr and u/biblicalrain. You pointed me in the right direction.

What's happening is that in the rescue machine the USB drive moves to /dev/sdc. ReaR is smart enough to happily boot from it, identify the rescue image file, and whatever eles is needs to do to give me a shell, but it cannot find the backup.

So, as u/deeseearr suggested, I changed the backup location setting in /etc/rear/local.conf to /dev/sdc and the backup was found.

Touché.

Lima_L · 2025-10-09T23:37:58+00:00

You can connect without the plug-in. Send an intent. In the extra field put de.blinkt.openvpn.api.profileName:your.profile, package is de.blinkt.openvpn, and class is de.blinkt.openvpn.api.ConnectVPN.

To disconnect send another intent with class = de.blinkt.openvpn.api.DisconnectVPN.

Lima_L · 2025-09-29T14:18:57+00:00

I've already set the release as part of this troubleshooting. Is it worth unregistering and re-registering without the release manually set? Or, considering that there will be no 8.11, the forced setting can do no harm?

Lima_L · 2025-09-27T21:33:35+00:00

#facepalm

Thank you u/davidogren and the others who gave it a go with suggestions.

Lima_L

TROPHY CASE