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Android TV app breaks the Server - discokongo - 2025-04-24
To begin with, I'm not 100% sure this is Jellyfin app or TV issue.
Jellyfin installed on my TCL Android-TV works fine for most of the time if I just press play and does not touch it. But if I'm doing something "unexpected" like rewind, fast forward, or "continue watching" it crashes more often than not - but, not only that, it manages to crash the god damn server itself. Not hardware, but the jellyfin docker installed on the server sometimes, and most often just the video the TV was playing; like, if I remove the power from the TV and resume playing same video on a computer through jellyfin, it doesn't work, even after restarting the docker. If I play it from normal network share with VLC it works.
TV and server is on the same local network. If I use third party VPN on the TV, so all traffic goes through some external server and then in through the internet, instead of directly locally, it does not crash the server, so it seems there is some bad traffic being sent from the app or TV that's LAN specific.
- No other equipment have any issues playing Jellyfin in the same LAN, like computers and cellphones, using browsers and apps. (Except when the TV has broken a video.)
- It's only on LAN, run TV through VPN and server survives.
- Does not help to restart TV or Jellyfin Docker.
- I have not excluded the TV itself as the bad actor, since Jellyfin is the only thing I can use with it on my server (haven't tried to play plex on TV from server for example since I don't have that). But since it's specifically Jellyfin breaking, and more specifically the video the TV watched breaking, I suspect it's the Jellyfin app. Or a combo, the jellyfin app on TCL specifically.
- External users (non-LAN) have never reported any issues, and I think they use a plethora of different apps, including Jellyfin for Android TV.
Anyone else with the specific set-up (Jellyfin app on TCL TV, and connected to same LAN as the server) that experienced similar issue?
Or similar issue with not that specific-set up.
RE: Android TV app breaks the Server - discokongo - 2025-04-24
Might as well attach a log from last time it happened. Looked at a thing on the TV, accidentally pushed the youtube button on the remote so Jellyfin paused/turned off. Went back and resumed, and above issue happened. Attached log for that instance. (Had to remove 50-100 rows in the middle to get under the 200kb limit)