2024-02-14, 01:16 PM
I think you may be duplicating work and it's leading to weird behavior.
While Jellyfin for Kodi and JellyCon are separate addons and can work independently of each other, if you're only trying to use this as a cast target there's no reason to have both of them installed. Jellyfin for Kodi and the whole sync process has no purpose here other than making extra popups in the way, and JellyCon will be more than sufficient for this use case.
The play with functionality is dependent on websockets. If it's not showing up in the web UI/mobile app, that means the websocket connection between your kodi box and the server has failed at some point. There's code to attempt to reconnect it, but it seems to be finnicky at best. The other part is that if your receiver is anything like mine, when your kodi device isn't selected as the input device, your kodi device has no displays connected at all. So it starts trying to play a video to nothing, and then you switch the receiver to it and it's trying to reconfigure displays and sometimes freaks out. Would probably be more reliable to switch to kodi before trying to cast to it.
While Jellyfin for Kodi and JellyCon are separate addons and can work independently of each other, if you're only trying to use this as a cast target there's no reason to have both of them installed. Jellyfin for Kodi and the whole sync process has no purpose here other than making extra popups in the way, and JellyCon will be more than sufficient for this use case.
The play with functionality is dependent on websockets. If it's not showing up in the web UI/mobile app, that means the websocket connection between your kodi box and the server has failed at some point. There's code to attempt to reconnect it, but it seems to be finnicky at best. The other part is that if your receiver is anything like mine, when your kodi device isn't selected as the input device, your kodi device has no displays connected at all. So it starts trying to play a video to nothing, and then you switch the receiver to it and it's trying to reconfigure displays and sometimes freaks out. Would probably be more reliable to switch to kodi before trying to cast to it.