Cross-watch instance polling Emby server non-stop

[ghost]

Hello,

The person whose server I am on informed me that cross-watch instance was hitting the server constantly and causing the server to hang. It was so bad that they disabled my account to make it stop. I looked in the logs for the docker and I saw this over and over in the logs. Its generating this error every few seconds. I know it says this because my account is blocked...but its trying to poll the server like every few seconds.

[EMBY] ERROR session poll failed: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url: https://server/Sessions?ActiveWithinSeconds=15

I am confused because while I have sync pairs setup, I only run them manually when I need them and I havent run one in weeks. I also have scheduling turned off. The only thing I have turned on is the watcher script for Emby which as far as I understand is only supposed to trigger when I watch something. Is watcher constantly polling the server? This is a very large library. How do I get this to stop or where can I change settings that so that it is only trying to poll the server a few times a day.

Im just trying to find a resolution because cross-watch solved my need for trakt scrobbling when I dont own the server I'm on and cant use the native plugin for emby. Ive probably done something wrong in my setup, but I have no idea what could be causing the behavior.

[cenodude]

Yes, thats the watcher.. You can read the impact here: https://wiki.crosswatch.app/crosswatch/scrobble/watcher

Perhaps it better to use webhooks in stead of watcher.

[ghost]

Dang, thats a bummer. It looks like I cant use webhooks on shared servers for Emby. I'll have to figure something else out.

[cenodude]

Yeah, that is the downside. Even if I increase the polling interval to 30 seconds or 1 minute, it is still too much for shared servers with many users. The best option is to rely on sync pairs. You can configure the frequency and other settings, but of course it will not have the same realtime behavior that webhooks and watchers provide. But then again, do you really need that.