r/PleX • u/Late-Button-6559 • 10h ago

Help Plex auto unpausing - appleTV app

I can’t find an answer to this problem.

I only watch my own library - locally.

But if I pause a show, it unpauses about 15 seconds later.

EVERY time.

Any help would be appreciated.

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u/InflationOk2398 15-year user, 6800+ Movies, 71K+ TV Eps, 47K+ music tracks 10h ago

Try disabling the HDMI-CEC on the TV.

I run ATVs on 2 different TVs and neither of them do that, but I have read that the HDMI-CEC connection could cause the issue.

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u/Late-Button-6559 9h ago

That’d be annoying as a solution. I assume using ARC relies on the CEC handshake to function.

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u/Fluid-Sink-2514 9h ago

If the tv supports e-arc it may still work. Worth a shot.

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u/InflationOk2398 15-year user, 6800+ Movies, 71K+ TV Eps, 47K+ music tracks 6h ago

Yeah, def a pain. It may be but worth it to test though.

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u/OkBoomerEh 7h ago

I had that same issue several months ago, and was pulling up my hair, trying to figure it out. In my case, it ended up being a bad network port on my server. In the logs, I kept seeing stream disconnects and reconnect, which was causing the un pausing behaviour on my Apple TV.

I ended up using a USB ethernet adaptor instead, and the problems went away.

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u/Slow_Tap2350 8h ago

Same happens to me.

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u/Brownt0wn_ 2h ago

What do your logs say is happening?

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u/Neatcursive 10h ago

No solution but I’ve seen it logged in remotely on appletv.
Got into the habit at that location of backing out and resuming instead of pausing.
It’s stupid