Emby Devices

Emby has licensing model that limits the number of devices that a users can sign on to regardless if those devices are in use (25 for a free server or up to 75 with Premiere subscription). To prevent users from logging on to many devices and consuming all available licenses on your Emby server, Streams Manager allows you to limit users on how many devices they can login.

Devices screen shows Emby devices along with media server to which the device is tied to and the user that last used the device.

Streams Manager allows you specify the maximum number of Emby devices a user can use and login from per plan in the details of the plan. Leaving the value empty will not enforce device limits.

By default, Streams Manager will enforce number of devices users are allowed to use every 5 minutes. As long as a users has used/logged in on less devices than their plan allows, Streams Manager will enable Allow All Devices Emby setting for that user so they can login on additional devices.

Once a user reaches the number of allowed devices specified on their plan, Allow All Devices setting will be disabled in Emby and user will be able to use only existing devices. This will prevent users from logging in on any new device.

Once a user exceeds the number of allowed devices, Streams Manager will delete their oldest devices to bring the number of devices in compliance and disable Allow All Devices Emby setting. Once a user again drops below the device limit, Allow All Devices setting will be enabled again.