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That sucks. I hope someone will look into it now that there is another reported issue.

Hi all,

Here I am again with another issue - or issues.

Just a little bit of context first: in March last year, I was in Brazil connecting remotely via OpenVPN to UMS in my place in Canada and watching videos on Chrome perfectly. There were no issues at all, except maybe a slow connection. Forward ...

I use OpenVPN to connect remotely to my router and then Chrome to watch videos. I've never tried using VLC remotely, but it should work the same way, I believe.

I was doing a rewatch of Always Sunny and found that some of the files, which I've watched multiple times before, were suddenly ending after 10 seconds or so and going on to the next episode. File runs fine through the browser, just not when streaming to PS3.
File I tested for this trace was named ...

I finally had time yesterday to test the new version. At first it was all the same as before and then I clicked on Clear Cache. It was acting weird, I had to click several times until it worked. Then the server restarted and it was unavailable, but using the old intercace I could see it was ...

I have fixed some bugs on the server related to resetting the cache, it was leaving out some database tables so they would have become mismatched. That doesn't explain the initial bad state, but maybe that was caused by an API bug. I will do some testing of my fixes soon and see if I can still ...

SubJunk wrote: ↑Thu May 22, 2025 8:25 am This is a really good bug report and I'm working on fixing the bugs now. I have already deployed a couple of related fixes to the API and will let you know when I have progress on UMS itself

I'm glad I could help

mik_s wrote: ↑Sat May 17, 2025 2:28 am I made an issue for this on Github and there appears to be a couple of similar issues related to this.

Great, thank you!

Hi all,

I have been having this issue for a few months, I'm not even sure when it started. It's about wrong episode names and sometimes thumbnails, like this:
Dexter.png
As you can see, it's a Dexter episode with Monk thumbnail and King of the Hill name. I have cleared the cache several times ...

Thank you!