Only update the database sessions every 60 seconds while playing

plexpy/activity_handler.py

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ ACTIVITY_SCHED = BackgroundScheduler()
 
 RECENTLY_ADDED_QUEUE = {}
 
+
 class ActivityHandler(object):
 
     def __init__(self, timeline):
@@ -229,9 +230,11 @@ class ActivityHandler(object):
                     # Update the session state and viewOffset
                     if this_state == 'playing':
                         # Update the session in our temp session table
-                        session = self.get_live_session()
-                        if session:
-                            self.update_db_session(session=session)
+                        # if the last set temporary stopped time exceeds 15 seconds
+                        if int(time.time()) - db_session['stopped'] > 60:
+                            session = self.get_live_session()
+                            if session:
+                                self.update_db_session(session=session)
 
                     # Start our state checks
                     if this_state != last_state:

plexpy/datafactory.py

@@ -951,7 +951,8 @@ class DataFactory(object):
                              'transcode_hw_encoding': item['transcode_hw_encoding'],
                              'media_type': item['media_type'],
                              'title': item['title'],
-                             'grandparent_title': item['grandparent_title']
+                             'grandparent_title': item['grandparent_title'],
+                             'current_session': 1 if session_key else 0
                              }
 
         stream_output = {k: v or '' for k, v in stream_output.iteritems()}

plexpy/pmsconnect.py

@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ class PmsConnect(object):
 
             if metadata:
                 _cache_time = metadata.pop('_cache_time', 0)
-                # Return cached metadata if less than 30 minutes ago
+                # Return cached metadata if less than METADATA_CACHE_SECONDS ago
                 if int(time.time()) - _cache_time <= plexpy.CONFIG.METADATA_CACHE_SECONDS:
                     return metadata
 
@@ -1155,9 +1155,9 @@ class PmsConnect(object):
             metadata['media_info'] = medias
 
         if metadata:
-            metadata['_cache_time'] = int(time.time())
-
             if cache_key:
+                metadata['_cache_time'] = int(time.time())
+
                 out_file_path = os.path.join(plexpy.CONFIG.CACHE_DIR, 'metadata-sessionKey-%s.json' % cache_key)
                 try:
                     with open(out_file_path, 'w') as outFile: