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Tautulli

Where Tautulli’s API key lives, what it adds to Home and Activity, and what a play can and cannot tell you.

Connecting Tautulli

The stock port is 8181, and Managerr’s requests go to api/v2 under the address you give it.

The API key sits in Tautulli’s own Settings → Web Interface → API. Enable the API there first, then copy the key from the same screen — a key from a server with the API switched off has nothing to answer with. Add a service covers the rest of the editor and the test that has to pass before Save.

What it drives

Tautulli is what puts Playing now on Home and at the top of Activity, with a stream detail behind each session: bandwidth, the transcode decision, the player, the platform, and whether the stream is local or remote.

It also brings watch history and statistics — popular media, users and libraries, filtered by user and by library over 7 days, 30 days, 90 days or 1 year, starting at All users. Graphs plot plays by date, by day of the week, by hour of the day, by month, by stream type, by resolution, by platform and by user.

Where the server’s identity is known, a Tautulli media detail can hand the title off to Plex: a Plex mark in the corner of the card asks the system to open Plex, with a web fallback if the app link cannot be opened. Some Plex versions may open their home screen instead of the title.

Stopping a stream

Managerr can ask Tautulli to terminate a stream, but only when the connected Plex server reports that it supports the operation — which depends on Plex Pass and on the account’s permissions. Until it does, Stop this session… on a playback detail stays disabled. Above the button, Message shown to the viewer is the text the person watching will see.

The server stays authoritative. If it declines, the stream keeps playing and the app says so, rather than pretending the stop went through.

What a history row can tell you

A Tautulli history row is a play, not a file event. It records who watched, on what, from where and for how long: User, Platform, Product, Player, Decision, IP address, Location, the date, the times it started and stopped, how long it was paused, the duration and the progress. The row itself is marked Watched, Partly watched or Not finished.

What it will not show you is a quality, an indexer or a release group. A play has none of those. They belong to the Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr history sitting beside it in the same list, which records what happened to a file.

Town-level location comes from a GeoIP lookup that only answers when the Tautulli server has MaxMind’s database installed. Without it the row reads LAN or WAN, which is what Tautulli itself knows.

Shaping recommendations

With both a Seerr and a Tautulli service connected, Settings → Home & Library → Recommendations can base the Recommended shelf on one Tautulli user’s plays instead of everyone’s. Base suggestions on is the picker, and Watch history from names the service those plays are read from.

Everyone is the default, because a shared server blends a household’s tastes into a shelf that matches none of them. Narrow it to one viewer and the shelf follows that person instead.

Home & Library covers the shelf itself, and Seerr is the service that answers for it.

For installation and server configuration, see Tautulli documentation.