Emby Beta version

General Discussion
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Is there a way to switch to emby beta version in dietpi-software?

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not with our tools directly. Something you would need to do manually

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We could implement some switch, but as far as I can see, beta pre-releases are used only very rarely, or it is something new at Emby? E.g. v4.9 did have two pre-releases, but v4.8 and v4.7 did not. Currently, the beta provided on their download page is older than the stable release:

Currently we pull the latest release from https://api.github.com/repos/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases/latest, which excludes pre-releases (notation on GitHub, provided as “BETA” on their download page). We could implement some option to pull from https://api.github.com/repos/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/releases instead, and take the first/latest one there. This includes pre-releases, but at time of writing would still take the stable release, as it is the latest one.

But not sure how many users would really want to do this, and doing this manually is very easy as well, following the download + dpkg -i instructions from their download page.

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Beta versions are actually being used but 4.9 had literally just been released, that’s why they’re at the same level at the moment.

I’ve successfully updated just by downloading the package manually. Given the simple procedure I don’t think there’s any need to modify the dietpi scripts.

Thanks for your help, appreciated.

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But the current beta download is indeed a much older version, 4.9.1.36 vs 4.9.1.80, so currently it is a downgrade, or do I need to interpret this build version suffix differently?

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I am not sure how the numbering works but the latest beta (.36) was released a week ago or so and the new stable (.90) a couple of days ago.
I assume soon there will be some new 4.10.x coming out.

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Yeah somehow there was a significant jump from 36 to 80 with the release, no tags in between. However, I’ll have an eye on upcoming (pre-)releases. If they public and somewhat announce a new beta 4.10, I’ll think about adding a related toggle to dietpi-software to include beta pre-releases as download source on (re)install.