Hi, I’m running into an issue when connecting to a Jellyfin server with Infuse, related to session limits. When a user has a maximum number of sessions configured on the Jellyfin server, trying to log in through Infuse leads to incorrect behavior: The app takes a long time to attempt the connect…

Today’s 8.4.8 update improves the messaging when a session limit is reached or other authentication error is received from the server. [image] Infuse 8.4.8 now available Releases Infuse 8.4.8 is now available! clap NEW Add secondary server addresses for reg…

And the associated ticket from bug report page : #186760

When the session limit is reached, Jellyfin responds with a 401 error which is the same thing you get when an invalid user/password are entered - so it’s hard to distinguish between these. Jellyfin access limits behave differently than both Emby and Plex, which have access limits that apply to vide…

Hum that not correct, at least on the last version jellyfin use two different response code. [image] And that need to be verified (I just pull and build the last version for now) but there also an error message into the body that can be used to tell user what wrong. And from what I see in the so…

There may be some recent Jellyfin changes here we can look into. Thanks.

Jellyfin session limit

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james July 1, 2026, 2:25pm 6

Today’s 8.4.8 update improves the messaging when a session limit is reached or other authentication error is received from the server.

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Jellyfin session limit

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