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# Update Live playback state

PATCH https://api.bibleit.app/v1/lives/{live_id}/playback
Content-Type: application/json

**Required scopes:** `live.update`.

Service ownership, current scopes and processing policy are checked inside the serialized Live actor. Updates persist before broadcasting. Sequence changes invalidate display and playback validators together; viewer counts do not. Presentation snapshot metadata is read-only in this slice; editing drafts does not publish them. Also accepts finite personal bearer tokens for resources owned by the caller’s personal account. Personal tokens cannot operate organization Lives, use collaborators’/children’s authority, or publish presentations. Current personal token scopes and user permissions are rechecked after waits. Registered delegated OAuth access tokens are accepted within these personal boundaries; /me and account metadata additionally require identity.read.

**Response headers:**

- `ETag` (200): Strong Live state validator; send unchanged in If-Match for display/playback writes.

Reference: https://docs.bibleit.dev/api-reference/live-controls/update-live-playback

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Organization-owned service token. Issue the initial token in organization credential settings. Scopes are documented per operation via x-required-scopes; they are not OAuth scopes.
- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Personal bearer credential issued through existing account settings or browser-approved CLI flow. Must be active, finite, unexpired, unrevoked, within any rotation overlap, and bound to an active personal membership/user/account. Explicit scopes intersect current user permissions; empty existing personal scopes inherit current user authority. Not an OAuth grant or service token. Browser cookies are ignored.
- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Registered public-client OAuth for personal-account resources only. Exact registered HTTPS or fixed-port literal loopback redirect; S256 required; explicit consent. No organization/presentation authority. identity.read is required for /me and account metadata. Scope intersection with current user authority; no empty-scope inheritance.

## Request

### Path parameters

- `live_id` (string, required)

### Headers

- `If-Match` (string, required) — Use the ETag from the latest display/playback response. Missing: 428; stale: 412. Wildcards, weak validators and lists are not accepted.

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a PlaybackPatch.

- `status` (enum, optional)
  - Allowed values: `running`, `stopped`
- `paused` (boolean, optional)

## Response

### 200

Successful operation

- `live_id` (string, required)
- `status` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `running`, `stopped`
- `paused` (boolean, required)
- `showing` (boolean, required)
- `sequence` (integer, required)

## Errors

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Error response. 400 malformed JSON; 401 invalid/expired/revoked token; 403 denied scope or domain policy; 404 unknown/foreign resource; 405 unsupported method; 409 quota/conflict or stopped Live; 412 stale state validator; 428 missing If-Match; 413 body too large; 415 unsupported media type; 422 invalid fields; 429 admission budget exhausted; 503 unavailable dependency.

- `type` (any, required)
- `title` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `code` (string, required)
- `request_id` (string, required)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Error response. 400 malformed JSON; 401 invalid/expired/revoked token; 403 denied scope or domain policy; 404 unknown/foreign resource; 405 unsupported method; 409 quota/conflict or stopped Live; 412 stale state validator; 428 missing If-Match; 413 body too large; 415 unsupported media type; 422 invalid fields; 429 admission budget exhausted; 503 unavailable dependency.

- `type` (any, required)
- `title` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `code` (string, required)
- `request_id` (string, required)

### 404 Not Found Error

Error response. 400 malformed JSON; 401 invalid/expired/revoked token; 403 denied scope or domain policy; 404 unknown/foreign resource; 405 unsupported method; 409 quota/conflict or stopped Live; 412 stale state validator; 428 missing If-Match; 413 body too large; 415 unsupported media type; 422 invalid fields; 429 admission budget exhausted; 503 unavailable dependency.

- `type` (any, required)
- `title` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `code` (string, required)
- `request_id` (string, required)

### 429 Too Many Requests Error

Error response. 400 malformed JSON; 401 invalid/expired/revoked token; 403 denied scope or domain policy; 404 unknown/foreign resource; 405 unsupported method; 409 quota/conflict or stopped Live; 412 stale state validator; 428 missing If-Match; 413 body too large; 415 unsupported media type; 422 invalid fields; 429 admission budget exhausted; 503 unavailable dependency.

- `type` (any, required)
- `title` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `code` (string, required)
- `request_id` (string, required)

### 503 Service Unavailable Error

Error response. 400 malformed JSON; 401 invalid/expired/revoked token; 403 denied scope or domain policy; 404 unknown/foreign resource; 405 unsupported method; 409 quota/conflict or stopped Live; 412 stale state validator; 428 missing If-Match; 413 body too large; 415 unsupported media type; 422 invalid fields; 429 admission budget exhausted; 503 unavailable dependency.

- `type` (any, required)
- `title` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `code` (string, required)
- `request_id` (string, required)

## Examples

### Example 1

**Request**

```json
{
  "paused": true
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "live_id": "string",
  "status": "running",
  "paused": true,
  "showing": true,
  "sequence": 1
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python Example 1
import requests

url = "https://api.bibleit.app/v1/lives/live_id/playback"

payload = { "paused": True }
headers = {
    "If-Match": "If-Match",
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.patch(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```go Example 1
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.bibleit.app/v1/lives/live_id/playback"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"paused\": true\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PATCH", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("If-Match", "If-Match")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

### Example 2

**Request**

```json
{
  "status": "stopped"
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "live_id": "string",
  "status": "running",
  "paused": true,
  "showing": true,
  "sequence": 1
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python Example 2
import requests

url = "https://api.bibleit.app/v1/lives/live_id/playback"

payload = { "status": "stopped" }
headers = {
    "If-Match": "If-Match",
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.patch(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```go Example 2
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.bibleit.app/v1/lives/live_id/playback"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"status\": \"stopped\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PATCH", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("If-Match", "If-Match")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```