"Recently Added" for a specific Emby Library, how?

[mbguy 38]

I can't seem to find a way to specify the "Recently Added" shortcut for a specific library defined by Emby.

 

The default "Recently Added" shortcut combines movie titles from multiple libraries crated by Emby, which is not what I want, because I have separate Emby libraries for different types of movies.

 

I thought of using the "tag" function which points to specific Emby libraries but that seems to list all the titles instead of just recently added.

 

Any suggestions?

[hstamas 153]

Are you using the add-on setup or the native paths setup? If native paths couldnt you use smart playlists to filter your libraries based on the file path?

[LongMan 89]

Tag should work in either case. The tag is meant only to separate the libraries. To get recently added you should use "order by date added' order- descending and set a limit based on how many items you want. Example below. (playcount = 0, means only unwatched items will be there, remove if you want watched items to remain.)

 

<content>movies</content>
       <match>all</match>
           <rule field="tag" operator="is">
               <value>Kids Movies</value>
           </rule>
           <rule field="playcount" operator="is">
               <value>0</value>
           </rule>
       <limit>10</limit>
       <order direction="descending">dateadded</order>

 

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

LongMan

Edited April 28, 2017 by LongMan

[mbguy 38]

Thanks for the ideas, guys.

 

Now I just need to read up on how to create smart playlists and how to manually edit those views.

[LongMan 89]

I thought that you already knew how. I am not sure if you are aware but, thanks to Angelblue05,  the add-on creates video nodes (similar to smartplaylists) for you in the video library. Just go to Videos>Library>Emby. There you will find a complete set of nodes for each Library, including Recently Added. You could just use those.

 

Detailed instructions here.

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/26121-tutorial-how-to-set-up-kodi/

 

Cheers,

LongMan