Hide certain librarys from home screen or my media?

[Soundchasr 19]

I have seen this asked in the past and saw that it was being looking into...

Is there a way to hide certain medial libraries from the home screen or the My Media section?

For example, I have media that I watch when I'm in the Gym.  I don't need those to be listed on the other TVs.  

 

Thanks for any tips. 

[Luke 42248]

HI, have you explored the home screen options for your emby user?

[Soundchasr 19]

Hi @Lukeyes I haven't found anything that hides or removes libraries.  

[pwhodges 2035]

You could do it by user - have a different user for the gym with access only to the libraries you want there.

Paul

[Soundchasr 19]

@pwhodgesGreat idea.  I'll give it a shot.

[Soundchasr 19]

@pwhodgesOk. I've created the new user (Gym).  What is the best way to do this?  I don't see a way to have only specific libraries for each user.  

Should I create the library and then restrict the users ability to see the library?

[Luke 42248]

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Should I create the library and then restrict the users ability to see the library?

That's your choice depending on whether you want to restrict them completely, or still allow them access but take it off of the home screen.

[Soundchasr 19]

@LukeAh, so I can remove it from the home screen.  I missed that.  

[ryanfiller 0]

Okay, but HOW do we actually do that?
I don't see anything on the `/web/index.html#!/settings/homescreen.html` page that allows me to do this at all...

[Luke 42248]

The upcoming 4.10 server release will have a plethora of new options to hide libraries from home screens.

[ryanfiller 0]

I'm just confused, the rest of this post from years ago is talking like there is already some way to do this? 

[RanmaCanada 502]

5 hours ago, ryanfiller said:

I'm just confused, the rest of this post from years ago is talking like there is already some way to do this? 

The rest of this post discusses making a new user just for the gym, and only having what libraries will be used while at the gym, available. That's it, that's all.

 

Edited Thursday at 02:32 AM by RanmaCanada

[ryanfiller 0]

On 6/13/2023 at 3:52 PM, Luke said:

That's your choice depending on whether you want to restrict them completely, or still allow them access but take it off of the home screen.

This is what I am trying to do, and seemingly have no way to do. Let a user still access a library but not see it on the home screen.

[Happy2Play 9814]

2 hours ago, ryanfiller said:

This is what I am trying to do, and seemingly have no way to do. Let a user still access a library but not see it on the home screen.

In 4.10+ you can but other versions you can't as you can only remove access.

Quick example from My Media

Now this unchecked library can only be access via side Navbar or search.

[ryanfiller 0]

Great, thank you. I was able to update to the latest beta and find this.

I don't know if this is the correct place to offer beta feedback, but here it is — I just went to a user and removed all the libraries I didn't want them to see. Then I went and made a new library, and it showed up on their home screen. I would think this should be opt into visible by default rather than the way it is now? Or am I missing another setting somewhere?

[ryanfiller 0]

Hmm, seems like this works on the native and web apps but not on the Apple TV app.

Edited 18 hours ago by ryanfiller

[pwhodges 2035]

The facility is a recent addition to the beta server, and not all clients have been updated to understand it yet.

Paul

[Luke 42248]

Apple TV support is coming. Thanks.

[Luke 42248]

On 4/2/2026 at 11:13 AM, ryanfiller said:

Great, thank you. I was able to update to the latest beta and find this.

I don't know if this is the correct place to offer beta feedback, but here it is — I just went to a user and removed all the libraries I didn't want them to see. Then I went and made a new library, and it showed up on their home screen. I would think this should be opt into visible by default rather than the way it is now? Or am I missing another setting somewhere?

It's opt out because otherwise what will happen is users will add new libraries and then they won't know why things are not showing up in various sections such as latest, continue watching, etc.