Emby Homepage "Spotlight Widget" Proof of Concept

[sh0rty 714]

New version on Github

• Add mobile friendly view

[yocker 1247]

Awesome stuff! Looks incredibly good!

Sadly hard to implement in the docker version.
Would love for the devs to implement an easy way to customize the UI.

[Dricus 0]

Would love to see this in the Emby app

[yocker 1247]

You should be able to add this to the Unraid docker version without actually changing any Emby files so it will be fully reverseable if needed.

1. Open the console for the Emby container.
2. Go to system/dashboard-ui
3. Copy the index.html to one of your media drives so you can access it
4. Optional: Move the index.html to another folder you would like it to be in.
5. Edit: The index.html as explained in the readme on github.
6. Download the Spotlight.js from github and place it in the same folder (for ease sake lets say /mnt/cache/embystuff/).
7. Edit the docker container and add a new path.
---name: index
---container path: /system/dashboard-ui/index.html
---Host path: /mnt/cache/embystuff/index.html
8. Add a second new path and do the same for Spotlight.js
9. Start Emby.



When you want to reverse it you just remove those paths again.
Basically what it does is tell docker that those files located somewhere else and not where they otherwise would be. Emby will not see anything different and work as normal.
This way any original files in Emby never gets touched.

Quick disclaimer: I havn't done this my self with this "plugin" hence why i said "it should work" so use at your own risk.
I have done it with other similar stuff though without problems.

[visproduction 315]

OK, but wouldn't all the relative links in index.html stop working.  I think you would have to replace all the links with a corection link to locate any support files in the header and any other links.  Otherwise they would just stop working.  It's not a big thing, with a proper text editor and the correct replacement command it could all be done with pressing Enter once.

[yocker 1247]

38 minutes ago, visproduction said:

OK, but wouldn't all the relative links in index.html stop working.  I think you would have to replace all the links with a corection link to locate any support files in the header and any other links.  Otherwise they would just stop working.  It's not a big thing, with a proper text editor and the correct replacement command it could all be done with pressing Enter once.

Should still work as Docker/Emby believes the file is still where it should be.
I will admit i not 100% sure but the things i have changed in the Emby files have worked with this method no problem.

Edited November 16, 2025 by yocker

[Neminem 1515]

@yockeris right this is just a file replacement and Emby will see it as the original file and be happy.

The good thing about this is that you don't mess with the internals of the container.

 

[Angel273 9]

buenos días, en el caso de los servidores windows en que carpeta del servidor emby se puede colocar el complemento ?? de antemano gracias

Edited November 28, 2025 by Angel273

[sh0rty 714]

2 minutes ago, Angel273 said:

buenos días, en el caso de los servidores windows en que carpeta del servidor emby se puede colocar el complemento ?? de antemano gracias

https://github.com/v1rusnl/EmbySpotlight
 

Las instrucciones de instalación se encuentran en el repositorio de Github.

[ppo852 0]

“Is there a built‑in option in EmbySpotlight to reduce the banner’s height/scale, or a recommended CSS/JS method to make it smaller?

[sh0rty 714]

10 minutes ago, ppo852 said:

“Is there a built‑in option in EmbySpotlight to reduce the banner’s height/scale, or a recommended CSS/JS method to make it smaller?

Line 198. Try height: min(40vmax, 45vh);

[ppo852 0]

Thank you

[arrbee99 1814]

Awesome as this is, am wondering if there's any way to trigger a refresh of the items randomly selected for display ? If not, then maybe.....?

[Asazen 8]

This amazing product should be installable via a direct plugin from Emby. For Synology NAS devices, you need to copy the files as root; otherwise, it won't allow you to copy them to system/dashboard-ui because it throws an access error.

Edited January 6 by Asazen

[Mezmerize 1]

Since today it suddenly stopped working , am i the only one?

[sh0rty 714]

2 minutes ago, Mezmerize said:

Since today it suddenly stopped working , am i the only one?

Did your server auto update from 4.9.1.90 to 4.9.3.0? If so, you need to set the widget up again. It's working here with the newest stable server version.

Edited January 12 by sh0rty

[Mezmerize 1]

2 minutes ago, sh0rty said:

Did your server auto update from 4.9.1.90 to 4.9.3.0? If so, you need to set the widget up again. It's working here with the newest stable server version.

Yes, it updated to 4.9.3.0. I reinstalled the widget (downloaded the widget freshly and put it into dashboard-ui folder), tried restarting Emby and the whole server, but no luck unfortunately.

[sh0rty 714]

1 minute ago, Mezmerize said:

Yes, it updated to 4.9.3.0. I reinstalled the widget (downloaded the widget freshly and put it into dashboard-ui folder), tried restarting Emby and the whole server, but no luck unfortunately.

You need to edit index.html (5. in repo manual)

[Mezmerize 1]

3 minutes ago, sh0rty said:

You need to edit index.html (5. in repo manual)

Oooh that's a step i missed.. I'm sorry. It works!

Really nice widget, enjoying it

[TheKingSG89 2]

Looks amazing

Edited January 12 by TheKingSG89

[TheKingSG89 2]

hi im doing something wrong i put the file into dashboard ui im trying to put it on windows but i cant seem to get it to work i tried to copy the the file into css but nothing works any help would be great am i putting in the wrong place or dose this not work for windows users 

 

thanks 

[sh0rty 714]

Just now, TheKingSG89 said:

hi im doing something wrong i put the file into dashboard ui im trying to put it on windows but i cant seem to get it to work i tried to copy the the file into css but nothing works any help would be great am i putting in the wrong place or dose this not work for windows users 

 

thanks 

Just do exactly the steps in the github repo Readme. It doesn't get clearer than that.

[TheKingSG89 2]

@sh0rtySorry Missed that all work looks stuuning shame we can't get this on tv would look great

[KobayashiM 27]

@sh0rtyThis mod is sick, BIG thank you! Like many users, I've been wanting it as a feature for years. I'm looking forward to future development.

[sh0rty 714]

Last version of the Plugin from my side with Trailer support in Github. Beware: strictly experimental since overkill settings (number of items + resolution settings) can influence the widget load time.

@arrbee99Refresh button included.

Important: Ctrl-Shift-R  Emby page after changes to the js file.

Edited January 25 by sh0rty