Feature Request: Ability to set the SORT for individual Home Screen rows.

[TheGru 143]

I have been building an application that ingests the Emby library via API and build per user AI recommendation on what to watch from full embeddings created against all metadata, per user watch history and leverages AI with full algorithmic adjustments to create highly curated and individualized libraries per user, outputting STRM files for movies which is working perfectly!

In addition I built in a mechanism that also takes all user watch data and builds a simple weighted top 10 movies (working perfectly) and top 10 series (almost perfect).

The issue is the home screen presentation of latest TV series libraries, is always set to display sorted by latest episode added. This makes 100% sense 99.9% of the time, but in the case of my top 10 tv series row, the ranked sort, which i am "hacking for movies using the dateadded metadata and the sort title" in the NFO, does not work on the home screen for TV series.

My feature request would be to allow for configuration of the ROW sorting on a per row basis in the Home Screen / Library Order drag and drop orderer. 

In my example screen shot you see the AI recommended first row, sorted perfectly, the top 10 movies row sorted perfectly, but the Top 10 series is out of what because it is looking at the last episode added date. 

Why i am still working on my application, I am currently calling Aperture, I do plan on releasing it as a docker container. See my plugin post: 

 

Edited January 3 by TheGru

[visproduction 315]

19 hours ago, TheGru said:

The issue is the home screen presentation of latest TV series libraries, is always set to display sorted by latest episode added. This makes 100% sense 99.9% of the time, but in the case of my top 10 tv series row, the ranked sort, which i am "hacking for movies using the dateadded metadata and the sort title" in the NFO, does not work on the home screen for TV series.

I believe the sort scans all episodes to find the latest date added and then sorts the list on the home page, based on finding single episode add to dates.  So, when a single episode of a series is added, that immediately becomes the date that adds that series to the front of the list on the home page.  Currently, to manually change that, you would could update the .nfo date of a series, episode 1 to some date in the future, say Jan 30, 2027, then the series you want to be ranked 2nd on the list, change the first episode add date to the day before that furture date to Jan 29, 2027 and so on.  Just remember when January 2027 arrives, any new series update will start to mix up that list order.

[TheGru 143]

I know I could hack my way around it as you suggest but that would create problems with “normal rows” and require so much futures state maintenance it’s not really worth doing.

I would think my request would be trivial to implement, even if it had to be global to all users, and would provide home row level sorting support, and additionally it would be good to have home row level filtering support in order to do the following:

1. Ensure rank order could be maintained

2. Prevent watched items from being filtered out preserving a top 10 rank order always. 

[Neminem 1518]

Guess this should go here, and not beta forum.

Feature Requests - Emby Community

[Luke 42077]

Hi, we are going to be revamping home screen section settings and then yes, more section-specific options will be available. Thanks.

[TheGru 143]

24 minutes ago, Luke said:

Hi, we are going to be revamping home screen section settings and then yes, more section-specific options will be available. Thanks.

That's awesome to hear!

While I have no interest in jumping ship, I know the Jellyfin guys have some users that have created interestings plugin that accomplishes a lot of homescreen tweaking:
https://github.com/IAmParadox27/jellyfin-plugin-home-sections
https://github.com/IAmParadox27/jellyfin-plugin-collection-sections

Maybe something worth looking at coneptually.

Thanks!