Plugin: Home Screen Companion (formerly AutoTag)

[chander421 17]

Great update, one million thanks! Plugin is now complete (at least for me)  

[soderlund 95]

5 hours ago, Jdiesel said:

Unless I am misinterpreting the rules, I can't get the last played rule to work. What I'm trying to achieve is only show items watched by any user in the last 30 days.

The rules should be correct. When I’m running with the exact same filter I get positive results..

Is it the Tag or Home Screen section that ends up empty?
 

Do you see anything in the log (enable extended log)? 

12 minutes ago, chander421 said:

Great update, one million thanks! Plugin is now complete (at least for me)  

Thanks! 

[soderlund 95]

I could mention for everyone that even though this is a stable release, there will probably be some bugs found. It’s stable in the sense that it will not break anything and all functionality is working as expected (except some bugs). 
 

I have tested all filters for the smart playlist, but when we start to combine them in weird ways and on other systems I expect some smaller issues. 
 

Thanks for all help and all bug reports! 

[crusher11 1127]

How does “Last Played Date” handle unwatched items?

[soderlund 95]

2 hours ago, crusher11 said:

How does “Last Played Date” handle unwatched items?

What do you mean? If it's not watched then it's not played, and therefore the filter will ignore them. 

The "Last Played" filter will give you all items that have been played within the days you set by the selected user.

It will give you movies that are started but not finished, and movies that are completed. 
So for example, a movie that the selected user have watched 15% of and 100% will be included. (It still need to pass the threshold set in Emby library settings, default 2%).  

 

I noticed now the filter only gives movies, it should also give series. I'll look into that. 

Anyone else noticed more filters that only gives movies? My intention has always been to include both movies and series as default. 

[crusher11 1127]

7 hours ago, soderlund said:

What do you mean? If it's not watched then it's not played, and therefore the filter will ignore them. 

If the rule is, say, “last played date > 100,” it's not clear whether or not unwatched items should be included.

 

[soderlund 95]

7 hours ago, crusher11 said:

If the rule is, say, “last played date > 100,” it's not clear whether or not unwatched items should be included.

 

I’m still not sure what you are asking, sorry..

A movie or show is considered as watched when the progress is 90% or more. 
 

The last played filter will give you all items that have been played (more that 2% progress). 
 

So if we are talking pure technical terms, then yes - unwatched items will be included. 
But more practical terms, it will only be items that the user has watched more or less of. 

 

[crusher11 1127]

1 hour ago, soderlund said:

 I’m still not sure what you are asking, sorry..

Last Played, All Users, > 1095.

That should return all movies that have not been watched by anyone in the last three years. That obviously includes all movies that were watched more than three years ago. But does it also include movies that have not been watched at all? Those movies have also not been watched in the past three years, and by that logic should be included, but they haven't been watched more than three years ago, and by that logic should not be included.

I think you're just thinking of it in terms of Last Played LESS THAN, whereas I'm looking for Last Played GREATER THAN.

What I have now is:

Last Played, All Users,  > 1095
OR
Unwatched, All Users AND Date Added > 1095

My goal is to resurface things that have been forgotten about. But if the first rule returns items that have never been watched, then either the second rule is redundant or the first rule will surface things that have never been watched but are newer than 3 years.

[soderlund 95]

Okay, I understand what you want to accomplish. Lets break it down and see if we can get down to the point, my answers in bold.

First lets clarify what "Last played" is. 
A movie gets a played status when a user has seen 2-100% of that movie (default Emby setting). In other words, the user has to have seen part of that movie, or completed it for the flag to be set. When we add last played, we sort these played status into a list based of time. 

4 hours ago, crusher11 said:

Last Played, All Users, > 1095.

That should return all movies that have not been watched by anyone in the last three years. Partly, it also need the played status by all users from more than 3 years ago
That obviously includes all movies that were watched more than three years ago. Correct, but for all users
But does it also include movies that have not been watched at all? No, it will only include movies that have that played status
Those movies have also not been watched in the past three years, and by that logic should be included, I disagree. The logic is "any movie a user have started to watch or finished". I no user have started to watch that specific movie, it does not have a Last played status.

but they haven't been watched more than three years ago, and by that logic should not be included. Correct, as above

 

4 hours ago, crusher11 said:

What I have now is:

Last Played, All Users,  > 1095
OR
Unwatched, All Users AND Date Added > 1095

My goal is to resurface things that have been forgotten about. But if the first rule returns items that have never been watched, then either the second rule is redundant or the first rule will surface things that have never been watched but are newer than 3 years.

 

Last Played, All Users,  > 1095
This will give you: All movies EVERYONE have started to play for more than 3 years ago. If you have a lot of users, this is very unlikely, or you will only get a handful of hits.

I believe the issue is in the "All Users". When you are using "All user" it means that every user need to have set that played status for that specific movie.
For example lets use Batman. The watch status of the users is like this:
John: 99%
Maria: 45%
Donald: 8%
Then you will have a hit and Batman should end up in your list. 

If it's like this:
John: 99%
Maria: 45%
Donald: 0%
Then Donald will break the rule, as it has not been played by all users, and you will have zero hits. 

 

Unwatched, All Users AND Date Added > 1095
This will give you: All movies that NO ONE has completed, and where added to the library more than 3 years ago. 
If it's like this:
John: 99%
Maria: 45%
Donald: 8%
Then John will break the rule, and Batman will not get added.

If it's like this:
John: 0%
Maria: 45%
Donald: 8%
Then you will get a hit because no one has finished that movie. 

 

I think i understand what you want to accomplish, here are a few examples
Last played, Any User, >1095
AND
NOT Last played, any user, <1095

This will give you a move that at least one user watched 3, 5 or 15 years ago, but no one have seen it in the past 3 years.
Could be good for "there has been interest in this movie, but that was a long time ago. Lets resurface"

NOT Last played, any user, <1095
This will give you all movies that no one has seen in the latest 3 years. 

 

 

Does this answer your questions? 

Edited 1 hour ago by soderlund

[LongMan 115]

@soderlundThanks for the analysis above. It made the use of all users and any user clear.
Have you included an any user parameter?

 

Edited 35 minutes ago by LongMan