Plugin: Home Screen Companion (formerly AutoTag)

[crusher11 1131]

47 minutes ago, rbjtech said:

The Home section can be filtered by more than a single tag - so just create more descriptive tag names in the Plugin and add them ALL to the home section filter.   Then you'll know exactly which filters are being used for what items ... 

But the schedule override won't work the way I want it to if I do that.

[LongMan 115]

On 3/4/2026 at 5:18 PM, soderlund said:

Warning
No longer support for Emby server version 4.9.x.x. Requires 4.10+

@soderlundDoes this means that the plugin does not work with 4.9.x.x version at all? Not even as auto tagger? I understand that the Home screen enhancements will not work, however,  how about the smart playlist features?

 

Edit: Asking because my 4.9.3.0 server shows New update: v3.1.2.0 available

Edited 12 hours ago by LongMan

[soderlund 100]

7 hours ago, crusher11 said:

It would be good to have a visual indication of whether or not a rule is being applied, and what tag it's applying. At the moment I have to dig into each scheduled rule individually to check its date range, and dig into each rule to see which tag it applies.

I have a ton of media that's tagged “spotlight”  right now and shouldn't be, and it's a challenge to try and figure out where it's gone wrong.

5 hours ago, crusher11 said:

But the schedule override won't work the way I want it to if I do that.

 

I'm of gonna have to agree with rbjtech on this. Try to name your groups very specific so you know what they are supposed to do. 
Use the native/built in home screen section manager to add multiple tags. Then you can have a home screen row with both "spotlight", "christmas_spotlight", "halloween_spotlight" for the same row.

That might be easier to administer with scheduler, and not using the override setting for all. 

I don't really see what more visual things to add. I don't want to clutter the UI. 

To be honest this sound like trap you have set up for yourself... But give me a good example and it would be easier what type of flags/visuals you want. A picture in Paint is very helpful! 

1 hour ago, LongMan said:

@soderlundDoes this means that the plugin does not work with 4.9.x.x version at all? Not even as auto tagger? I understand that the Home screen enhancements will not work, however,  how about the smart playlist features?

 

Edit: Asking because my 4.9.3.0 server shows New update: v3.1.2.0 available

The plugin would not load if running 4.9.3.0. 

From plugin version 3.0 it's built with assets from the beta server that's not available for server v4.9.3. You could give it a try, but my guess is that the plugin wont load in. 

From my experience the Emby devs are releasing very stable betas. I have always used the beta for my live/production server, with very few issues. Th latest beta gives huge improvements to Emby, so i kind of suggest to try it out! Releasing it as stable is probably not too far away either. 

[crusher11 1131]

4 hours ago, soderlund said:

But give me a good example and it would be easier what type of flags/visuals you want.

Well, at the moment the “schedule priority” label has an orange dot on it. Making it a green dot when the schedule is active would make sense.

 

4 hours ago, soderlund said:

That might be easier to administer with scheduler, and not using the override setting for all. 

I have, so far, 13 overrides. Handling all that manually would be a nightmare.

[chander421 17]

As I continue testing this great plugin, I've noticed that some titles in my mdblist playlists aren't being recognized or matched in Emby... I don't understand why; I can't see anything in the logs, and the movie IDs are the same (IMDb and TMDB IDs).

For example, the movie *Douce* (1943) (https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/63771-douce) is listed in my list on mdblist but never in Emby?

And the more I check the matches, the more I realize there are unmatched items here and there.

Any idea why?

 

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Edited 1 hour ago by chander421