Plugin: Home Screen Companion (formerly AutoTag)

[shinedou 7]

On 3/20/2026 at 8:14 AM, soderlund said:

• When selecting Media Type = Episode, there is now an option to also check towards the parent series (tree crawl) if the series match.

Added ability to enter multiple options in text fields, separated by comma. For example

Actor=Tom Hanks, Idris Elba, Edward Norton
Studio=Netflix, HBO, etc
Overview=Christmas, halloween

 

• Added function for better control of tags and collections: Remade tag/collection logic for Media Type=Episode (introduced in v3.1.2.0). In previous release this was made so episodes where tagged or added to collections. This logic is now moved into the Tag and Collection tabs. See below for more info.
  If you where using this to tag episodes, make sure to update according to the new way to set tags to episodes!

 

Fixes

• UI: Some smaller UI fixes
• Bug fix: Fixed an issue where external list from MDBList only fetched up to 1000 items. This is now unlimited.

 

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New way to select Tag and Collection level

You can now control at which level tags and collections are applied when using the MediaInfo (smart filter) source — independently for tags and collections.
Tag tab — a new "For TV shows, tag at level" section lets you choose one or more of: Series, Season, Episode.
Collection tab — a new "For TV shows, add to collection at level" section with the same options.

These two settings are fully independent. For example, you can tag individual episodes while adding the parent series to a collection — all from the same filter.

How scan scope and output level work:
The filter determines what gets scanned. By default, the scanner processes movies and series. Adding a Media Type = Episode filter rule switches the scanner to episode-level, giving you access to episode-specific metadata.

The tab checkboxes determine where the result goes, regardless of what was scanned:

Filters/Scanning	Tagging/Collection	Result
Scanning series	Seasons	all seasons of matched series
Scanning series	Episode	all episodes of matched series
Scanning episodes	Series	the parent series is tagged/collected
Scanning episodes	Season	the parent season is tagged/collected

 

 

 

I have run some tests of your latest update and it is working very well so far. The changes you made for using "tree crawl" searches is exactly what I needed and it works perfectly. Also the comma separated values great. So much cleaner.  I haven't delved into the scheduling yet but I will. As far as the AI I am not sure how much I would use that but it is an interesting idea. 

Great work!! I appreciate you being interested in adding features so willingly.

Unfortunately for some reason I cannot get the beta versions of the android app to load on my nvidia shield or my phone so its no fun not being able to use the new Home features on there. It says I am a member of beta and it even says (beta) but the app version is standard.

Edited yesterday at 03:05 PM by shinedou
fixed spelling

[seanbuff 1353]

6 hours ago, shinedou said:

Unfortunately for some reason I cannot get the beta versions of the android app to load on my nvidia shield or my phone

You'll just have to side load them for now: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/tree/master/android

 

[shinedou 7]

17 hours ago, seanbuff said:

You'll just have to side load them for now: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Releases/tree/master/android

 

That worked. Thanks.

[crusher11 1134]

@soderlundis combining multiple source types still in the works?

Can't update to the latest version as yet; I'm waiting for the bugs in .6 to be dealt with before I update my server.

[LongMan 116]

I updated my production server and I am loving this plugin. Sweet.

A potential feature
Best Movies/Best Series/Most Popular based on the if more than a specific number of users have watched it. Here I am not speaking of play count because if a user is interrupted many times while watching a movie, it may have a high play count because of the stop/start. Also, if a movie is draining, it could be watched over multiple sessions, again giving a high play count.
What I a looking for is the movies that more than x users have watched. Something like User Watch Count.

What are your thoughts? Is it feasible?

[soderlund 103]

5 hours ago, crusher11 said:

@soderlundis combining multiple source types still in the works?

Just create a group of each source, and set the same "Tag name" and/or "Collection name" to the same and they will merge. 
If you want them as a home screen section then only enable that option for one of the groups (else you will have multiple rows with the same tag/collection)
 

2 hours ago, LongMan said:

I updated my production server and I am loving this plugin. Sweet.

A potential feature
Best Movies/Best Series/Most Popular based on the if more than a specific number of users have watched it. Here I am not speaking of play count because if a user is interrupted many times while watching a movie, it may have a high play count because of the stop/start. Also, if a movie is draining, it could be watched over multiple sessions, again giving a high play count.
What I a looking for is the movies that more than x users have watched. Something like User Watch Count.

What are your thoughts? Is it feasible?

Like the idea! I'll se what I can do!

Currently working on implementing filters for music and music videos, and this goes in line whit adding more filters  

Edited 1 hour ago by soderlund