Plugin: Home Screen Companion

[crusher11 1143]

17 minutes ago, Aleas said:

Wondering how hard would it be to add in support for IMDB lists?

IMDB's API costs tens of thousands of dollars, I believe.

[soderlund 108]

5 hours ago, crusher11 said:

A suggestion: if a scheduled rule with the priority override set returns zero results, nothing is tagged. It would be preferable—for my use case, at least—if it treated the schedule as inactive in that situation.

Agree, that would be the best way to handle that. I’ll see what i can do. 

36 minutes ago, Aleas said:

Wondering how hard would it be to add in support for IMDB lists?  I've been having issues with trakt.tv lately where it won't even load the webpage for me anymore.

Hard. Very hard… 

The API for IMDB is EXPENSIVE and not something any individual want to pay. A quick google search says around $150,000 per year… So the alternative is to scrape their website, but that is breaking ther Terms of service. Even so, I’m not willing to put down the time and effort to create that function. 

What you could do if you are having trouble with Trakt itself, is to use MDBList. MDBList can fetch list from trakt directly within its own filters. Search the public lists and you will probably find someone who has already created one that is available.

 

I’m curently working on some bug fixes and a new cleanup function (remove tags and collections on the server). I’m expecting to finish this update within a day or two. After this I’m gonna look into adding support for more external sources. 

Edited yesterday at 12:02 PM by soderlund

[shinedou 8]

1 hour ago, soderlund said:

The API for IMDB is EXPENSIVE and not something any individual want to pay. A quick google search says around $150,000 per year… So the alternative is to scrape their website, but that is breaking ther Terms of service. Even so, I’m not willing to put down the time and effort to create that function. 

 

Bummer, because that's a great suggestion. I'm guessing then since both apps, Sonarr and Radarr, can import IMDB watchlists that they are doing it the unauthorized way. I doubt they are paying for the API.

 

[Neminem 1619]

Sonarr and Radarr are using TMDB + scraping other DB's to do this with movies/shows that have IMDB id.

They have there own metadata end point, that users use.

Its a strange combo the a company like Emby can be sued for letting something like this live.

I guess if this plugin can never be included in the plugin section, if it ever use this methode.

@soderlundplease keep this in minde.

 

Edited yesterday at 01:51 PM by Neminem

[shinedou 8]

2 minutes ago, Neminem said:

Sonarr and Radarr are using TMDB + scraping other DB's to do this with movies/shows that have IMDB id.

Yeah, I can see that they use their own sources for the metadata but both apps do allow the import of IMDB watchlists under settings>import lists. This is an automated import (every 12 hours, I think). https://wiki.servarr.com/radarr/supported#imdblistimport

 

4 minutes ago, Neminem said:

Its a strange combo the a company like Emby can be sued for letting something like this live.

Thinking about it, I can see now how this method would be an issue for Emby

[Aleas 38]

Bummer, but I totally get it.

Moved over to MDBList, working great so far.

Anyhow keep up the great work!

Edited yesterday at 03:16 PM by Aleas

[soderlund 108]

Yeah I can tell you IMDB is not gonna be an option for me to add to this plugin. 

MDBList is freaking awesome and support a lot of filtering and creation of list. Yes, it cost some money if you want the whole experience, but in regards what you get its well worth it in my opinion. 
I beleve you might be able to import your IMDB list aswell? 

There might be some other workarounds like Sonarr etc does it, to use a 3rd party that scrapes IMDB and then post it publicly. But that is a bit of a gray area.. 
For now, MDBList covers a lot of functionality and i will look into adding TMDB and other open sources. If you have any request pls let me know (I'm only using MDBList myself)

[soderlund 108]

New stable release -  Version 3.3.0.0
Download .dll and full release notes: https://github.com/soderlund91/HomeScreenCompanion/releases/tag/v3.3.0.0

This updates focus on bug fixes and improvements to fully work with the home screen settings. Also introducing a Cleanup menu/function.

This release is not that significant by itself, but it's a milestone for the plugin as a whole. With Emby Server v4.10.0.8, all bugs seem to have been fixed for filters in the home screen sections setting, and this allows this build of the plugin to fully take advantage of this. My ambition with this plugin has been to manage all sections and settings for the home screen in the plugin itself, which now is possible.

In other words - this plugin is the only tool you need to have a fully managed and curated home screen!

 

IMPORTANT! 
Minimum required Emby server v4.10.0.8

Note
Make sure to back up your settings before updating, just in case. 

Note
Included a .NET V6 release, this is for MacOS or legacy support. This version is NOT tested.

 

New features

• Created a "Cleanup" menu. This allows to quickly remove tags and collections (also those that are not created by the plugin).
  Removing a tag or collection that is managed by the plugin will ask if you want to disable that group (to prevent repopulate).
• Added an option in settings menu how empty sources should be handled (keep latest or empty the tag/collection). Default is set to preserve latest.

Updates & Improvements

• Updated plugin to fully operate with Emby server 4.10.0.8. Embys native menu and the plugin menu for home screen section now mirrors each other, meaning you can do all managing for sections in the plugin.
• Improved performance
• Remade comma separated lists into line separation. One value per line/row
• If a "schedule priority override" returns zero, now treat it as the schedule is inactive

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where episodes got tagged even tough "Series" was selected as tag.
• Fixed a bug where collection wasn't able to get tagged when the collection name contained a comma.

HomeScreenCompanion.dll HomeScreenCompanion_NET6_MacOS.dll