Plugin: Home Screen Companion

[mike165 0]

32 minutes ago, soderlund said:

I completely understand, and want to be able to achieve exactly the same. 
This worked in the early Emby beta to assign a tag to that collection, but they removed that option in an update. 
 

I believe this might still be available under the hood, for example to add a subtitle is still possible to achieve even though Emby removed that option from the native menus. 
 

I have focused on other things for the plugin, but now might be a good time to start investigate this a bit more! 

That would be awesome!
I do know the ACdb has an option to add tags to collections?
I'm not sure if it actually does that in Emby as well, but it seems like tags for collections still exist in some type of way?

Either way, for the customization I'm going for, a feature like this would massively simplify my collections!

[Jdiesel 1439]

Is there a way to apply playstates to each user automatically? For example if I create a new source and add the filter "unplayed" I can choose the user or all users. This requires that a unique playlist for each user to incorporate their watched status. If I create a home screen selection through the Emby UI I can add the playstate filter and it applies to that user. If I copy the setting to any other user it will apply their own watched status.

Does that make any sense?

[crusher11 1150]

Tags are universal, not per-user. 

[soderlund 113]

On 4/4/2026 at 5:42 PM, Aleas said:

It showed the new tags, I think I figured it out..  it's not showing the meta data from the theme.mp3 files.  maybe also backdrops/theme.mkv files too?

I built the plugin with movies and series in mind, music was added later on. I’m guessing music etc isn’t included because I overlooked it in the cleanup menu. 
this is a theory and I have to look at the code if this is included or not. 
 

Either way, this is on the “to-fix”list! 

On 4/4/2026 at 6:05 PM, mike165 said:

That would be awesome!
I do know the ACdb has an option to add tags to collections?
I'm not sure if it actually does that in Emby as well, but it seems like tags for collections still exist in some type of way?

Either way, for the customization I'm going for, a feature like this would massively simplify my collections!

We can still put tags on collection, that’s not the problem. The problem is that Emby Home Screen UI won’t show these items as we want to. 
Unless I have missed something with later version? 

With the first 4.10 beta we could do this, but then it was removed. Both me and the creator of Acdb plugin has requested they would bring it back. 

10 hours ago, Jdiesel said:

Is there a way to apply playstates to each user automatically? For example if I create a new source and add the filter "unplayed" I can choose the user or all users. This requires that a unique playlist for each user to incorporate their watched status. If I create a home screen selection through the Emby UI I can add the playstate filter and it applies to that user. If I copy the setting to any other user it will apply their own watched status.

Does that make any sense?

I think I understand.. Let me know if this doesn’t answer your question

You can make a Home Screen section with individual play states. The plugin mimics the Emby menu for this, so if you go to the Home Screen section tab you will see “play states”. If set to unplayed it show on individual basis on the Home Screen. 
 

so for example you make a new tag/collection named “movies you must watch”, all movies that the individual user already have seen will be hidden on the home screen. But if the user go into the collection all movies will be displayed. 
 

But if you want to create an individual “my list” you will probably need to create one per user. (Recommend using playlist as source for this) 
 

To summarize: yes, the plugin works the way you describe. The Home Screen tab in the plugin mirrors the menu and settings from the native Emby. 
change a setting in the plugin - it also shanges in embys settings, and vice versa.