Plugin: Home Screen Companion

[crusher11 1329]

On 9/24/2026 at 5:39 AM, soderlund said:

How so?
You asked how it handled an item with locked tags, and the plugin doesn't care. It would still write new tags and remove them. 
What i meant with "Simple answer is: it doesn't." is that it doesn't need to handle that, because it "overrides" the locked setting.  Maybe bad expressed by me. 

 

To say that “it doesn't [handle locked items]” indicates, to me, that it skips those items.

[soderlund 185]

New minor release -  Version 4.2.0.0
Download .dll and full release notes: https://github.com/soderlund91/HomeScreenCompanion/releases/tag/v4.2.0.0

New features, updates and fixes

Install/update via Emby plugin catalog or manually download the .dll.

 

IMPORTANT! 
Minimum required Emby server v4.10.0.40

Release notes

New:

• Continue watching bump: Added an option that enables new seasons and episode releases to bump up the show to first position in the continue watching. The settings will be found in top menu "Home screen" --> "Home screen tweaks".
  Read more below about the function
  Note: This feature is currently experimental. I have tested it by adding/removing episodes on my own server and it seems to work well. But the true test for this function needs to be some live tests, and will take some time. Hence the experimental warning.

Updates:

• MDBList support: Added support for MDBList official lists.
• Logs: Logs now persist between server-restarts.
• Top-list items can now show their collections. Movies opened from a top-list row didn't show "Included in ", because the top-list copy wasn't a member of the original movie's collections. Turn on Show collections on top-list items (Settings → Advanced → Top-lists) and each top-list movie is added to the same collections as the original, and follows along when the original is added to or removed from a collection.
  • Off by default. Turning it on (or off) updates all existing top-list items.
  • Trade-off: depending on a collection's sort order, the collection may show the
    top-list version with its rank-badge poster instead of the original.

Fixes:

• Top-list copies no longer match rules. MediaInfo and AI rules could pick up the top-list .strm copies, which then got tagged and added to collections and playlists. This could also make tags "come back" seconds after a sync removed them.
• Tags no longer bounce between versions of a movie. When a movie exists as separate items (e.g. 1080p and 4K) and a rule matches only one of them, the other version no longer gets the tag re-applied after every sync.
• Recurring schedules that span New Year now work. A window like Dec 27 → Jan 3 was only active in December.
• A group's own tag no longer satisfies its Tag rules. A group tagged zzrow-musicalswith the rule Tag contains Musicals matched itself, so items never left the row. New Tag rules now default to Exact. Existing rules are unchanged.
• Rating rules now include exact boundary values. Community Rating >= 7.2 skipped movies rated exactly 7.2 (and <= 6.9 skipped 6.9).
• The plugin's API now requires an admin account. Signed-in non-admin users could previously call it (e.g. export the backup including API keys).

 

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Continue watching bump
This is a workaround to highlight for the user that a new episode/season has been added. For example, if the user have watched all episode of a show up until s03e09 (season finale). It might then take a year or two before s04e01 is released, and the show will get buried way down in the continue watched, This function manipulates the "LastPlayedDate" for s03e09 to look like the user just played it.
In this way s04e01 will be placed as the first item in the continue watching row.
This bump will only happen once, and if the user doesn't watch the show, it will gradually move down the continue watching list.

When enabled the function auto-detects new seasons and apply the setting. There is also a new scheduled task to catch anything that has been missed (runs default every 6 hour).

You as an admin can select if this should apply to only new seasons, or between all episodes.

HomeScreenCompanion.dll

Edited 24 minutes ago by soderlund