Plugin: Home Screen Companion

[crusher11 1189]

It only works within libraries, not between them.

[soderlund 144]

14 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

It only works within libraries, not between them.

Bummer... You are probably correct. I have another plugin that among other things merges all version across the server. That's probably why it works for me. 

But do you think this will be a problem? I'm trying to decide what way to go as described a few posts back. 

 

Brainstorm with me! 

I really like the idea to use tags instead of libraries because of this multi-version issue and that its a more safe approach (code wise), plus it would open up for series as well. But i truly hate the idea that a movie from the top list will get the number poster across the whole server and that it will show up in another home section and be the only one with a number... 

One way to embrace it could be to have the mark with a small text as well. So instead of only showing 1, 2, 3 etc on the poster, we also add a small "Today top 10". Then when the same movie shows up in another home section the user gets a "oh, cool that movie is part of this top list" and it might actually be a cool thing. 

I don't know.. what does the community say? 

[Jdiesel 1442]

I personally don't care for the modified covers in general. Right now I just use a smart playlist called "popular this week" that has a play count greater than 1 from any user within the last 7 days. There is no way to rank how popular an item is (number of play counts or number of users with a play count) but its fine for my usage, I just sort by random. I do this all with tags as they are the cleanest. With a playlist you could define the order of the items better, as in sort from most popular to least.

I would probably not be the best candidate for advice as I wouldn't use a feature that tagged a cover with a number or badge. I would use a feature that allowed the top items to be better sorted in a home screen view though.

Edited Wednesday at 06:22 PM by Jdiesel

[Jdiesel 1442]

I was just thinking about converting my AI user generated lists over from tags to playlists as using tags leaks user names to all users as the applied tags are visible to everyone. Home Screen Companion will only let me create a homescreen selection using Tags or Collections, not a playlist. Using the Emby UI I am able to create a homescreen selection using a single playlist. Can this ability be added or is there a limitation somewhere? 

[soderlund 144]

41 minutes ago, Jdiesel said:

I personally don't care for the modified covers in general. Right now I just use a smart playlist called "popular this week" that has a play count greater than 1 from any user within the last 7 days. There is no way to rank how popular an item is (number of play counts or number of users with a play count) but its fine for my usage, I just sort by random. I do this all with tags as they are the cleanest. With a playlist you could define the order of the items better, as in sort from most popular to least.

I would probably not be the best candidate for advice as I wouldn't use a feature that tagged a cover with a number or badge. I would use a feature that allowed the top items to be better sorted in a home screen view though.

That's another drawback with using tags, we cannot sort them in a good way. Sure we could use the "sort title" but that would be system wide. Using a specific library for the top list we can easily sort within the library. 

15 minutes ago, Jdiesel said:

I was just thinking about converting my AI user generated lists over from tags to playlists as using tags leaks user names to all users as the applied tags are visible to everyone. Home Screen Companion will only let me create a homescreen selection using Tags or Collections, not a playlist. Using the Emby UI I am able to create a homescreen selection using a single playlist. Can this ability be added or is there a limitation somewhere? 

Absolutely, it can get added to the plugin. I havent looked into this yet since I mostly wanted to get the creation of playlist working. When i did the playlist function I struggled a a lot to get it to update accordingly to the source. I'm putting this on the to-do list and we'll se when i get time to work on in. 

In the mean time, set up the playlist via the plugin, then manually add a home section using Emby native menu for this. 
Or rename the tag to something anonymously like "AI_recommended_user1"

BUT - If having series on the list it gets pretty messy as a home section since episodes are handled the Emby way (where every single episode is added).. 

[Jdiesel 1442]

Ah yeah series within a playlist would be messy. I'll just rename the tags to be anonymous for now. Thanks!

[rbjtech 5355]

As per previous advice, I would not use a duplicate library - this was the 'only way' to do it before - and it caused all sorts of problems.   Now we have the ability to dynamically create rows/collections etc via tags, then I can't think of a good reason why you would want to go back to the old method.    

If an item has a 'top picks' number on it - but it's not in a top pics row (for example), then I agree it may look a bit odd - but as you suggest, replace with 'top pic + #' should remove any confusion.   A top pick in an alternate row is still a top pic afterall. 

Edited 20 hours ago by rbjtech

[soderlund 144]

4 hours ago, rbjtech said:

As per previous advice, I would not use a duplicate library - this was the 'only way' to do it before - and it caused all sorts of problems.   Now we have the ability to dynamically create rows/collections etc via tags, then I can't think of a good reason why you would want to go back to the old method.    

If an item has a 'top picks' number on it - but it's not in a top pics row (for example), then I agree it may look a bit odd - but as you suggest, replace with 'top pic + #' should remove any confusion.   A top pick in an alternate row is still a top pic afterall. 

I have done this setup with multiple libraries and same movie in them for a long time and never had an issue tbh. 

But yeah, I'm gonna have to go down the rabbit hole and redo this.. The only thing I'm thinking about is how to fix the sorting, any suggestions? If using sorting order it will affect it server wide, but i can't thing of any other way on top of my head. 

[rbjtech 5355]

9 hours ago, soderlund said:

But yeah, I'm gonna have to go down the rabbit hole and redo this.. The only thing I'm thinking about is how to fix the sorting, any suggestions? If using sorting order it will affect it server wide, but i can't thing of any other way on top of my head. 

Is it possible to combine with 'collection order' instead ?  ie show in the order you dynamically build the list - do not use the item 'sort order' ?