TV Show Status — TMDB-powered Returning/Ended/Cancelled badges for series

[ginjaninja 652]

On 29/08/2026 at 16:42, Blueskies278 said:

Unfortunately per-episode on a shared image, and per-user can't be done. but I will still add it to the roadmap.

Hi @Blueskies278,
I am struggling to make sense of the options and the terminology.
My understanding - All levels can have thumbnails in theory, Shows, Seasons, Episodes....but the one that really matters is "Show"
IMO The options should perhaps ask (and answer) questions:

• What do you want on your show poster.
• What do you want on your show thumbnail
• What do you want on Season Poster
• What do you want on your show thumbnail
• What do you want on Episode Poster
• What do you want on your Episode thumbnail

Taking Show thumbnail as one example

• Do you want Show Status (Ended|Contuing)
• Do you want Premiere/Finale.*
• Do you want season completeness.*

Info - * calculated based on your preffered users watch status.

And then there are options about how you want the data presented (Color, Pill , Text, Location, blah blah blah), per level? per image type? not sure havent thought that through.

*when you you say "cant be done". are you saying logical imposssibility or sdk doesnt support or not part of current thinking or something else?

I dont know how the image processor function works but i assume its a case of the plugin deciding what it wants to be overlayed and how and tell emby to do that?
Can the plugin know if the preffered users episode watch status is at a  Premier or Finale point  - i assume yes (thats core functionality to know the properties of the show/season and getting the users watched status is possible)...and have they asked for this to be tattoed anywhere....then do that...(and if not at that point remove the request or request blank - i dont know how permanent a processed image is)
Can the plugin know if the preffered users episode watch status is at a season which is complete or not - i assume yes (thats core functioanlity)...and have they asked for this to be tattoed anywhere....then do that...

then subscribe to the watched event and recalculate show/season/episode images for the preffered user, their preferences and the episode just watched.
No doubt i have over simplified, but that was my thinking / suggestion.

I am no expert but it doesnt on the surface feel like a logical impossibility or a an sdk impossibility?



 

[Blueskies278 108]

1 hour ago, ginjaninja said:

Hi @Blueskies278,
I am struggling to make sense of the options and the terminology.
My understanding - All levels can have thumbnails in theory, Shows, Seasons, Episodes....but the one that really matters is "Show"
IMO The options should perhaps ask (and answer) questions:

• What do you want on your show poster.
• What do you want on your show thumbnail
• What do you want on Season Poster
• What do you want on your show thumbnail
• What do you want on Episode Poster
• What do you want on your Episode thumbnail

Taking Show thumbnail as one example

• Do you want Show Status (Ended|Contuing)
• Do you want Premiere/Finale.*
• Do you want season completeness.*

Info - * calculated based on your preffered users watch status.

And then there are options about how you want the data presented (Color, Pill , Text, Location, blah blah blah), per level? per image type? not sure havent thought that through.

*when you you say "cant be done". are you saying logical imposssibility or sdk doesnt support or not part of current thinking or something else?

I dont know how the image processor function works but i assume its a case of the plugin deciding what it wants to be overlayed and how and tell emby to do that?
Can the plugin know if the preffered users episode watch status is at a  Premier or Finale point  - i assume yes (thats core functionality to know the properties of the show/season and getting the users watched status is possible)...and have they asked for this to be tattoed anywhere....then do that...(and if not at that point remove the request or request blank - i dont know how permanent a processed image is)
Can the plugin know if the preffered users episode watch status is at a season which is complete or not - i assume yes (thats core functioanlity)...and have they asked for this to be tattoed anywhere....then do that...

then subscribe to the watched event and recalculate show/season/episode images for the preffered user, their preferences and the episode just watched.
No doubt i have over simplified, but that was my thinking / suggestion.

I am no expert but it doesnt on the surface feel like a logical impossibility or a an sdk impossibility?



 

 

Thank you for your input and suggestions. I will revise the wording in the next update. It has been a very intense few weeks, so I am taking a brief break from coding. Regarding the SDK, for now I can’t see a way to implement this feature, but it’s still on my roadmap. This will be my last post. Be back soon