Plugin: Ginjaninja Tools - RecommendMe - access controlled intra user recommendations with notifications

[ginjaninja 645]

Purpose and Function

• Recommend media to 1 or more recipients (recipients the admin has given you access to). Recommendations are checked for unwatched then added to a user dedicated 'recommendation collection'.
• Functionality built into user facing context menu and plugin page in the web client.
• Admin "send recommendation" access model - Everyone, No One (default), Named Users, Group Membership.
• Configurable default New User behaviour (send policy, group membership). Configurable collection naming.
• Admin server wide media type control.
• User (and optionally admin) controlled "recommendation receive" preferences.
• Toast notification of recommendations. Historical event view of recommendations.
• [option]Watched Medias are removed from a user's recommendation collection on event and scheduled task.
• learn to spell the word 'recommend'

Getting Started

• Establish your preferred collection naming syntax.
• Give users access to make recomendations to other users.
• Use the user facing UI under the profile picture (only available on a web client) to make a reccomendation.
• Review the "Collection" library for users' recomendation collections.
• If you have existing recommendation collections and you name them as per your policy they will be subsumed into the ecosystem (added to not replaced)

Disclaimers

• Vibe coded with Claude, backup database before 1st use, until tested. (Collections are individually targetted for adding individual members). I am running on live.

Download

https://github.com/ginjaninja1/recommendme

Assume version changes require deletion of \data\recommendme ie a hard reset during early builds at least.

• 0.1.0.12RecommendMe.dll 
• 0.1.0.6RecommendMe.dllExperimental injection of commands into context menu.
• 0.1.0.3RecommendMe.dll
• 0.1.0.2RecommendMe.dll
• 0.1.0.0RecommendMe.dll

Changes

0.1.0.12

• Tightened the played event monitoring (clean reccomendation once watched). it was firing too frequently.
• Added an ability to see the watched status of an item for all users

0.1.0.6

• Added RecomendMe to the context menu on the web client
• Will require a server restart and a browser restart.

0.1.0.3

• Hotfix for insufficient separation of user pages/commands.

0.1.0.2

• Recommendation notification storage when offline, Event based delivery on return +20 seconds.
• Event led collage builder (reccomendation collections get their images updated after change).
• Improved presentation in search results.
• Prevent ability to recomend what the target does not have access to (even though emby already blocked visibility). Already prevents the sender seeing what they dont have access to.
• Offline changes (admin changes in emby ui rather than pluginui) are captured in history (as system user), and subscribe to notifications and collage building.
• Task catalogue correction

Known issues

Issues and Suggestions Welcome.

Roadmap

• If collections ever got an access model, implement that.

Other Info

• Plugin stores data in \programdata\data\recommendme(good to know if you want to reset/uninstall)

Edited 50 minutes ago by ginjaninja

[ginjaninja 645]

0.1.0.2

• Recommendation notification storage when offline, Event based delivery on return +20 seconds.
• Event led collage builder (reccomendation collections get their images updated after change).
• Improved presentation in search results.
• Prevent ability to recomend what the target does not have access to (even though emby already blocked visibility). Already prevents the sender seeing what they dont have access to.
• Offline changes (admin changes in emby ui rather than pluginui) are captured in history (as system user), and subscribe to notifications and collage building.
• Task catalogue correction

Edited August 9 by ginjaninja

[ginjaninja 645]

0.1.0.6

• Added RecomendMe to the context menu on the web client
• Will require a server restart and a browser restart.

had to take a video, didnt belive it was possible.

 

Edited August 13 by ginjaninja

[ginjaninja 645]

0.1.0.12

• Tightened the played event monitoring (clean reccomendation once watched). it was firing too frequently.
• Added an ability to see the watched status of an item for all users
• 
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The context menu is working well for my users but only if it it is the only plugin hacking the menu. If multiple plugins need to do, might need need a orchestrating plugin others can register with to play nicely.

Edited 51 minutes ago by ginjaninja