Plugin: Ginjaninja Tools - Identity Helper - Improving Emby Identification

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Purpose and Function

• A library provider (Currently for TV Series) which improves first time identification success rate, especially for automatic library ingestion.
• Rather than the unreliable default firstordefault approach of the TMDB|TVDB result set, this provider uses Levenshtein distance and year weighting to nudge Emby's TMDB and TVDB providers in the right direction.
• Example D:\TV\Honey , Emby's TVDB detects as an Indian show from 2019 called "Money Honey", rather than a show "Honey" from current year. TMDB detects as "Cutie Honey Universe"
• Design Goal: Do the bare minimum, just provide the IDs of the winning result and let Emby proceed under its default TMDB|TVDB behaviour.
• Supports Emby's manual and automatic identification pathways. Inherits the library's TVDB|TMDB isenabled/order.
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Getting Started

• Backup database prior to use until comfortable, I am running in live  but with limited 'day forward' testing.
• Enable debug logging during testing.
• Click on the plugin to configure its settings. "Enable Resolver" and "Apply Selected Ids".
• Enable the provider in the library metadata configuration (it needs to be first in order above TVDB and TMDB to do its job).
• Manually or automatically identify a tv show and see the results / log / behaviour.
• Turning off the resolver allows you to easily compare standard vs new behaviour.

Download

https://github.com/ginjaninja1/IdentityChecker

• 0.0.0.14IdentityHelper.dll

Changes

 

Known issues

• Local NFOs (and the library configured to read NFOs) avoid this and all providers (normal emby behaviour)
• Emby's manual pathway doesnt provide access to library provider settings, so the manual pathway  has to rely on user configuration of preffered provider (TMDB|TVDB) in a tie break (see cong options), if both sources are in use.
• chasing down a potential bug with stale folders. The plugin is possibly too cautious and takes a step back if a show is reintroduced in the same path, allow default bad behaviour to override. Dont think it affacts real world use.

Roadmap

• Add to plugin store, after some wider feedback.
• Introduce a Movie helper and any others on request. Movies also use 'firstordefault' and can go 'wrong' too.

Other Info

• Vibe coded with ChatGPT Codex, 50% of free monthly subscription, Light Luna model. This model / Codex is a notable improvement from a few months ago IMO.
• Tested on 4.11.0.13 (although should work on 4.9.1.90 onwards), on a server with default TMDB and TVDB providers available.
• Issues and Suggestions welcome.

Edited 1 hour ago by ginjaninja