Manage Family Users

[aslefnad 0]

hi i hope you can help,

 

i am a long time plex user and want to give emby a shot. i have a rather big library of movies and tvshows and it can be hard for my wife and i to find a movie we like to watch, or she complains that i have way to many shows so she can't find the ones she like to watch..and so on.

 

so what i did in plex is create managed users that were only able to see media with a specific tag. everything else is hidden.

in emby i only found it the different way..that a user can see everything except videos with a specific tag.

 

what i would love to do is to get rid of multiple users. is there a way in emby to group certain shows/movies together for easy access (without needing to go through X sub-menus)?

 

thanks for your help. 

[mastrmind11 722]

there's been a feature request out there for a while now to reverse the tagging logic.  hasn't been done yet.  I don't know how involved you want to get, but you could always create a separate library w/ the movies/shows you want to be able to find.

[PenkethBoy 2068]

or use collections or playlists

 

if you long press on an item in the say movie library you can then multiselect movies and then add them to a collection etc

[aslefnad 0]

thanks for your help

 

there's been a feature request out there for a while now to reverse the tagging logic.  hasn't been done yet.  I don't know how involved you want to get, but you could always create a separate library w/ the movies/shows you want to be able to find.

 

 yes, i think i will give that a try. since emby lets you manage your library from mobile app this could work. not as comfortable as tagging in plex but maybe it works.

right now my library is still scanning the video files but right from the start emby starts videos much faster and even seeking through a video works better so i will definitely give emby a try.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

Definitely use libraries to separate out the things that each of you doesn't want to see.  My setup is one library for each of my users that contains movies only they will watch and then a common family library that contains things multiple people want to see.  That, combined with creating collections, cuts my number of movies to browse through for any user down to 1/3-1/2 of our whole collection.  I have about 1700 movies and generally users are only scrolling through about 500-700 top level titles.

[legallink 187]

Your users are scrolling through 500-700? I scroll through 50 max. We have a library of 700 but I never scroll through that many.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

Your users are scrolling through 500-700? I scroll through 50 max. We have a library of 700 but I never scroll through that many.

 

give or take, yes...assuming they don't know what they want to watch and end up choosing something starting with Z

[legallink 187]

That’s impressive.

[aslefnad 0]

i now tried the whole separate library thing but i think that i got something wrong.

i have a tv library which is mapped to /tvshows. all shows are in there and should remain that way.

now i want a new library with only show A. i set up the new tvshows library „home“ and map it to /tvshows/A. what now happens is that show A gets somehow readded but my library „home“ remains empty.

 

is it not possible to have one folder mapped into two libraries at the same time?

 

thanks for your help

[ebr 16185]

i now tried the whole separate library thing but i think that i got something wrong.

i have a tv library which is mapped to /tvshows. all shows are in there and should remain that way.

now i want a new library with only show A. i set up the new tvshows library „home“ and map it to /tvshows/A. what now happens is that show A gets somehow readded but my library „home“ remains empty.

 

is it not possible to have one folder mapped into two libraries at the same time?

 

thanks for your help

 

No, you cannot have a library pointing at a subset of another library.

[aslefnad 0]

i was afraid it would be like that thanks for your help

[vk_digi 1]

Hello

 

No, you cannot have a library pointing at a subset of another library.

 

and that is the reason i have setup more than 1 server. eachone on different port and so i can use normal scripts and links within the filesystem to do that.

 

one folder with all stuff attached to server "all"

hardlinks to the files my wife wants to have and that attached to a server-wife

hardlinks to the files i want to have and have that atteched to a server-man

hardlinks to the files that are same in server-wife and server-man and atteched those to server-both

 

in the background there are scripts running that delete files from "both" that have been seen by me or my wife and readd series that are back in sync. or when we have watched files together those (server-both) the scripts remove them also from server-wife and server-man.

 

this works fine for me and we can watch alone (she or me) or together and all is in sync and we do not have multiple enties in normal way one-server-only with more than one lib with same files. 

bonus: there is server-all that have all the time all files if someone removes files by mistake or for those members of family that are not in the "watch sync" circle. using hardlinks also need np extra space on hdd.

 

bye 

[ebr 16185]

Hello

 

 

and that is the reason i have setup more than 1 server. eachone on different port and so i can use normal scripts and links within the filesystem to do that.

 

one folder with all stuff attached to server "all"

hardlinks to the files my wife wants to have and that attached to a server-wife

hardlinks to the files i want to have and have that atteched to a server-man

hardlinks to the files that are same in server-wife and server-man and atteched those to server-both

 

in the background there are scripts running that delete files from "both" that have been seen by me or my wife and readd series that are back in sync. or when we have watched files together those (server-both) the scripts remove them also from server-wife and server-man.

 

this works fine for me and we can watch alone (she or me) or together and all is in sync and we do not have multiple enties in normal way one-server-only with more than one lib with same files. 

bonus: there is server-all that have all the time all files if someone removes files by mistake or for those members of family that are not in the "watch sync" circle. using hardlinks also need np extra space on hdd.

 

bye 

 

This could be achieved simpler by just having separate libraries:

 

Wife

Husband

Kids

Shared

 

Then give Wife access to Wife and Shared, Husband access to Husband and Shared, etc.

[vk_digi 1]

Hello,

 

This could be achieved simpler by just having separate libraries:

 

Wife

Husband

Kids

Shared

 

Then give Wife access to Wife and Shared, Husband access to Husband and Shared, etc.

last time i tested this with emby it was a total mess. 

First of you did you understand my words correct, that same series are in the libs for wife, husband and so on? Let me tell we have in total around 1500 series. in the wife-lib there are around 500. in the husband around 700 and in the both lib there are about 350 series. 

 

When same filenames in different libs are added and you do a search there is not only one hit but there are 3 or let me say count of libs hits. when you choose the file in the husband lib and watch this, the flag for seen is set to true. but not for the same file in lib wife and not in lib both and so on....

 

how ever, the way i do this works fine for me and it was only an idea how to solve problems.

 

btw: When one set the filter in showning files to "no seen files" this is not part of permanent setting. with every new "show files" the setting of the filter is reset and so all seen files are shown again.

btw-2: yes ignore it simply and tell me "how to report errors....no problem"

btw-3: yes add more and more systems and new stuff, but let the older users having install long time ago on linux standing in the rain with only some words about...he we have new version. remove all old and do manual update. i knew those having lifetime licence will not add money in your bags....so let them handing around with that problem now since many weeks...

 

bye volker

[ebr 16185]

First of you did you understand my words correct, that same series are in the libs for wife, husband and so on? Let me tell we have in total around 1500 series. in the wife-lib there are around 500. in the husband around 700 and in the both lib there are about 350 series. 

 

 

I understood what you are trying to achieve and it can be achieved in the manner I described (this is how my libraries are setup).  The key is the shared library.  Anything that both wife and husband see should be in that library.

 

Only things that ONLY the wife wants to see are in the wife library and only things that ONLY the husband wants to see are in the husband library.  Any common things are in the shared one.

 

if it is setup that way and then the access is setup as I described you get tailored libraries with only items each wants to see.  I do this to keep all the Disney stuff out of my views (although, as my daughter ages, this is less of an issue for me ).

[Deathsquirrel 745]

This could be achieved simpler by just having separate libraries:

 

Wife

Husband

Kids

Shared

 

Then give Wife access to Wife and Shared, Husband access to Husband and Shared, etc.

 

This is exactly how I'm configured and it works well for me.

[vk_digi 1]

Hello,

This is exactly how I'm configured and it works well for me.

for me it works NOT for many reasons. in the end i don't care about it anymore because for me my solution is the only one that works.

 

One Example:

 

If ONLY series for husband are in husband-lib i can as user husband go into the lib but i only see the series that ONLY i want to see. if i want to see for any reason some different stuff today i need to ge into lib-shared. when i watch there let me see 2 episodes of a shared serie those are set to "seen" for me with user husband.

if some day we watch together (wife+husband) going into lib shared there are problems.

a) logged in with user husband we see 2 episodes seen that my wife has not seen so far.

logged in with user wife we see 2 episodes as unseen that i (husband) have seen already

c) logged in with user shared same problem not correct "watched" status.

 

 

there are other problems too, but as written before don't care anymore because the solution i have works for us perfect. only down-sides

1) emby needs to update 3 servers with similar stuff

2) need scripts doing the sync over the libs. 

 

bye vk:digi

[ebr 16185]

Hello,

for me it works NOT for many reasons. in the end i don't care about it anymore because for me my solution is the only one that works.

 

One Example:

 

If ONLY series for husband are in husband-lib i can as user husband go into the lib but i only see the series that ONLY i want to see. if i want to see for any reason some different stuff today i need to ge into lib-shared. 

 

In your Home Screen settings, there is an option to combine libraries of the same type.  Check those off and you will only see one library with the entire universe of movies (or shows) you have access to.

 

Your issues with who is marked as watching something are not solved by your solution either... in fact, with multiple servers, you have an even harder time managing that .

[vk_digi 1]

Hello,

I

Your issues with who is marked as watching something are not solved by your solution either... in fact, with multiple servers, you have an even harder time managing that .

you didn't the whole plan behind this, but this is not needed....we (the users) delete the files that we have seen. and the scripts in background is doing the rest.

 

but as written before. i tested it in many ways and nothing worked as i should for US (my family)...so i did it on my own and this works exactly as it should

 

bye

[ebr 16185]

Hello,

you didn't the whole plan behind this, but this is not needed....we (the users) delete the files that we have seen. and the scripts in background is doing the rest.

 

but as written before. i tested it in many ways and nothing worked as i should for US (my family)...so i did it on my own and this works exactly as it should

 

bye

 

Okay, and that is fine.  I just wanted to be sure any other readers knew there was an easier way to accomplish this basic goal (tailoring content to specific users).

 

Thanks.