Feature Request: I'd like to see a way to publish various collections on the home screen for a set number of days.

[gstevenking]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Similar to how Netflix has lists you can scroll through, I'd like to do this with Plex so users might be presented with an option they hadn't considered before.

Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like to be able to either have a random collection assigned to the screen for a set period of time, or a list of collections that could change on a rotating basis

Describe alternatives you've considered
I can make it work on a limited basis using a method similar to the holiday collections that are able to be pinned to the home screen. I have a list of collections and gave them all a date range. My biggest issues are how they are ordered since you can only use custom sorting on one collection, and how to have them change out. Currently I have dates ranges attached to each one.

[snickers2k]

isn't this already possible?

  some-template-name:
    smart_label: title.asc
    sort_title: ++0_<<collection_name>>
    schedule: range(<<start_date>>-<<end_date>>)
    delete_not_scheduled: true
    visible_home: true
    visible_shared: true
    visible_library: true

[meisnate12]

He wants to be able to choose a set of collections and have PMM randomly pick some to put on the Home Screen for a certain period

[meisnate12]

#717 addition from @kstanleyadams

Problem: Too many collections to display on home screen. Can be slow and less interesting to see the same all the time.

Solution: Create the ability to add collections to a “random sets” to control their visibility as a randomly chosen subset of a group.

e.g.

For a given collection, define:

visible_library: random0
visible_home: random0
visible_shared: random0

And to define random sets:

random_sets:
    random0:
         max_size: 10
    random1:
        max_size: 5

For each random set, aggregate all collections assigned to the random set, and only set the visibility to true for each visible_x attribute for up to max_size number of collections. If the number of collections assigned to the random set is larger than max_size, then a subset should be chosen at random.

This would speed up the home screen a bit, and also allow for the home screen to be freshened up each day or whichever frequency the script is run.

[meisnate12]

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