Home Screen Companion v4.4.0.0-BETA

New features, updates and fixes

Install/update via Emby plugin catalog or manually download the .dll.
If you are going through the plugin catalog, make sure to use the beta channel.

Important

Minimum required Emby server v4.10.1.0

Release notes

Big thanks to @brazerZa (stoep-labs) for many of the features and fixes in this release, including PRs #19, #20, #21, #22, #23 and #24.

Quick Start: a popup with starter sources to get going fast.
Your Next Watch: personal recommendations for each user, as their own playlist and home row.
Manual List: a new source type where you hand-pick movies and shows.
Preview: every source type can be previewed before saving.
Smart Playlist: new "Popular on this server" rule and "Pick the top N by" sorting.
Generated art: posters and backgrounds for collections, tags and playlists, with a Customise popup.
Top-list badges: Number badge, Top 10 tile or no number, all customisable.
Real-poster badges: optionally badge the original movie posters too.
Rank movement: top-lists show how titles moved since last week.
Import collection: take over an existing Emby collection.
Copy & Paste: copy sources and top-lists, also between servers.
Ranked collections (experimental): collections that keep the list order.
New schedules: Time of Day, Yearly weekday, Easter, Advent and Friday the 13th.
Home row position: place new rows at the top, the bottom or after a chosen row.
Hide HSC libraries: top-list libraries are hidden from My Media and Latest (on by default).
Run status: see what a running sync is doing and what is waiting.

Runs never overlap; a second run waits for the first.
Limits now count only titles that are in your library.
Tag home rows stay in place all year, marked [INACTIVE] outside their schedule.
Deleted groups get their tags, collections, home rows and playlists cleaned up.
Copy & Sync never copies one user's personal rows to another user.
Fetch errors now show their cause (e.g. HTTP 403).
Ignore titles only marked as watched: a new setting so "recently played" rules only count titles that were actually played.

AI sources with a refresh interval no longer lose their tags and collection between refreshes.
Run Group respects "Preserve tags on empty result" and leaves shared tags alone.
Rules with ":" in the value (e.g. "Mission: Impossible") now match.
Playlists with TV shows are no longer rebuilt on every sync.
The Claude AI source now returns complete lists.
Renaming a group now renames its home row.

Faster loading, a reworked help section, many UI and stability fixes, and a one-time clean-up when upgrading from the stoep-labs fork.