v4.4.3.0-beta

Home Screen Companion v4.4.3.0

Quite a long changelog again. Most of the changes comes from a revamped Copy & Sync.
Other than that some fixes from previous beta release and general bug-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

New

• Copy & Sync profiles: Copy & Sync can now have several profiles, each with its own source user and its own users to copy to. For example, one profile for the adults and one for the children. Several profiles can use the same source user, for example to copy different rows to different users. A user gets their home screen from one profile only. Your existing setup becomes the first profile automatically.

Example:
Joey copy to --> Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Chandler and Ross
Ted copy to --> Barney, Robin, Marshall and Lily

• Copy & Sync – what to copy: each profile has a What to copy setting:
  • Everything: the user's home screen is replaced with the source user's. Keep each user's own rows (on by default) keeps rows the user gets from their own sources or top-lists, even if the source user doesn't have them. Turn it off for an exact copy.
  • Selected rows only: tick the rows to copy. Only those rows are added or updated, and the rest of the user's home screen stays as it is.
• Tags: a source can now put more than one tag on its titles. Use Add another tag in the Tag tab.
• Collections & playlists: you can now put a custom tag on the collection or playlists a source creates. The tag goes on the collection or playlist itself, not on the titles in it.
• AI: add any AI service that works like ChatGPT, such as Groq, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, LM Studio or vLLM, under Settings → AI Settings → OpenAI-compatible. Give it a name, its address, a key and a model. It then shows up by name in a source's AI Provider list. (#28, thanks @brazerZa)

Updates

• Copy & Sync: when a user gets a row from a source or top-list, they are now also added to that source or top-list, so the row keeps updating. If you untick the row or remove the user from the profile, they are taken off it again. Users you added yourself are never removed.
• Copy & Sync: on the first run after updating, the users you copy to are added to the source user's sources and top-lists. You'll see them in those sources' user lists. Their home screen looks the same as before, but the rows now update properly.
• Copy & Sync: if the source user has a personal playlist row (such as Your Next Watch), each user you copy to gets their own playlist with the next full sync.
• AI: the Model field for every AI service is now a list read from the service itself, so a model name can't be mistyped. Custom… still takes any name. Your current model stays selected.
• Top-lists: Create as top-list has a new Content choice, Auto (based on the source). The plugin looks at what the source returns and makes a movie list or a TV show list to match. Auto is the default for new top-lists. Lists already set to Movies or TV Shows keep their choice. (#27, thanks @brazerZa)

Fixed

• Home Screen Sync: rows from a source could disappear after the scheduled sync and come back at the bottom after the next full sync. (#26, thanks @brazerZa)
• General: several smaller bugfixes in Copy & Sync, top-lists, settings and backup restore.
• Top-lists: the move of old top-lists into Create as top-list (added in 4.4.2) has been fixed (#25, thanks @brazerZa):
  • A source that also had its own home row kept that row. Its top-list now stays in the Top-Lists tab instead of replacing the row.
  • Apply Tag is no longer switched off, so the tag stays on your titles. (Turning off the tagging was a deliberate change since I thought they were only used to create a Top-list. My mistake and I'm sorry if that messed anything up for you.)
  • Restoring only the Sources section of a backup no longer deletes your top-lists.
  • The move now runs only once.

Note

If you have already run 4.4.2.0

The fix for Top-Lists above prevents the problem from now on, but it can't undo what 4.4.2 already changed. Check your top-list sources after updating:

• A home row disappeared, or a source now shows far fewer users than before: restore that source's users from a backup made before 4.4.2, or select them again on the source's Home Screen tab.
• A tag is missing from your titles: turn Apply Tag back on for that source and run it again.

If you didn't use tag-based top-lists before 4.4.2, nothing changed for you.