Version 8.15.0
Before all problems with the home screen started 3 months ago, I could remove any hub from the home screen. Now, a “Recently Added in …” hub is created for each of my libraries. I don’t want some of those hubs on my home screen. It’s too cluttered.
When I switch to customized home screen and attempt to remove the undesired hubs through the “…” menu, nothing happens. The “removed” hub does not go away. Closing the app and reopening makes no difference.
I doubt that it matters, but I have two tv libraries, two “other videos” libraries and one movies library. All have unique names. It is the sole movies library that I’m most interested in removing from the home screen. All of my libraries are pinned to the side menu. But I only want tv show content on my home screen.
I can’t imagine this is on purpose. It has to be a bug since you can’t really call it a customized home screen if you can’t remove anything, especially when all of this worked fine 3 months ago. I can add new hubs. I just can’t remove the ones I don’t want.
Note that this was a fresh install. Plex For Android had been uninstalled since I’ve been using Jellyfin for a while due to all the Plex instabilities across the board.
While it won’t address all of your concerns, there have been some recent improvements to the manner in which you can customize your home screen when using automatic management. If you’re using server version 1.21.1 or later (and Plex web 4.53.0 or later to manage it) you can now choose what recommended content to include on your home screen for each pinned library:
This is found under Settings (Server) → Libraries. What you configure here will determine what hubs are shown on the home screen of your clients. I’ve tested iOS, tvOS, Android (8.14.1), and the web clients so far. But, again, your home screen must be set to automatic management for this to work. More info can be found here:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/manage-recommendations/
This obviously won’t correct your issue of not being to remove recommended hubs from a manually-managed home screen, but it may help you regain some control over your home screen’s appearance.
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Thanks Philipsw. I was not aware of these new options on the server. In theory, it looks like a good idea. But it is missing the most basic things people would want. No options to include “On Deck” or “Continue Watching” on the home screen. Definitely makes automatic management unusable for me.
It seems that some of the server settings are overriding the Android Client settings for the home screen, even when client has manual management on the home screen. I had to remove “Recently Added in Movies” from home screen on the new server settings before I could remove it on my Android client. Obviously, that doesn’t make sense.
After an hour of trying, I was not able to get the home screen on Android to match the rest of my Plex clients (web and Windows).
I don’t have bizarre desires on the home screen either. I want “Continue Watching”, “On Deck”, “Recently Added” and “Recently Played”. “Continue Watching” should be merged for all libraries. Same for On Deck.
Would also prefer “Recently Added” to be merged for my TV libraries. But oh well, Plex has declared what I want (no matter what I really think).
Anyway, after 3 months, Home Screen management on Android is still a confusing mess.
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Manually managed home will be going away on April 22nd, so we suggest you use Automatically Managed Home (which is required to use those new options on the server side, as well as more options which are coming soon). The ability to combine Recently Added Hubs will also be returning in future 
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I certainly hope it will be possible to have On Deck on the home screen. That was the only reason I switched to manual. Anyway, back to Jellyfin for now since I don’t have to fight with it to see On Deck and Continue Watching items. I’ll revisit Plex in a month or so.
On Deck and Continue Watching will be merged into a single Continue Watching hub, rather than being two separate hubs, I’m afraid.
Anyone with the Plex DVR (or another DVR) likely records many shows per week and if you get a bit behind, it is not unusual to have 30, 40 or even 50 items in On Deck.
The whole idea of Continue Watching is to quickly resume an item that you’ve already started watching. The whole “quickly” goal seems to go into the toilet when you bury a small number of “continue watching” items in a large On Deck section.
I don’t get it. Seems completely idiotic to me. Especially when the idea was presented to us in an “end of discussion” sort of way.
Any way, after 3 months, we still can’t get our Android home screens to show us what we want. The whole “more enhancements are coming” approach just doesn’t cut it anymore.
The server control of the home screen sort of makes sense to me though. It avoids the endless reconfiguring of the home screen when we so regularly have to uninstall and go back to a version that works. So I like that.
I am worried though about people that have users like elderly parents that have a special setup on their device to keep it simple (setup by their children that have a more expansive setup for themselves). A server controlled home screen makes me think that everyone gets the same home screen when we might not want that. I won’t debate that though because I don’t have other users.
If you read through the support article, you can see that you can set things differently for your own Home Screen, and differently for users you share with, which can help with those kind of cases. While some people may have 30-40 items in On Deck, that’s certainly not a common scenario, most users have far less than that. The additional enhancements are only a few weeks away, so we’d ask that you take a chance to review what we’ve done so far for Home Screen customisation, and what will be coming soon (once it’s out).
It certainly wasn’t presented as an end of discussion. We’ve been interacting with the community and taking on feedback and making changes. While they may not all be the changes you want, we are still here taking on feedback and listening to our users 
I did try the server options. But I couldn’t get On Deck to Appear and the hubs were not in the order I wanted.
I wanted to see
- Continue Watching
- On Deck
- All the “Recently Added” hub (except for movies)
- Recently Watched for my two tv libraries
I wanted Recently Watched at the end and I could not make that happen. I have multiple TV libraries and I wanted to see all the Recently Added hubs before the Recently watched hubs. Was not possible.
So I went manual and then discovered just how broken that is.
You’re going to have a lot of confused users. Most people don’t have the time to follow these forums. They will have the default values for the new library settings on the server and those settings are currently overriding the manual configuration on the clients. I could not remove the hubs I didn’t want because “Remove From Home” would not work. The server settings were overriding the existing manual configuration.
I suspect a lot of users are right on the edge of completely giving up on Plex. So when they encounter this, it might be the final straw. I know I’ve been incredibly frustrated with the buggy Live TV/DVR for almost 2.5 years now. I would rather Plex have fixed the DVR bugs and some of the incredible stupidities in the DVR system like hiding the 2nd week of the guide from us – and forcing us to press the right arrow 48 times to advance a day in the guide. I don’t even have the words for how idiotic the DVR guide is right now. The home screen was working very well 3 months ago. Now we still have a home screen that doesn’t work and still have all the DVR problems that we’ve had for 2.5 years. When you see me being so negative in the forums, stuff like this is why.
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Can you provide evidence to back that statement up? In the past a whole feature was developed so we could control how many items would be on the deck. In not convinced this is uncommon!
Yes, I have to agree. I am constantly told that my situation is uncommon as a justification for bad behaviour in the apps. We have a pandemic right now and what else do be have to do other than watch TV. I’m certainly recording at least 10 things on my DVR every day (some days more than 15). So that’s at least 70 items per week. If I get 3 or 4 days behind, the on deck items add up quickly. I just can’t imagine that’s terribly unusual or uncommon.
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We don’t typically provide metrics data out to users, but the vast majority of users do not have large libraries, and fewer items in a library results in fewer items being in On Deck or Continue Watching. While we acknowledge there are some users who have large things in their On Deck/Continue Watching hub, and are working towards making the new hub work better for them, it is certainly not the case for the majority of users. But we’re trying to find the best balance here for everyone, and are always wiling to listen to feedback
Well, the people with the biggest libraries are likely people with DVRs. And those people have to pay you to get the DVR. Not sure how it makes sense to force a change on users when the users most negatively affected will be the ones that pay you,
Right, but that’s only anecdotal 
I likewise use DVR (and have done ever since it was released), and have about 300 shows in my library, yet only have 8 things On Deck at the moment. It can vary quite a bit between people
Let’s see. I suspect the limited items on CW will become a bigger issue for folks when it’s rolled out more widely. Only a few have really noticed it so far.
Personally, its a pity as we really like the new combined cw/od but it’s unusable for us with this limited list. We are now using OD from within the library and have stopped using the home hub for now.
We will be expanding it soon, to allow each server to contribute more items to the hub
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Thanks. I’ll add one final comment to explain our use case.
We use plex as a family. Our plex account is like a family account. We watch most TV together. So, myself, partner and children all have stuff added to the deck which we watch together or on our own depending on the show or time of the day.
A single person account/user maybe okay with a 10/20 item limit but shared family account which we all watch together would never work. Our current deck has 30+ items on it which goes up and down depending on when shows air.
Anyhow, look forward in hope this will be increased on the home hub, if not its library on deck for us.
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Ah, yeah, I can see how it would expand in that use case. In my family, we all have our own accounts, so things are split based on who is watching.
Interesting. Is that not a nightmare trying to remember which show is on what deck against what account if your watching together?
Not really, because we often watch quite different things individually, and don’t usually watch more than one or two shows together at a time (we’d tend to use my account for joint things).
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