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Is there a way to group recently added TV series episodes into one item on the home screen even though I am adding them week by week?
If you add them in shorter intervals, it is automatically combined. But one week is just too long.
Some people use this to verify their DVR is working correctly. If a weekly recording got grouped into a season or show, they’d lose that ability.
Understood. Is it possible for the Devs to implement a feature to change the invervall?
You can add your vote to this Option to display the SHOW whenever an episode is "Recently Added" instead of each episode
but it hasn’t gained much traction.
If you want Recently Added Shows, then you can create your own smart collection and promote that the homepage instead.
Advanced Filters > TV Shows > By Last Episode Date Added > leave the filters blank for all shows > Save As… > Save as Smart Collection
Instructions on promoting a collection to the homepage:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/manage-recommendations/
Downsides of this method:
- Promoting a collection to the homepage requires Plex Pass.
- Can’t merge Recently Added rows for multiple libraries.
- Doesn’t work for seasons (although off the top of my head I think it can be done for seasons if the smart collection is created through the API instead of the UI).
Edit: Yep, a smart collection for Recently Added Seasons can be created through the API.
from plexapi.server import PlexServer
plex = PlexServer("http://localhost:32400", token="XXXXXXXXXX")
library = plex.library.section("TV Shows")
collection = library.createCollection("Recently Added Seasons", smart=True, libtype="season", sort="episode.addedAt:desc")
collection.visibility().promoteHome()
I have a smart collection promoted to the home page for seasons added to the server. This filter adds seasons from any year (note the old Batman TV seasons) It looks like this:
If you only want recent new seasons, change the filter to something like this:
That’s close but not exactly the same as mine above because the seasons are still sorted by the date the season was added, not the date the last episode was added. e.g. In your first screenshot, if you add a new episode of “Last of Us”, “Batman” will still show up in front. In my screenshot above, if I add a new episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants”, then it will jump to the front of my hub.
You’re probably right, but as long as a recently added season shows up in the list, it’s good enough for me. Perhaps the second filter example I gave can be tweaked to match your example. 
That sounds like a feasable workaround. Two questions though:
- How the hell did you get to the advanced filter section? That is something I was never able to figure out yet. And I desperatly need this to work in Plexamp.
- I do know what APIs are but I am not proficient in Python. Any guidance for a noobie like me how to implement the script above step by step?
Advanced Filters are at the bottom of the dropdown menu.
I have a guide for running Python scripts on Windows here, specifically how to install Python and the plexapi package:
https://github.com/Tautulli/Tautulli/wiki/Custom-Scripts#windows-script-guide
Then save the code I posted above in a text file as something like recently_added_seasons.py. Remember to edit the server URL http://localhost:32400, token XXXXXXXXXX, and library name TV Shows. Run it from Windows command line or Powershell with the command:
python "C:\some\path\to\recenly_added_seasons.py"
Thanks a lot SwiftPanda16!
@OttoKerner Are you sure the approach of putting a technical feature (DVR assurance) over a UI feature (combining into one entry) is well thought? INFUSE just introduced the feature in their latest release as a standard and basically solved my problem. Maybe something to bring to product managements table and rethink.
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