'Merge Recently Added Items' option does not show Videos category at all, only Movies/TV (Home Screen)

Server Version#:1.22.3.4392
Player Version#:4.54.5

Basically the title. I have an ASMR, Music Videos, and Exercise Videos as their own separate libraries under the Videos category, and all of them vanish from the Home Screen with this option turned on.

TV/Movies categories delightfully merge libraries like it used to be some months back, but Videos? Nope, just gone from the Home Screen completely, even if the libraries are pinned.

(I want to thank all the work done to bring this option to fruition by the way, even with this oversight!)

EDIT: Yes, I have them all pinned, before anyone asks.

EDIT 2: Under ‘Manage Recommendations’ each Videos library has ‘Recently Added Videos’ Home option checkmarked. No dice.

Hey there
 I had a similar issue, where I was not seeing anything on my Home screen (not movies or tv shows, etc.) when I enabled the Merge Recently Added Items functionality. What I discovered (and worked for me) was that the categories of movies and tv shows that I had previously exlcuded from appearing on the Home screen were the problem. The fix was for me to go to Manage > Libraries and then select Manage Recommendations for each of the excluded categories and enable them in the Home column (they were previously disabled). Once I did that and restarted my app, everything came up as expected. Hope this helps you or at least sends you in the right direction. If not, I hope you find a solution. :slight_smile:

FYI: If you previously excluded a library from the home screen (Edit Lbrary > Advanced > Visibility), those recently added library items still won’t show up in the list of things showing after you enable the Merge Recently Added Items row. This is good. (for me at least).

If you are ‘Merging’ Libraries, Recently Added Other Videos disappears.
You’ll need to enable Unplayed, or Recently Watched Videos to see something.

I checked, and all of them have ‘Recently Added Videos’ checked for ‘Home.’ I also checked the Visibility option and they are all set to ‘include in home screen and global search.’ These options were already set this way. The Agent is set to Personal Media, because that’s what they are, there is no db for them to check anyway. The scanner is set to Plex Video Files Scanner, is that ok?

That’s not really a fix to the issue though. :frowning:

It’s a work around - that may or may not be permanent.

Not really - unwatched might include stuff that isn’t ‘recently’ added

No solution so far

Same issue here. Only recently added TV shows is visible after merging recently added items.

Library visibility is set to be included in home and global search and each movie library has “Recently added movies” set to be included in Home.

PMS Version 1.23.0.4438 on Unraid docker container.

I’m unable to see “Recently added” from anything when selecting the "Merged Recently Added Items’’ option. When it’s unchecked, “Recently Added” come back for all pinned libraries.

PMS Version 1.23.0.4438 on Windows 10.

Go to Settings, then Manage, then Libraries, then Manage Recommendations and makes sure what you want has a checkbox. You are on a early version though so I don’t know what bugs may exist.

Confirming that I see the same thing. Other Videos are not included when using Merge Recently Added. I am looking into it. Thanks for the report.

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Hey I truly appreciate that, thank you very much.

Any news on this? I feel like it used to work, but not recently. Thanks!

in addition, i noticed this works for my login in chrome, but not for my dads account in chrome. anyone find a solution?

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Just checking in, it’s been over a month since MovieFan.Plex mentioned he was able to reproduce the problem and would look into it; how are we doing so far, if I may ask?

Just checking in again, how are we doing

Should be fixed in an upcoming PMS.

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