Is there a way to get notifications for movies and shows when certain holidays come around? We have a ton of seasonal movies that we always forget about when the time comes and it would be great to get a notification of “Hey, its almost Thanksgiving, remember to check out Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” etc. sort of thing.
Thanks.
There isn’t anything like that. Not sure if there is any third party thing that will do it. Moved this to feature suggestion area.
I suppose Tautulli may be able to do this on a very specific/custom setup with its email notification system.
Other than providing a simple way to query the Plex server through it, and a way to send emails through an agent Tautulli wouldn’t help you much here either as notifications are event driven, not time.
If I were implementing this I would create a script that I ran through cron at the desired times to send out the email.
So one might be able to include a Christmas library to the dashboard to trigger such an event… Maybe…
Why have a Christmas library when a Christmas Playlist would work just the same.
Ha, you’re right. I’m not in the playlist thing so that wasn’t even a thought…
Library is available for everyone not just the owner of the playlist.
I have libraries I share depending on the holiday so all of my users get to use them.
Available to those who you have shared with. Same can be said for Playlist, although with a little more work.
For me it’s easier to use libraries because I run multiple servers (Plex and Emby).
What I do is set a tag on a movie (VL-Christmas) and then I have a script that runs outside the Plex server that runs a SQL statement against the Database and creates symlinks. This makes it super easy to create VL-Christmas, VL-Valentines, VL-Thanksgiving, etc I use “VL” as the start of the tag (Virtual Library) so I can specifically search for that tag and then use whatever is after the “VL-” as the directory name. This way I don’t need to change the scripts if I want to add a new tag.
This works very well for me as I normally always have one holiday library up OR a Recommended library that I keep to about 500 movies.
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