Hey everyone,
I am on Plex Version 1.41.1.905, running via Docker in Ubuntu 24.10.
Plex smart filtering is driving me nuts. I run a Plex server with several external family members and two home users: one is the admin account, and the other is the user I watch content with. I only recently created the “user” user account for various reasons. When i did that, I synced the watch status from the admin account to my new home user via a Plex Trakt script. It seemed to work, but I mention it in case it’s related to the issues below (though I had similar problems when just using the admin account, so I doubt it).
As the server admin, I created a collection called “Unfinished Series” with a smart filter (screenshot below). It’s supposed to show any series where I’ve watched at least one episode, sorted by the most recent episode added to the series. In short, it should display all series I’ve started but haven’t finished, and that have newly added episodes.
Why not just use “Continue Watching”? Well, that’s been buggy for me, and Plex support hasn’t helped much—see this thread: Recently released episodes not appearing in Continue Watching.
The collection is set to “User currently viewing the content” so that it filters based on the activity (ratings, play count, etc.) of the logged-in user. But it’s not working as expected. For example, for the show Ghosts (US), I’ve watched seasons 1, 2, and half of 3. Season 4, episode 1 came out a few days ago, but it doesn’t show in the collection for my home user. If I check the XML for the episode, the addedAt field is correct (Nov 19).
Oddly enough, the collection works fine under the admin user, but for the home user, Ghosts doesn’t appear. However, if I go to TV shows > library > advanced filter and manually apply the same filter, it shows correctly.
I am sure this is the same problem for my users also.
Any ideas?
