I, like I am guessing many others, share my library with a lot of people (35 in my case). And I download TV shows not just for me, but for a lot of people. Of the 85 TV Shows I download, I maybe watch 10. What would be great is if individual users - not dissimilar to each myPlex user have their own watched states - be able to 'subscribe' to shows so that only those show up in the unwatched section. Right now, my unwatched section doesn't get cleared out unless i manually flip shows to watched for all the tv shows I download but don't watch which is a chore in itself :). In addition, it would be great if when a new show is available for each subscribed show, I got (or the myPlex user got) an email indicating so. Thanks.
I'd recommend separating out your libraries by person or groups or somehow that makes sense, so that your filters work better to your liking.
I'd recommend separating out your libraries by person or groups or somehow that makes sense, so that your filters work better to your liking.
This won't work nor is it a solution to what I am experiencing as the problem (me having to manually mark shows as watched i'm not interested in yet download for others).
Your suggestion: 1) requires the PMS owner to manage multiple libraries, when you automate TV downloads like i do using ShowRSS this creates tons of manual intervention. 2) tastes change, so what I want to 'subscribe' to today may not be so tomorrow - and so again, that would require tons manual intervention not just for my tastes but to all the people i've shared my server with 3) Filters aren't exhaustive enough currently, if the filters became customized per user and could filter by multiple shows - well that's basically subscriptions. Thanks for the thought though
isnt ondeck a subcription (of sorts) of only the things you actively watch why do need to filter by unwatched if the next thing is already there.
if you stop watching it will disappear from ondeck after x weeks you set in settings and wont show up in ondeck until you start watching it
you just have to ignore recently added
actually i may be wrong about the disapearing thing. i need to check that
I actually don’t observe on deck working that way but could be wrong.
OnDeck basicall does what you want. You just need to "train it" for a while.
Also, I am not sure about this: You can put movies into collections. Maybe the same can be done with TV shows? If so, one could put the shows that are of interest in a collection.
I’ve been “training” on deck for a while. It doesn’t seem to behave this way as I already write above.
Collections requires manual intervention which automated tv show downloading does not support.
Not sure what you mean then. If you "train" on deck, you will only see the TV shows in there that you are watching (be interested in). Isn't that the same that you are trying to achive? If then someone wanted to add a new show (subscribe) he would have to look in the TV shows section and once starts playing something, that show will show up in on deck. How would your subscription model be different?
Bc what you are saying isn’t how in deck works. Every time a new show is downloaded I see it on on deck. Pretty straight forward.
Bc what you are saying isn’t how in deck works. Every time a new show is downloaded I see it on on deck. Pretty straight forward.
I’d like to go to a place where I can see a list of Unwatched shows that I watch by show.
Furthermore on deck works across libraries. Not within them.
I like the idea but not sure how creating a collection of TV Shows has more manual intervention than "subscribing" to TV Shows ?
Also on deck (filter) is available within the libraries as well as across them.
Bc what you are saying isn't how in deck works. Every time a new show is downloaded I see it on on deck. Pretty straight forward.
I'd like to go to a place where I can see a list of Unwatched shows that I watch by show.
Are you sure you aren't mixing this up with "Recently added"? On the Plex home screen you always see two rows of shows, the upper one is "On Deck" and the lower one is "Recently Added". On Deck *only* displays entries for shows you have watched.
If you leave the home screen and navigate to TV Shows -> On Deck you will only see On Deck, and not the "Recently Added" entries.
This is BOTH rows on the home screen:
And this is navigated into TV Shows -> On Deck:
As you can see in the second screen shot, there is also a way to filter On Deck to filter only unwatched shows.
If your On Deck section really shows episodes/seasons for shows that you haven't watched yet, something is wrong with your Plex, because that's not supposed to happen.
Also, Rock Star's question: How does creating a collection have more manual intervention than "subscribing" to something?
We have ways to do what you want, unless we don't understand what you mean by "subscribing". Again, how would subscribing look like? Curious. I am always up for new and convinient features....
Yes, i'm certain i'm not 'mixing them up'....plus, you are using PHT which I do not. I mostly use Roku as do most of my myplex shared users.
So you are both saying that creating collections for every myplex user i've shared my library with' when tastes change doesn't require manual intervention?????
Pretty simple - it would be nice if my 'unwatched' section for TV shows, tv shows which are automatically downloaded without manual intervention into a TV Shows library, rather than having to create multiple libraries (which is manual movement of files every single day) and collections (which may require multiple copies of the same show if say 5 people all want Game of Thrones) vs a simple interface that let's me check off the TV Shows i'm interested in watching. This functionality does not exist currently. I get some of you don't like it, that's fine, no need to vote on it. But the functionality doesn't exist today. Plus, if the OnDeck functionality did work this way, you lose some functionality - selecting someone that's OnDeck starts playing it immediately, you lose the info screen step where you can see what the show is about, etc etc.
Slow down here, nobody is against it. We're just giving some possible workarounds for you to achive what you need.
On Deck:
Plex On Deck feature works the same across all platforms, no matter if you are on Roku or PHT. If you can see On Deck on Roku, it will have the exact same content as if you were going into On Deck from PHT. And yes, On Deck works exactly as described before: It only contains shows that you have previously watched. I suggest you try it out again.
On initial launch of a Plex client (*any* client, Roku, OHT, Android, whatever), On Deck will be empty. Once you start watching a show, it will be promoted to One Deck. You will always see the next unwatched episode of a show in On Deck.
On Deck *NEVER* contains episodes for shows that you have never watched before.
Also, On Deck is per User, not per Library. So all your users need to do is select a TV show from your library and start watching it. This will automatically put that show in THEIR On Deck (not in yours) and so they have basically "subscribed" to that show. Maybe not in a way you imagine how subscription should work (which I still don't understand, btw), but it's what you have right now. And it works.
You are right that if you select an episode from the On Deck HOMESCREEN, it starts to play immediately. However, if you do not select the episode from the homescreen but from the On Deck section that you navigate to, you will get an info screen first. The Homescreen is just a quick link.
Collections:
You are right that using collections would probably not achieve what you want. Collections have to be created on the Server (through Plex/Web), I am not aware of an option from inside the clients to create a collection. So that means you would have to create collections for your users, which is pointless.
So you are both saying that creating collections for every myplex user i've shared my library with' when tastes change doesn't require manual intervention?????
Not saying its a bad idea but it's this bit I don't get, if you want to add or delete something from a subscription is it not the same as adding or deleting from a collection ?
Unless you are asking for each individual user to be able to manage their own subscriptions, which I am not sure they can manage their own collections (they may do I just have never tried it)
Also my On Deck is definitely not affected by what my other shared users watch, not sure if its a Roku issue as I only use web/ios/pmc/pht/LG clients.
Ding ding ding! :). I don’t want to manage everyone else’s collections nor can they.
Never said my ondeck is affected by other myPlex users, just that it’s not exactly what I’m looking for.
Okay, I think I see what you're saying. Apologies if I've got this wrong!
Here's how I think this could almost work with Collections. Except for one thing. So my idea won't solve your problem but hopefully restates it. I'm only trying to help understand so again, sorry if I've also got it wrong!
If the server had each series in it's own folder, a user could create a collection by selecting each series folder they wanted and then seeing all of them grouped together. Subscribing to a series would be a case of going to collection management and adding the folder for the series. It would be clunky to know where the series were in the server folder structure but it would work in principle.
The missing piece from that workaround is that end users can't modify collections themselves. At least, not without logging-in to the server interface.
So a subscription model would show a list of series instead of a list of folders and allow end users to create collections by choosing from that list.
Is that it or am I way off?
Not sure what the series per folder has to do with it since that’s how each tv series is stored now via showrss but the rest of your write up is correct. If it wasn’t for the fact I download shows for people I’ve shared my server wth via myPlex this wouldn’t be a request but because I do (for over 30 people) and I suspect many other plex users do as well, those end users see everything rather than just what they’ve requested or desire to watch.
