Watchlist: location & functionality

Plex Experience Preview
1

Hi,

I’m trying to find a decent way to get my non-tech and elderly mum to be able to easily find and play items in my library as she’s not great at navigating the Plex UI (that’s not a reflection on Plex - she’s just not device oriented).

The potentially best* way I’ve found is for me to add the show/movie to her watchlist (which I can do by remoting into her Mac).

On her AppleTV when she selects the show/film in question from the watchlist, rather than going directly to the item in my library (there is no other source) it asks her “Watch from these locations:” (with a choice of 1).

Questions:

  1. Can “Watch from these locations:” be skipped when there is only 1 choice?
  2. Can there be an option to always jump to a preferred/default location when there is more than 1 choice?
  3. In the new AppleTV app, will ‘Watchlist’ be a tab on the top row alongside ‘Home’, ‘Libraries’, ‘Live TV’ etc? (thinking of how easy it will be for mum to find).
  4. I’m sure I am not the only one with this issue; are there better suggestions/solutions for elderly relatives (or technophobes).

*The only other way I’ve found is to restrict the items she can see in her libraries by label but this still requires her to navigate from the TV library to movie library and I am looking for the simplest solution with the least amount of navigation for her.

2 Likes
2

I had not thought of this but Create a TV Series Library, call it Mums TV shows and allow access and remove Libraries that you feel will create issue.

Cheers

3

Thanks for the idea! …always appreciate hearing from you :grinning_face:

I’ll give it a go but think it may give the same result as restricting the existing libraries with a label whilst requiring moving content back and forth between the ‘mum’ library and the ‘others’ library dependant on what mum wants to watch at the time.

I’ll let you now how it goes.

1 Like
4

What advantage I see is you can update that Library or Delete Titles in times you know she was asleep or not watching Television. What is real good her ATV will scan on power up and stay up to date with your added content. Now to track what she watches use Tautulli filter by History then User.

Really sounds like a plan.

1 Like