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Collections
Group titles by hand, with rules, or from TMDB franchises, lists and charts, and put them on Home.
Collections group movies and shows. Everyone with access to the titles can browse them under Collections, and you can show any collection as a row on everyone's Home screen. Owners and admins create them in the server's web app.
Kinds of collections
Hand-picked
You choose the titles. Create one under Collections → New collection → Hand-picked, then add titles from their page with + Collection.
Smart (rules)
A smart collection fills itself from rules and stays up to date as your library changes. Combine any of:
| Rule | Example |
|---|---|
| Includes | Movies, shows, or both |
| Title contains | Christmas |
| Year from / to | 1980 to 1989 |
| Minimum rating | 7.5 |
| Added in the last (days) | 30 |
| Minimum resolution | 720p, 1080p or 4K |
| Content ratings | G, PG, TV-Y7 |
| Genres | Click once to require (any of), twice to exclude |
| Only titles the viewer hasn't watched | Different for each person |
| HDR / Dolby Vision only |
For example: "Family movie night" is movies, rated G or PG, minimum rating 7, excluding Horror.
From TMDB
A TMDB collection is built from an outside source and matched against your library:
- Franchise: a movie series like Harry Potter. Search for it by name.
- TMDB list: any public list on themoviedb.org. Paste its ID or link.
- Charts: Trending this week, Popular, Top rated, Now playing, Upcoming and Airing, for movies or shows.
Tick Also show titles that aren't in the library to see the whole franchise or list, with the ones you're missing shown separately. TMDB collections refresh automatically every 12 hours.
Auto-create franchises creates a collection for every movie series with two or more films in your library, in one go.
Options
| Option | Does |
|---|---|
| Library | Limit the collection to one library, or use all of them |
| Order | Default (source or hand-picked order), Title, Recently added, Newest, Oldest or Rating |
| Show at most | Cap how many titles it shows |
| Visible | Always, or only during a window: October (Halloween), November (Thanksgiving), December (Holidays), Valentine's (Feb 1–14), Summer (Jun–Aug), or custom dates. Windows can wrap the new year, like 12-01 to 01-06 |
| Show on Home | Add it as a row on everyone's Home screen |
| Home position | Lower numbers come first |
Seasonal collections are a nice touch: a Halloween row that appears every October and disappears on its own.