2024-08-13, 10:09 AM
Maybe I'm just not searching for the right terms here but I'm coming up empty in trying to figure out if what I want to do for a custom plugin is even possible.
I'll try to explain what my goal is first:
I would basically like to create something similar to collections but I'll call it a "Channel".
The intent is to sort of mimic the feel of having specific TV channels for different types of content and take away the question of "what should I watch next".
The goal is a plugin that would allow:
- Create named channels, similar to how collections are made, and have them show up under a "Channels" header next to Collections in the UI.
- Add any TV series (as a whole) or Movie to a specific named channel
- When you "play" that channel it would simply choose a random TV series episode or Movie that is linked with that channel and play it. When that episode or movie is done it would automatically move on to the next randomly chosen media.
The back end side of this is easy for me... I can certainly handle adding the content to lists and choosing them randomly.
The front end is where I'm lost.
Is it even possible to add custom UI elements? Specifically I want to have them show up in the Android TV app, because that's basically the only place I use Jellyfin.
The whole intent here is that I want to being able to, for example, choose a "Sci-Fi" channel and it just picks something Sci-Fi from my collection of TV series and plays the next unwatched episode. But if there's no way to actually let the user chose that from the Android TV app, I'm probably dead in the water.
I'll try to explain what my goal is first:
I would basically like to create something similar to collections but I'll call it a "Channel".
The intent is to sort of mimic the feel of having specific TV channels for different types of content and take away the question of "what should I watch next".
The goal is a plugin that would allow:
- Create named channels, similar to how collections are made, and have them show up under a "Channels" header next to Collections in the UI.
- Add any TV series (as a whole) or Movie to a specific named channel
- When you "play" that channel it would simply choose a random TV series episode or Movie that is linked with that channel and play it. When that episode or movie is done it would automatically move on to the next randomly chosen media.
The back end side of this is easy for me... I can certainly handle adding the content to lists and choosing them randomly.
The front end is where I'm lost.
Is it even possible to add custom UI elements? Specifically I want to have them show up in the Android TV app, because that's basically the only place I use Jellyfin.
The whole intent here is that I want to being able to, for example, choose a "Sci-Fi" channel and it just picks something Sci-Fi from my collection of TV series and plays the next unwatched episode. But if there's no way to actually let the user chose that from the Android TV app, I'm probably dead in the water.