Owning a still-running show means you want its new episodes, so it's on the
watchlist without a click. Implemented as a computed default + explicit-override
so it stays correct:
- video_watchlist gains a 'state' column: 'follow' (explicit) | 'mute' (a
tombstone — user un-followed an airing show that's on by default, so the
default must not silently re-add it).
- Effective watchlist (list/state/counts) = explicit follows ∪ library shows
whose status isn't ended/canceled, minus mutes. Computed at READ time, so it
always tracks the library + a show's status — no scanner hook, no re-seeding.
- remove() now writes a mute tombstone (idempotent) instead of deleting; add()
sets state='follow' and clears any mute. Scoped to the active video server.
The existing library-card eye now paints 'watched' on airing shows by default;
clicking mutes, clicking again re-follows.
4 tests updated/added incl. the airing-default + mute + re-follow flow. 80 video
tests green.
A curated follow-list for the video side, mirroring the music watchlist. v1 is
membership only — the monitoring/discovery engine is a later phase.
Backend:
- video_watchlist table (kind 'show'|'person', keyed on tmdb_id — the stable
cross-context id both carry; library_id kept when owned). NOT the existing
shows.monitored flag (that defaults to 1 / is library-only / has no people).
- VideoDatabase: add/remove/list/state/counts (upsert COALESCEs library_id +
poster so a TMDB re-add can't wipe known data).
- /api/video/watchlist {GET, /add, /remove, /check, /counts}.
- query_library now selects s.tmdb_id so show cards can carry the key.
Frontend:
- video-watchlist-btn.js: shared eye button (the music ya-watchlist-btn mirror)
— build/toggle/hydrate, one delegated capture-phase click handler, broadcasts
soulsync:video-watchlist-changed so pages can react.
- Watchlist page (new subpage + video-watchlist.js): Shows / People tab switcher,
poster grid to detail-page quality, reloads each visit, drops cards on unfollow.
- Wired the eye onto library TV-show cards (movies excluded — wishlist, not
watch) + hydrate on render.
Tests: 6 new (DB upsert/COALESCE/state/counts + endpoint roundtrip/validation).
76 video tests green. Other card surfaces (cast, search, similar, filmography)
are the same VideoWatchlist.btn(...) one-liner — wired next.
The 7 independent day-stacks had no shared time axis — you couldn't scan
'what's on in prime time' across the week. Restructured into a real guide:
- Rows = time-of-day bands (Morning / Afternoon / Prime Time / Late Night /
Anytime) down a frozen left time-rail; 7 day columns; frozen header row +
sticky corner. Untimed streaming drops land in Anytime; each card keeps its
exact time. Empty bands (none all week) are hidden; empty cells show a dot.
- Live 'now' cue lights the today-column × current-time-band intersection.
- Prime Time rail glints gold.
- Keyboard nav (←/→ weeks, T = today), scoped to the visible page + no modal.
- Week-change crossfade; staggered card entrance runs only on load/week-change
(not on filter re-renders); keyboard focus rings on cards.
- Subheader now shows owned/missing split.
Kept all existing interactions: tilt cards, breathing glows, skeleton shimmer,
parallax billboard, rich episode modal. Vanilla static files, no build step.
Finish the TV calendar as a planning tool.
- Week nav: ‹ prev / Today / next › steps the 7-day window (endpoint takes
?start=; each window starts on today's weekday so "current day first" holds).
Title reflects it (This Week / Next Week / In N weeks); Today highlight only
shows when the real today is in view.
- Filter: All / In library / Missing, applied client-side (no refetch) — the
hero + grid + count all respect it.
- Hero eyebrow is context-aware (NEXT UP this week, FEATURED on other weeks).
Take the calendar visuals up a level + fix slow image loads.
- Featured "Next up" billboard: the soonest upcoming episode as a cinematic hero
(backdrop, pulsing accent, show title, S·E, air time, "View details" → modal).
- Cards: cursor-following 3D tilt + hover lift/scale/glow bloom; ambient glow
dialed way down so it's calm at rest and only blooms on interaction.
- Faster art: poster proxy takes ?w= and asks the source for a thumbnail (Plex
transcoder w/ original fallback, Jellyfin maxWidth, TMDB size bucket) — calendar
requests ~500px instead of full backdrops. Skeleton shimmer → fade-in on load.
Storage was already per-server (movies/shows UNIQUE(server_source, server_id),
episodes via per-server show_id, prune_missing scoped) — but reads returned
every server's rows, so a Jellyfin scan would show up alongside Plex.
Mirror the music standard: scope reads to the active video server
(resolve_video_server). query_library, calendar_upcoming, dashboard_stats and
library_id_for_tmdb take a server_source; the dashboard/library/calendar
endpoints pass it. server_source=None keeps "all servers" (enrichment processes
every server; tests unchanged). No schema change, no data migration — existing
Plex data is untouched and simply hidden while Jellyfin is the active server.
Regression tests: same title on both servers stays two rows; scoped reads only
return the active server's data; deep-scan prune never touches the other server.
A new isolated Calendar page (/api/video/calendar) — every upcoming episode for
your owned shows across a real 7-day week (today first), as art cards sorted by
air time with a per-cell breathing colour glow.
- Air times: enrich shows with TVDB airsTime (new shows.airs_time column +
migration); cells show + sort by time, streaming (untimed/00:00) = "Anytime".
One-time background backfill re-queues already-matched shows for the time.
- Click an episode → styled modal (show backdrop hero, episode still/synopsis,
air date+time, owned badge, genres, "about the show"), with an explicit
"Open full show page" action instead of navigating on click.
- Isolated: reads only video_library.db, writes nothing to the music side.
Replace the flat opacity crossfade with a soft, feathered left→right wipe of the
trailer in (mask via @property, falls back to crossfade) — "a rollover and a
fade". The wipe now fires ONLY when YouTube reports PLAYING (handshake + state
events), not on a blind timer, with a 4.5s safety net. When the trailer ENDS the
original backdrop fades back in and the iframe is torn down.
Give the video side its OWN server connection — pre-filled from music but stored
separately in video.db, fully isolated (video never writes music config/state).
- Effective config helpers (video_plex_config / video_jellyfin_config): video's
own creds when set, else inherited read-only from music. resolve_video_server +
_build_source + watch-link/poster/dashboard all use these (own db threaded in).
- Server Connection UI mirrors music's server picker (toggle = select + configure),
scoped to Plex/Jellyfin, at the bottom of the Connections tab.
- Jellyfin: independent client built from video's creds; explicit USER picker like
music (list users → that user's libraries); honors the pick, admin fallback.
- Honest connection diagnostics (reachable vs 401 vs no-users) instead of a vague
"auth failed".
- Auto-save on change with toasts; the shared Save button is intercepted on the
video side so it saves video settings (and can't fire a music save).
- Enrichment status now PUSHES over the socket like music (no browser polling /
access-log flood); config save only rebuilds workers when an API key changed.
- Seam tests for effective-config inheritance/override + isolation guard.
Per the desired model: video Settings has its OWN server settings, separate from
music. The 'Video Source' group now holds the Plex/Jellyfin pick AND the Movies/TV
library mapping (moved out of music's Plex panel so it's not coupled to the music
active server). The whole MUSIC 'Server Connections' group is hidden on the video
side. Video reuses the shared Plex/Jellyfin credentials: the picker shows both
servers, the configured ones selectable, the rest 'not connected — set up in Music
settings'. Music settings keep their own server settings, untouched.
The previous hard guard blocked saveSettings entirely on the video side — which
also blocked entering/saving Plex/Jellyfin connection creds (shared, legit). Now
the save runs, but on the video side it PRESERVES the persisted active_media_
server (window._persistedActiveServer) instead of reading the toggle — so video
can set up a connection without ever switching the music server. Auto-save stays
suppressed on the video side (no heavy music re-init from video field edits).
Two real coupling bugs, fixed:
- resolve_video_server still fell back to the music active server when no explicit
video pick was set, so changing the music server changed video. Removed: video
now uses ONLY an explicit video pick or the configured server(s) (Plex default
when both). Changing the music server never changes video.
- The shared settings page could persist active_media_server from the video side.
Guarded saveSettings itself (not just the debounced auto-save) so it NEVER runs
while data-side=video — video saves only via /api/video/*.
Test: video does not follow the music active server. One-way isolation, both ways.
The settings page is shared; on the video side its auto-save (debouncedAutoSave-
Settings) still fired when editing VIDEO fields (TMDB key, watch region, autoplay),
and saveSettings reads the server toggle from the DOM + persists active_media_
server — so clicking the toggle to Jellyfin on the video side and then editing any
field would write active_media_server=jellyfin to the shared config (and trigger a
full music save). Guard: never auto-save music settings while data-side=video.
Video settings persist via /api/video/*; the toggle re-syncs to the real active
server on every Settings load. One-way isolation restored.
The video worker manager's coverage cards only switched the view — they never
re-queued failed items, so not_found/error items sat in the retry cooldown and
the worker reported 'all matched' / idle while failures piled up. Clicking a
Movies/Shows coverage card now pins that group AND resets its failed matches
(not_found/error -> pending) so the worker sweeps them, mirroring the music
worker manager. (Episodes are a sync cascade, not a match queue, so unchanged.)
Video Preferences group now carries data-stg='library' so it lives under the
Library settings tab on the video side (the infra already supported video-only
library settings). The Video Source panel moves to data-stg='connections' so it
stops showing on every tab.
They're music-only, so a CSS rule scoped to body[data-side=video] hides those two
toggle buttons in the shared Server Connections section. Plex/Jellyfin stay
(for connecting a video server). Music side untouched.
Settings → Video Source shows which server video uses (✓ Plex/Jellyfin), a
Plex/Jellyfin picker when both are connected, or a clear 'connect Plex or
Jellyfin' message when neither (Navidrome/Standalone are music-only and not
offered). The Library shows a non-breaking 'no video server' banner + disables
Scan until one is connected. Detail Pages prefs moved into their own 'Video
Preferences' group. /api/video/server GET+POST drives it.
The video side now uses a configured Plex/Jellyfin on its own (resolve_video_
server), not config_manager.get_active_media_server(). So a music-only server
(Navidrome/SoulSync) never applies to video, and 'Navidrome for music + Plex for
video' works. Order: explicit video pick (video_server setting) → music-active if
video-capable → the single configured one → Plex if both → None. Seam tests cover
each case incl. the mixed setup.
A saved 'Where-to-watch region' picker in Settings → Detail Pages (19 common
regions, default US). The engine reads it for the providers in extras +
tmdb_detail (region in the cache key), and the detail page labels the section
'Where to Watch · <region>' so you know which market you're seeing.
Click any episode (owned or missing) to expand it: a larger still, full overview,
and the episode's guest stars (clickable to the person page). Lazy-loaded per
episode from TMDB by the show's tmdb_id and cached. New client.episode_detail +
engine.episode_extra + /api/video/episode/<show_tmdb>/<season>/<episode>.
We already scanned codec/audio/source/size but only showed resolution. The movie
detail Details block now surfaces Quality / Video (HEVC, H.264…) / Audio / Source
(Blu-ray, WEB-DL…) / Size, and lists every version/edition you own when there are
multiple files. movie_detail now returns all media_files (not just the largest).
The inline dict cache was a latent bug: no lock (the engine singleton is hit by
concurrent Flask + worker threads) and a wholesale-clear cliff at 256 (nuked hot
entries). Extracted a thread-safe TTL+LRU TTLCache into an importable core/ module
with seam tests (expiry via injected clock, LRU-not-wholesale eviction, a
concurrency stress test). Engine now uses it; search is cached too (60s, ownership
re-stamped fresh). Deliberately NOT persisted to disk — durable data already lives
in video.db; that tier would be over-engineering for a self-hosted app.
The owned-item extras and preview detail payloads were already cached (30-min
TTL); person_detail, tmdb_season, and trending were not — so person pages and
lazy preview seasons re-hit TMDB each view. Now cached too (trending 1h). Library
ownership is re-annotated fresh on each call so 'In Library' badges stay current
while the expensive TMDB fetch is reused. Tests for person + season caching.
The detail pages are long now (cast, videos, photos, reviews…), so the absolute
back button scrolled out of reach. It's now position:sticky (pinned top-left as
you scroll), with a negative bottom margin so the billboard still sits full-bleed
under it.
maybeRefreshMovie re-fetched the library payload (no trailer/server — those come
from the extras call) and replaced data, so renderActions re-rendered without the
buttons right after they appeared. It now carries over the live extras fields
(server/trailer/next_episode), mirroring the show reloadDetail fix.
Clicking a recommendation/cast/similar link to a title you OWN opens it via a
tmdb URL that redirects to the library detail — but the redirect PUSHED a new
history entry, so Back landed on the tmdb URL which redirected forward again =>
stuck loop + a self-referencing 'Back to <same movie>' label.
The redirect now REPLACES the redirecting entry (keeping its layer + origin)
instead of pushing, so Back unwinds cleanly to where you actually came from.
After a couple seconds on a detail page, a muted trailer plays behind the hero
(Netflix/Disney+ style) with mute/unmute + stop controls; the backdrop fades back
when stopped. Stops on navigate-away/modal-open (no orphaned audio).
Gated by a 'Autoplay trailers in the billboard' toggle in video Settings →
Detail Pages (default on). Backed by billboard_autoplay in video_settings, read
via a lightweight /api/video/prefs. Tests updated for the new config field.
extras() now returns a featured review (author, rating, snippet, date); the detail
page shows it in a card with a clamped body + Read more/less. In-app (no external
link).
person() now returns profile images (thumb+full) and also_known_as. The person
page shows an 'Also known as' line and a Photos rail that opens the shared
fullscreen lightbox (arrows/Esc/counter).
Owned detail pages sample the poster for the per-title glow, but preview/person
pages fell back to the theme accent because their TMDB images are cross-origin
(canvas taint). Added /api/video/img — a same-origin proxy restricted to
image.tmdb.org (SSRF-safe) — so:
- preview (tmdb) detail samples its poster via the proxy → real accent;
- the person page samples the portrait → per-person accent on the ring/glow/role.
Tests: route registered + proxy rejects non-tmdb URLs.
Search / trending / filmography poster cards open the DETAIL page on click, so
the center ▶ read as 'play' wrongly. Swapped it for an italic 'i' info badge
('view details').
Frontend for the new data, on both movie + TV detail pages:
- Photos: a backdrops rail → fullscreen lightbox (‹ › nav, keyboard arrows, Esc,
counter).
- Videos: a rail of every trailer/teaser/clip/featurette (YouTube thumbs) → opens
in the existing player modal.
- Details: budget / box office / language / country + keyword tag chips.
- Cast & Crew gets a 'View all N' → full-cast modal (clickable to person; TV shows
per-actor episode counts).
All cached server-side (instant re-open) and lazy-loaded images. Isolated; shell
tests cover the new sections + modals.
One TMDB call (append_to_response) now also returns: image gallery (backdrops +
posters, thumb+full), all YouTube videos (ordered trailer→teaser→clip→…), keyword
tags, facts (budget/revenue/language/country), and the FULL cast (tv via
aggregate_credits with per-actor episode counts). Shared by item_extras (owned)
and full_detail/tmdb_detail (preview).
Caching: the engine memoizes the live TMDB extras + preview payloads (30-min TTL)
so re-opening a title is instant instead of re-hitting TMDB. Tests added.
TMDB only exposes a single aggregate 'where to watch' link (no per-provider deep
links), so N identical links read as broken. Streaming providers are now
non-clickable availability badges, followed by ONE accent 'Where to watch ↗'
link to the JustWatch/TMDB page. The Plex/Jellyfin tile keeps its real per-item
server deep link.
The button showed the Plex logo AND the word 'Plex' ('[logo] Play on Plex'), all
white on a bright green bg — cluttered + hard to read. Now it's '▶ Play on
<server logo>' (the logo is the brand name) on a deeper green gradient so the
light Plex/Jellyfin wordmark reads clearly.
Two bugs when a show's episode list backfills on view:
- The 'Fetching full episode list…' banner never hid: .vd-ep-syncing (and
.vd-next-ep) set display:flex, which overrode the [hidden] attribute's
display:none, so el.hidden=true did nothing. Added a guard so [hidden] always
wins on the detail/search/person pages.
- Play & Trailer buttons vanished after the sync: reloadDetail replaced data with
a fresh show_detail payload (no server/trailer — those come from extras), so
renderActions re-rendered without them. reloadDetail now carries over the live
extras fields (server/trailer/next_episode).
- Play button now matches the Trailer/Watchlist buttons exactly (same size/shape),
just green — consistent hero buttons.
- Where to Watch: drop the duplicate streaming provider that matches your server
(no more two 'Plex' entries). Providers still share TMDB's single JustWatch
'where to watch' link (that's all TMDB gives).
- Director/Creator names (hero line + Cast & Crew section) are clickable → the
in-app person page.
- Opening a show whose full episode list isn't cached yet now shows a 'Fetching
the full episode list…' banner with a spinner, instead of a silent ~20s gap
before missing episodes pop in.
Replaces the plain loading text with a shimmering billboard placeholder (logo /
meta / overview / button bars) over the accent wash, so opening a title (esp. a
TMDB preview) feels instant and premium. Honors prefers-reduced-motion.
- Sort dropdown: Newest / Oldest / Most popular.
- Department filter (Acting / Directing / Writing / …) for multi-hyphenates —
only appears when a person has 2+ departments. Composes with the existing
kind + ownership filters; every chip shows a CONTEXTUAL count (what you'd get
if you clicked it, given the other active filters).
- Age in the hero meta ('47 years old', or lifespan + 'aged N' for the deceased).
- Backend: each person credit now carries its department (cast=Acting,
crew=its TMDB department). Seam test added. 249 video-suite tests pass.
Movie + TV detail pages get the things a premium app surfaces:
- Primary 'Play on Plex/Jellyfin' button (white Netflix-style CTA with the server
logo) in the billboard for owned items — deep-links straight to the item.
- 'Directed by' (movies) / 'Created by' (shows) line in the hero.
- Movies: a Collection/franchise row (the other films in the set), release-ordered.
- 'More Like This' now uses TMDB recommendations (better curated), similar as
fallback.
- TV: a 'Next Episode' banner (S/E + name + air date) for continuing shows, and
the selected season's overview under the season nav.
All in-app (cards drill into library/preview detail). Shell tests updated.
'Request limit reached!' is the free-tier daily quota (1,000/day), not a bad key
— so the worker now idles ~30 min and auto-resumes instead of pausing for good.
A library bigger than the daily cap just spreads its ratings across days on its
own. A genuinely invalid/unactivated key still hard-pauses until fixed. Cooldown
reads as paused in the UI (+ a 'cooldown' flag and note). Item is never burned to
synced, so nothing is lost.
OMDb returns a JSON body even on 401, so surface its actual Error: 'Invalid API
key!' (nudges the user to click OMDb's activation email) vs 'Request limit
reached!' (free-tier daily quota). The worker's pause note uses the same message.
The log flood you saw was the OMDb worker hitting a 401 (invalid key) on every
owned title: it logged a full traceback per item AND marked each one
ratings_synced=1 — which would've stopped them ever retrying once the key was
fixed. Root-cause fixes:
- OMDBClient.ratings raises a distinct OMDbAuthError on 401 / 'Invalid API key!'
(vs a transient error vs a genuine no-data 200).
- Worker: on an auth error it PAUSES (transient, not persisted) with a reason
note + one warning, instead of churning the whole library; the item is NOT
marked synced. Transient errors no longer burn items either — they back off and
pause after 3 in a row. Only a genuine 'no data' marks an item synced. Warnings
are concise (no per-item tracebacks). get_stats exposes the pause 'note'.
- Fixing the key auto-recovers: saving a new/changed OMDb key re-queues every
still-unrated title (resets the wrongly-burned ones), and the engine rebuild
un-pauses the worker.
Seam tests: bad-key pause-without-burn, transient keep-item, ratings() raises on
401, key-change re-queues unrated. 227 video-suite tests pass.
The 'Play on your server' tile now shows the actual server logo (same Plex/
Jellyfin art as the header server toggle) on a dark tile with the green owned
glow, instead of a generic play glyph. Falls back to the play glyph if the logo
fails to load.
The 'Where to Watch' section is now actionable:
- For an OWNED title it leads with a 'Play on Plex/Jellyfin' tile (green, play
glyph) that deep-links straight to the item on your server — Plex via the
app.plex.tv web app (machineIdentifier fetched once + cached), Jellyfin via its
web detail page. Built in engine.item_extras from the row's server_source +
server_id and the shared media-server config (same source poster.py uses).
- Streaming providers (TMDB/JustWatch) are now clickable → the where-to-watch
page, with a hover lift.
Owned-only: preview (tmdb) items have no library row so they get no server tile.
Seam tests cover the Jellyfin + Plex link building and the unowned no-link case.
240 video-suite tests pass.
Adds an ownership filter (All / In Library / Missing) next to the kind tabs on
the person page. Both the Known For rail and the full filmography respect it, so
you can see 'what of this person's work do I actually have' (or what's missing).
- Each credit already carries library_id (owned), so filtering is client-side.
- Contextual counts: the kind tabs count within the current ownership filter and
vice-versa, so the numbers always match what you'll see.
- 'In Library' filter glows green (matches the owned ribbon); empty states for
'you have everything' / 'nothing owned yet'.
Person hero glow-up:
- Cinematic ambient — blurred portrait + an accent colour mesh + vignette, masked
to fade into the page (was a flat wash).
- Portrait gets a slowly-rotating accent gradient ring (masked donut, GPU
transform) and a gentle float; an accent ring + glow frame.
- An accent role tagline ('ACTOR' / 'DIRECTOR' …) above a gradient-filled name,
plus a credits-count chip. Honors prefers-reduced-motion.
Performance:
- Long filmography grids use content-visibility:auto + contain-intrinsic-size so
the browser skips off-screen cards (cheap scroll), and skip replaying the
entrance animation as cards recycle.
- Hero layers are static (painted once); only two tiny composited transforms
animate. Posters/photos stay on small TMDB sizes + lazy-load; trending cached;
search debounced + request-sequenced.
Pure visual/perf layer — same data + isolation. Shell/JS tests pass.
Smart back (mirrors music's artist-detail): the top-left back button now
remembers where you actually came from, many layers deep. It keeps an origin
stack ({page} or {detail title}) and stamps each history entry with its layer
depth, so:
- the label is dynamic — '← Back to Search' / '← Back to The Bear' / '← Back to
<person>' — instead of a hardcoded 'Library'/'Back';
- backing out of the first layer returns to the page you started from (Search,
Watchlist, wherever), not always the Library;
- browser Back and our button both unwind the chain one layer at a time, in sync.
Fixes: search → person → back → movie used to mislabel as 'Library' and dump you
in the library.
Next level:
- Search isn't a blank box when idle — a 'Trending this week' rail (TMDB
trending, owned/preview annotated). Returns when you clear the query.
- Person page gets a 'Known For' hero rail (top titles by popularity) above a
full filmography now sorted chronologically (newest first).
Backend: TMDBClient.trending + engine.trending (+library annotation), route
/api/video/trending. Isolated; 237 video-suite tests pass.
Matches the show-detail page's vibe (--vd-accent-rgb glows, full-bleed, rise/
fade entrances) instead of the plain library shell.
Search:
- Cinematic hero — big title, ambient accent glow, a large glowing search bar
that lights up on focus.
- Results are premium 2:3 poster cards: hover lift + accent glow, poster zoom,
gradient overlay, a play affordance, owned/preview ribbon + rating chip.
People render as circular portrait cards. Grouped rows with accent-pill counts.
- Polished empty/hint states with a floating icon.
Person:
- Full-bleed cinematic hero with an ambient blurred-portrait backdrop (per-person
color), a glowing circular portrait, oversized name, meta as glass chips.
- Bio with Read more/less; filmography as the same premium poster cards with
premium pill tabs (All / Movies / TV).
Pure visual layer — same data hooks, routing and isolation. Shell/JS isolation
tests still pass.
