[FEA] - Customize home page

[damontecres]

Description

Current state

As of ~v0.3.5, Wholphin uses server-side user profile settings to determine what is displayed on the home page & navigate drawer.

This comes from Profile->Home:

• Library Order -> the order Wholphin shows nav drawer items
• "Display in home screen sections" toggles -> whether or not to show nav drawer item
• "Automatically group content" toggles

Then within Wholphin, there is a setting "Customize navigation drawer items" which 1) move un-toggled items to the "More" nav drawer section and 2) hides un-toggled items from home page

The remaining nav drawer items are then "converted" into home page rows (eg Movies Library->"Recently added in Movies").

End goal

1. Separate Wholphin from the Web UI settings
   • Start with a decent default display
   • Configure everything from within the app instead of a combination of server & app settings
2. Choose which libraries & built-in sections to display
3. Choose order of libraries & built-in sections
4. Ability to add custom rows
   • A collection or filtered/sorted library like "Recently Released Movies"
   • Better Live TV and DVR row options
5. Choose image type & size similar to Customize display of library grid pages #368

[CDubs00]

Maybe an option to use Paradox Home Sections plugin to dictate what uses see. Let them override of course.

[Pentaphon]

I recently removed "recently added" per this reddit thread to solve server slowdowns because users recently discovered that 'recently added" in 10.11.x is buggy and removing it from either the client or server-side results in no more slowdowns. I must admit, it did result in a faster UI, both Web and the official ATV client so it helped other users in my household.

https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/1plbh9k/important_update_to_my_previous_thread_about/

Wholphin definitely does something different from the official ATV client because "recently added" stays on Wholphin no matter what.

Will we have an option to always just sync with the server settings?

[CDubs00]

Another option to consider is to look at the way Streamyfin handles the Home Screen layout. It’s uses a yaml configuration in a server plugin.

As a server admin, I really like that feature.

I enjoy building out collections and displaying them on the Home Screen; things like holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, 4th of July), trending movies & shows or new movies/premiering series, and now that we are winding down the year, Top lists of 2025.

This is a feature I miss most about Plex moving over to Jellyfin.

[d3mystified]

Another vote for integrating with https://github.com/IAmParadox27/jellyfin-plugin-collection-sections

[CDubs00]

Another vote for integrating with https://github.com/IAmParadox27/jellyfin-plugin-collection-sections

I know I suggested it and I think Paradox has done a wonderful job but I would at least contemplate the remote possibility of it becoming abandoned. I'm sure Paradox has no intentions of leaving and I know it can be cloned and someone else pick up the mantle so its a slim chance but just something to keep in the back of your mind.