Completes the two-way Plex ↔ Siftlode watch-state sync: Phase B (Siftlode→Plex push, immediate)
and Phase C (incremental history/on-deck pull + daily full reconcile incl. un-watch). Also the
auto-advance watched-mark id-race fix.
Completes the two-way watch-state sync with two scheduler jobs:
- plex_watch_sync (default 30m): pull recent Plex-side changes (watch history + on-deck, filtered
to the owner account) into Siftlode under last-write-wins (_pull_apply + a _same_state ping-pong
guard + skew tolerance), then re-push any still-unsynced local states.
- plex_watch_reconcile (default daily): full section rescan; uses synced_to_plex to settle what the
incremental feed can't — notably propagating a Plex-side un-watch (clear a previously-mirrored row
Plex no longer has) — while re-pushing never-synced local states and never touching hidden
(Siftlode-only) rows. Union-preserving.
PlexClient gains accounts/watch_history/on_deck; _scan_plex_states is factored out and shared with
the one-time import. Owner accountID is resolved once and cached on the link. Both jobs are
registered in the scheduler (pause-skip, activity tracking, run-now, admin-tunable intervals) with
trilingual (HU/EN/DE) labels + descriptions. New config default plex_watch_reconcile_interval_min.
Verified live against the real Plex server: read feeds, last-write-wins, dirty re-push, the
incremental job end-to-end, and a full reconcile that cleared exactly the one un-watched item with
zero collateral across 17976 scanned.
The player's watched-mark on completion keyed off the reactive `id`, which can run ahead of the
media actually playing: when the next episode fails to load (e.g. no local file), loadSession
returns without replacing the <video> source, so the old episode keeps playing and later fires
'ended' — but by then an auto-skip-credits jump has already advanced `id` to the next episode.
The result was the WRONG episode marked watched (and scrobbled to Plex), while the finished one
got nothing. This was latent before, made visible/harmful by the Phase B Plex push.
- go(): pause the outgoing media before switching, so a failed next-episode load can't leave the
old media running into a stray 'ended' against the new id.
- auto-skip-credits (doSkip): mark the CURRENT id watched (captured now) before advancing — binge
advance is a finish, and previously marked nothing.
- onEnded: ignore a spurious 'ended' from media that never played (absRef 0), so a failed next
episode can't be marked or cascade another advance.
Manual Next/Prev still never mark watched (not a finish). Verified live: E06→E07 with a missing
E07 marks E06 watched (+ Plex), E07 nothing.
Mirror watched/unwatched/resume from Siftlode to a linked (owner) Plex account.
- PlexClient: scrobble / unscrobble / set_timeline (/:/scrobble, /:/unscrobble, /:/timeline).
- watch_sync: link_for_push() gates on owner + sync_enabled + initial_import_done; best-effort
push_state_to_plex() runs as a background task with its own session, never raises (Plex being
down must not break the user's action), and flips synced_to_plex on success so Phase C's pull
won't bounce it back.
- item_state / item_progress schedule the push: watched/unwatched immediately, resume only on a
"final" checkpoint (pause / pagehide / unmount) — not every 10s tick — so one watch doesn't spray
/:/timeline at the server. `hidden` is Siftlode-only and never touches Plex.
- Frontend: plexProgress / plexProgressBeacon carry a `final` flag; the periodic checkpoint is
non-final, pause/pagehide/leaving the player are final.
Verified live against the real Plex server (scrobble/unscrobble/timeline round-trip + restore;
link gating; synced_to_plex flip).
The watch-sync switch only flipped once the (multi-second) import request returned, so a click read as
'nothing happened' and invited repeat clicks. Reflect the toggle's target optimistically while the
mutation is in flight and show an 'Importing your Plex watch history…' spinner line, so it's obvious
the switch responded and is working.
The Plex watch import inserted plex_states via per-row ORM add against a pre-read 'existing' set,
which is not safe when the enable call fires more than once while the multi-second import runs (the
toggle wasn't disabled during it): overlapping imports raced to INSERT the same (user_id, item_id)
rows and all but the first hit a UniqueViolation -> 500 (seen on prod). Rewrite the write path as a
chunked PostgreSQL UPSERT (on_conflict_do_update, rows de-duped by item_id) — idempotent and
concurrency-safe, Plex still wins on the intersection and Siftlode-only states are untouched.
Also disable the Settings toggle (and ignore its onChange) while a sync mutation is pending, so it
can't be fired repeatedly; adds a reusable 'disabled' prop to the Switch primitive.
Admins get a 'Plex watch sync' section in Settings → Account (shown when the Plex module is on):
a two-way-sync toggle whose first enable imports the Plex watch history, a last-import line, and an
'Import from Plex now' button. api.plexWatch{Link,SetLink,Import}; trilingual EN/HU/DE strings.
Plex records watch state per Plex account; Siftlode per user in plex_states. A new plex_link table
maps a Siftlode user to a Plex account; for the owner (MVP) the row uses the server admin token
(uses_admin=True), so no separate Plex login. app/plex/watch_sync.py reads the owner account's
viewCount/viewOffset/lastViewedAt (already present in the catalog mirror's section listing) and
upserts them into the owner's plex_states — 'Plex is master' on this first import, but only where
Plex has a watch record (Siftlode-only states are preserved; union on the intersection). Idempotent.
Admin routes: GET/POST /api/plex/watch/link (status + enable/disable; first enable runs the import)
and POST /api/plex/watch/import (re-run). Migration 0051_plex_link. Two-way push (Phase B) and the
incremental Plex→Siftlode reconcile (Phase C) build on this in later ships.
The YouTubeClient issued httpx requests directly, so a network/transport
failure (egress proxy unreachable, DNS, timeout, connection reset) escaped
as a raw httpx.ConnectError. Callers only guard against YouTubeError, so such
a fault propagated uncaught and surfaced as a 500 — e.g. opening an
un-enriched channel's page (GET /api/channels/{id} lazily enriches About
data) popped a blocking "Server error (500)" modal whenever the fixed-IP
egress proxy was down.
Route all client HTTP through a _send() helper that wraps httpx.HTTPError in
YouTubeError, so every existing 'except YouTubeError' degrades gracefully:
channel detail returns un-enriched (200), explore returns 422 (quiet), and
scheduler jobs log-and-continue instead of crashing.
Seeking to a spot outside the current remux window restarts the hls.js
session, which detaches/re-attaches the media and fires 'emptied' — that
silently flips the element to paused WITHOUT a 'pause' event. Because the
play flag only tracked 'play'/'pause', the button kept showing 'playing'
while the video had actually stopped, and on a slow (proxied) load the
post-manifest play() could be rejected, leaving it stuck paused until a
click on the video.
Root cause confirmed by instrumenting the media events during a seek:
emptied(paused=true) with no accompanying pause event.
Fix: resync the play flag from video.paused on the settling events
(emptied/canplay/seeked) so the button can never contradict reality;
preserve the pre-seek play/pause intent through the session restart
(loadSession takes resumePlay); and retry play once on 'canplay' so a
rejected early play() still resumes. Verified on :8080 — backward seek
(session restart), forward seek (native) and manual pause all keep the
icon in sync (0 desync samples) and resume correctly.
- The seek-bar hover tooltip positioned itself with a px `left` derived
from the scaled getBoundingClientRect, so inside the transform:scale
player it got re-scaled and drifted right of the cursor (only 0 was
right). Position it by fraction (% of the bar) instead — it now sits
under the cursor at any point, like the volume tooltip already did.
- The tuning (gear) menu tabs wrapped to two lines at the +25% scale.
Widen the menu, keep tab labels on one line (whitespace-nowrap), and
shorten the labels: "Sync offset" → "Offsets", "Subtitle style" →
"Subtitles" (all three languages).
- Mouse/browser Back button now behaves like Backspace/Esc: while a
menu, the shortcuts sheet, the info overlay or an auto-skip countdown
is up, Back closes/cancels that (via a history entry) instead of
dropping straight to the grid; with nothing open it still leaves.
- Whole player UI is 25% larger for lean-back/HTPC legibility, applied
as transform: scale(1.25) on an 80vw x 80vh root (fills the viewport
exactly). transform, not zoom — under zoom, event clientX and
getBoundingClientRect fall into different spaces and the seek/volume/
hover math breaks; transform keeps them aligned. Skip buttons ride
this scale (reverted their separate enlargement so they're +25% too).
- Seek bar: drag the head to scrub, not just click-to-jump; the head
previews the target and the seek commits on release (pointer capture),
so a long drag doesn't restart the stream on every step.
- Volume bar: dropped the loudness gradient — back to the plain accent
fill; the 0-100 hover value tooltip stays.
- Harden both bars' pointer-capture calls (try/catch) so a capture
failure can't abort the click/drag.
Cancelling only blanked skipProgress and flagged the marker — it never
stopped the running interval, so the next tick (~100ms later) re-set the
progress and the skip fired anyway. Hold the interval id in a ref and
clear it on cancel (and null it on completion/cleanup), so Esc/Backspace
truly stops the countdown; the Skip button stays for a manual skip.
- Resume: closing with Back now leaves the resume point correct. The
position was saved server-side, but reopening the item in the same
session read react-query's cached detail (old position); patch that
cache on unmount so a reopen resumes where you left off (F5 was fine —
empty cache after a reload).
- Back cascade: the on-screen Back arrow and Backspace now close an open
tuning/tracks menu, then the shortcuts sheet, then the info overlay,
and only leave the player when nothing is layered on top (it used to
jump straight to the feed with a panel still open).
- Subtitle shadow: replace the single 0-offset blur (invisible even at
max) with an eight-direction outline plus glow that scales with the
slider — legible over any frame.
- Skip Intro/Credits: ~25% larger button and text; add a crisp bottom
progress bar to the auto-skip countdown; and freeze the countdown while
the video is paused so it no longer auto-seeks a paused video.
- Time readout: append the projected finish time (wall clock + time
remaining) in the clock's own 24h/12h format.
- Volume: replace the native slider with a bar that shows the 0-100 value
under the cursor (like the seek bar) and a loudness gradient — blue
(too quiet) → green (normal) → red (too loud).
The Plex library search box wrote to the shared, persisted feed filter
(filters.q). That leaked a Plex query into the feed search box and, being
persisted, restored a stale query after a reload — which then collided
with a persisted collection filter to produce a confusing empty grid.
Plex now has its own search state: kept across page switches within a
session, but not persisted and not shared with the feed, so a reload
starts clean.
A Plex search that returns nothing while a collection/rating filter is
active showed a bare "No matches", hiding that the filters — not the
query — were the cause. Show how many filters are narrowing the results
and offer a one-click Clear filters inline. Translated in all three
languages.
- Wall clock is now a Clock settings tab: show/hide, 24h↔12h (am/pm), size, colour, and
an optional date in two fixed styles (EN "08-JUL-2026 Wed" / HU "2026-JÚL-08 Sze").
- Subtitle text-shadow (blur strength + colour) in the Subtitle tab.
- Auto-skip intro/credits: per-user toggles + a shared 0–10s delay (default 5). Entering a
marker whose auto-skip is on runs a countdown shown as a fill on the Skip button; on
completion it skips (intro → marker end, credits → next item / binge). Esc/Backspace during
the countdown cancels it and does NOT navigate back. 0s = immediate.
- Seekbar hover shows a timestamp tooltip that follows the cursor.
- i18n en/hu/de for the new strings.
- Multi-audio items now ship every audio track as an HLS rendition in one session
(stream.py var_stream_map -> master.m3u8), so hls.js switches audio CLIENT-SIDE with
no ffmpeg restart, same timeline, no gap/drift. /session gains ?multi=1 (forces HLS
even for direct-playable multi-audio files); K is probed from the video variant seg.
- Restore the selected audio track on AUDIO_TRACKS_UPDATED, not MANIFEST_PARSED (the
renditions aren't parsed yet on MANIFEST_PARSED, so the set was dropped -> after F5 the
UI showed the restored track but playback stayed on the default).
- Resume position now survives F5: a pagehide keepalive beacon (plexProgressBeacon)
saves the current position on reload/close/navigate, since React effect cleanup does
not run on a full reload; seekTo writes the target into absRef immediately so a save
right after a seek is accurate.
Streaming / subtitle sync (the core fix):
- stream.py: add -copyts so HLS segments carry the true absolute PTS, and measure
the real keyframe start K from seg_0 (ffprobe) -> return it as the session start.
Fixes the seconds-long subtitle lead caused by using the requested seek offset
instead of the keyframe ffmpeg actually lands on with video stream-copy.
- Add -noaccurate_seek so the re-encoded audio starts at the same keyframe as the
video (was starting (X-K)s later -> seconds of silence after each seek/audio switch).
- Compensate the fixed ~1.0s lag hls.js introduces for non-zero-start copyts streams,
folded into the session start so the clock, seeking and the subtitle shift are all
content-accurate.
- /subtitle gains an offset param; _shift_vtt shifts absolute cues onto the session's
zero-based clock and DROPS fully-past cue blocks (collapsing them to 0->0 made every
past cue active at currentTime 0 on resume -> a pile-up until playback advanced).
Audio:
- /session + stream.py gain an audio A/V-sync offset (-itsoffset, full +/-, second
input only when non-zero).
Player settings & personalization (per-account, persisted -> survive F5):
- storage.ts: useAccountPersistedObject (per-account JSON prefs blob).
- PlexPlayer: volume/mute, audio+subtitle language (index-based match, fixes the F5
audio-revert), sync offsets, seek steps, subtitle style, auto-hide, play intent.
- Hotkeys A (cycle audio) / S (cycle subtitle), mouse-wheel volume, Ctrl+arrow fine
seek, per-user plain/fine seek-step + auto-hide toggle.
- Subtitle appearance: size / colour / vertical position / background via ::cue + line.
- UI: split into a Tracks quick-menu + a tabbed gear panel (Sync | Playback | Subtitle);
both dismiss on outside-click; edge-aware control tooltips.
- i18n en/hu/de for all new strings.
Shared links didn't unfurl in Messenger: robots.txt disallowed /watch/ for ALL
user-agents, so facebookexternalhit honoured it and got a blocked (403) fetch —
the OG tags were correct but never read. Add an allow group for the link-preview
bots (facebookexternalhit, Twitterbot, Discordbot, WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram,
LinkedIn, …) so they can fetch share pages; the wildcard still keeps /watch/ out
of search indexes. Release v0.32.1.
A remote thumbnail as og:image is unreliable for the crawler — Facebook's signed
CDN URL expires (so an old shared link's image later vanishes) and cross-origin
hotlinking is flaky. Record a self-hosted poster for EVERY download (ensure_poster
returns the existing <base>.jpg thumbnail sidecar, or cuts a frame) and point
og:image at our own /api/public/watch/{token}/poster.jpg. Backfill now fills
poster_path for all existing downloads, not just thumbnail-less ones.
Two visual gaps for non-catalog downloads:
- Channel link: YouTube already exposes channel_url; Facebook exposes none but a
numeric uploader_id that resolves at facebook.com/<id>. `_uploader_url` derives
it so the auto-detected channel renders as a real clickable link.
- Poster: a source with no thumbnail (e.g. a direct reddit HLS URL) showed a
blank image box. The worker now cuts a representative frame with ffmpeg
(`ensure_poster`) into the `<base>.jpg` sidecar and records `poster_path`
(migration 0050). The card, the public watch page (<video poster> + og:image),
and link previews fall back to it via new authed + public poster endpoints.
Adds `app.downloads.backfill` (one-off, re-run-safe) to fill uploader_url
(re-extract YouTube/Facebook metadata) and posters for pre-existing downloads.
Pressing the mouse inside a dialog (e.g. to select text in an input), dragging
out, and releasing on the backdrop wrongly dismissed it: the click event fires
on the common ancestor of mousedown+mouseup (the backdrop), so the outside-click
handler ran. Track whether the press started on the backdrop and only close when
it both starts and ends there. Fixes all shared-Modal dialogs at once (downloads
editor/share, confirm, Plex collections + add-to-playlist, …).
A download whose source title exceeded 255 chars (e.g. a recipe baked into a
Facebook video's title) failed with a StringDataRightTruncation: the worker
auto-fills an empty display_name from the title, which overflows the 255-char
column. Clip the title to 255 at every point it flows into display_name (worker
completion paths + enqueue); the full title is untouched on the asset. Pre-existing
latent bug, surfaced by an unusually long title.
Release v0.31.1.
A shared /watch/{token} link is a client-rendered SPA, so a social crawler only
saw the generic index.html — a blank link card. The server now injects per-video
Open Graph / Twitter tags (title, channel, thumbnail) into the served HTML for
that route, so links unfurl richly in Messenger and other chat apps; real
browsers ignore the extra tags and hydrate the page as usual. Password /
expired / invalid links fall back to the generic card with no metadata leak.
Also shortens the generic site description used for search engines and link
previews.
The edit (pencil) action now edits a download's full display metadata — title,
channel name, channel link and any number of extra reference URLs — instead of
just the name. The channel and links render as clickable links on the library
card, and the channel link is auto-filled from the source (yt-dlp channel_url)
when available. Shared watch pages resolve the same per-download overrides, so a
rename/channel/link edit is reflected on the public /watch page too, with every
link clickable.
Adds migration 0049 (media_assets.uploader_url; download_jobs.display_uploader,
display_uploader_url, extra_links) and generalizes the rename endpoint into a
metadata update with URL validation. EN/HU/DE strings included.
Playlist view now groups a run of episodes from the same show into a
collapsible season/show block so a whole series doesn't sprawl into an
endless flat list; movies stay standalone (larger poster card in the
accordion). Two per-account layouts — Accordion and Tree — persisted via
LS.plexPlaylistLayout; show groups start collapsed. Reorder is drag &
drop (@dnd-kit): a show block moves as one unit, episodes reorder within
their show, keyboard-draggable via KeyboardSensor. Remove works per item,
per season, or per whole show. The add-to-playlist dialog is generalised
to a single leaf or a whole group (tri-state none/some/all with an in/size
count); the show page gains add buttons for an episode, a season, and the
whole show. i18n en/hu/de.
Add POST /playlists/{id}/items/bulk and /items/remove-bulk so a whole
season or show can be added/removed in one call (input order preserved,
duplicates skipped). Extend GET /playlists with contains_group=<rk,rk,…>
returning per-playlist group_in + a top-level group_size for the bulk
add-to-playlist dialog. Include the show's rating_key (show_id) on
playlist episode cards so the client can group a playlist by show/season.
Personal ordered lists of Plex items, kept in Siftlode's own DB (works for users
without a Plex account, like watch-state) — the "your own lists" counterpart to
shared collections. Plex-direction sync is a later phase (plex_rating_key
reserved).
Backend: migration 0048 (plex_playlists + plex_playlist_items with position),
PlexPlaylist/PlexPlaylistItem models, and per-user CRUD endpoints under
/api/plex/playlists (list [+?contains for the add dialog], create [seeded],
detail [ordered cards], rename, delete, add/remove item, reorder). _leaf_card
handles the movie/episode mix. Frontend: "Add to playlist" dialog from the movie
info page (all users), a Playlists section in PlexSidebar (list + create),
PlexPlaylistView (reorder up/down, remove, rename, delete, Play all), and
PlexPlayer gained an optional `queue` so play-through follows the list order
(prev/next + auto-advance). i18n en/hu/de. Verified end-to-end on localdev
(backend CRUD + the create→add→view→play-through UI flow).
Admins can curate Plex collections from a movie's info page ("Collections"
button → PlexCollectionEditor dialog): create a collection (seeded with the
movie), add/remove the movie to/from editable collections, delete a collection,
and "take over" an existing plain Plex collection (mark it editable). All writes
go to Plex (POST/PUT/DELETE via new PlexClient methods) and are reflected on
every client; a targeted single-collection re-sync (sync.resync_collection /
delete_collection_local) updates the local mirror without the full ~4-min sync.
Gating (per the design decisions): editing is ADMIN-ONLY (collections are shared
library-wide); only plain manual collections are editable — smart + external
auto-lists (IMDb/TMDb/…) are always read-only (can_edit = editable && !smart &&
source=="collection"). New admin endpoints under /api/plex/collections
(create/items add+remove/rename/delete/editable). Verified end-to-end incl. the
live Plex write API (create/add/rename/remove/delete all 200, self-cleaned) and
the editor UI (create + delete with confirm) on localdev.
Selecting a subtitle restarted the HLS session with `-map 0:s:{ord}`, assuming an
EMBEDDED stream. Films whose subs are external sidecar .srt files (Plex reports
them, but they aren't in the mkv) matched no stream; the master-playlist's
declared subtitle group then made ffmpeg fail → "Playback couldn't start".
Subtitles now go through a new GET /api/plex/subtitle/{rk}/{ord} → text/vtt
(external subs fetched from Plex via the stream key + SRT→VTT; embedded text subs
extracted with ffmpeg; image subs → 415), served as native <video><track> that
the browser overlays. So choosing/switching a subtitle is instant with NO session
restart, and stream.py drops all subtitle muxing (`-sn`, no master playlist).
Image-based subs (PGS/VobSub) are marked text=false and hidden in the picker.
Verified on prod's Nymphomaniac Vol. II: HU sidecar → 1693 WebVTT cues, no crash.
Posters/art were proxied at full resolution (many 1-7MB, some 9.5MB) into ≤176px
grid/info cells — heavy to fetch + decode, so fast scrolling lagged 1-2s even
with a warm cache (the cache removed the Plex round-trip, not the image weight).
Now PlexClient.image_bytes optionally hits Plex's /photo/:/transcode to resize
server-side; the /image endpoint requests thumb=400x600, art=1280x720 and keys
the cache by width (old full-size files orphaned, re-cached small). Measured:
a poster 5.5MB->50KB, art 8.1MB->137KB, at 400x600 (crisp on 2x DPR). Grid
scroll is near-instant and the disk cache shrinks ~8x.
A collections page fires 100+ concurrent poster requests. Both image proxies
(/image and /person-image) authenticated via current_user + Depends(get_db),
holding a pooled DB connection for the whole request — including the slow Plex/
CDN fetch. Under the burst, the 15-connection pool was exhausted → QueuePool
checkout timeouts → 502s → slow, partially-loaded grids on prod.
Fix: authenticate these two high-fan-out endpoints with a signed-session check
(no DB user-load), serve disk-cache hits with zero DB access, and on a cold miss
open a short session only to resolve the image key + Plex config, releasing it
BEFORE the fetch (image_bytes uses no DB). Also raise the pool (20 + 30 overflow)
as headroom above the sync-endpoint threadpool.
From UAT feedback on the collections info page:
- Per-source show/hide toggles in the customize menu, one per collection-strip
type present on the item (Collections/IMDb/TMDb/…), persisted per account.
- Customize menu closes on Escape / outside click (reuses useDismiss).
- Preserve the info-page scroll position when returning from "Browse collection".
- Glassy refresh: content floats as .glass/.glass-card panels over a faint FIXED
art backdrop on the <main> scroller (HTPC-style, toggleable); frosted menu;
wider ~90% layout. Uses the existing glass surface system.
Derive a `source` bucket per collection from the already-synced title + smart
flag (no schema change, no re-sync): external list providers (IMDb/TMDb/TVDb/
Trakt) by leading token, Plex smart lists via the smart flag, everything else a
genuine "collection". Returned on each info-page collection strip so the client
can show/hide each type independently. Adds the stripSource labels (en/hu/de).
Backend (migration 0047_plex_collections): a plex_collections table mirrors every Plex
collection (card metadata + smart flag + an editable flag reserved for Phase 2); membership
is stored as GIN-indexed collection_keys on member movies (plex_items) and shows (plex_shows).
The background sync (plex_sync) now fetches each library's collections + their children and
rebuilds membership — so ALL reads are local (Plex's dual-language collection queries are slow;
this trades a ~4-min background sync for instant reads). New /api/plex/collections endpoint;
/browse gains a combinable filter; item_detail returns the movie's collection
'strips' (sibling titles as playable cards, smallest/most-specific collection first) — all pure
local lookups.
Frontend: PlexSidebar gains a searchable Collection picker + an active-collection chip;
PlexInfo renders the collection strips (playable posters + 'Browse collection' → sets the
filter); the collection is part of PlexFilters (persisted). i18n en/hu/de.
Phase 2 (create/edit collections with write-back to Plex) is separate.
The Plex catalog sync job showed its raw id 'plex_sync' with no tooltip because it was
missing from the scheduler i18n. Add jobs.plex_sync + jobDesc.plex_sync (en/hu/de).
Backend (migration 0046_plex_people_search): a new people_text column (cast +
director names, de-duped) is folded into the generated search_vector at weight B,
so the top search box finds titles by an actor/director name and ranks them above
summary-only mentions. New /api/plex/people endpoint returns the cast/crew matching
the term (name prefix or word-start) with a film count + a headshot (pulled from one
representative film's live metadata; image bytes disk-cached).
Frontend: PlexBrowse shows matching people as virtual cards above the grid; clicking
one adds them to the actor/director filter (multi-value, from the C1 work) and clears
the search box so you land on exactly that person's films. Answers the 'why does
"drew" match Rambo?' confusion — it was matching the word in the synopsis; now names
are searchable. i18n en/hu/de.
⚠️ Prod needs a Plex re-sync after deploy to populate people_text (search_vector
regenerates automatically once the column has data).
UAT follow-ups on the Plex filter epic:
- Sort now has an asc/desc toggle (sort_dir), applied to any sort field.
- Genre multi-select gains an Any/All mode (genre_mode: OR vs AND containment).
- Director/actor/studio become multi-value: people AND (titles featuring all selected),
studios OR; clicking them on the info page stacks (unions) instead of replacing, and
the sidebar shows each as a removable 'Active' chip.
- fix(history): clicking a metadata filter on the info page now pushes a fresh grid
entry instead of history.back(), so browser Back returns to the info page rather than
leaving the Plex module.
- fix(player): fully tear down the <video> + hls on unmount and guard late play() calls,
so backing out of a just-started video no longer leaves audio playing in the background.
i18n en/hu/de (match any/all, sort direction).
Backend (migration 0045_plex_filter_meta): plex_items gains rating (audienceRating
~IMDb), content_rating, studio, originally_available_at, and GIN-indexed genres /
directors / cast_names — all mirrored from the cheap section listing (no per-item API
calls; they also seed a future watch-habit recommender). /browse gains genre / content-
rating / year / rating / duration / added-within / director / actor / studio filters
(@> containment, GIN) + sort by year|rating|duration|release; new /facets endpoint
returns available genres+ratings (with counts) and the year/rating/duration bounds. A
thin on-disk image cache (.plex-img-cache) serves posters/art/cast photos from local
disk after first fetch (~7-14x faster repeat loads).
Frontend: PlexSidebar grows the full filter set (facet-driven genre/age chips, rating
steps, year range inputs, duration buckets, added-within, active people/studio chips,
clear-all); filters persist per-account as one JSON blob. PlexInfo metadata (year,
genre, director, cast, studio, IMDb score) is clickable → sets the matching filter and
returns to the filtered grid (page variant only; the in-player overlay stays read-only
so a stray click can't stop playback). i18n en/hu/de.
Backend (no migration): item_detail now also returns IMDb score + id/url (from the
Plex Rating/Guid arrays), content rating, genres, director(s), studio, tagline, and
cast as {name, role, photo}. New host-whitelisted /person-image proxy serves cast
photos from Plex's public metadata CDN (keeps third-party requests off the browser).
Frontend: reusable PlexInfo component in two forms — a full info page opened from a
card's 'i' button (history subview, art backdrop, Play/Resume + watch controls) and a
lean overlay in the player toggled with 'I' (video keeps playing). Two per-user view
prefs (faint backdrop, cast row) persisted in preferences. Mark-unwatched / clear-resume
cover the watched-reset gap. i18n en/hu/de.
- Explicit Stop button (stops playback + returns to the library).
- Keyboard cheat-sheet overlay toggled with 'H' (movie hides the episode-nav row).
- Backspace = stop & back to feed (HTPC-remote convention); closes the help first.
- Time-remaining readout beside the seek bar + a live wall clock in the top bar
(both fade with the controls).
- PlexBrowse restores the grid scroll position when returning from the player, so
Back lands on the same card instead of the top of the library.
- New plex.player i18n keys (stop/help/keys.*) in en/hu/de.
The player's queue came live from the feed query, which refetches under a
watch-state filter as each video is auto-marked watched — steadily shrinking
the list mid-session. Loop "All" could then never wrap back to the first
video (earlier items had dropped out), and prev/next drifted. Snapshot the
queue once at mount (useState lazy init) and step through that frozen list for
the whole session; the live prop is ignored thereafter. Supersedes the earlier
active-item pin with a list-level freeze that also fixes Loop All.
Auto-marking a video watched near its end invalidates the feed query; the
refetched/reordered queue can no longer contain the playing item, so
findIndex returned -1 and the active item fell back to queue[0] — silently
jumping playback to an unrelated video and defeating Loop "One" (and
auto-advance:off). Pin the last resolved video in a ref and keep playing it
when it drops out of the queue instead of snapping to queue[0].
The real docker-compose.home.yml + CLAUDE.md lived only in the working tree via a
fragile .git/info/exclude hack (leak-prone). They now live in a separate PRIVATE
devops repo (siftlode-ops). This repo keeps only a generic, placeholder-templated
docker-compose.home.yml.example plus the existing .env.example (extended with the
optional Plex keys), so nothing environment-specific can leak here. Exclude emptied.
PlexPlayer: when the stream session can't start, show why instead of an eternal
spinner — 404 (physical file unreachable: missing media mount / wrong path map),
501 (format needs transcoding), or a generic failure; also catch fatal hls.js
errors. ConfigPanel: render the Test-connection media_check (mount OK, or a
warning naming the unreadable local path). New plex/config i18n in en/hu/de.
Extend admin POST /api/plex/test to resolve one real media file through the
local mount (a mirrored sample, else a single leaf fetched from Plex) and report
whether it is readable. A missing media bind-mount or a wrong plex_path_map is
now caught at Test time rather than only surfacing later as a dead player.
Backend: item detail returns audio_streams + subtitle_streams (from Plex Part.Stream
ordinals). The HLS session accepts audio/subtitle stream ordinals — the selected audio
is mapped (transcoded to AAC), a selected subtitle is muxed in as a WebVTT rendition
via a MASTER playlist (-master_pl_name + -var_stream_map sgroup:subs) so ffmpeg keeps
it in sync per-session. Selecting a track forces the HLS path (even for direct files).
Generic /stream/{rk}/hls/{filename} endpoint serves the master/media/vtt/ts artifacts.
Frontend: gear menu lists real audio + subtitle tracks; changing one restarts the
session at the current position (seek-restart mechanism). hls.js subtitle enabled on
SUBTITLE_TRACKS_UPDATED (not just MANIFEST_PARSED, else the VTT is never fetched).
Cues auto-nudged to line 88% (the full-height <video> clips a default bottom-edge cue).
Controls no longer auto-hide while the menu is open. plex.player.* i18n en/hu/de.
Verified in a real browser (2 Broke Girls S1E1, 2 audio + 2 subs): menu shows the real
tracks, enabling English subtitles renders them correctly positioned; backend master
playlist + vtt segments validated over HTTP.
peter