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peter 632e39d458 feat(plex): every card rail in the reader's language; an episode in a poster rail stands as its show (E30 S1b)
The grid served Hungarian titles, but every other card surface (Discover rails, the
show page's episodes, search, collections, the person page, playlists, Home's resume
rail, hero and comfort shelf) served English. The card serializers now take a
required keyword-only lang (a forgotten call site fails instead of going English), and
each of those reads takes ?lang=hu, with the language in its query key. A Hungarian
search finds an episode by its Hungarian title too.

An episode on a poster rail showed its 16:9 still cropped into a poster, titled only
with the episode name; it now shows the show's poster and name, with S·E · title under
it (option A). Plex's generic season names (Season 1, Specials) are rebuilt from the
number in the reader's language; a season with a name of its own keeps it.

Home's comfort-shelf move wrote its optimistic order to the key without the language,
which nothing read any more; it writes the query's own key.
2026-09-29 02:12:32 +02:00

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"""The hero: the single suggestion the Home surface leads with.
One rule, in one function, because the page's entire promise is that it answers rather than offers.
Three tiers, tried in order:
1. **resume** — something already started whose REMAINING time fits the budget. Almost always the
right answer: it is the thing the user themselves chose most recently, and finishing it costs no
decision at all.
2. **comfort** — a pinned shelf entry that fits. The user's own declared fallback, which beats
anything we could infer.
3. **surprise** — a seeded draw from what is unseen and fits.
That order is the PAGE's answer. "Mást kérek" rotates it (`start`), so each press offers a different
KIND of answer rather than the next row of the same list — the user's call, 2026-09-06, after the
button was measured cycling nine resume cards and never once reaching the shelf.
The tier travels with the card so the client can label it honestly ("Ott hagytad abba" vs "A
polcodról" vs "Meglepetés") instead of guessing from the shape of the payload — a kicker that says
"where you left off" over a film the user has never opened is exactly the kind of quiet lie the house
rules call a dishonest state.
Budgets are matched against REMAINING time throughout (`budget.remaining_seconds`, which equals the
runtime for anything not yet started): with eight minutes left, a 90-minute film is a ten-minute
answer.
"""
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
from app.discover import cards, pins, rails
from app.discover.budget import fits
from app.models import User
HERO_TIERS = ("resume", "comfort", "surprise")
# How deep the surprise tier draws before giving up. Deliberately deeper than one, so an excluded
# pick moves the tier along instead of emptying it (the shuffle is seeded — the same seed always
# hands back the same order, so without the headroom "already shown" would mean "nothing left").
SURPRISE_DRAW = 12
def pick(
db: Session,
user: User,
budget: str,
seed: int,
*,
resume: list[dict] | None = None,
shelf: list[dict] | None = None,
exclude: set[str] | None = None,
start: int = 0,
lang: str,
) -> dict | None:
"""`{"tier": ..., "card": ...}`, or None when nothing at all fits.
`resume` and `shelf` may be passed pre-computed so the consolidated `/api/discover` response does
not build the same two rails twice; the reroll endpoint passes neither and pays only for what it
reaches.
`exclude` is what makes "Mást kérek" mean something. A new seed alone only re-draws the SURPRISE
tier: the resume tier deterministically returns the most recently progressed thing that fits, so
pressing reroll on a user who has something half-finished handed back the identical card and the
button looked dead (measured in the browser, 2026-09-06). Skipping the cards already shown makes
every press produce a different answer, at every tier.
`start` ROTATES which tier is tried first — 0 keeps the priority order (the page's own first
answer), 1 leads with comfort, 2 with surprise. Exclusion alone was not enough: the resume rail
holds up to 20 rows, so the button walked down it and never reached the shelf or a surprise at
all (measured, 2026-09-06: twelve presses returned nine cards, every one of them `resume`). The
fallthrough is kept, so a press does not come back empty just because the tier it led with has
nothing to offer."""
skip = exclude or set()
def _resume() -> dict | None:
for card in rails.continue_watching(db, user, lang=lang) if resume is None else resume:
playable = rails.playable(db, user.id, card, lang=lang)
# Excluded on the card the USER saw (the show), not only on what it resolves to, so a
# rerolled-past show does not come straight back as its own next episode.
if cards.key(card) in skip or (playable is not None and cards.key(playable) in skip):
continue
if playable is not None and fits(playable["remaining_seconds"], budget):
return playable
return None
def _comfort() -> dict | None:
if shelf is None:
own = pins.shelf(db, user, include_plex=rails.plex_available(db), lang=lang)
else:
own = shelf
for card in pins.playables(own):
if cards.key(card) not in skip and fits(card["remaining_seconds"], budget):
return card
return None
def _surprise() -> dict | None:
# A wider draw than the one card we need: the shuffle is seeded, so without the headroom an
# excluded pick would leave the tier empty rather than move past it.
for card in rails.surprise(db, user, budget, seed, limit=SURPRISE_DRAW, lang=lang):
if cards.key(card) not in skip:
return card
return None
tiers = {"resume": _resume, "comfort": _comfort, "surprise": _surprise}
offset = start % len(HERO_TIERS)
for tier in HERO_TIERS[offset:] + HERO_TIERS[:offset]:
card = tiers[tier]()
if card is not None:
return {"tier": tier, "card": card}
return None