#Help Restricting Which Episodes are Updated

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edgy umbra
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I am currently using PMM to update the overlays on my movies, tv shows and episodes.

I’ve noticed that the update every evening is taking an incredibly long time and have realised this is due to the volume of episodes that are being checked every evening.

To address this I would like to update my configuration so that only episodes added in the last x (30) days are updated. This should mean that all episodes have an overlay but they’re only updated for the first 30 days after being added to Plex.

Any suggestions on how to do this would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Vel

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lapis hornet
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this is currently not possible

edgy umbra
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Are there any suggestions on improving the performance another way. It currently takes about 5 hours to update each evening

novel pumice
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The only thing is going to be doing that less often, or [perhaps] reducing the number of overlays being applied. The log will tell you where the time is going, which would inform whether the latter woudl be helpful.

edgy umbra
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Can I run different updates at different frequencies for movies, shows, episodes etc?

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Also, is there a place to raise feature requests? I am assuming GitHub?

novel pumice
edgy umbra
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Thanks. Appreciate the quick responses

novel pumice
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Just know that it isn't a simple add and will probably require a major redesign of the overlay system; it's not just a switch to throw.

edgy umbra
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Fair enough it sounds like the concepts exist, similar to what is used for playlist/collection creation. But I appreciate the overlays may require some changes to support the concept of filtering

novel pumice
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It's more that there are some overlays that can't be applied in isolation on a single movie.

Say for example the IMDB 250. You look at the new movies in the last 30 days and you find that 10 of them get the IMDB 250 overlay. That might mean that 10 movies that already have the overlay in your library have fallen out of the IMDB 250, so now you need to either:

  1. accept that you might now have 260 things in you library with the IMDB 250 overlay OR
  2. look at everything that has that overlay and decide whether it still applies.

However, if you do 2, PMM doesn't have the concept of replacing or removing a single overlay, so if you find that any movies no longer get the IMDB 250 overlays, you have to run all overlays that thing has or might have, which could lead pretty quickly into reprocessing all overlays on all things anyway.

edgy umbra
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Yeah that makes sense. The only real option is to allow different schedules for different items or to allow incremental updates with the compromises you mentioned then trigger a full update every x weeks/x months etc. I’m sure some people would moan and things like that but it sounds like a good overall approach