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📎 config-2.yml

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I've configured Quickstart to show ratings overlays on Movies and TV Shows (in a test library). Colletions are populating just fine but no overlays whatsoever are showing up. In the yaml, I'm not seeing any code for overlays under either Movies and TV Shows, either.

Full meta.log attached (hopefully this is what you need). Also attaching the yaml generated by Quickstart. Please let me know what else I can provide. Thanks!

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**User Info**

Author of Linked Message: Tony
Person who Invoked the Command: Antwan
File Name: meta-2.log

Table of Contents:
Page 01: User Info
Page 02: Kometa Info
Page 03: Kometa Summary Info
Page 04: Kometa Config.yml YAML Validation ✅
Page 05: Plex Configuration - Section 1
Page 06: Plex Configuration - Section 2
Page 07: Rec 01 - ❌ [ERROR]
Page 08: Rec 02 - ❌ TO BE CONFIGURED ERROR
Page 09: Rec 03 - ⚠️ [WARNING]
Page 10: Rec 04 - 💬 CONVERT WARNING
Page 11: Rec 05 - 💬💡️ PLEX DB CACHE ADVICE

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📎 parsed_meta-2.log_config_Tony.yml

shadow lichen Jan 11, 2026, 5:51 PM

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@round copper The config is in the log so there's no need to provide it separately.

round copper Jan 11, 2026, 5:52 PM

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oh! Sorry, figured more info was better than not enough

shadow lichen Jan 11, 2026, 5:52 PM

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No worries, just letting you know for the future.

round copper Jan 11, 2026, 5:53 PM

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Thank you

shadow lichen Jan 11, 2026, 5:53 PM

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There are no overlays defined in that config.

round copper Jan 11, 2026, 6:06 PM

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I was seeing that as well, but I’ve enabled them in QuickStart (ratings and studio information , as well as resolution). Where could the discrepancy come from?

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round copper Jan 11, 2026, 7:20 PM

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I’ve gone back through the settings a few times and nothing seems to populate any overlays in the config

shadow lichen Jan 11, 2026, 7:34 PM

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The config in use during the run that generated that log has no overlays defined in it.

Have you regenerated the config after making changes?

round copper Jan 11, 2026, 7:38 PM

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I have, a couple of times. The overlays were always turned on from the beginning too. That's my main desire of using this, so I turned them on right away

shadow lichen Jan 11, 2026, 7:39 PM

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@floral swift Any idea?

round copper Jan 11, 2026, 7:41 PM

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Just redid it now, too. Added a couple of different collections. Those collections populated in the yaml but still no overlays.

shadow lichen Jan 11, 2026, 7:41 PM

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Must be some issue in Quickstart.

floral swift Jan 11, 2026, 8:28 PM

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Oof… so master is broken as well? Fun times

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On the last page, where the yaml is generated, can you share the redacted config please?

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I have not run master in a while because we have been working on a full overlay editor for the defaults…

floral swift Jan 12, 2026, 1:05 PM

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@round copper uparrow

round copper Jan 12, 2026, 2:34 PM

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Of course! Missed your message yesterday. Here is a redacted config I generated today (with mostly the same settings). Thanks! @floral swift

📎 config_redacted.yml

floral swift Jan 12, 2026, 9:19 PM

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https://github.com/Kometa-Team/Quickstart/pull/990 will have fixes to QS develop build. Its building now and should be ready within 20 minutes of this message.

round copper Jan 12, 2026, 10:14 PM

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Thanks! Attaching a couple files here, it seems like its still not populating any overlay fields.

📎 config_redacted-2.yml

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There were way more options in the overlay section, though! That looked nice

round copper Jan 12, 2026, 11:30 PM

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Is there a setting I'm missing in the UI to get this working? Could this be user error?

cold brook Jan 12, 2026, 11:55 PM

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Making sure you’ve pulled the latest develop… it’s develop not master

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 12:19 AM

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round copper Is there a setting I'm missing in the UI to get this working? Could this be user...

There is a little support info button. Please click and copy and paste results here

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 12:23 AM

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cold brook Making sure you’ve pulled the latest develop… it’s develop not master

I see the image he posted is develop. Were you seeing something different?

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 12:25 AM

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floral swift There is a little support info button. Please click and copy and paste results h...

📎 message.txt

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 12:31 AM

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So things seem pretty normal so far.

Can you go to the libraries page and take a screenshot of maybe a selection of the Video Format overlay within the included movies-test, hit reset to default, then jump to final config and see if the overlays config section shows up.

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cold brook Jan 13, 2026, 12:34 AM

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floral swift I see the image he posted is develop. Were you seeing something different?

I didn’t see the screenshot. Lol

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 12:35 AM

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And see here how the section is now found in the config

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Based on what we get back from Tony, they could try docker or local install to see if problem follows. I cannot repro this behaviour ATM.

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Also I just tested on container build:

#==================== docker_unraid ====================#
# docker_unraid config created by Quickstart on 2026-01-12 19:44:32
# System Information
# OS: Linux 6.12.54-Unraid
# Docker: True
# CPU: Unknown CPU (96 cores)
# Memory: 251887 MB / 1547848 MB (16%) | 1295960 MB Free
# Python: 3.13.11
# Git: Unavailable
# Connected to Plex server NZWHS01 version 1.42.2.10156-f737b826c
# Running on Linux version 6.12.54-Unraid
# Plex DB cache setting: 2048 MB
# PlexPass: True on Public update channel.
# Scheduled maintenance running between 2:00 and 5:00
# Quickstart: 0.9.7-build6 | Branch: develop | Environment: Docker
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# Libraries configured with Quickstart: 1 movie, 1 show
# Information on library: TestMovies
# Type: Movie
# Agent: tv.plex.agents.movie
# Scanner: Plex Movie
# Ratings Source: Rotten Tomatoes
# Content Count: 7 movies
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# Information on library: TestTV Shows
# Type: Show
# Agent: tv.plex.agents.series
# Scanner: Plex TV Series
# Ratings Source: N/A
# Content Count: 6 shows / 176 episodes
###

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 12:52 AM

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I’ll get right on this and report back. Happy to try docker, too. I did local because I read somewhere local gives “more options” but good to know you can’t reproduce it, so it’s something I’m doing

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 12:53 AM

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And I see this:

    - default: video_format
      template_variables:
        font: Inter-Medium.ttf
        font_size: 55
        font_color: '#FFFFFFFF'
        back_align: center
        back_color: '#00000099'
        back_height: 105
        back_width: 305
        back_line_color: '#00000000'
        back_line_width: 1
        back_padding: 1
        back_radius: 30
        horizontal_offset: 15
        vertical_offset: 30

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 12:53 AM

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I appreciate all the help so far!

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 12:53 AM

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round copper I’ll get right on this and report back. Happy to try docker, too. I did local be...

You are not actually running local

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 12:53 AM

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😅😅

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 12:53 AM

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You are running a “frozen” build

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In the readme, the local install is I think the 5th option

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 12:54 AM

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Ok! I’m relatively new to this and clearly know just enough to get myself in trouble haha

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 12:54 AM

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floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 12:55 AM

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round copper Ok! I’m relatively new to this and clearly know just enough to get myself in tro...

All good

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 12:55 AM

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Oh yea 100% did the third option

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 12:56 AM

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So 1,2,3 are frozen builds that basically means we attempted to make it a single click install.
4 is container
5 is true “local” install

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Open a terminal prompt in your Unix build not sure of version…


git clone https://github.com/Kometa-Team/Quickstart
cd Quickstart
git checkout develop
git stash
git stash clear
git pull
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

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And then to run QuickStart:


source venv/bin/activate
python3 quickstart.py

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But before that, I would still like to see what is going on with your frozen builds

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 1:26 AM

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Just tried the windows frozen build and all good there as well

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 1:28 AM

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Yea I am clearly doing something wrong. I'm confirmed running local now, I reset to default all the overlays like you mentioned and the config still looks the same for me. No overlay info anywhere.

Am I supposed to have a folder of all the overlay assets somewhere for it to work?

I'm attaching a few things here to look through...

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I'm going wrong somewhere

📎 config_redacted-3.yml

📎 message.txt

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I'm using the UI on MacOS but I SSH into my Linux machine where I installed both the frozen and local version. I tried in both Safari and Chrome with the same results. No overlay configs anywhere

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 1:37 AM

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Based on image, 4 were selected. Can you unselect all collections please

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I wonder if that’s somehow getting in the way

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 1:43 AM

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All collections unselected and overlays simplified

📎 config_redacted_1.yml

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 1:46 AM

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To answer you question, all QS does is produce a config file. So no need to have the actual images there. That being said we still have a couple of options to review.

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So please enable debug logging.

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Either through taskbar icon or go into .env and make QS_DEBUG=1

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With icon, qs will restart automatically, with .env, please restart qs manually

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Then go back to libraries page and select/unselect something and go to next page. Inside the config folder will be a folder called debug_logs there will be two json files for the library page. Please review for any secrets (should not be any) and share them here

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round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:02 AM

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floral swift Either through taskbar icon or go into .env and make QS_DEBUG=1

Took me a second to find it, the .env file is called ".env.example" would that change anything?

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Restarting QS now after changing

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:02 AM

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Rename to .env

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:02 AM

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ok

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:03 AM

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Do you have a gui Unix or is it 100% text

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:04 AM

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Both, I'm running terminal on Mac OS for SSH but the linux is headless and I'm connected to the GUI via NoMachine (I dont see the taskbar icon, though)

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:05 AM

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Yeah so that’s likely not what we built the icon to work on but that should be fine…

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Was curious more than anything

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:05 AM

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Dumb moment here, how am I restarting this?

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run this again?
source venv/bin/activate
python3 quickstart.py

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:06 AM

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Go to webui start page

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Hit shutdown

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Then from terminal, those two lines

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:06 AM

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easy, ok

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Debug logs is empty, I unselected a few things and made some changes

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:10 AM

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So the browser you are using is…?

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:10 AM

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Then walked through it again and got to final validation before checking

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Right now I'm doing it in Chrome

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:11 AM

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Can you have the inspect open to ensure there are no errors popping up there?

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:11 AM

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round copper Debug logs is empty, I unselected a few things and made some changes

That is strange…. The folder should have every page as a json

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:14 AM

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floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:14 AM

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Like the image I shared… unless of course debug is still off.

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Console tab… those are not real errors

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:16 AM

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floral swift Console tab… those are not real errors

I didnt think so

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:16 AM

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Chrome inspect has a console tab

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Click that and as you navigate around you will see a bunch of items show up in the console

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:17 AM

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Changed it to 1, then did the restart

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:17 AM

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Can you ls -al the config directory to show me the results please?

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:22 AM

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blacked out the computer name

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Ran the same command in the debug_logs folder and it came back empty

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:26 AM

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So… where is .env ?

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:27 AM

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In the quickstart root

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:27 AM

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You need to save it into the config directory as .env

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That’s why you are not in debug yet

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The good news is that this support ticket has given me about three new ideas for future support. lol

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:30 AM

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.....you're welcome 😅 lol

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Ok I have it moved, let me restart and see what we see

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:31 AM

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I forgot that we also added this… lol

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Which would have created the .env I believe with the right setting

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In any case…

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When you start, the messages should show you that debug is enabled…

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:33 AM

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this is new...

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It worked before moving the env file

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For fun (this is fun, right), I moved the env file back to the quickstart root and added the --debug command and it started back up

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:38 AM

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Yeah the .env.example has some extra things in there that are not really needed for our purposes here.

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So yeah, starting up in —debug was the way to go. Those debug_logs should be pouring into that folder as you navigate around

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Form_data is what is “submitted” from the page and the retrieved is what the page retrieved from the db.

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:40 AM

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floral swift So yeah, starting up in —debug was the way to go. Those debug_logs should be pou...

even with the env file in the quickstart root? It wouldnt start after I moved it to config and gave me the error

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:40 AM

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Hence the request for both json files after you get to the libraries page.

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:41 AM

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Unfortunately, still no files in the debug logs folder, I've been navigating all around QS

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:41 AM

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round copper even with the env file in the quickstart root? It wouldnt start after I moved it...

Let’s not worry about that. If you started with —debug, that’s what counts.

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This is so peculiar

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When you started in —debug, what did the console state? You have a screenshot to share?

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:43 AM

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Says debug enabled

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:44 AM

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So it says it’s enabled and yet the folder is still empty. Weird!

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Ok… have you ever used any tools to open up SQLite db files before?

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:46 AM

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I have not

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:46 AM

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What we are trying to determine is whether the libraries page is committing the overlays to the SQLite db

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:46 AM

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But am open to it!

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:47 AM

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If it dos not commit to the db, then on the final page, it won’t pull it from the db

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The json files I showed in the windows folder would have helped us determine that.

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:48 AM

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quickstart.sqlite?

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:49 AM

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In case your os happens to have more than one process running could you perform a ps -ef|grep quickstart

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Yes quickstart.sqlite

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But you will need a tool like dbbrowser to open it up. It sure what would work on macOS

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:51 AM

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****** 837502 826565 0 21:35 pts/2 00:00:04 python3 quickstart.py --debug
****** 846338 846282 0 21:50 pts/1 00:00:00 grep --color=auto quickstart

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 2:51 AM

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round copper ****** 837502 826565 0 21:35 pts/2 00:00:04 python3 quickstart.py --debug ...

Ok… so only 1 running

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Download and Install:
Visit the DB Browser for SQLite website.
Download the macOS version (either standard installer or Homebrew option).
Install the application like any other macOS app.
Open the application: Launch DB Browser for SQLite.
Open your file:
Click the "Open Database" button.
Navigate to your SQLite file in the Finder window and select it.
Interact with the database: You can now browse data in a spreadsheet-like interface, execute SQL queries using a dedicated tab, and manage tables and indexes visually.

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https://sqlitebrowser.org/dl/

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Looks like they have a macOS client

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:56 AM

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I installed on the Linux for ease of navigating to the client but thank you for providing those steps

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I have the sqlite db open

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This data?

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 3:03 AM

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1 sec please and yes that information… for your config which I think is wizardly_

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 3:05 AM

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Right now im on wizardly in Chrome

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 3:29 AM

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So click on the libraries blob data for wizardly

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The content will be on the right and kind of hard to read… but should contain the overlay settings within that blob data

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 3:49 AM

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The challenge is actually being able to read any of that from dbbrowser. Very difficult.

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Honestly not sure why debug logs not working… if you look at config/logs/quickstart.log there might be some hints in there

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:20 PM

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Yes, very challending indeed. SO much text, trying to sort through it but its overwhelming.

The quickstart.log has lots of references to "Loading overlay_config...". Thats the only instance where "overlay" is in the .log file

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 2:42 PM

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Man, I wiped all references to Quickstart and started over from scratch. First with the develop build, followed your install exactly and ran it with --debug straight away. Still no debug logs. Terminal is showing me this every time I click around:
[2026-01-13 09:36:32,077] [DEBUG] | [7fc5ec98] Incoming request size: 0.07 KB
[2026-01-13 09:36:39,710] [DEBUG] | [7fc5ec98] Incoming request size: 0.05 KB
[2026-01-13 09:36:39,711] [DEBUG] | [7fc5ec98] Form field count: 2

but nothing in the folder.

Then I removed that instance of Quickstart and installed the local master version, just to test. Ran it straight away with --debug and same thing. No files but terminal is telling me it's debugging.

I'm going to try a docker install just to test.

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 3:10 PM

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We might have a bug for the debug_folders on non-windows os. Your docker test should pinpoint this.

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 3:22 PM

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Same situation with docker...no overlays anywhere in the config but I'm having a hard time enabling debug in docker

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It's confirmed disabled from the logs and I can't seem to enable it

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Why dont I try installing this on WIndows to further test? I have a windows machine I can test this on

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 3:51 PM

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This is the craziest thing. I followd all install directions for Windows. The bottom of the page confirms I'm on develop, the system tray confirms I have debug enabled.

Just went through it all again and no overlays in the config and no files in the debug_logs folder...

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WAIT A MINUTE. I was doing this entirely on the test libraries. I just went through it again on my actual libraries and the yaml has overlay data in it now! I don't know where to go from here haha

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 6:05 PM

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What in the world???

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No idea how test libraries could be the cause of overlay configs not being written.

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We read in the libraries from your plex server in libraries page. As you select things, like collections or overlays for that library, it’s written to the SQLite db. Then on last page we read from db and produce the yml.

When you run kometa on that last page after it’s been updated or installed, that’s the next time that this process interacts with plex.

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As for why the debug_logs don’t show up… I am also at a loss as the perms you shared from your directory listing seems fine

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On the libraries page, there is a button about halfway down… where you can expand what QuickStart finds on your plex server. When you expand that, does it look complete?

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Clicking that will expand a bunch of information about your plex server so maybe that’s somehow affecting quickstart and how it tris to process your overlays… I am really grasping at straws here…

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 6:18 PM

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Seems ok?

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 6:19 PM

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It does

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 6:20 PM

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At this point, I feel like my desire to have overlays in my Plex library is going to work once I configure them exactly how I want. This does not at all solve the WHY all of this wasn't working on test libraries but my next question for you is:
What are my next steps? I'll copy/paste the yaml to my actual Kometa config and then everything will populate? Or will I need to download any specific assets/fonts/etc to make the overlays work?

floral swift Jan 13, 2026, 6:20 PM

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Unless you tell me libraries are missing

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So once you are on the final page there are a couple of options…

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1- run it there and see the results
2- download the config and place it in your kometa directory so that when Kometa runs, it uses the downloaded config.

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The final page gives you guidance on next steps in a modal popup if you click it.

round copper Jan 13, 2026, 6:23 PM

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Perfect! Seriously thank you for all the help. We really went down a rabbit hole last night, I appreciate all the time you took trying to figure this out with me.

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