CrossWatch – v0.5.1

Some small updates and quality-of-life improvements. And one big update.
One long-standing irritation by me was that there was no simple way to say: “do not sync this movie, show, or episode”.
If a provider kept reporting it, CrossWatch would keep planning it. That ends now: you can block items per provider so they won’t be pushed out to targets.
Blocking happens at the highest level: the CW Orchestrator. This function is still experimental...

And like with all my updates: hit Save in Settings at least once, so any new/changed config variables get written into your config.json.

✨ Highlights

• Metadata localization (TMDB): descriptions can now show in your own language (when available)
  , Default is en-US
  , Change it in Settings -> Metadata providers -> TMDB -> Advanced

I've updated the WIKI Metadata with all possible localizatin codes here.

• Improved Editor: the editor now supports two different data sources
  • CW Tracker (the existing CW tracker editing and snapshots)
    -Current State (/config/state.json) with a Provider and Feature selector
    -In Current State, you can block items per provider so they won’t sync out to targets.
  • The trashbin button will block them, and if you want to unblock them just push the same trashbin button again.
  • Your Current State changes are saved separately (/config/state.manual.json) and will NOT be deleted automatically.

I've updated the WIKI Editor page here

🔧 Fixes & Changes

• Changed: absolute path is used for watchlist, to be compatible with some reverse proxies
• Changed: watcher sink adjustments apply immediately, no container restart needed
• Fixed: deleting an item in watchlist for CW TRacker, now actually deletes it
• Fixed: watchlist posters more often include titles on the cover

CrossWatch – v0.5.0

Welcome at version 0.5.0 as stated before this release is all about Refactors, file moves, and code restructuring.
Not glamorous, but it stops the codebase from evolving into a dumpster fire.
There are so many things improved, fixed, and changed that I honestly lost track.

⚠️ Important

Because of the larger code changes, I strongly recommend doing a full cleanup:

• Go to Settings → Maintenance
• Run Delete Everything / Clean Everything
• Then re-open CrossWatch so it rebuilds fresh state/caches
• Remove any pairs with Jellyfin that included ratings! and Create them again.
• Optional: remove you config.json to start clean.

This avoids stale tracker data, cached metadata, and old snapshots getting in the way of the refactor.

🔧 Fixes & Changes

• Jellyfin ratings sync is disabled.
  • I tried, but Jellyfin (and Emby) ratings behavior is… special.
  • It wasn’t working reliably anyway, so it’s off until it’s properly understood and implemented.
• UI improvement added: M: Movies S: Shows in insight
• Overal UI improvements smaller probes, css changes etc etc...
• Watchlist changes:
  • Removed the movie/show overlay when in list view.
  • Added background for the overlay (same principle as the Playing card)
• Provider changes:
  • SIMKL Improved shadowing (more reliable diffing + fewer “phantom repeats”).
  • TRAKT changes:
    • Improved ID resolving (fewer mismatches, fewer “unresolved” surprises).
    • CW now better supports Free accounts with better handling when Trakt limits are reached.
      • Console now shows: “Trakt account limit reached”
      • Trakt probe now reports:
        • free-tier and VIP limits (watchlist + collections)
        • last limit-related error (so you can actually see what happened)
        • Analyzer will tell you when limits has reached.
  • MDBList Ratings handling improved (fewer retries/loops).
  • Jellyfin and Emby Watchlist pagination fixed.
• Added three more provider shell tools in /scripts for MDBList / Trakt / SIMKL.
• Analyzer changes:
  • Improved detection logic.
  • Finds more issues and is better at pointing out why something didn’t sync.
• Help function: in pair configuration i've added some help icons with mouse-over information.

From 0.5.x onward I’ll continue with some refactoring for javascript and CSS