library-operator

library-operator keeps a catalog of your films and series, and puts a media browser on every screen of a liken cluster. You declare each directory of media as a Library. The operator scans it, fetches titles, plots, and art from metadata providers, and shows the result on the screens in the same namespace. A person picks a title with the remote, and the browser starts it playing on that screen.

Things you can do:

• show a household’s films and series on every TV, with art, plots, and who’s in them,
• keep each person’s progress in each title, and the same progress in Jellyfin,
• show the films and series of one story, such as a film franchise, in story order,
• add a title in Radarr or Sonarr and see it on the screens within seconds.

Start here:

• Install the operator . The install is a kustomize base pinned to a release, and this site also serves the same files at /deploy/ .
• Declare a library : the claim, the root directory, the kind of media, and what the Library reports.
• Put the media browser on a screen : one field on a Player.
• Reference : every field of Library, Catalog, and MetadataProvider, and the franchise file.

How it works

A Library is one root directory of media on a volume: films, series, or a checkout of franchise files. The operator runs a scan for each one, which reads the files and the metadata beside them into the namespace’s catalog. The catalog is a SQLite database that Corrosion copies to every screen in the namespace within a second of a change.

The operator reads and writes the media, the .nfo files, and the art on the volume in the formats that Kodi and Jellyfin read, and it can rebuild the catalog from those files at any time.

The media browser runs on a Player that media-operator owns, in place of that Player’s idle screen. It draws on the screen through the Player’s own display claim, and this operator publishes no devices. A Player that doesn’t name the browser keeps media-operator’s idle screen.

library-operator is one of the extension operators for running a home theater . You install it only if you want a catalog and a browser.

• The source
• The liken manual