Jellyfin - Next up for series with deleted files

[Varil426]

Hi,

I installed WatchState in hopes that it would fulfill a very specific usecase that I had in mind, but it seems that either I've misconfigured something or I'm misunderstanding the capabilities of WatchState.

Background/Context

I have just one backend - Jellyfin.

When you finish watching an ongoing TV series and a given season ends, you usually have something like 2/3 years of downtime waiting for a new season. In that time, the disk space could be used for something else, so you remove the series from the disk. After some time, the new episodes are up, and I thought it'd be nice for them to show in the "Next up" section, but unfortunately, Jellyfin doesn't remember the watch state of deleted episodes, so it won't show there.

Watchstate

I was hoping that WatchState could mark new episodes to show in the "Next up" section.

I also tried:

1. Marking an episode as played.
2. Importing the state to WatchState (Task: Import).
3. Removing the episode from the disk.
4. Redownloading it.
5. Exporting the state from WatchState (Task: Export).

My expectation here was that the "Played" status would be restored, but that wasn't the case.

I'd like to thanks for all the answers in advance!

[arabcoders]

Hi,

I installed WatchState in hopes that it would fulfill a very specific usecase that I had in mind, but it seems that either I've misconfigured something or I'm misunderstanding the capabilities of WatchState.

Background/Context

I have just one backend - Jellyfin.

When you finish watching an ongoing TV series and a given season ends, you usually have something like 2/3 years of downtime waiting for a new season. In that time, the disk space could be used for something else, so you remove the series from the disk. After some time, the new episodes are up, and I thought it'd be nice for them to show in the "Next up" section, but unfortunately, Jellyfin doesn't remember the watch state of deleted episodes, so it won't show there.

Watchstate

I was hoping that WatchState could mark new episodes to show in the "Next up" section.

I also tried:

1. Marking an episode as played.
2. Importing the state to WatchState (Task: Import).
3. Removing the episode from the disk.
4. Redownloading it.
5. Exporting the state from WatchState (Task: Export).

My expectation here was that the "Played" status would be restored, but that wasn't the case.

I'd like to thanks for all the answers in advance!

Hello, Your idea is valid and already supported what you experienced is likely the case of backend time being newer than watchstate record time thus to prevent unintended changes we prevent that. To bypass this check you simply would force export instead of normal export. This ofc assume at least 1 record of old items being still in the database, otherwise there is no way to mark any part of the show as watched. we operate on movie/episode level. not show/session level.

[Varil426]

@arabcoders thanks for your answer. I spent some more time on it, and I think that I finally have a working configuration. Adding a webhook for Jellyfin helped.