Jellyfin, Emby and Plex
Connect a media server to the Recently played, Recently added and Media library widgets.
The Media widgets read a Jellyfin, Emby or Plex server: who is watching what, the newest titles as posters, and what the library holds.
Connect a server
- Open Settings → Integrations → Media servers and choose Jellyfin, Emby or Plex.
- Name the connection and enter the server address (for example
http://jellyfin.example.com:8096, or:32400for Plex). - Enter the key:
- Jellyfin: Dashboard → API Keys → +.
- Emby: Settings → Advanced → API Keys → New API Key.
- Plex: the server owner's token (
X-Plex-Token; Plex's support page Finding an authentication token shows where to read it).
- Turn on Accept a self-signed certificate only for a server you own that uses one, save, then test the connection.
Several servers can be saved; each widget reads the first by default and can pick another. The key travels in a header from the NasDash server only; posters and art pass through NasDash, so the browser never reaches the media server directly.
Widgets
| Widget | Shows | Settings |
|---|---|---|
| Recently played | What plays now large over its art (poster, series and episode, player, quality, Direct play, Direct stream or Transcoding, progress that moves on between refreshes), other streams beneath; then what was watched lately with where it stopped and the time left. Nothing playing: the title to resume leads | Watched as Pictures, List or Hidden; Show who is watching |
| Recently added | Posters in a row that scrolls, Featured (the newest title large over its art, the next ones beneath), Grid or List; a dot marks titles added in the last two days | Movies, episodes and/or albums; Group episodes by series (on: a season or series added at once shows as one card with its number of new episodes); 4–40 titles |
| Media library | The totals large (movies, series, episodes, tracks…), then one card per library with its newest posters, its count, its episodes and what arrived this week; music and books as text (artists, albums, tracks) | Shelves or text; totals shown; hide zero totals |
Library pictures and columns
Background pictures shows each library's newest posters (in order or shuffled) or none; Your pictures sets a picture of your own per kind (movies, series, music, books), from your wallpapers and uploaded images or a new upload. History comes from Jellyfin and Emby per account, from Plex's play history; when the server keeps the position, a bar shows how far each title got. Recently added in list display has three sizes; list widgets spread their rows in Columns once stretched (automatic, or at most 1 to 4).
Privacy
Viewers see these widgets only with the Media permission (Settings → Users and access). Account names are shown only when the widget's Show who is watching is on, to everyone who can see it. Links that open a title in the server's web app are shown to administrators only. A poster or background is served only to a widget whose answer listed it. The public demo shows generated art and invented titles.