JellyWatch Player

Home Layout and Custom Shelves

Arrange the Home screen, choose which libraries appear, and build rule-based shelves. Premium.

Overview

Home Layout lets you change what the Home screen shows and in which order. It needs Premium. Without Premium, Home keeps its default layout and the tile shows Customisation - Premium.

  • TV: Settings → Home Layout
  • Phone and tablet: Settings → Interface → Home Layout

Cards and rows

OptionDescription
Card sizeSmall, Medium (default, free) or Large
Merge Continue Watching and Next UpShows one combined row sorted by last played, instead of two rows
Items per rowLimits for Continue Watching, Next Up and Recently Added (per library). Choices: 10, 15, 20, 30, 50, 60, 80, 100. Default 20.
Row order and visibilityTurn each row on or off and move it up or down: Continue Watching, Next Up, Available requests, Custom shelves, Recently Added
Libraries - recently addedShow or hide, and reorder, the Recently Added row of each library (Visible on home screen or Hidden from home screen)

Settings → Sidebar Libraries (Premium) lets you show, hide and reorder the libraries in the sidebar (Shown in sidebar or Hidden from sidebar).

Custom shelves

A custom shelf is a Home row built from rules. It refreshes every time you open Home. Free users and Kids profiles do not see custom shelves.

Select Add a shelf. You can start from a template: Unwatched 4K, Under 100 minutes or Unwatched favorites.

Basic options

OptionChoices
Shelf nameAny name
TypeMovies, Series or Episodes
Card shapePortrait (poster) or Landscape (fanart)
LibraryAll libraries or one library
Genres and TagsOne or several
YearsAny year, Before 1970, or a decade from the 1970s to the 2020s
Minimum ratingAny rating, or N+
SortNewest, Best rated, A to Z, Random, Release date, Year, Length, Most played, Last played, Critic rating
SwitchesUnwatched only, Favorites only, 4K only, With subtitles
Maximum lengthAny length, or a number of minutes

Expert mode

Expert mode adds more filters. They are saved on this device:

  • Playback: watched state (any, unwatched only, watched, in progress) and Hide favorites.
  • Details: from year and to year, a person (name and role: actor or director), series status, studios, tags, content rating, minimum critic rating and With a trailer.
  • File: HD only, 3D only, file type, minimum length.
  • Row: a second sort and the number of posters.

Each shelf can be shown or hidden, moved up or down, edited and deleted. With linked profiles, a shelf is filled from every linked server.

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