Our customers made these suggestions for improving Ombi. Suggestions for improving Ombi.
Ombi is a self-hosted web application that automatically gives your shared Plex or Emby users the ability to request content by themselves! Ombi can be linked to multiple TV Show and Movie DVR tools to create a seamless end-to-end experience for your users.
Remove ability of users from choosing specific seasons
99% of shows I would always want the complete show, regardless of who requested it. They may only want season 5, but I would still want the series to be complete ...
Not planned
Availability within Recommendations/Similar
Within the Recommendations/Similar lists on a Movie page, it's blind as to what is or is not already available. Can we please have the red/green/grey bars on these ...
Under consideration
Ability to approve multiple requests
It would be nice if I could select a check box on the side of requests and mas approve requests.
Under consideration
Anime folders in Radarr
Would be nice if we could have radarr default root folders for anime like in the sonarr integration.
Planned
Show Year on Movie poster
Under consideration
create a movie finder section
it would be nice to have the ability to have a movie finder section in which user can select multiple categories to narrow down exactly what they are looking for.. ...
Under consideration
Add MPAA rating
Add mpaa rating (R, PG-13, PG, G, etc) to poster or information alongside poster
Under consideration
Choose what you search for
It will be nice to have the ability to choose what you are searching for Movies / TV Shows / Music. For example if you have music enabled there will be lots of ...
Under consideration
Search by providers // Netflix, Amazon, Disney etc
The new search platform is great but when browsing I hardly get any choices.
A search by providers e.g. What is available/trending/popular in Netflix, Amazon Prime, ...
Under consideration
Watchlist
The ability to have a section where users are able to create a watchlist of things they want to watch.
It would be able to leverage already implemented features ...
Under consideration
Voting like in V3
Voting for movies and tv shows ensuring only quality suggestions get approved
Planned
Add authenticaltion via HTTP header
Most instances run behind a reverse proxy. This proxy usually has the ability to authenticate users in almost any way. (LDAP, SSO, 2FA).
Then the proxy can send the ...
Under consideration
Individual user notification control
The individual user should be able to manage what notifications they receive no matter what role they posses.
All of the users in an instance will probably not ...
Under consideration
Instead of episodes use season as request limit
Currently you can pick episodes as a limit. Maybe add an option to limit by seasons. It would make more sense to my use case to limit users by seasons.
Not planned
Track and trace request
Will be nice if you have the ability to follow live the progression after requesting it.
Something like a track and trace page :)
Under consideration
Integration with Just Watch type Service
Being able to see which movies and TV are available across existing streaming services, so admins aren't hit with requests of content that may already accessible by ...
Under consideration
tv show notifications
Being able to send out TV show notifications for each season once it is available.
Under consideration
Feature toggle to disable discovery page
The quality of the content available in the discovery page is pretty low overall, and contains a fair amount of NSFW/not safe for parents content. I'd like to give my ...
Under consideration
Hide Adult Films from Certain Users
It would be nice to be able to include adult movies in search, but also be able to hide select users from seeing the adult movie suggestions
Under consideration
Force request resync
It would be great if I had the option to force a processing request to resync with Radarr/Sonarr. I found I have a few requests that are stuck as "processing" and ...
Under consideration
comments/notes on requests
a comment field would be great.
if you want to write down useful information about a film (e.g. VOD start date, currently not available in the desired language, etc ...)
Under consideration
Language Allowed
Restrict the Language for requests. Only wish for English content on server.
Under consideration
force a scheduled task
The ability to force a scheduled task so we dont have to re-write or wait for the cron to occur
Planned
Option to be Notified When Content Requested by Another User Becomes Available
An option is needed for users that want to be notified of the availability of content that was requested by another user. For example, User "A" requests the movie ...
Planned
Original Language in detail panel
In the panel that shows status/budget/network/genres etc etc, include the Original Language. This information is provided by TMDB. Identifying the Original Language ...
Under consideration
Language profile per user for Sonarr
Right now, we can choose the language for Sonarr (https://github.com/tidusjar/Ombi/issues/2359), but only globally. It would be nice to be able to select the language ...
Under consideration
Support for LazyLibrarian/Readarr
Add support for ebook grabbers of some sort (two options listed in title). Would be awesome to have as no other (that I've discovered) request panel type tool has ...
Not planned
Requests page - filter all requests by user
While looking for status on a recent request, I realized I requested something I never watched, and is now lost or purged. I think having a dash board filtered by ...
Under consideration
re-trigger request
it would be cool to have the ability to re-trigger request that never hit radarr / sonarr due to a misconfig of ombi
Under consideration
Add background color to pending request on page "All request" for easier view if approved or not
For now it is hard to see if an request have been approved or not.
On "All request" page i suggest to add a background color if the request have not been decided ...
Under consideration
Report Missing Episodes
It would be nice if there was a report that would show you episodes you are missing. It should have some basic criteria like only work for shows that i have at least ...
Under consideration
Request with comment
Would be nice like a end-user to be able to write down a comment when asking for movie/serie.
For me in sweden it would be a example where the user want a disney ...
Planned
Add ability to view trailers for movies/shows.
When you click on a movie/show to see the description, you should be able to watch the trailer.
Under consideration
Add option to switch between different rating sources
it would be great if you could choose between different rating sources and show/hide them. Like Rotten Tomatos, IMDB, TMDB etc.
Under consideration
Mark Issues resolved directly from Issues Page
Would be nice to add a button to issues to mark resolved right from the Issues page.
Also, recently found out you will not see more than 10 issues listed, even if ...
Under consideration
Ability to create custom request types
Add the ability to create custom request types other than movies and shows,
like Music, AudioBooks etc. (since Plex also Supports Audio Content).
I know "music" ...
Not planned
Better support for adult content
Ideally something that scrapes the well known adult sites - don't pretend you don't know (wink wink)
Under consideration
Make request mails include link to approve / deny
Instead for having to enter url-address. log in and do everything manually, it would me nice will a link in the approval mail that directly approves or denies.
Planned
Allow admin to create issue on behalf of other users
Exactly the same feature added about creating the request on behalf of the user, but with Issues.
It's a feature useful so the user will get the notification mail ...
Under consideration
Reset User Requests to "0 used" Manually
Ability to manually reset user requests to "0 used/100% available" without making them wait until enough time passes to be able to request again.
Ex: A friend ...
Under consideration
Add newly requested movie (once available) to a users plex playlist
When a requested movie is added to plex, add that movie to the user who requested it plex plex playlist.
Under consideration
Add MySql to system settings in options menu
Allow users to pick and config what db they will use.
Planned
Ability to see logs of Sync
We see the notifications of syncs of movies, episodes, and what not. A place that shows that via the web gui would make it easy for people to see what is wrong/when ...
Under consideration
Notification for 'Partially Available'
When a TV show season is not yet completely released and someone requests it. They wont get an avaialble notification until its finished, which may be months away. I ...
Planned
Direct links to Approve and Deny request
Create two variables that can be sent with "New Request" notifications so Ombi admin can approve or deny the request easily.
Refer to: ...
Under consideration
Sort by Requester
Sort by Requester on the Requests tab
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Under consideration
Discover: Filter Movies and TV Shows based on if available over streaming services
not interested in downloading movies or tv shows that are available over streaming applications [e.g. Netflix, Disney+, etc]; configure the settings to movies/tv ...
Under consideration
Add a badge with # of pending requests to the "Requests" row in sidebar
I think it'd be a nice UI addition for admins to see the number of pending requests in a red badge next to the "Requests" button in the sidebar. Unless you're getting ...
Planned