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.
Plex Arcade integration
Request games to be added from a list of supported cores only.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/getting-started-with-plex-arcade/
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
Choose which informations is displayed under a title in Discover
Instead of showing a description under the title, we could choose differents informations to be displayed like:
- Rating
- Date of release
- Status (Announced, ...
Under consideration
Show Requests Remaining for User.
Previous versions showed requests available (2/3 remaining)
Planned
Show User Score on the tile in discover and search results.
I often sift through movies to add to my server. V4 makes it even easier to do that and it is awesome. When i find movies that I haven't seen yet that look ...
Under consideration
Lidarr per user download folder support.
Equivalent of feature in Sonarr and Radarr that allows users to set a custom directory for their requested files to be downloaded.
Under consideration
Show Alias for Request on Behalf of Feature
I think it would be very helpful for this new feature if we were able to see the Alias for the Request on behalf of option.
Maybe a setting where we can choose to ...
Under consideration
Watched requests
Hi not sure if this is possible. But I’m finding users requesting content just to have access to it. Was wondering if there was a way to show on if your he user that ...
Under consideration
Dynamic Search results
Just as in Ombi V.3, getting search results directly in a dynamic grid view. Results will be displayed as the user is typing and will get back the initial tab used ...
Under consideration
Better support for adult content
Ideally something that scrapes the well known adult sites - don't pretend you don't know (wink wink)
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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
Ability for Ombi to say which media servers are online if you have multiple
I'd like the landing page to say that if you have say 1 plex media server and 1 emby media server or jellyfin, the landing page to say "plex media server is online" & ...
Under consideration
Sort by Release Date
What:
I would like to be able to sort my movie request list (http://[site]/requests-list) by Release Date.
Why:
This would enable me to see which movies should ...
Under consideration
Setting to add to ARR's as monitored or unmonitored
Having issue with Ombi adding to Lidarr but unmonitored so nothing was downloading, I dont know what the Do Not Search advanced option does as it didnt seem to make ...
Under consideration
Google Assistant
"Hey Google Request <Film Name> <Year>"
Maybe just films to start? Just a suggestion, have no idea how hard something like this would be to implement so apologies ...
Not planned
Smaller cover art on mobile
V4 interface looks great. Would love to see smaller cover art on mobile so you can fit more titles on the page and don't have to scroll as much.
Under consideration
Change root folder based on keywords
When requested it will override the normal root folder with whatever one it met with parameters.
Example Disney movie is requested
Automatic override to go to ...
Planned
Ability to select multiple or all available requests for deletion
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
Create a simple copy/paste string for quick mobile app registering
Currently, to ask a user to start using the Ombi app on their phone, they have to do so many steps that many users don't want to be bothered.
The plex login prompt ...
Under consideration
Login directly from landing page
As the title says, allow users to login directly from the landing page instead of having to click "Continue"
Under consideration
Add option to rename any of the sidebar tabs for users
I'd like to rename the discover tab to "search" as in v3 to avoid confusion for my users
Under consideration
Add filters to the tv section of the requests.
Add filters to the tv section of the requests just like there is in movies. so we can sort all the tv shows that are pending approval
Planned
Set custom request reset schedule
I would like to reset the number of request in another time period, different than one week. Please add an option to set this time of reset requests in X ...
Under consideration
Custom Webhook Notifications
I'm using the webhook notifications and although they are great, it would be good to be able to turn off certain ones, i.e. approved or issues etc and also customise ...
Under consideration
Sort 'Issue' categories
Would be nice if when adding 'Issue' categories they by default are added to the list alphabetically. With the additional option of dragging them around to change the ...
Under consideration
Don't reset the layout of titles in Discover / Remember scroll position
If you want to look at a title in the Discover tab, you will lose the progress in your search by being sent back to the top of the page. It can be a bit disorienting ...
Not planned
Avatar customization
Add the possibility for a user to self customize the avatar icon into her/his profile uploading it
Under consideration
Digital Release date on OMBI app
It would be nice in the OMBI app to list also the digital release dates not just theater.
Under consideration
Add IMDB links to main table
Add IMDB links to main table instead of having to view each listing individually
Under consideration
Different root folder based on genre
Similar to the "Default Root Folders (Anime)" but with other genres listed in the Ombi UI.
I imagine this could be implemented in a couple of different ways:
1) ...
Under consideration
Available and Requested to Now Playing and Coming Soon
On the discovery page have now playing be displayed if the movie/tv show/album is available and coming soon if it has been requested.
Under consideration
Allow Issues to be Resolved
Currently, issues with movies live forever and can never be resolved. This is obviously not helpful.
Planned
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
Request Available - Aired to Date
Currently a user can submit a request for previous and future aired TV episodes. When they do that, Ombi doesn't send out the Request Available notification until all ...
Under consideration
Modify SickRage by SickChill
Hi, Sickchill for TV will be a good think, or add the api support
Under consideration
Show Requested Not Found/Available
Have Ombi send a notification back to the user if the show they requested is not found/available for download in the same manor when they get a notification that a ...
Not planned
Approve certain episodes from series request
A user can request a whole season, but I want to approve a certain amount of episodes (for example just the first ones to see if it's any good, and if it is approve ...
Under consideration
Auto list of Missing episodes
The idea is to have an automaticated list created for the missing episode of the TV shows available in the library.
Not planned
Search or sort by content ratings to identify and add top rated movies and TV shows
Add a search feature to sort and possibly filter by ratings such as IMBD, TVDB or Rotten Tomatoes ratings, to allow users to easily search for and identify top rated ...
Under consideration
Add IDMB/TMDB link to notifications
I use email notifications and I often get requests for things that I would like to know more about. It would be very handy to have a link in the notification that ...
Under consideration
Search/Filter pending requests
If you have lots of pending requests, it would be nice to have a separate search box to filter just the requests rather than have to scroll through them all.
Under consideration
Artist Album Requests
Only option is to request all albums. Would like to search an artist and add specific albums weather the artist is already in the Lidarr library or not.
Not planned
Expire Time for "Requested" items
It would be good to have a setting in OMBI to expire and remove incomplete requests after a certain number of days..
Example: (set expiration to 90 days)
User ...
Planned
Hide Requested from discovesecttion
as the title says, its annoying as i have to wade through my requested titles before i get to ones i can add
Under consideration
v4: Settings tabs drop-downs on mouse hover
the tabs in the settings page should show their sub-menus when you hover over them instead of only when you click them.
Under consideration
Sort Actor Discover Pages
I'm not sure if there's currently a method to the madness that is the Actor Discovery pages, but I'd love to be able to sort it by Average User Score/Date
Under consideration
Report other Issue types
Currently users can report issues with content only. I would like to be able to report other issue eg. Plex, server etc
Under consideration
Change Root Folder After Approved
I auto-approve Movies and manually approve Shows. There are several movies I need to manually edit the location of in Radarr so it goes to the right library. It'd ...
Not planned