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I use mysql backend to sync up watched status across all of my devices. I prefer to keep my interfaces showing on TV Shows that are unwatched. However, some shows (most notably kids shows) I would like to disable the watched status as kids tend to watch the same shows/episodes over and over again. I know I can manually just go in and kept hitting Mark as Unwatched, or even setup a script on my server that runs periodically to modify the database directly, but is there a method to do this other than these options?
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I had a similar requirement as well. We have certain videos in the library that we don't want to ever be marked as watched such as workout videos.
The solution I ended up going with was the best I could do after trying many things.
My backend is managed by Emby. I ended up using emby webhooks that are triggered whenever an episode is marked as watched. It then send the info over to a docker that determines if it should be unwatched and then executes a call back to mark it unwatched if required.
Its ugly, but it works pretty well.
Since you have a central sql, writing something like a script to query and update the watched flags in sql may work. But again, its not easy and not pretty.
I'm surprised nobody has created a "keep unwatched" type of plugin.
