Home, For You, and Calendar
Silo is in active development before 1.0. These guides are updated frequently.
In the web, mobile, and TV apps, Home shows rows from your server and profile, For You suggests titles, and Calendar lists upcoming releases.
Find your next title
Section titled “Find your next title”- Open Home to resume an unfinished item or browse a row.
- Open For You for suggestions. Select a title to read its details before playing or requesting it.
By default, Continue Watching puts what you watched most recently first, whether it’s a title you’re partway through or the next episode of a show you’re watching. To move a show you’ve caught up on to the front when a new episode or season reaches your server, open Settings > Home Screen in the web app and turn on Show new episodes first. Shows you haven’t caught up on keep their place. A separate Next Up row, if you’ve chosen one, uses the same order, and so does Next Up in Jellyfin-compatible apps. The setting follows your profile to every device. Until you change it, it follows your server’s default, which the person who runs your server can turn on.
Only episodes newly added to your server count as new, not the episodes in a library you add or re-add, or an older file once it’s matched to its show.
To take a title off Continue Watching or Next Up, remove it from the card’s menu.
For You picks titles from your profile’s viewing history and ratings, so rating what you watch improves it. In the web app, you can also open Settings > Personalize, select Open the picker, and choose at least three titles you love. They’re saved to your favorites. The picker shows only movies and series that have a poster, so to add a title that isn’t there, favorite it from its page. Once there’s enough to go on, the web page shows Your Taste Profile with your top genres and favorite directors.
| Client | Where to find For You |
|---|---|
| Web | Choose For You in the sidebar. On a small screen, open the navigation menu first. |
| Mobile | Select For You in the bottom navigation. On an iPad in the wide layout, choose it in the sidebar instead. |
| TV | Choose For You in the top navigation with your remote. |
A new profile starts with rows every profile gets, such as Highly Rated in Your Library and Recently Added, plus Popular on This Server once people on more than one account have watched the same titles. Rows picked from your own history join them as you watch and rate. Those rows need the recommendation services. Until the person who runs your server sets them up, For You shows only the shared rows. If For You is empty, the libraries you can see don’t have any movies or series yet. You can still browse libraries and search.
On Home, the recommendations row leaves out titles that the rows above it already show. In a small library, those rows can hold every title, so Home may not show the recommendations row at all. The For You page still lists those titles.
Check upcoming releases
Section titled “Check upcoming releases”Calendar lists movie releases, episode airings, and season premieres from your server’s metadata, for your active profile. A listed release may not be on your server yet. Open the title to see whether you can watch it.
Open Calendar
Section titled “Open Calendar”| Client | Where to find it |
|---|---|
| Web | Choose Calendar in the sidebar. On a small screen, open the navigation menu first. |
| Mobile | Select Calendar in the bottom navigation. On an iPad in the wide layout, choose it in the sidebar instead. |
| TV | Choose Calendar in the top navigation with your remote. |
- Use the arrows beside the week to move to the previous or next week. Select Today to return to the current week.
- Choose Following, Trending, or All. In the web app, use the library selector to narrow the results when you have more than one library.
- Select a day to jump to its releases. Select an entry to open the movie or series.
Choose what appears
Section titled “Choose what appears”| View | What it includes |
|---|---|
| Following | Movies and series your active profile has favorited, added to its watchlist, or started watching. |
| Trending | Releases for titles in the server’s current TMDB weekly trending list. |
| All | Every dated release in the catalog that your account and profile can access. |
To add a title to Following, favorite it or add it to your watchlist. Every view respects your library access and profile rating limits.
Badges mark a series premiere, a new season (NEW SEASON), or a season finale (FINALE).
Dates and empty weeks
Section titled “Dates and empty weeks”When the metadata includes an air time and its timezone, Calendar converts it to your device or browser’s timezone, so a release can land on a different day on devices in different timezones. Date-only releases keep their listed date everywhere.
If a week has nothing for the view you chose, Calendar says so and offers buttons for the other two views. Select one, change the week, or select Today. In the web app, the button for All reads Show everything. Trending is empty when the server has no trending data or none of the trending titles have a release that week.
If a release you expect is missing from All, look at the active profile, library filter, and week. If its release date is missing or wrong, ask the person who runs your server to refresh its metadata.
Change your home rows
Section titled “Change your home rows”In the web app, open Settings > Home Screen and choose Home or a library page. Changes save as you go.
- Turn a row’s switch off to hide it, or drag rows into a new order.
- Choose Add row to add your own row, for example one of your collections.
- In a row’s action menu, Edit row… renames it, and Use the original name undoes a rename.
- Under More, Export layout saves your rows for every page to a file, and Import layout… loads one. The reset option there brings back hidden rows and original names, and removes rows you added.
These changes apply only to you. They don’t change the shared layout or anyone else’s library access.