Curate the home screen

Silo is in active development before 1.0. These guides are updated frequently.

Sections are the rows people browse on Home and above each library’s grid. Use Admin > Libraries > Home Sections to choose them and their order for everyone.

Add a row

1. Open Admin > Libraries > Home Sections and choose the page: Home or a library.
2. Choose Add row.
3. Pick a kind of row from the tabs, or search for one, for example trending or Christmas. Under Collections & rules, A collection shows a collection and Titles matching rules builds a row from rules.
4. Check the preview, then change the Row name if you want. More options sets the Number of titles and whether the row is the Hero banner.
5. Choose Add row. New rows go to the bottom of the page.

On a library page, Add to these library pages also adds the row to other libraries’ pages in the same step. The add button then counts the pages, for example Add to 3 pages. Each page gets its own copy, so you can change or remove it there later. For a row that’s already on a page, open its action menu and choose Add to other libraries….

To show a collection as a row, you can also start from the collection: see Rows that show it in Create server collections.

Change the order or turn a row off

Drag a row to move it. Changes save right away. The switch on each row turns it on or off for everyone, and a row that’s off keeps its settings.

A row’s action menu has Edit row…, Use as hero banner, Move to top, Move to bottom, and Delete row…. The web app shows the hero banner as a banner; the apps show it as a regular row.

To change several rows at once, open More and choose Select rows. You can then turn them on or off, or delete them together.

Restore the default rows

Open More and choose Restore defaults… to put back the rows Silo starts with on that page. Rows that show a collection are removed, but the collections stay. Turn on Also reset every profile’s Home, or the same switch for a library page, to also clear what each profile hid, renamed, moved, or added there.

Set Next Up for every profile

Below the rows, Next Up defaults for every profile sets two Home preferences for each profile that hasn’t chosen its own:

• Next up episodes: With Continue Watching keeps the next episode of each show someone is watching in Continue Watching. Separate row gives those episodes their own Next Up row.
• Show new episodes first moves a show someone has caught up on to the front of Continue Watching and Next Up when a new episode or season arrives.

Each control saves as soon as you change it. The defaults apply on Home and library pages, and Show new episodes first also orders Next Up in Jellyfin-compatible apps. Until you change them, profiles get With Continue Watching with Show new episodes first off.

What profiles can change

Profiles can still hide, rename, or reorder these rows, and add their own, in Settings > Home Screen. They can also choose their own Next up episodes and Show new episodes first, and Silo uses those instead of the defaults above. If a change shows for one profile but not another, that profile has changed the row, its page’s order, or one of those settings itself.

To fix one profile’s rows yourself, open Admin > Users, select the person, choose Preferences and then the profile, and use its Home sections card, as in Fix a profile’s home screen. The card covers Home only, not library pages. Reset to default asks you to confirm, then puts that profile’s Home back to the order and visibility set here and removes rows the profile added. Other profiles keep their changes.

A row is missing or empty

Check that the row is on the page you’re looking at and that its switch is on. Then check the collection or rules it uses, and the viewer’s library access and profile restrictions.

Rows that pick titles by rating, such as Critically Acclaimed, show only titles that enough people have rated on TMDB. Silo gets those vote counts from the TMDB plugin, version 1.2.25 or later, when a title’s metadata refreshes, so these rows can be short or empty until then. To fill in every count at once, choose Refresh Metadata on each library, then Refresh All Metadata. When nothing matches a row, its preview in Add row or Edit row says what it looks for.

Recommendation rows show results from the recommendation jobs.