Sync with Simkl or MDBList (Beta)

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

Connect a Silo profile to a Simkl or MDBList account. Silo can then import watched history and resume points, send your watched changes, and report what you’re playing. Watch-provider plugins can add other services.

You set this up in the web app. History and progress it imports appear in every Silo app signed in to the same profile.

Prepare the server

Each provider is a plugin. Before anyone can connect a provider, an administrator installs its plugin from the Made by Silo group on the Catalog tab in Admin > Integrations > Plugins: Simkl Watch Provider or MDBList Watch Provider. See Install and maintain plugins. The MDBList plugin needs no settings: each person enters their own API key. Other watch-provider plugins may need settings of their own.

To get a Simkl client ID, create an app in your Simkl account’s developer settings and choose the TV, devices & command line type. Silo doesn’t use a client secret, and Simkl requires one for Server apps & services apps. Enter the app’s client ID as Client ID on the Simkl plugin’s page.

If no provider is set up, the personal Watch Providers page says so.

Connect your profile

In the web app, switch to the profile whose history you want to sync.
Open Settings > Watch Providers.
Select Connect for the provider.
Sign in the way the provider asks. For a device code, select Copy code, open the provider’s activation page, and paste it there. For MDBList, enter your API key.
Select Settings on the provider’s card to show its options, then choose which of the options below to turn on. The options start hidden each time you open the page.

Each connection belongs to one profile. Other household members connect their own profiles.

Choose what syncs

The options shown depend on what the provider supports. A provider’s plugin can add options of its own, which appear in the same list.

Option	Effect
Import watched history	Brings completed plays from the provider into this profile.
Import paused progress	Uses the provider’s resume point when it is newer than Silo’s.
Send watched changes	Sends watched marks and completed plays to the provider.
Send unwatched changes	Removes matching history on the provider when you mark something unwatched.
Sync favorites / Sync watchlist	Imports the provider’s list and sends items you add in Silo.
Sync favorite removals / Sync watchlist removals	Removes items on the provider when you remove them in Silo.
Mirror watchlist order	Sorts your Silo watchlist in the provider’s order. Items not on the provider’s list stay at the bottom.
Import ratings / Send ratings	Converts between the provider’s 10-point ratings and Silo’s stars.
Scrobble playback	Reports starts, pauses, resumes, and stops while you watch.
Log rewatches	Simkl only, off by default. Records another play of a title you already watched as a rewatch on Simkl, which otherwise ignores it. Applies to plays sent with Send watched changes and to finished playback reported by Scrobble playback. Needs a Simkl PRO or VIP account. Simkl counts two plays of the same title less than two days apart as one.

Select Sync now to sync straight away. The connection card shows when it last imported and exported, how many items transferred, and any error. Titles that aren’t in your Silo libraries, or that the provider can’t match, don’t transfer.

If the provider stops accepting your sign-in, for example after you revoke Silo’s access in your provider account, the card shows the error on every sync. Select Disconnect, then Connect again.

Disconnect removes the connection but doesn’t undo changes that were already synced in either direction.

To move history from Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby, use watch-history import. For incoming Plex or Jellyfin events, see watch-state webhooks.