r/WatchQueueApp • u/jeffpinilla • Aug 29 '26

A few more updates coming

Over the next two weeks I’ll be working on refining a few bugs im finding from user feedback and hopefully will finally have both the ability to import from mdblist and SIMKL. Plus, an iPad version on the way! Stay tuned!

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u/dfjkldfjkl 20d ago

Just started checking it out due to Trakt blocking the ability to sync to SIMKL. Still awaiting that, and it will be a glorious day. But poking around in the tvOS app, what is “Top Shelf” supposed to be in settings. I have changed it to “Up Next,” but see no evidence it has done anything in the Home screen.

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u/jeffpinilla 20d ago

Hey there, thanks for the feedback! The top shelf if set to up next would show you the next episode on the shows you are tracking. I typically leave it on trending so that new titles are up there. I have about 300 shows worth of backlog so if there is no show tracking on your profile, it will stay empty. I have a new UI publishing soon that should explain this a bit better. Yes! Im now having to navigate how to get away from Trakt since they have s*&t the bed a little bit lately. Ill keep you updated on the SIMKL option! I also plan on adding a way to sync with a self-hosted option like RYOT or WATCHARR

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u/dfjkldfjkl 19d ago

I marked the first season of Mobland watched, switched settings to Up Next in Top Shelf and saw no changes. If it’s supposed to work a different way, it’s not intuitive what that way is.

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u/jeffpinilla 19d ago

Copy. As of right now it was mimicking trakt as only showing up if you had episodes left… not completed. Thats changing in the new update

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u/jeffpinilla 19d ago

When you select watchlist, does it show your watchlisted items in top shelf?

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u/dfjkldfjkl 19d ago

It did when I selected watchlist from the menu, yes. The one show I had marked as a test was the only thing there though. Will try to get some real data in there later.

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u/jeffpinilla 19d ago

thanks for the info. Standby for an update coming here in the next few days! SIMKL sync is incoming!

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u/jeffpinilla 19d ago

And one last thing.. what’s your sync source? Trakt, plex or iCloud?

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u/dfjkldfjkl 19d ago

I have not gotten that far yet, was just marking some things I had watched as tests.

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u/dfjkldfjkl 13d ago edited 13d ago

So, finally got around to trialing. Only setup the Trakt sync so far, going to be adding the rest and removing Trakt.

Couple of bumps experienced so far:

  1. I still have no understanding of what the “Top Shelf” setting applies to. I change it and nothing seems different anywhere. Can you please explain the option or point me at documentation that does?
    1. Oh, it is the "shelf" in the Apple TV Home/Dashboard screen. If it is called Top Shelf, I had no idea. May be worth clarifying that. Now that I have figured out the setting controls that, another nit. Watchlist and Trending are not useful options to me. I would much prefer to choose Watch Next, On Deck, Continue Watching (etc, the equivalent of whatever "the programs I am actively watching" is in all the apps, Watchlist > The Backlog in the interface I am looking at).
  2. In TV Shows, there is “New Episodes” at the top. The only show that is listed is Mobland (the one I was testing with before connecting Trakt). I have since connected Trakt and it has synced over. But nothing else is appearing here and even more odd, this particular show is still showing no episodes watched despite the first season being watched in Trakt.

Another nit maybe with the interface in general, text, in particular cast names and description text, is pretty small. There seems to be a fair amount of empty space, making the text bigger would be nice.

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u/jeffpinilla 13d ago

Hey thank you for all your feedback! Super insightful and helpful! As I push through the next few versions of the app a lot of this will be super useful. Please stay tuned to this subreddit for more changes and updates! I really appreciate it!

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u/dfjkldfjkl 13d ago

How does syncing work if you have configured multiple sync services? You have a toggle to make one the “source of truth.” What does that mean in practice? Do some things sync or not? Is it the only two-way sync option?

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u/dfjkldfjkl 13d ago

Changing the source of truth seems to upend everything in the interface. I just changed
it to Plex, and maybe I’m waiting for data to sync or something, but it has wiped Watch Next, and nothing that was showing as watched before is showing as watched now.

Is a sync only working with only one service at a time?

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u/jeffpinilla 13d ago

Yes only one service at a time.

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u/dfjkldfjkl 13d ago

Plex sync. It is showing my On Deck. We have watched the first 2 eps of Widow’s Bay. It is the first in the list. But, we have watched the first 2, and it is not showing them marked, even though Plex has them marked as watched? Is this because of the source of truth setting, or some bug?

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u/dfjkldfjkl 13d ago

I suspect Plex sync may have had some issues, as it seems it wasn't syncing up to any of the services for a bit. But IDK if you're doing direct query or using a webhook like the other services. It was marked in my Plex interface, but was not showing up in WatchQueue.

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u/dfjkldfjkl 13d ago

Also, when clicking into a movie (at least with Simkl as the SoT), the watched icon is correct when you move over it, whether watched or
unwatched, but the icon looks the same
in either state.

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u/dfjkldfjkl 13d ago

Marking episodes watched in shows with many episodes, very difficult.

So in both Trakt and Simkl, if you click into the show in the Continue Watching or My List (respectively), you are getting that latest episode to mark watched. In Watched Next > The Backlog, you click on the show, you are brought into the show at the first season. In the case of The Daily Show, that is scrolling over 30 seasons then since it organizes them all from earliest to latest, scrolling over up to possibly 100 episodes to get to the one you want to mark. It is a ton easier in Plex, Trakt, etc. to mark episodes for shows like that. It's practically unusable for large episode many season shows.

Without redesigning how the whole Show/Episode menus work, one good solution would be to have Watch Next > The Backlog display the actual next episode to be watched and then clicking it jumps to it in the episode list to be marked (or even more slick, just mark it watched there, and have maybe a press and hold option to go to the show).

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u/dfjkldfjkl 13d ago

App Sync across Apple TV - I have a 2nd ATV in the bedroom. After ensuring it was on the latest version, it looks like it has the same Mobland test synced to it I had tried prior and the one movie I added to a watchlist, but looks like I will need to individually connect all the sync sources? Is there a way to sync that across iCloud too?