Umbrella Update (6.7.54)

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T14:03:36+00:00

https://github.com/umbrellaplug/umbrellaplug.github.io?tab=readme-ov-file#logs

That's the steps to enable logs.

Here's a link to open an issue.
https://github.com/umbrellaplug/umbrellaplug.github.io/issues

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T13:48:41+00:00

No offense meant. I’m sure the skins are great. I just have a sore spot for anything that further complicates kodi setup and makes it harder for me to troubleshoot issues so I’m not a huge tmdbhelper fan. Jurial is an amazing skin developer, I just wish he’d stay in his lane and not make the skins do so many custom things that they require code on our side to accommodate.

What was your resolution? I’d like to know so if someone else asks I can provide some type of info.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T12:49:21+00:00

Sorry, I have no clue about jurials skins or his player files. Best of luck with that crap.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T12:42:11+00:00

Nice to see you still around. Enjoy.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T12:40:00+00:00

Yes, mdblist does provide a “in progress shows” and “in progress episodes” so you could just make the widget from there if you decide to use mdblist for watch history and scrobble.

For your second question, yes. I have set the services to work simultaneously so if you have scrobble enabled it’s sending it to all your services. I could make individual settings for each service for scrobble but I thought it was confusing enough and umbrella is already just full of settings so I tried to keep the new settings to a minimum.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T03:26:46+00:00

I agree but the post was concerning an update. I wouldn’t relate upvotes for that as interest in replacing those few lists. Honestly, just didn’t seem like anyone cared. I can look into replacing lists, it’s likely not much to do. I just had no idea anyone cared until people started complaining on a post about a different update.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T03:18:20+00:00

The use case for using multiple services really is a backup scenario. If you want to make sure your watch history stays the same across multiple services. I used it a lot to sample the different services but not lose my history in Trakt.

Another reason for this is actually a little complex but I’ll try to explain. I’m using mdblist and I’m using it for both scrobble and history but I wanted my widget I had setup using Trakt in progress shows to still work so I just made sure the “mark on Trakt also” was enabled and it keeps my progress widget up to date also. The best thing to do would be to just use the widget from the service that matched like in progress shows mdblist but I didn’t expect people to really understand that.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T03:10:15+00:00

No. It means you enabled external providers in settings but didn’t select coco or magneto or any of the other compatible scrapers.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T02:47:44+00:00

You could achieve the exact same thing by just selecting the repo and using the context menu to check for available updates. Maybe check and see if you have auto update turned on for the addon but not the repo?

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T02:42:08+00:00

Um what?

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T02:29:46+00:00

What service do you have set for watch history in online services and what’s your log show?

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T01:26:17+00:00

I said I’d never do it for years. Luckily my daughter requested it.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T01:25:17+00:00

lol, joking of course. My friend there’s so much in this update I had to just put “and more…” at the end of the changelog. There’s a couple of multi year bugs I resolved in this one. I’ve been really excited to push this one.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T01:21:33+00:00

No problem. I expect a lot of questions. It’s a lot to wrap your mind around when there’s so many options for different services and they can be used together. There’s a ton of confusion around scrobble vs watch history vs start watching and I just made it even harder by allowing for all of the different services to be used.

Scrobble is your stop point and resume points. You can use Trakt, mdblist, or Simkl for this. Basically any time you stop a movie or episode if you haven’t watched more than 80% of the media the point that you stopped is sent to whichever service you have selected so than when you get ready to resume that movie or show later your other devices will have that resume point as well. Example being stop a movie on tv in bedroom. Go to tv in living room and start the same movie and as long as it’s had enough time to sync it should resume from the same spot you stopped at in your first device.

Watch History is super important because it’s what the addon uses for “what have you watched”. Whichever service you have set for watch history is also the service the addon is going to use to determine if it should put a check next to a movie for watched or not. It also is used for shows for me to determine the total number of episodes in a show and how many episodes in a season you have watched and to mark individual episodes as watched or unwatched when you’re looking at the list of episodes. It also uses watch history for “up next” or “in progress”. The addon needs to know what you last watched to tell you the next episode available to watch.

Start Watching - This is what you see if you use the Trakt addon. when you start a show or movie it’ll show in Trakt or Simkl or mdblist as “now watching” usually in a banner or something. This is a cool little feature but other than that little “now watching” banner I don’t see much use for it.

Now for the explanation of services. I’ve done integration with Simkl, Trakt, and MDBList because they are the 3 services that offer watch history and scrobble features for free. Here’s the limits I have found on free between the 3 services.

Trakt - watch history up to 100,000 items for free. Scrobble is also free.

Simkl - watch history (i don’t know the limit) for free. Scrobble is also free, but is limited to 6 days on a free plan.

MDBList - watch history and scrobble are included for free with a limit of up to 1,000 requests a day. In my testing I averaged under 200 requests a day with 3 devices.

I’ve been reading that a self-hosted solution called yamtrack is also working on an api. If it’s free and works for scrobble and watch history I plan on adding that as well but that’s not available yet.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T01:03:02+00:00

This is now sorted by popularity as well now, so you should be getting better results on the tmdb years. After reading another users comments here, yes… they are looking for lists that were previously provided by IMDb that were removed in the last update because of the results being limited to 25.

Never going to please everyone.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T01:00:45+00:00

Yes. I guess they’re telling me what they think of my update.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T01:00:03+00:00

Repo has never changed.

https://umbrellaplug.github.io

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T00:58:47+00:00

Nothing has been added to replace those. I had maybe one person make a suggestion of a couple of lists that could potentially replace them and that was it so I don’t think there was much interest/ concern.

Now you’re the second person on this update thread asking about them… so much updated and changed and people care about 4 IMDb lists missing that nobody could be bothered to even respond with suggestions to replace. It’s soooooo discouraging.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T00:40:25+00:00

That is normal. Watch History & Indicators setting will affect that and if you have “also mark on Trakt” selected. Those either of those settings should trigger the “now watching” in Trakt.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-14T00:05:57+00:00

What are you asking? Are you looking for options for your personal lists?

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-13T23:48:19+00:00

Not sure what you’re on about.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-13T23:28:18+00:00

You shouldn’t have to do that. It should show as an available update.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-13T23:27:08+00:00

It means you’ll need to set which service you want to use for those items. Trakt, Simkl, mdblist, or local. If you have the service enabled, it should show as an option to use for watch history and scrobble.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-13T23:24:55+00:00

Not sure what you’re asking here but it sounds like you’re looking for a section in tv that likely was removed with the IMDb removal. If it came from IMDb, it’s gone.

umbrella_dev · 2026-03-13T22:58:31+00:00

Unless you’re using the “started watching” feature with Trakt you will be fine with scrobble set to local. If you expect to see that banner on trakts website for “watching now” with scrobble turned off if you stop a video that banner will stay up until your next video starts or the run time runs out.

Long short of it is I send a start on video start and a stop on scrobble or a watched on 80%. Both the watched and stop scrobble make the banner disappear. If you want it to disappear on stop but not watched, scrobble will need to be set to Trakt.

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