Tag: Kometa
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Fewer API Calls, Faster Syncs: Performance Fixes in Kometa and PlexTraktSync
If you’re running a self-hosted media server, you know the setup: Kometa keeps your Plex libraries organized with collections and overlays, and PlexTraktSync keeps your watch history synced between Plex and Trakt. Both tools spend a lot of time talking to external APIs — TMDb, Plex, Trakt — and on large libraries, every unnecessary call…
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Smoothing the Rough Edges
Not every valuable contribution involves fixing broken code. Some of the most useful changes are the ones that quietly improve everyday experience — removing copy that aged out years ago, surfacing the right explanation at the right moment, or making sure a log file doesn’t silently expose things it shouldn’t. Here are four contributions that…
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Fixing What Was Quietly Wrong
There’s a certain satisfaction in finding a bug that’s been hiding in plain sight. No crash, no obvious error message — just something subtly wrong that finally gets tracked down and fixed. Here are five open-source contributions from the past several days, all squarely in the “this was broken and now it isn’t” category. Kometa:…
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Adding What Was Missing
Some contributions don’t fix anything broken — they add something that simply was never there. A new API method that should have existed from the start. A startup check that saves you two days of debugging. Metadata that keeps a registry accurate. Here are four contributions in the “now it exists” category. Kometa: Add E4…
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5 PRs Across the *arr Stack: Fixing the Plumbing in My Home Lab
I use Radarr, Sonarr, and Prowlarr. Which means I also notice when something is broken. This week I stopped ignoring those rough edges and started working on them. 🎬 The Stack If you run a home media server, you probably know the *arr ecosystem. Radarr grabs movies. Prowlarr indexes them. Bazarr subtitles them. Kometa organizes…