Watcharr Notifications for upcoming shows and movies

A notification system (which sends notifications to mobile devices) for upcoming shows and movies would be really good to have.

Libraries like these will hopefully make implementation a little less labour-intensive:

https://github.com/caronc/apprise

https://github.com/containrrr/shoutrrr

Mar 12 '24 05:03 n00b12345

Hey @n00b12345, thanks for the great suggestion.

So you would like notifications for movies/shows on your planned list for when they release? And also when new episodes are released I suppose as well?

We'll have to figure out a system for tracking these events and sending out notifications (you've solved of half the equasion with your links, thanks!).

Not too sure what that system will look like, my first thought is possibly a persistent queue of events that we associate with users and send off when its time? But ya idk ill have to look into it more.

Mar 12 '24 18:03 IRHM

You can take a look at how Media Tracker does it. They have implemented a watchlist system which checks for updates and then sends out notifications if a new episode is available. This can of course be extended to movies too, so that users may be alerted when a particular movie they are interested in, gets released.

The idea behind this feature is for users to be able to replace something like Trakt completely, with a self-hosted solution like Watcharr.

Mar 12 '24 19:03 n00b12345