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PreShow Experience

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

The Trailers tab sets your preferences for trailer sources.  Each option is described below.

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Content Scrapers

Scrapers look in certain locations for new trailers and store them in a database on your system.  These option

Trailers: PreShow Trailers Folder - These are any trailers that you have in the Trailers folder in your PreShow content directory.

Trailers Kodi Database - These are YouTube trailers for movies on your system.

Trailers: Apple iTunes - iTunes trailers from the apple site.

Trailers: The Movie Database - These are YouTube trailers from TMDB

 

Module Defaults

Clear trailers watched status - PreShow marks any trailers that have watched.  This resets the watched list.

Prefer unwatched over priority - This will set a preference for unwatched trailers if you don't any trailers that match your criteria

Source - Select your trailer source from the following options:

  • Content

  • Directory

  • Single File

Source content filter (scraper) - Select from the scrapers mentioned above.  You may need to restart the settings after modifying your content scrapers to make sure they all display here

Content order - Select how your content is selected:

  • Newest

  • Random

Source: Directory - Select a folder on your system that may contain multiple files to be selected randomly

Source: Single File - Select a single trailer file to show.

Count - The number of trailers to be shown.

Rating Limit - Options include:

  • None - Allows any trailers of any ratings

  • Max - Limit the ratings to a selected in the Max setting below

  • Match Feature - Filters trailers with a rating that matched the feature film

Max - Sets a max rating for trailers

Match feature genre - Selects trailers with one of the same genres as the feature film

Filter for 3D based on feature - Will play 3d trailers, if available

Quality - select your preferred resolution of 720 or 1080 

Volume (% of current) - Sets the volume for trailers

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.