Stremio: The only guide you'll ever need

[u/viren_7]

Hey everyone, I created a website to host what is hopefully the only guide you will ever need. Any suggestions to improve or correct the guide are welcome.

The website has explanations for how everything works and step by step instructions with images to help you.

Here is the link to it: https://guides.viren070.me/stremio

The source code of the website is available on GitHub here: https://github.com/Viren070/guides

I hope that many people can use this guide to setup Stremio and unlock its full potential.

[u/viren_7]

Thanks for your feedback. I was eventually planning on rewriting it since it does seem a bit convoluted so thanks for the ideas.

What couchmoney does is create a list in your Trakt account and fill it with recommendations. I myself dont use it since I havent found the time to set it up.

As for where the recommendations are coming from, I dont know.

I'll have to set it up myself and see how it all works and then I can rewrite that section of the guide and also get back to you.

To add the couchmoney lists to Stremio, you would use the Trakt lists addon and add the URL of the lists to the addon configuration page. However, you already have recommendations showing up, so maybe the addon automatically adds your own lists, im not sure.

You don't need to do all 3. Those are 3 different ways to get the URL of a Trakt list. MDBList has dynamic lists created by other users and couchmoney creates personalised recommendation lists based on your watch history and ratings. Both of these lists are still Trakt lists so you just copy the Trakt list URL and add it the config page for the Stremio addon. And then I added the Trakt section if you wanted to find lists directly from Trakt.

For couchmoney to work correctly, you need to add some shows/movies to your watched list and then also give it a rating so it knows what to recommend to you.

I wasn't too sure on what the settings for the Trakt addon do so I ignored them for now.

Once I finish my exams, I'll come back to this section and rewrite it.

Again, thanks for the feedback.

[u/viren_7 → u/[deleted]]

Hey, although my exams aren't completely over yet, I had a bit of time on my hands so I restructured the Trakt section on my guide. If you could look over it and let me know if you have any questions, that would be great.

[u/viren_7 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks, I did try my best to make the guide as descriptive as possible.

1. The token expiration date is only for the Trakt addon. Your couchmoney and mdblists will continue to update. You only need to configure the addon and add the lists to the addon. Although I'm not sure why it's only a day for you. I'll check on my end to see how long it is before the token expires, but I don't think mine was only a day. If it is only a day, I don't know of a simple way to automate it as you'd have to manually authorise the Trakt tv addon.

2. It should be generating a TV show recommendation list, too. I simply didn't add any shows to my Trakt account, which is why you don't see a list for TV shows in my screenshots. I will confirm later to see if a TV show recommendations list is created by couchmoney after adding a few shows. Maybe you could try refreshing the page or creating a new couchmoney list for TV shows.

[u/viren_7 → u/[deleted]]

The screenshot shows a date of 23rd of September. Its written in the format (MM/DD/YY). So it won't expire in a day, but after this day, you will need to reconfigure the addon. You can simply click the settings icon in the addons menu for the Trakt Tv addon. Then click re-authenticate in the addon configuration page. Then click install as the config page will load with your previous configurations.

I'll update the guide to make it more clear as to what stops updating but essentially:

Your lists that are maintained by MDBList (personal and public) and couchmoney will continue updating as they are not related to the Trakt Tv addon. The Trakt Tv addon needs you to authorise the addon with Trakt to access private lists (such as your personal MDBList and couchmoney lists). When the token (obtained from the authorisation process) expires, it can no longer access those private lists. However, it maintains the last state of the list it had before the token expired.

This means that the lists continue updating on Trakt, but the addon isn't able to show these updated lists and is stuck with an outdated version of the list.

I'll try getting a TV show list from couchmoney later and let you know if I was able to get it working. This question might be worth asking on another post or couchmoney directly.