Provider settings

Pair-scoped provider behavior (matching, watched-state quirks, and more).

Provider settings apply only to this pair.

They are separate from provider setup in Authentication.

Normally it's not needed to change any settings here. The defaults are just fine for most users.

For library scoping, use Pair-level Whitelisting.

Providers → Media servers

These options show up only when your pair uses a media server provider.

Plex

Strict ID matching (per pair)

When enabled, CrossWatch matches items only by IDs.

It disables fallback matching by title/year.

Use this when you’re seeing wrong matches from ambiguous titles.

Expect more “missing peers” if your library items lack external IDs.

Marked watched (per pair)

When enabled, CrossWatch also treats Plex’s “marked watched” state as history.

Use this when you rely on the Plex checkmark and real play events.

This works only for the Plex server owner.

It does not work for Plex Home users (managed users) or shared friends.

This is add-only:

• Mark watched in Plex → can sync out.

• Unmark watched in Plex → CrossWatch will not “unwatch” on other services.

Fallback GUID (experimental, per pair)

When enabled, CrossWatch uses extra Plex GUID recovery to find external IDs.

It can sometimes recover IDs for items you don’t have in your libraries anymore, as long as Plex still has enough metadata in its database.

This can be slower.

It can also increase wrong matches on messy libraries.

Enable this only for a first-run.

Then disable it.

It adds extra Plex lookups.

It can significantly increase CPU/network load.

See: Adapter: Plex.

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