0.3.49

2026-08-28 23:00:02 +12:00
parent 3e89036f7b
commit d5632e844a
66 changed files with 2870 additions and 689 deletions
@@ -150,6 +150,18 @@ MEMBY_EMBY_HEALTH_INTERVAL=60s
 # settings page overrides it without a redeployment.
 MEMBY_SLOW_REQUEST_THRESHOLD=500ms

+# Which reverse proxies the gateway believes when working out where a request came from,
+# for the admin console's Remote IP column and the login/trailer logs. X-Forwarded-For
+# and X-Real-IP are only honoured when the immediate peer is one of these, so a direct
+# client cannot spoof its address with a header. Blank trusts loopback and the private
+# ranges (10/8, 172.16/12, 192.168/16, fc00::/7, link-local) — every proxy a home
+# deployment puts in front of Memby. Set a comma-separated list of addresses or CIDR
+# ranges to narrow or widen it (add your CDN's ranges here if TLS terminates off-site),
+# or "none" to trust no proxy. The reverse proxy must be configured to send the headers
+# — e.g. nginx: proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; and
+# proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+MEMBY_TRUSTED_PROXIES=
+
 # Optional Tracearr-powered For You signals. Create a read-only public API key in
 # Tracearr Settings. Server ID is optional unless Tracearr monitors multiple servers.
 MEMBY_TRACEARR_URL=https://tracearr.sublogue.com/
@@ -967,9 +967,24 @@ it hides itself on devices that actually support it.

 **Row analytics.** `data/analytics/RowAnalytics.kt` buffers impression/focus/select events
 with dwell timing (injectable clock, unit-tested) and `HomeViewModel` flushes every 20s,
-on `ON_STOP`, and on dispose. Fire-and-forget by design — `reportRowEvents` swallows
-failures, because telemetry must never surface on a TV. Aggregates are read at query time
-in `store.RowStats`; raw events are pruned after 90 days.
+on `ON_STOP`, and on dispose. Aggregates are read at query time in `store.RowStats`; raw
+events are pruned after 90 days. Three things keep the focus/dwell figures honest:
+
+- **The periodic flush *checkpoints* dwell, it does not end it** (`checkpointFocus`): a
+  viewer sitting on one row for two minutes must contribute the whole two minutes, not one
+  ~20s chunk ending at the first flush and nothing after until they move to a different
+  row. `endFocus` (genuine departure — a selection, the rail, the hero, an overlay, leaving
+  home) is the only thing that clears the measurement, and the UI calls it explicitly
+  (`notifyFocusLeftRows`) so time spent above the shelves is never credited to the last row
+  focused.
+- **A batch the upload cannot deliver is put back** (`restore`), so a transient network
+  failure costs a delay rather than the batch — still bounded by `maxBuffered`, still lost
+  to a crash. `reportRowEvents` hands the events back through `onUnsent` on failure or
+  before a session exists; it stays silent on screen and on the direct path.
+- **The server drops free text in the controlled fields.** Row id, kind and item id are
+  vocabulary the television composes (`safeAnalyticsValue` in `toRowEvent`), so an event
+  carrying anything else was misassembled and a pathological value would distort the
+  aggregates — dropped whole, as the journey path does.

 **Server logging** answers "who did what, from which television, on which build". Three
 pieces make that true and each is easy to undo:
@@ -257,6 +257,8 @@ export interface RemoteSectionDefinition {
  component: string;
  maxItems?: number;
  destination?: string;
+  /** Card shape override for a mediaRow: "poster", "thumb", or absent for automatic. */
+  layout?: string;
  settings?: Record<string, unknown>;
 }

@@ -802,6 +804,10 @@ export interface GatewaySettings {
  embyHealthSeconds: number;
  slowRequestMillis: number;
  librarySyncMinutes: number;
+  homeTtlSeconds: number;
+  recommendTtlHours: number;
+  /** null means "whatever was deployed"; 0 is a legitimate override (midnight). */
+  forYouRebuildHour: number | null;
  updatedAt?: string;
  updatedBy?: string;
 }
@@ -818,6 +824,9 @@ export interface GatewaySettingValues {
  embyHealthSeconds: number;
  slowRequestMillis: number;
  librarySyncMinutes: number;
+  homeTtlSeconds: number;
+  recommendTtlHours: number;
+  forYouRebuildHour: number;
 }

 export interface GatewaySettingsResponse {
@@ -0,0 +1,385 @@
+import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
+import { api } from '../api/client';
+import type { GatewaySettings, GatewaySettingsResponse } from '../api/types';
+import { useAction, useQuery } from '../lib/hooks';
+import { useToast } from '../lib/toast';
+import { Banner, Button, Card, Field, KeyValue, Loading, Note, Tag } from './ui';
+
+/* The gateway's own server-level settings, rendered as a section rather than a page so it
+ * can sit on Client configuration beside the thin-client control plane and still be
+ * reachable on its own at /admin/settings.
+ *
+ * Everything here is an *override* of the value the container was started with: blank (or
+ * zero) means "whatever .env says", which is printed beside each field. The two alert
+ * windows, the health probe and the slow-request threshold can additionally be switched
+ * off, which is a third state distinct from "deployed" — the word off in the field. */
+
+const OVERRIDE_OFF = -1;
+
+function numberFieldValue(value: number): string {
+  if (value === 0) return '';
+  if (value < 0) return 'off';
+  return String(value);
+}
+
+function parseNumberField(raw: string, offAllowed: boolean): number {
+  const text = raw.trim().toLowerCase();
+  if (text === '') return 0;
+  if (offAllowed && (text === 'off' || text === 'none' || text === '0')) return OVERRIDE_OFF;
+  const parsed = Number.parseInt(text, 10);
+  return Number.isFinite(parsed) ? parsed : 0;
+}
+
+/** The For You rebuild hour is a plain 0–23 with no "off": an empty field is "deployed"
+ *  (null on the wire) and every other value is the hour it runs at. */
+function parseHourField(raw: string): number | null {
+  const text = raw.trim();
+  if (text === '') return null;
+  const parsed = Number.parseInt(text, 10);
+  if (!Number.isFinite(parsed) || parsed < 0 || parsed > 23) return null;
+  return parsed;
+}
+
+function describe(value: number, unit: string): string {
+  if (value <= 0) return 'off';
+  return `${value} ${unit}${value === 1 ? '' : 's'}`;
+}
+
+function notificationDisplayLabel(value: string): string {
+  switch (value) {
+    case 'everywhere': return 'Everywhere';
+    case 'off': return 'Off';
+    default: return 'Home only';
+  }
+}
+
+interface Draft {
+  timezone: string;
+  logLevel: string;
+  sessionIdleDays: string;
+  sonarrAlertMinutes: string;
+  radarrAlertMinutes: string;
+  notificationDisplay: string;
+  embyHealthSeconds: string;
+  slowRequestMillis: string;
+  librarySyncMinutes: string;
+  homeTtlSeconds: string;
+  recommendTtlHours: string;
+  forYouRebuildHour: string;
+}
+
+function draftFrom(settings: GatewaySettings): Draft {
+  return {
+    timezone: settings.timezone ?? '',
+    logLevel: settings.logLevel ?? '',
+    sessionIdleDays: numberFieldValue(settings.sessionIdleDays),
+    sonarrAlertMinutes: numberFieldValue(settings.sonarrAlertMinutes),
+    radarrAlertMinutes: numberFieldValue(settings.radarrAlertMinutes),
+    notificationDisplay: settings.notificationDisplay || 'home_only',
+    embyHealthSeconds: numberFieldValue(settings.embyHealthSeconds),
+    slowRequestMillis: numberFieldValue(settings.slowRequestMillis),
+    librarySyncMinutes: numberFieldValue(settings.librarySyncMinutes),
+    homeTtlSeconds: settings.homeTtlSeconds ? String(settings.homeTtlSeconds) : '',
+    recommendTtlHours: settings.recommendTtlHours ? String(settings.recommendTtlHours) : '',
+    forYouRebuildHour: settings.forYouRebuildHour == null ? '' : String(settings.forYouRebuildHour),
+  };
+}
+
+function bodyFrom(draft: Draft): GatewaySettings {
+  return {
+    timezone: draft.timezone.trim(),
+    logLevel: draft.logLevel.trim(),
+    sessionIdleDays: parseNumberField(draft.sessionIdleDays, false),
+    sonarrAlertMinutes: parseNumberField(draft.sonarrAlertMinutes, true),
+    radarrAlertMinutes: parseNumberField(draft.radarrAlertMinutes, true),
+    notificationDisplay: draft.notificationDisplay,
+    embyHealthSeconds: parseNumberField(draft.embyHealthSeconds, true),
+    slowRequestMillis: parseNumberField(draft.slowRequestMillis, true),
+    librarySyncMinutes: parseNumberField(draft.librarySyncMinutes, true),
+    homeTtlSeconds: parseNumberField(draft.homeTtlSeconds, false),
+    recommendTtlHours: parseNumberField(draft.recommendTtlHours, false),
+    forYouRebuildHour: parseHourField(draft.forYouRebuildHour),
+  };
+}
+
+export function GatewaySettingsSection() {
+  const { data, error, loading, reload } = useQuery<GatewaySettingsResponse>('/admin/api/gateway-settings');
+  const { wrap } = useToast();
+  const { busy, run } = useAction();
+  const [draft, setDraft] = useState<Draft | null>(null);
+
+  // A refresh must never take a half-typed field away: the draft is adopted once, and
+  // after that the operator owns it until they save or discard.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!draft && data) setDraft(draftFrom(data.settings));
+  }, [data, draft]);
+
+  const set = <K extends keyof Draft>(key: K, value: string) =>
+    setDraft((current) => (current ? { ...current, [key]: value } : current));
+
+  const save = () =>
+    run('save', async () => {
+      if (!draft) return;
+      const saved = await wrap(
+        () => api.post<GatewaySettingsResponse>('/admin/api/gateway-settings', bodyFrom(draft)),
+        'Gateway settings saved.',
+      );
+      // Adopt what the server stored rather than what was typed — normalisation clamps and
+      // refuses. A failed save leaves the draft alone.
+      if (saved) setDraft(draftFrom(saved.settings));
+      await reload();
+    });
+
+  const clearAll = () =>
+    run('clear', async () => {
+      const saved = await wrap(
+        () => api.post<GatewaySettingsResponse>('/admin/api/gateway-settings', {
+          timezone: '', logLevel: '', sessionIdleDays: 0,
+          sonarrAlertMinutes: 0, radarrAlertMinutes: 0, embyHealthSeconds: 0, slowRequestMillis: 0,
+          librarySyncMinutes: 0, notificationDisplay: 'home_only',
+          homeTtlSeconds: 0, recommendTtlHours: 0, forYouRebuildHour: null,
+        }),
+        'Every setting is back to its deployed or server default.',
+      );
+      if (saved) setDraft(draftFrom(saved.settings));
+      await reload();
+    });
+
+  const deployed = data?.deployed;
+  const effective = data?.effective;
+  const levels = data?.logLevels ?? [];
+  const notificationDisplays = data?.notificationDisplays ?? ['everywhere', 'home_only', 'off'];
+
+  return (
+    <>
+      <Banner message={error} />
+
+      {loading || !draft || !deployed || !effective ? (
+        <Loading rows={2} />
+      ) : (
+        <>
+          <Card
+            title="This gateway"
+            intro="The server process this console is served by, and what it currently believes."
+            icon="chip"
+            tone="info"
+            actions={<Tag tone="info">{data?.version ?? 'unknown'}</Tag>}
+          >
+            <KeyValue
+              rows={[
+                { label: 'Server timezone', value: effective.timezone || 'not set' },
+                { label: 'Log level', value: effective.logLevel },
+                { label: 'Sign-in expiry', value: describe(effective.sessionIdleDays, 'day') },
+                { label: 'Emby health probe', value: describe(effective.embyHealthSeconds, 'second') },
+                { label: 'Slow-request breakdown', value: describe(effective.slowRequestMillis, 'millisecond') },
+                { label: 'Catalogue sweep', value: describe(effective.librarySyncMinutes, 'minute') },
+                { label: 'Home cache lifetime', value: describe(effective.homeTtlSeconds, 'second') },
+                { label: 'Recommendation cache lifetime', value: describe(effective.recommendTtlHours, 'hour') },
+                { label: 'For You rebuild hour', value: `${effective.forYouRebuildHour}:00` },
+                { label: 'Episode alert window', value: describe(effective.sonarrAlertMinutes, 'minute') },
+                { label: 'Film alert window', value: describe(effective.radarrAlertMinutes, 'minute') },
+                { label: 'Notification display', value: notificationDisplayLabel(effective.notificationDisplay) },
+              ]}
+            />
+          </Card>
+
+          <Card
+            title="Server settings"
+            intro="Environment-backed fields can be left empty to use the deployed value shown beneath them. Changes take effect immediately — nothing here needs a restart."
+            icon="sliders"
+            tone="note"
+            footer={
+              <>
+                <Button variant="primary" busy={busy === 'save'} onClick={() => void save()}>
+                  Save settings
+                </Button>
+                <Button busy={busy === 'clear'} onClick={() => void clearAll()}>
+                  Use defaults
+                </Button>
+              </>
+            }
+          >
+            <div className="fields">
+              <Field
+                label="Server timezone"
+                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.timezone || 'not set'}. An IANA name, for example Pacific/Auckland. Decides what "today" means for the schedule rows, the home hero and the sign-in history.`}
+              >
+                <input
+                  type="text"
+                  value={draft.timezone}
+                  placeholder={deployed.timezone}
+                  onChange={(event) => set('timezone', event.target.value)}
+                />
+              </Field>
+
+              <Field
+                label="Log level"
+                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.logLevel}. Applies to the running process at once, so debug can be turned on to watch something happen.`}
+              >
+                <select value={draft.logLevel} onChange={(event) => set('logLevel', event.target.value)}>
+                  <option value="">Deployed ({deployed.logLevel})</option>
+                  {levels.map((level) => (
+                    <option key={level} value={level}>{level}</option>
+                  ))}
+                </select>
+              </Field>
+            </div>
+
+            <div className="fields">
+              <Field
+                label="Sign a television out after (days)"
+                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.sessionIdleDays} days. A session row holds a live Emby token, so this is how long a set nobody uses keeps working credentials.`}
+              >
+                <input
+                  type="text"
+                  inputMode="numeric"
+                  value={draft.sessionIdleDays}
+                  placeholder={String(deployed.sessionIdleDays)}
+                  onChange={(event) => set('sessionIdleDays', event.target.value)}
+                />
+              </Field>
+
+              <Field
+                label="Slow-request breakdown above (ms)"
+                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.slowRequestMillis || 'off'}. A request slower than this logs where its time went — Emby, Postgres, Redis, row assembly. Lower it while chasing one slow screen; type off to stop annotating altogether.`}
+              >
+                <input
+                  type="text"
+                  inputMode="numeric"
+                  value={draft.slowRequestMillis}
+                  placeholder={String(deployed.slowRequestMillis)}
+                  onChange={(event) => set('slowRequestMillis', event.target.value)}
+                />
+              </Field>
+
+              <Field
+                label="Emby health probe (seconds)"
+                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.embyHealthSeconds || 'off'}. How often the gateway asks Emby whether it is answering. Type off to stop probing, which also removes the outage bar from every television.`}
+              >
+                <input
+                  type="text"
+                  inputMode="numeric"
+                  value={draft.embyHealthSeconds}
+                  placeholder={String(deployed.embyHealthSeconds)}
+                  onChange={(event) => set('embyHealthSeconds', event.target.value)}
+                />
+              </Field>
+            </div>
+
+            <div className="fields">
+              <Field
+                label="Catalogue sweep (minutes)"
+                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.librarySyncMinutes || 'off'}. How often the gateway asks Emby what has changed. With the Sonarr and Radarr webhooks wired up a new file is in the catalogue within a minute of landing, and this is only reconciliation for media they do not manage — 360 is a sensible choice then. Without them it is the only way anything is found.`}
+              >
+                <input
+                  type="text"
+                  inputMode="numeric"
+                  value={draft.librarySyncMinutes}
+                  placeholder={String(deployed.librarySyncMinutes)}
+                  onChange={(event) => set('librarySyncMinutes', event.target.value)}
+                />
+              </Field>
+
+              <Field
+                label="Home cache lifetime (seconds)"
+                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.homeTtlSeconds}. How long a built launcher payload is served before it is rebuilt. Lower for fresher rows at the cost of more Emby traffic; it cannot be switched off.`}
+              >
+                <input
+                  type="text"
+                  inputMode="numeric"
+                  value={draft.homeTtlSeconds}
+                  placeholder={String(deployed.homeTtlSeconds)}
+                  onChange={(event) => set('homeTtlSeconds', event.target.value)}
+                />
+              </Field>
+            </div>
+
+            <div className="fields">
+              <Field
+                label="Recommendation cache lifetime (hours)"
+                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.recommendTtlHours}. How long a personalised recommendation pool stays warm. Long by design — the rotation within it is daily.`}
+              >
+                <input
+                  type="text"
+                  inputMode="numeric"
+                  value={draft.recommendTtlHours}
+                  placeholder={String(deployed.recommendTtlHours)}
+                  onChange={(event) => set('recommendTtlHours', event.target.value)}
+                />
+              </Field>
+
+              <Field
+                label="For You rebuild hour (0–23)"
+                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.forYouRebuildHour}:00. The household-local hour the daily For You rebuild is due at. Leave empty for the deployed hour.`}
+              >
+                <input
+                  type="text"
+                  inputMode="numeric"
+                  value={draft.forYouRebuildHour}
+                  placeholder={String(deployed.forYouRebuildHour)}
+                  onChange={(event) => set('forYouRebuildHour', event.target.value)}
+                />
+              </Field>
+            </div>
+
+            <div className="fields">
+              <Field
+                label="Notification display"
+                hint="Controls informational banners for every viewer and television. Everywhere also permits playback overlays; Home only keeps them off active movies, episodes and trailers; Off hides them throughout Memby."
+              >
+                <select
+                  value={draft.notificationDisplay}
+                  onChange={(event) => set('notificationDisplay', event.target.value)}
+                >
+                  {notificationDisplays.map((value) => (
+                    <option key={value} value={value}>{notificationDisplayLabel(value)}</option>
+                  ))}
+                </select>
+              </Field>
+            </div>
+
+            <div className="fields">
+              <Field
+                label="Episode alert window (minutes)"
+                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.sonarrAlertMinutes || 'off'}. How long a "just aired" notice stays on offer to a set that was switched off at the time. Type off to stop announcing them.`}
+              >
+                <input
+                  type="text"
+                  inputMode="numeric"
+                  value={draft.sonarrAlertMinutes}
+                  placeholder={String(deployed.sonarrAlertMinutes)}
+                  onChange={(event) => set('sonarrAlertMinutes', event.target.value)}
+                />
+              </Field>
+
+              <Field
+                label="Film alert window (minutes)"
+                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.radarrAlertMinutes || 'off'}. The same, for a film Radarr has just imported.`}
+              >
+                <input
+                  type="text"
+                  inputMode="numeric"
+                  value={draft.radarrAlertMinutes}
+                  placeholder={String(deployed.radarrAlertMinutes)}
+                  onChange={(event) => set('radarrAlertMinutes', event.target.value)}
+                />
+              </Field>
+            </div>
+
+            <Note tone="note">
+              These settings live in the database and survive a restart. A deployment rewrites
+              <code>.env</code>, not this document, so environment-backed values can then disagree;
+              permanent environment changes belong in <code>.env.example</code> as well.
+            </Note>
+            {data?.settings.updatedBy ? (
+              <Note>
+                Last changed by {data.settings.updatedBy}
+                {data.settings.updatedAt ? ` on ${new Date(data.settings.updatedAt).toLocaleString('en-NZ')}` : ''}.
+              </Note>
+            ) : null}
+          </Card>
+        </>
+      )}
+    </>
+  );
+}
@@ -232,9 +232,8 @@ export function Layout() {
                  <span className="account-avatar account-avatar-large" aria-hidden="true">{initial}</span>
                  <span><small>Signed in as</small><b>{currentUser}</b></span>
                </div>
-                {/* The gateway's own settings live here rather than on the rail: the rail
-                    is the household — its users, its content, its televisions — and this
-                    is the server process those pages are served by. */}
+                {/* Gateway settings now live on Client configuration in the rail; this is a
+                    shortcut to the standalone view of the same editor. */}
                <NavLink to="/admin/settings" role="menuitem" onClick={() => setAccountOpen(false)}>
                  <Icon name="sliders" />
                  Gateway settings
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ function describeRow(row: RemoteSectionDefinition, rowTypes: RowTypeDefinition[]
  return row.type ? `Custom · ${row.type}` : 'Custom';
 }

+const LAYOUT_LABEL: Record<string, string> = {
+  poster: 'Poster cards',
+  thumb: 'Thumbnail cards',
+};
+
 export function RowsEditor({
  page,
  rows,
@@ -142,7 +147,7 @@ export function RowsEditor({
              isNew: true,
              row: {
                id: '', type: availableTypes[0]?.type ?? 'custom', title: '', enabled: true,
-                position: 0, dataSource: '', component: '', maxItems: 20, destination: '',
+                position: 0, dataSource: '', component: '', maxItems: 20, destination: '', layout: '',
              },
            })}
          >
@@ -165,6 +170,7 @@ export function RowsEditor({
                <div className="chips">
                  <Chip>{describeRow(row, rowTypes)}</Chip>
                  {row.maxItems ? <Chip>{row.maxItems} items</Chip> : null}
+                  {row.layout && LAYOUT_LABEL[row.layout] ? <Chip tone="note">{LAYOUT_LABEL[row.layout]}</Chip> : null}
                  {row.destination ? <Chip tone="note">{row.destination}</Chip> : null}
                </div>
              </div>
@@ -290,6 +296,7 @@ function RowEditorDialog({
  const [customDataSource, setCustomDataSource] = useState(row.dataSource);
  const [customComponent, setCustomComponent] = useState(row.component || 'mediaRow');
  const [customDestination, setCustomDestination] = useState(row.destination ?? '');
+  const [layout, setLayout] = useState(row.layout ?? '');

  // A row saved by an older console, or through the raw JSON view, can carry a type this
  // page's catalogue does not offer (moved off this page, or never catalogued at all). It
@@ -306,6 +313,12 @@ function RowEditorDialog({
  const valid = trimmedTitle.length > 0 && validMaxItems &&
    (!isCustom || (customDataSource.trim().length > 0 && customComponent.trim().length > 0));

+  // Layout only means something for a horizontal card row. A genre browser or a paged
+  // library grid draws neither poster nor thumbnail cards, so the control is hidden and any
+  // stray value is dropped on save.
+  const resolvedComponent = isCustom ? customComponent.trim() : rowType?.component ?? '';
+  const layoutApplies = resolvedComponent === 'mediaRow';
+
  const submit = () => {
    if (!valid) return;
    const resolvedType = rowType?.type ?? 'custom';
@@ -324,6 +337,7 @@ function RowEditorDialog({
      component: isCustom ? customComponent.trim() : rowType!.component,
      maxItems,
      destination,
+      ...(layoutApplies && (layout === 'poster' || layout === 'thumb') ? { layout } : {}),
    });
  };

@@ -359,6 +373,22 @@ function RowEditorDialog({
        </div>
        {rowType?.description ? <p className="hint">{rowType.description}</p> : null}

+        {layoutApplies ? (
+          <div className="fields">
+            <Field
+              label="Card layout"
+              hint="Automatic shows episodes as wide thumbnails and everything else as upright posters. Override to force one shape — thumbnails are the same wide cards Continue Watching uses."
+              grow
+            >
+              <select value={layout} onChange={(event) => setLayout(event.target.value)}>
+                <option value="">Automatic</option>
+                <option value="poster">Poster cards</option>
+                <option value="thumb">Thumbnail cards</option>
+              </select>
+            </Field>
+          </div>
+        ) : null}
+
        {rowType?.requiresMatchingDestination ? (
          <Note>Browses the {PAGE_LABEL[page]} catalogue — this row can only ever point at the page it lives on.</Note>
        ) : null}
@@ -91,6 +91,38 @@ export function Grid({ cols, children }: { cols?: '2' | 'wide'; children: ReactN
  );
 }

+/** Tabs splits one page into a handful of named views, anchored on a hairline under the
+ *  page head. It is for a page that is genuinely several things about one subject — the
+ *  client control plane, its rows, its server settings — where a single scroll buries the
+ *  section somebody came for. Segments is the control for an exclusive *choice*; this is
+ *  navigation within a page. The active tab rides `?tab=` so a view is linkable. */
+export function Tabs<T extends string>({
+  tabs,
+  active,
+  onChange,
+}: {
+  tabs: readonly { id: T; label: string; icon?: IconName }[];
+  active: T;
+  onChange: (id: T) => void;
+}) {
+  return (
+    <nav className="tabs" role="tablist">
+      {tabs.map((tab) => (
+        <button
+          key={tab.id}
+          type="button"
+          role="tab"
+          aria-selected={tab.id === active}
+          onClick={() => onChange(tab.id)}
+        >
+          {tab.icon ? <Icon name={tab.icon} /> : null}
+          {tab.label}
+        </button>
+      ))}
+    </nav>
+  );
+}
+
 /* ---------- tiles ---------- */

 export interface TileSpec {
@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ export const nav: NavGroup[] = [
      item('journey-viewer', '/admin/journeys/:userId', 'Journey', 'User journey', 'One viewer’s journey through Memby.', 'journey', { hidden: true }),
    ],
  },
+  {
+    id: 'config', label: 'Configuration', defaultCollapsed: false, collapsible: false,
+    items: [
+      item('features', '/admin/features', 'Client configuration', 'Client configuration',
+        'Everything the thin TV client renders, and the gateway’s own server-level settings.', 'sliders'),
+    ],
+  },
  {
    id: 'history', label: 'History', defaultCollapsed: false,
    items: [
@@ -98,7 +105,6 @@ export const nav: NavGroup[] = [
  {
    id: 'rules', label: 'Rules', defaultCollapsed: false,
    items: [
-      item('features', '/admin/features', 'Client configuration', 'Client configuration', 'Control everything the thin TV client renders.', 'sliders'),
      item('notification-settings', '/admin/notification-settings', 'Notification rules', 'TV notifications', 'Choose where notifications appear and who receives them.', 'bell'),
      item('webhooks', '/admin/integrations/webhooks', 'Event webhooks', 'Event webhooks', 'Send administrative events to external services.', 'send'),
    ],
@@ -113,7 +119,7 @@ export const nav: NavGroup[] = [
      item('integrations', '/admin/integrations', 'Integrations', 'Integrations', 'External services Memby depends on.', 'plug'),
      item('integration', '/admin/integrations/:integrationId', 'Integration', 'Integration', 'One external service, its settings and run history.', 'plug', { hidden: true }),
      item('maintenance', '/admin/maintenance', 'Maintenance', 'Maintenance', 'Take Memby offline or schedule quiet time.', 'wrench'),
-      item('gateway-settings', '/admin/settings', 'Gateway settings', 'Gateway settings', 'Timezone, logging and other server-level settings.', 'sliders', { hidden: true }),
+      item('gateway-settings', '/admin/settings', 'Gateway settings', 'Gateway settings', 'Timezone, logging and other server-level settings. Also editable on Client configuration.', 'sliders', { hidden: true }),
    ],
  },
 ];
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ interface WatchTime {
  matched: boolean;
  tracearrUsername?: string;
  weekMs: number;
+  /* This week against the same point last week, so the card can say whether viewing is
+     up or down without the operator holding last week's figure in their head. */
+  weekTrend?: { direction: 'up' | 'down' | 'steady' | 'none'; priorMs: number; deltaMs: number };
  monthMs: number;
  totalMs: number;
  weekSessions: number;
@@ -145,6 +148,17 @@ function cssColour(value: string | undefined): string {
  return `#${hex.slice(2)}${hex.slice(0, 2)}`;
 }

+/* weekTrendClause is the " · ▲ 1h more than last week" tail on the this-week tile. Neutral
+   wording — more television is a fact, not a verdict — and empty when there is nothing to
+   compare against. */
+function weekTrendClause(trend: WatchTime['weekTrend']): string {
+  if (!trend || trend.direction === 'none') return '';
+  if (trend.direction === 'steady') return ' · level with last week';
+  const glyph = trend.direction === 'up' ? '▲' : '▼';
+  const word = trend.direction === 'up' ? 'more' : 'less';
+  return ` · ${glyph} ${watchTime(Math.abs(trend.deltaMs))} ${word} than last week`;
+}
+
 type Pending =
  | { kind: 'remove-device'; deviceId: string; name: string }
  | { kind: 'remove-account' }
@@ -494,7 +508,7 @@ export function AccountPage() {
          <Tiles
            tiles={[
              {
-                label: `this week · ${num(account.watchTime.weekSessions)} session${account.watchTime.weekSessions === 1 ? '' : 's'}`,
+                label: `this week · ${num(account.watchTime.weekSessions)} session${account.watchTime.weekSessions === 1 ? '' : 's'}${weekTrendClause(account.watchTime.weekTrend)}`,
                value: watchTime(account.watchTime.weekMs),
                icon: 'pulse',
                tone: 'data',
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ import { ago, initials, num, presence, recent, watchTime, when } from '../lib/fo
 import { Banner, Button, Card, Confirm, EmptyRow, Loading, PageHead, TableWrap, Tag, Tiles, Toggle } from '../components/ui';

 interface Device { id: string; name: string; version: string; lastSeen: string; lastIp?: string; }
-interface WatchTime { matched: boolean; weekMs: number; monthMs: number; }
+interface WeekTrend { direction: 'up' | 'down' | 'steady' | 'none'; priorMs: number; deltaMs: number; }
+interface WatchTime { matched: boolean; weekMs: number; monthMs: number; weekTrend?: WeekTrend; }
 interface Account {
  id: string; username: string; initials: string; shortName: string; lastSeen: string; devices: Device[] | null;
  enabled: boolean; lastIp?: string; notifications: { enabled: boolean; [key: string]: unknown }; watchTime?: WatchTime;
@@ -18,6 +19,18 @@ interface StatusResponse { updatePolicy?: { latestVersion?: string }; }
 function seenAt(value: string | undefined): number { const at = value ? new Date(value).getTime() : 0; return Number.isFinite(at) ? at : 0; }
 function NotMeasured() { return <span className="muted" title="No Tracearr sessions matched to this person">—</span>; }

+/* Whether this week's viewing is up or down on the same point last week. Neutral by
+   design — more television is not a verdict — so it is the quiet caption the version
+   column already uses, not a coloured tag. Absent when there is nothing to compare. */
+function WeekTrend({ trend }: { trend?: WeekTrend }) {
+  if (!trend || trend.direction === 'none') return null;
+  if (trend.direction === 'steady') return <span className="table-sub" title="About the same as this point last week">≈ level with last week</span>;
+  const glyph = trend.direction === 'up' ? '▲' : '▼';
+  const word = trend.direction === 'up' ? 'more' : 'less';
+  const size = watchTime(Math.abs(trend.deltaMs));
+  return <span className="table-sub" title={`${size} ${word} than this point last week (was ${watchTime(trend.priorMs)})`}>{glyph} {size} vs last week</span>;
+}
+
 export function AccountsPage() {
  const { data, error, loading, reload } = useQuery<AccountsResponse>('/admin/api/accounts', { pollMs: 60_000 });
  const { data: status } = useQuery<StatusResponse>('/admin/api/status', { pollMs: 60_000 });
@@ -62,7 +75,7 @@ export function AccountsPage() {
              <td className="num"><button type="button" className="link-button" onClick={() => setExpanded(open ? null : account.id)}>{num(list.length)}</button></td>
              <td><span title={first?.version ? `Latest recorded version on ${first.name}` : 'Version not reported'}>{first?.version || <span className="muted">Unknown</span>}</span>{first?.version && current(first.version) ? <Tag tone="ok">current</Tag> : first?.version && latest ? <Tag tone="warn">update</Tag> : null}{list.length > 1 ? <span className="table-sub">{list.length - 1} more device{list.length === 2 ? '' : 's'}</span> : null}</td>
              <td className="mono" title="Last recorded IP address">{first?.lastIp || account.lastIp || <span className="muted">—</span>}</td>
-              <td className="num">{watched?.matched ? watchTime(watched.weekMs) : <NotMeasured />}</td><td className="num muted">{watched?.matched ? watchTime(watched.monthMs) : <NotMeasured />}</td>
+              <td className="num">{watched?.matched ? <>{watchTime(watched.weekMs)}<WeekTrend trend={watched.weekTrend} /></> : <NotMeasured />}</td><td className="num muted">{watched?.matched ? watchTime(watched.monthMs) : <NotMeasured />}</td>
              <td className="nowrap muted" title={when(account.lastSeen)}>{ago(account.lastSeen)}</td>
              <td><Toggle label={account.notifications?.enabled ? 'ON' : 'OFF'} checked={Boolean(account.notifications?.enabled)} disabled={busy === `notifications-${account.id}`} onChange={(next) => void saveNotifications(account, next)} /></td>
              <td><Toggle label={account.enabled ? 'Enabled' : 'Disabled'} checked={account.enabled} disabled={busy === `enabled-${account.id}`} onChange={() => setConfirm(account)} /></td>
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { useState } from 'react';
+import { useSearchParams } from 'react-router-dom';
 import { api } from '../api/client';
 import { useAction } from '../lib/hooks';
 import { useGateway } from '../lib/gateway';
@@ -15,22 +16,39 @@ import {
  Loading,
  PageHead,
  PlainTiles,
+  Tabs,
  Tag,
  Toggle,
 } from '../components/ui';
 import { RowsEditor } from '../components/RowsEditor';
+import { GatewaySettingsSection } from '../components/GatewaySettingsSection';
 import type { RemoteSectionDefinition } from '../api/types';

-/* The three configuration keys that hold a page's row composition. They are edited
- * visually through RowsEditor rather than through the generic configuration list below,
- * which is why they are carved out of `configuration` before that list renders — a
- * technical JSON textarea for these three is exactly what the visual editor replaces. */
+/* One page for everything the household is served, split into four views so the section an
+ * operator came for is not at the bottom of a single scroll:
+ *
+ *   Overview   — is anything wrong, and the whole-plane actions (safe mode, rollback).
+ *   Page rows  — what Home, Movies and TV show and in what order.
+ *   Features   — the optional feature flags and the typed configuration values.
+ *   Server     — the gateway process's own settings (timezone, logging, cache lifetimes).
+ *
+ * The active view rides `?tab=` so a link goes straight to it. */
+
 const ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS: Record<'home' | 'movies' | 'tv', string> = {
  home: 'home.sectionDefinitions',
  movies: 'movies.sectionDefinitions',
  tv: 'tv.sectionDefinitions',
 };

+const TABS = [
+  { id: 'overview', label: 'Overview', icon: 'overview' },
+  { id: 'rows', label: 'Page rows', icon: 'list' },
+  { id: 'features', label: 'Features', icon: 'sliders' },
+  { id: 'server', label: 'Server settings', icon: 'chip' },
+] as const;
+
+type TabId = (typeof TABS)[number]['id'];
+
 interface Pending {
  action: 'safe-mode' | 'rollback' | 'reset' | 'feature';
  title: string;
@@ -45,13 +63,21 @@ export function FeaturesPage() {
  const { wrap } = useToast();
  const { busy, run } = useAction();
  const [pending, setPending] = useState<Pending | null>(null);
+  const [params, setParams] = useSearchParams();
+
+  const requested = params.get('tab');
+  const tab: TabId = TABS.some((entry) => entry.id === requested) ? (requested as TabId) : 'overview';
+  const setTab = (next: TabId) => {
+    const copy = new URLSearchParams(params);
+    if (next === 'overview') copy.delete('tab');
+    else copy.set('tab', next);
+    setParams(copy, { replace: true });
+  };

  const policy = status?.features;
  const features = policy?.features ?? [];
  const rowTypes = policy?.rowTypes ?? [];
  const rowConfiguration = policy?.configuration ?? [];
-  // Everything but the three row-composition values, which the visual editors below
-  // render instead of the generic list.
  const rowKeys = new Set(Object.values(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS));
  const configuration = rowConfiguration.filter((item) => !rowKeys.has(item.key));
  const rowsFor = (key: string) => (rowConfiguration.find((item) => item.key === key)?.value as RemoteSectionDefinition[] | undefined) ?? [];
@@ -104,15 +130,32 @@ export function FeaturesPage() {
    });
  };

+  const saveValue = (key: string, value: unknown) =>
+    void run(key, async () => {
+      await wrap(
+        () =>
+          api.post('/admin/api/features', {
+            action: 'save',
+            expectedRevision: revision,
+            values: valuesFor(key, value),
+            overrides: Object.fromEntries(features.filter((f) => f.source === 'override').map((f) => [f.key, f.enabled])),
+          }),
+        'Configuration saved.',
+      );
+      await reload();
+    });
+
  return (
    <>
      <PageHead
        title="Client configuration"
-        intro="One server-owned control plane for what Memby renders: flags, values, page composition and contextual discovery."
+        intro="Everything the household is served: the thin-client control plane, its page rows, and the gateway's own server-level settings."
      />
      <Banner message={error} />
+      <Tabs tabs={TABS} active={tab} onChange={setTab} />

-      {loading || !policy ? (
+      {tab === 'overview' ? (
+        loading || !policy ? (
          <Loading />
        ) : (
          <>
@@ -129,28 +172,6 @@ export function FeaturesPage() {
              </div>
            </Card>

-          <RowsEditor
-            page="home"
-            rows={rowsFor(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.home)}
-            rowTypes={rowTypes}
-            busy={busy === ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.home}
-            onSave={saveRows(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.home)}
-          />
-          <RowsEditor
-            page="movies"
-            rows={rowsFor(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.movies)}
-            rowTypes={rowTypes}
-            busy={busy === ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.movies}
-            onSave={saveRows(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.movies)}
-          />
-          <RowsEditor
-            page="tv"
-            rows={rowsFor(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.tv)}
-            rowTypes={rowTypes}
-            busy={busy === ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.tv}
-            onSave={saveRows(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.tv)}
-          />
-
            <Card
              title="Control plane"
              intro="Every optional feature has a safe default, an explicit override and a remote recovery path. Safe mode turns all of them off at once; sign-in, browsing and playback are never optional."
@@ -195,110 +216,6 @@ export function FeaturesPage() {
              />
            </Card>

-          <Card
-            title="Central configuration"
-            intro="Typed values use the same revisioned control plane as feature flags. Global values are safe defaults; user, device and experimental scopes are available to the client contract as features grow."
-            icon="sliders"
-          >
-            <div className="stack">
-              {configuration.map((item) => {
-                const value = item.value;
-                return (
-                  <div className="row" key={item.key}>
-                    <div className="grow">
-                      <strong>{item.name}</strong>
-                      <div className="hint">{item.description} · {item.scopes.join(', ')}</div>
-                      <Chip>{item.key}</Chip>
-                    </div>
-                    {item.type === 'boolean' ? (
-                      <Toggle
-                        label={value ? 'On' : 'Off'}
-                        checked={Boolean(value)}
-                        disabled={busy === item.key}
-                        onChange={(next) => void run(item.key, async () => {
-                          await wrap(() => api.post('/admin/api/features', { action: 'save', expectedRevision: revision, values: valuesFor(item.key, next), overrides: Object.fromEntries(features.filter((f) => f.source === 'override').map((f) => [f.key, f.enabled])) }), 'Configuration saved.');
-                          await reload();
-                        })}
-                      />
-                    ) : item.type === 'enum' ? (
-                      <select value={String(value)} disabled={busy === item.key} onChange={(event) => void run(item.key, async () => {
-                        await wrap(() => api.post('/admin/api/features', { action: 'save', expectedRevision: revision, values: valuesFor(item.key, event.target.value), overrides: Object.fromEntries(features.filter((f) => f.source === 'override').map((f) => [f.key, f.enabled])) }), 'Configuration saved.');
-                        await reload();
-                      })}>
-                        {(item.options ?? []).map((option) => <option key={option} value={option}>{option}</option>)}
-                      </select>
-                    ) : item.type === 'json' ? (
-                      <textarea
-                        rows={4}
-                        value={JSON.stringify(value, null, 2)}
-                        disabled={busy === item.key}
-                        aria-label={item.name}
-                        onChange={(event) => {
-                          try {
-                            const next = JSON.parse(event.target.value);
-                            void run(item.key, async () => {
-                              await wrap(() => api.post('/admin/api/features', { action: 'save', expectedRevision: revision, values: valuesFor(item.key, next), overrides: Object.fromEntries(features.filter((f) => f.source === 'override').map((f) => [f.key, f.enabled])) }), 'Configuration saved.');
-                              await reload();
-                            });
-                          } catch { /* wait for valid JSON before publishing */ }
-                        }}
-                      />
-                    ) : item.type === 'string' ? (
-                      <input type="text" value={String(value ?? '')} disabled={busy === item.key} onChange={(event) => void run(item.key, async () => {
-                        await wrap(() => api.post('/admin/api/features', { action: 'save', expectedRevision: revision, values: valuesFor(item.key, event.target.value), overrides: Object.fromEntries(features.filter((f) => f.source === 'override').map((f) => [f.key, f.enabled])) }), 'Configuration saved.');
-                        await reload();
-                      })} />
-                    ) : (
-                      <input type="number" value={Number(value)} min={item.min} max={item.max} disabled={busy === item.key} onChange={(event) => void run(item.key, async () => {
-                        await wrap(() => api.post('/admin/api/features', { action: 'save', expectedRevision: revision, values: valuesFor(item.key, Number(event.target.value)), overrides: Object.fromEntries(features.filter((f) => f.source === 'override').map((f) => [f.key, f.enabled])) }), 'Configuration saved.');
-                        await reload();
-                      })} />
-                    )}
-                  </div>
-                );
-              })}
-            </div>
-          </Card>
-
-          <Grid cols="2">
-            {features.length === 0 ? (
-              <Card title="Nothing registered" icon="sliders">
-                <Empty>No server features are registered.</Empty>
-              </Card>
-            ) : (
-              features.map((feature) => (
-                <Card
-                  key={feature.key}
-                  title={feature.name}
-                  intro={feature.description}
-                  actions={<Tag tone={feature.enabled ? 'ok' : undefined}>{feature.enabled ? 'active' : 'off'}</Tag>}
-                  footer={<span className="hint">↳ {feature.recovery}</span>}
-                >
-                  <Toggle
-                    label={feature.enabled ? 'On' : 'Off'}
-                    hint="Changing this applies the feature policy to every compatible television."
-                    checked={feature.enabled}
-                    disabled={busy === feature.key}
-                    onChange={(enabled) => setPending({
-                      action: 'feature', key: feature.key, enabled,
-                      title: `${enabled ? 'Turn on' : 'Turn off'} ${feature.name}?`,
-                      body: `${enabled ? 'Enable' : 'Disable'} this feature for every compatible television. ${feature.recovery}`,
-                      label: enabled ? 'Turn on' : 'Turn off',
-                    })}
-                  />
-                  <div className="chips">
-                    <Chip>{feature.key}</Chip>
-                    <Chip>protocol {num(feature.minimumProtocol)}+</Chip>
-                    <Chip tone={feature.compatible ? 'ok' : 'warn'}>
-                      {feature.compatible ? 'server compatible' : 'compatibility blocked'}
-                    </Chip>
-                    <Chip tone="note">{feature.area}</Chip>
-                  </div>
-                </Card>
-              ))
-            )}
-          </Grid>
-
            <Card>
              <div className="row">
                <Button
@@ -335,8 +252,141 @@ export function FeaturesPage() {
              </div>
            </Card>
          </>
+        )
+      ) : null}
+
+      {tab === 'rows' ? (
+        loading || !policy ? (
+          <Loading />
+        ) : (
+          <>
+            <RowsEditor
+              page="home"
+              rows={rowsFor(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.home)}
+              rowTypes={rowTypes}
+              busy={busy === ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.home}
+              onSave={saveRows(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.home)}
+            />
+            <RowsEditor
+              page="movies"
+              rows={rowsFor(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.movies)}
+              rowTypes={rowTypes}
+              busy={busy === ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.movies}
+              onSave={saveRows(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.movies)}
+            />
+            <RowsEditor
+              page="tv"
+              rows={rowsFor(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.tv)}
+              rowTypes={rowTypes}
+              busy={busy === ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.tv}
+              onSave={saveRows(ROW_CONFIGURATION_KEYS.tv)}
+            />
+          </>
+        )
+      ) : null}
+
+      {tab === 'features' ? (
+        loading || !policy ? (
+          <Loading />
+        ) : (
+          <>
+            {features.length === 0 ? (
+              <Card title="Feature flags" icon="sliders">
+                <Empty>No server features are registered.</Empty>
+              </Card>
+            ) : (
+              <Grid cols="2">
+                {features.map((feature) => (
+                  <Card
+                    key={feature.key}
+                    title={feature.name}
+                    intro={feature.description}
+                    actions={<Tag tone={feature.enabled ? 'ok' : undefined}>{feature.enabled ? 'active' : 'off'}</Tag>}
+                    footer={<span className="hint">↳ {feature.recovery}</span>}
+                  >
+                    <Toggle
+                      label={feature.enabled ? 'On' : 'Off'}
+                      hint="Changing this applies the feature policy to every compatible television."
+                      checked={feature.enabled}
+                      disabled={busy === feature.key}
+                      onChange={(enabled) => setPending({
+                        action: 'feature', key: feature.key, enabled,
+                        title: `${enabled ? 'Turn on' : 'Turn off'} ${feature.name}?`,
+                        body: `${enabled ? 'Enable' : 'Disable'} this feature for every compatible television. ${feature.recovery}`,
+                        label: enabled ? 'Turn on' : 'Turn off',
+                      })}
+                    />
+                    <div className="chips">
+                      <Chip>{feature.key}</Chip>
+                      <Chip>protocol {num(feature.minimumProtocol)}+</Chip>
+                      <Chip tone={feature.compatible ? 'ok' : 'warn'}>
+                        {feature.compatible ? 'server compatible' : 'compatibility blocked'}
+                      </Chip>
+                      <Chip tone="note">{feature.area}</Chip>
+                    </div>
+                  </Card>
+                ))}
+              </Grid>
            )}

+            <Card
+              title="Configuration values"
+              intro="Typed values on the same revisioned control plane as the flags. Global values are safe defaults; user, device and experimental scopes are available to the client contract as features grow."
+              icon="sliders"
+            >
+              {configuration.length === 0 ? (
+                <Empty>No configuration values are registered.</Empty>
+              ) : (
+                <div className="stack">
+                  {configuration.map((item) => {
+                    const value = item.value;
+                    return (
+                      <div className="row" key={item.key}>
+                        <div className="grow">
+                          <strong>{item.name}</strong>
+                          <div className="hint">{item.description} · {item.scopes.join(', ')}</div>
+                          <Chip>{item.key}</Chip>
+                        </div>
+                        {item.type === 'boolean' ? (
+                          <Toggle
+                            label={value ? 'On' : 'Off'}
+                            checked={Boolean(value)}
+                            disabled={busy === item.key}
+                            onChange={(next) => saveValue(item.key, next)}
+                          />
+                        ) : item.type === 'enum' ? (
+                          <select value={String(value)} disabled={busy === item.key} onChange={(event) => saveValue(item.key, event.target.value)}>
+                            {(item.options ?? []).map((option) => <option key={option} value={option}>{option}</option>)}
+                          </select>
+                        ) : item.type === 'json' ? (
+                          <textarea
+                            rows={4}
+                            value={JSON.stringify(value, null, 2)}
+                            disabled={busy === item.key}
+                            aria-label={item.name}
+                            onChange={(event) => {
+                              try {
+                                saveValue(item.key, JSON.parse(event.target.value));
+                              } catch { /* wait for valid JSON before publishing */ }
+                            }}
+                          />
+                        ) : item.type === 'string' ? (
+                          <input type="text" value={String(value ?? '')} disabled={busy === item.key} onChange={(event) => saveValue(item.key, event.target.value)} />
+                        ) : (
+                          <input type="number" value={Number(value)} min={item.min} max={item.max} disabled={busy === item.key} onChange={(event) => saveValue(item.key, Number(event.target.value))} />
+                        )}
+                      </div>
+                    );
+                  })}
+                </div>
+              )}
+            </Card>
+          </>
+        )
+      ) : null}
+
+      {tab === 'server' ? <GatewaySettingsSection /> : null}
+
      {pending ? (
        <Confirm
          title={pending.title}
@@ -1,10 +1,67 @@
-import { useMemo } from 'react';
+import { useMemo, useState } from 'react';
 import { api } from '../api/client';
-import { useAction } from '../lib/hooks';
+import { useAction, useQuery } from '../lib/hooks';
 import { useGateway } from '../lib/gateway';
 import { useToast } from '../lib/toast';
 import { when } from '../lib/format';
-import { Banner, Button, Card, Empty, Loading, PageHead, TableWrap, Tag } from '../components/ui';
+import type { Tone } from '../lib/format';
+import {
+  Banner,
+  Button,
+  Card,
+  Empty,
+  EmptyRow,
+  Field,
+  Loading,
+  Meter,
+  PageHead,
+  TableWrap,
+  Tag,
+} from '../components/ui';
+
+/* One row of media_requests, with the person attached and the same derived status the
+   viewer's own page shows — the console and the television read it from the same
+   decorateRequests pass, so they can never disagree about a title's state. */
+interface AdminMediaRequest {
+  userId: string;
+  username?: string;
+  mediaType: string;
+  foreignId: number;
+  title: string;
+  year?: number;
+  requestedAt: string;
+  status: string;
+  statusLabel: string;
+  statusDetail?: string;
+  progress?: number;
+  embyItemId?: string;
+}
+
+interface AdminRequestsResponse {
+  requests: AdminMediaRequest[] | null;
+}
+
+/* The status slugs come from the gateway; an unknown one falls through to the quiet
+   treatment rather than picking a colour that claims something. */
+function statusTone(status: string): Tone {
+  switch (status) {
+    case 'available':
+      return 'ok';
+    case 'downloading':
+    case 'found':
+    case 'searching':
+      return 'info';
+    case 'processing':
+    case 'pending':
+      return 'note';
+    case 'failed':
+      return 'bad';
+    case 'unavailable':
+      return 'warn';
+    default:
+      return 'idle';
+  }
+}

 export function RequestsPage() {
  const { status, error, loading, reload } = useGateway();
@@ -12,8 +69,21 @@ export function RequestsPage() {
  const { busy, run } = useAction();
  const users = status?.requestUsers ?? [];
  const allowed = status?.requestPolicy?.allowedUserIds ?? [];
-  const usage = useMemo(() => new Map((status?.requestUsage ?? []).map((entry) => [entry.userId, entry])), [status?.requestUsage]);
-  const toggle = (id: string) => run(`access-${id}`, async () => {
+  const usage = useMemo(
+    () => new Map((status?.requestUsage ?? []).map((entry) => [entry.userId, entry])),
+    [status?.requestUsage],
+  );
+
+  const [owner, setOwner] = useState('');
+  const requests = useQuery<AdminRequestsResponse>(
+    `/admin/api/requests${owner ? `?userId=${encodeURIComponent(owner)}` : ''}`,
+  );
+  const rows = requests.data?.requests ?? [];
+  const nameFor = (id: string) =>
+    users.find((user) => user.id === id)?.username || id || 'unknown';
+
+  const toggle = (id: string) =>
+    run(`access-${id}`, async () => {
      const next = allowed.includes(id) ? allowed.filter((entry) => entry !== id) : [...allowed, id];
      await wrap(
        () => api.post('/admin/api/request-policy', { allowedUserIds: next }),
@@ -24,8 +94,12 @@ export function RequestsPage() {

  return (
    <>
-      <PageHead title="Media requests" intro="Who can ask for something the library does not have." />
+      <PageHead
+        title="Media requests"
+        intro="Who can ask for something the library does not have, and what has been asked for."
+      />
      <Banner message={error} />
+      <Banner message={requests.error} />

      {loading ? (
        <Loading rows={2} />
@@ -64,9 +138,119 @@ export function RequestsPage() {
            {users.length === 0 ? (
              <Empty>No one has signed in yet.</Empty>
            ) : (
-              <TableWrap><table><thead><tr><th>User</th><th>Last seen</th><th className="num">Sent to services</th><th>Last request</th><th>Access</th></tr></thead><tbody>
-                {users.map((user) => { const userUsage = usage.get(user.id); const granted = allowed.includes(user.id); return <tr key={user.id}><td><b>{user.username}</b></td><td className="muted nowrap">{when(user.lastSeen)}</td><td className="num">{userUsage?.requests ?? 0}</td><td className="muted nowrap">{userUsage?.lastRequest ? when(userUsage.lastRequest) : '—'}</td><td><Button size="sm" variant={granted ? 'quiet' : 'primary'} busy={busy === `access-${user.id}`} onClick={() => void toggle(user.id)}>{granted ? 'Remove access' : 'Give access'}</Button></td></tr>; })}
-              </tbody></table></TableWrap>
+              <TableWrap>
+                <table>
+                  <thead>
+                    <tr>
+                      <th>User</th>
+                      <th>Last seen</th>
+                      <th className="num">Sent to services</th>
+                      <th>Last request</th>
+                      <th>Access</th>
+                    </tr>
+                  </thead>
+                  <tbody>
+                    {users.map((user) => {
+                      const userUsage = usage.get(user.id);
+                      const granted = allowed.includes(user.id);
+                      return (
+                        <tr key={user.id}>
+                          <td>
+                            <b>{user.username}</b>
+                          </td>
+                          <td className="muted nowrap">{when(user.lastSeen)}</td>
+                          <td className="num">{userUsage?.requests ?? 0}</td>
+                          <td className="muted nowrap">
+                            {userUsage?.lastRequest ? when(userUsage.lastRequest) : '—'}
+                          </td>
+                          <td>
+                            <Button
+                              size="sm"
+                              variant={granted ? 'quiet' : 'primary'}
+                              busy={busy === `access-${user.id}`}
+                              onClick={() => void toggle(user.id)}
+                            >
+                              {granted ? 'Remove access' : 'Give access'}
+                            </Button>
+                          </td>
+                        </tr>
+                      );
+                    })}
+                  </tbody>
+                </table>
+              </TableWrap>
+            )}
+          </Card>
+
+          <Card
+            title="What has been asked for"
+            intro="Every recorded request across the household, newest first. The status is read live from Radarr, Sonarr and the library — the same answer the person who asked sees on their own page."
+            icon="list"
+            tone="data"
+            actions={
+              <Field label="Requester">
+                <select value={owner} onChange={(event) => setOwner(event.target.value)}>
+                  <option value="">Everyone</option>
+                  {users.map((user) => (
+                    <option key={user.id} value={user.id}>
+                      {user.username}
+                    </option>
+                  ))}
+                </select>
+              </Field>
+            }
+          >
+            {requests.loading ? (
+              <Loading rows={3} />
+            ) : (
+              <TableWrap>
+                <table>
+                  <thead>
+                    <tr>
+                      <th>Title</th>
+                      <th>Type</th>
+                      <th>Requested by</th>
+                      <th>Requested</th>
+                      <th>Status</th>
+                    </tr>
+                  </thead>
+                  <tbody>
+                    {rows.length === 0 ? (
+                      <EmptyRow columns={5}>
+                        {owner ? 'This viewer has not asked for anything.' : 'Nothing has been requested yet.'}
+                      </EmptyRow>
+                    ) : (
+                      rows.map((request) => (
+                        <tr key={`${request.userId}:${request.mediaType}:${request.foreignId}`}>
+                          <td>
+                            <b>{request.title || `#${request.foreignId}`}</b>
+                            {request.year ? <span className="muted"> ({request.year})</span> : null}
+                          </td>
+                          <td>
+                            <Tag tone={request.mediaType === 'series' ? 'info' : 'data'}>
+                              {request.mediaType === 'series' ? 'Series' : 'Movie'}
+                            </Tag>
+                          </td>
+                          <td>{request.username || <Tag tone="warn">{nameFor(request.userId)}</Tag>}</td>
+                          <td className="muted nowrap">{when(request.requestedAt)}</td>
+                          <td>
+                            <Tag tone={statusTone(request.status)}>
+                              {request.statusLabel}
+                              {typeof request.progress === 'number' ? ` · ${request.progress}%` : ''}
+                            </Tag>
+                            {typeof request.progress === 'number' ? (
+                              <Meter value={request.progress} total={100} tone="info" />
+                            ) : null}
+                            {request.statusDetail ? (
+                              <div className="muted">{request.statusDetail}</div>
+                            ) : null}
+                          </td>
+                        </tr>
+                      ))
+                    )}
+                  </tbody>
+                </table>
+              </TableWrap>
            )}
          </Card>
        </>
@@ -1,337 +1,18 @@
-import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
-import { api } from '../api/client';
-import type { GatewaySettings, GatewaySettingsResponse } from '../api/types';
-import { useAction, useQuery } from '../lib/hooks';
-import { useToast } from '../lib/toast';
-import { Banner, Button, Card, Field, KeyValue, Loading, Note, PageHead, Tag } from '../components/ui';
+import { GatewaySettingsSection } from '../components/GatewaySettingsSection';
+import { PageHead } from '../components/ui';

-/* The gateway's own settings, as distinct from every other page in this console.
- *
- * Everything else here decides what the *televisions* do — which rows they draw, which
- * features they are offered, who may request a film. This page is about the server
- * process: what day it thinks it is, how loudly it logs, how long it remembers a set that
- * has not been switched on. That is why it is reached from the account menu rather than
- * from the rail: it belongs beside "signed in as", not beside the household's content.
- *
- * Most fields amend `.env`: blank means "whatever this container was started with", which
- * is printed beside the field. Notification display is server-native instead and has a
- * Home-only default. */
-
-/** OVERRIDE_OFF is the wire value for "switched off", which the three window settings need
- *  to distinguish from an empty field. See store.GatewaySettingsOff. */
-const OVERRIDE_OFF = -1;
-
-/** numberFieldValue renders one of those three: empty for "deployed", the word off for the
- *  sentinel, and the number otherwise. */
-function numberFieldValue(value: number): string {
-  if (value === 0) return '';
-  if (value < 0) return 'off';
-  return String(value);
-}
-
-/** parseNumberField is its inverse, and is deliberately forgiving: an operator typing
- *  anything the server would refuse gets the deployed value back rather than an error
- *  about a field they were in the middle of. */
-function parseNumberField(raw: string, offAllowed: boolean): number {
-  const text = raw.trim().toLowerCase();
-  if (text === '') return 0;
-  if (offAllowed && (text === 'off' || text === 'none' || text === '0')) return OVERRIDE_OFF;
-  const parsed = Number.parseInt(text, 10);
-  return Number.isFinite(parsed) ? parsed : 0;
-}
-
-function describe(value: number, unit: string): string {
-  if (value <= 0) return 'off';
-  return `${value} ${unit}${value === 1 ? '' : 's'}`;
-}
-
-function notificationDisplayLabel(value: string): string {
-  switch (value) {
-    case 'everywhere': return 'Everywhere';
-    case 'off': return 'Off';
-    default: return 'Home only';
-  }
-}
-
-interface Draft {
-  timezone: string;
-  logLevel: string;
-  sessionIdleDays: string;
-  sonarrAlertMinutes: string;
-  radarrAlertMinutes: string;
-  notificationDisplay: string;
-  embyHealthSeconds: string;
-  slowRequestMillis: string;
-  librarySyncMinutes: string;
-}
-
-function draftFrom(settings: GatewaySettings): Draft {
-  return {
-    timezone: settings.timezone ?? '',
-    logLevel: settings.logLevel ?? '',
-    sessionIdleDays: numberFieldValue(settings.sessionIdleDays),
-    sonarrAlertMinutes: numberFieldValue(settings.sonarrAlertMinutes),
-    radarrAlertMinutes: numberFieldValue(settings.radarrAlertMinutes),
-    notificationDisplay: settings.notificationDisplay || 'home_only',
-    embyHealthSeconds: numberFieldValue(settings.embyHealthSeconds),
-    slowRequestMillis: numberFieldValue(settings.slowRequestMillis),
-    librarySyncMinutes: numberFieldValue(settings.librarySyncMinutes),
-  };
-}
+/* The gateway's own settings on their own page, at /admin/settings — kept as a standalone
+ * address for the account menu and for administrative-event deep links. The same editor is
+ * embedded in Client configuration, which is where it is discovered from the rail. */

 export function SettingsPage() {
-  const { data, error, loading, reload } = useQuery<GatewaySettingsResponse>('/admin/api/gateway-settings');
-  const { wrap } = useToast();
-  const { busy, run } = useAction();
-  const [draft, setDraft] = useState<Draft | null>(null);
-
-  // The same rule the Maintenance page states: a refresh must never take a half-typed
-  // field away. The draft is adopted once, and after that the operator owns it until they
-  // save or discard.
-  useEffect(() => {
-    if (!draft && data) setDraft(draftFrom(data.settings));
-  }, [data, draft]);
-
-  const set = <K extends keyof Draft>(key: K, value: string) =>
-    setDraft((current) => (current ? { ...current, [key]: value } : current));
-
-  const save = () =>
-    run('save', async () => {
-      if (!draft) return;
-      const body: GatewaySettings = {
-        timezone: draft.timezone.trim(),
-        logLevel: draft.logLevel.trim(),
-        sessionIdleDays: parseNumberField(draft.sessionIdleDays, false),
-        sonarrAlertMinutes: parseNumberField(draft.sonarrAlertMinutes, true),
-        radarrAlertMinutes: parseNumberField(draft.radarrAlertMinutes, true),
-        notificationDisplay: draft.notificationDisplay,
-        embyHealthSeconds: parseNumberField(draft.embyHealthSeconds, true),
-        slowRequestMillis: parseNumberField(draft.slowRequestMillis, true),
-        librarySyncMinutes: parseNumberField(draft.librarySyncMinutes, true),
-      };
-      const saved = await wrap(
-        () => api.post<GatewaySettingsResponse>('/admin/api/gateway-settings', body),
-        'Gateway settings saved.',
-      );
-      // Adopt what the server stored rather than what was typed: normalisation clamps and
-      // refuses, and a page still showing the rejected value would be lying about what is
-      // in force. A failed save leaves the draft alone — the operator's work is the one
-      // thing that must survive it.
-      if (saved) setDraft(draftFrom(saved.settings));
-      await reload();
-    });
-
-  const clearAll = () =>
-    run('clear', async () => {
-      const saved = await wrap(
-        () => api.post<GatewaySettingsResponse>('/admin/api/gateway-settings', {
-          timezone: '', logLevel: '', sessionIdleDays: 0,
-          sonarrAlertMinutes: 0, radarrAlertMinutes: 0, embyHealthSeconds: 0, slowRequestMillis: 0,
-          librarySyncMinutes: 0, notificationDisplay: 'home_only',
-        }),
-        'Every setting is back to its deployed or server default.',
-      );
-      if (saved) setDraft(draftFrom(saved.settings));
-      await reload();
-    });
-
-  const deployed = data?.deployed;
-  const effective = data?.effective;
-  const levels = data?.logLevels ?? [];
-  const notificationDisplays = data?.notificationDisplays ?? ['everywhere', 'home_only', 'off'];
-
  return (
    <>
      <PageHead
        title="Gateway settings"
-        intro="Server-level settings for this gateway, changeable without a redeployment."
+        intro="Server-level settings for this gateway, changeable without a redeployment. Also editable on Client configuration."
      />
-      <Banner message={error} />
-
-      {loading || !draft || !deployed || !effective ? (
-        <Loading rows={2} />
-      ) : (
-        <>
-          <Card
-            title="This gateway"
-            intro="What the process is running and what it currently believes."
-            icon="chip"
-            tone="info"
-            actions={<Tag tone="info">{data?.version ?? 'unknown'}</Tag>}
-          >
-            <KeyValue
-              rows={[
-                { label: 'Server timezone', value: effective.timezone || 'not set' },
-                { label: 'Log level', value: effective.logLevel },
-                { label: 'Sign-in expiry', value: describe(effective.sessionIdleDays, 'day') },
-                { label: 'Emby health probe', value: describe(effective.embyHealthSeconds, 'second') },
-                { label: 'Slow-request breakdown', value: describe(effective.slowRequestMillis, 'millisecond') },
-                { label: 'Catalogue sweep', value: describe(effective.librarySyncMinutes, 'minute') },
-                { label: 'Episode alert window', value: describe(effective.sonarrAlertMinutes, 'minute') },
-                { label: 'Film alert window', value: describe(effective.radarrAlertMinutes, 'minute') },
-                { label: 'Notification display', value: notificationDisplayLabel(effective.notificationDisplay) },
-              ]}
-            />
-          </Card>
-
-          <Card
-            title="Server settings"
-            intro="Environment-backed fields can be left empty to use the deployed value shown beneath them. Changes take effect immediately — nothing here needs a restart."
-            icon="sliders"
-            tone="note"
-            footer={
-              <>
-                <Button variant="primary" busy={busy === 'save'} onClick={() => void save()}>
-                  Save settings
-                </Button>
-                <Button busy={busy === 'clear'} onClick={() => void clearAll()}>
-                  Use defaults
-                </Button>
-              </>
-            }
-          >
-            <div className="fields">
-              <Field
-                label="Server timezone"
-                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.timezone || 'not set'}. An IANA name, for example Pacific/Auckland. Decides what "today" means for the schedule rows, the home hero and the sign-in history.`}
-              >
-                <input
-                  type="text"
-                  value={draft.timezone}
-                  placeholder={deployed.timezone}
-                  onChange={(event) => set('timezone', event.target.value)}
-                />
-              </Field>
-
-              <Field
-                label="Log level"
-                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.logLevel}. Applies to the running process at once, so debug can be turned on to watch something happen.`}
-              >
-                <select value={draft.logLevel} onChange={(event) => set('logLevel', event.target.value)}>
-                  <option value="">Deployed ({deployed.logLevel})</option>
-                  {levels.map((level) => (
-                    <option key={level} value={level}>
-                      {level}
-                    </option>
-                  ))}
-                </select>
-              </Field>
-            </div>
-
-            <div className="fields">
-              <Field
-                label="Sign a television out after (days)"
-                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.sessionIdleDays} days. A session row holds a live Emby token, so this is how long a set nobody uses keeps working credentials.`}
-              >
-                <input
-                  type="text"
-                  inputMode="numeric"
-                  value={draft.sessionIdleDays}
-                  placeholder={String(deployed.sessionIdleDays)}
-                  onChange={(event) => set('sessionIdleDays', event.target.value)}
-                />
-              </Field>
-
-              <Field
-                label="Slow-request breakdown above (ms)"
-                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.slowRequestMillis || 'off'}. A request slower than this logs where its time went — Emby, Postgres, Redis, row assembly. Lower it while chasing one slow screen; type off to stop annotating altogether.`}
-              >
-                <input
-                  type="text"
-                  inputMode="numeric"
-                  value={draft.slowRequestMillis}
-                  placeholder={String(deployed.slowRequestMillis)}
-                  onChange={(event) => set('slowRequestMillis', event.target.value)}
-                />
-              </Field>
-
-              <Field
-                label="Emby health probe (seconds)"
-                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.embyHealthSeconds || 'off'}. How often the gateway asks Emby whether it is answering. Type off to stop probing, which also removes the outage bar from every television.`}
-              >
-                <input
-                  type="text"
-                  inputMode="numeric"
-                  value={draft.embyHealthSeconds}
-                  placeholder={String(deployed.embyHealthSeconds)}
-                  onChange={(event) => set('embyHealthSeconds', event.target.value)}
-                />
-              </Field>
-            </div>
-
-            <div className="fields">
-              <Field
-                label="Catalogue sweep (minutes)"
-                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.librarySyncMinutes || 'off'}. How often the gateway asks Emby what has changed. With the Sonarr and Radarr webhooks wired up a new file is in the catalogue within a minute of landing, and this is only reconciliation for media they do not manage — 360 is a sensible choice then. Without them it is the only way anything is found.`}
-              >
-                <input
-                  type="text"
-                  inputMode="numeric"
-                  value={draft.librarySyncMinutes}
-                  placeholder={String(deployed.librarySyncMinutes)}
-                  onChange={(event) => set('librarySyncMinutes', event.target.value)}
-                />
-              </Field>
-            </div>
-
-            <div className="fields">
-              <Field
-                label="Notification display"
-                hint="Controls informational banners for every viewer and television. Everywhere also permits playback overlays; Home only keeps them off active movies, episodes and trailers; Off hides them throughout Memby."
-              >
-                <select
-                  value={draft.notificationDisplay}
-                  onChange={(event) => set('notificationDisplay', event.target.value)}
-                >
-                  {notificationDisplays.map((value) => (
-                    <option key={value} value={value}>{notificationDisplayLabel(value)}</option>
-                  ))}
-                </select>
-              </Field>
-            </div>
-
-            <div className="fields">
-              <Field
-                label="Episode alert window (minutes)"
-                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.sonarrAlertMinutes || 'off'}. How long a "just aired" notice stays on offer to a set that was switched off at the time. Type off to stop announcing them.`}
-              >
-                <input
-                  type="text"
-                  inputMode="numeric"
-                  value={draft.sonarrAlertMinutes}
-                  placeholder={String(deployed.sonarrAlertMinutes)}
-                  onChange={(event) => set('sonarrAlertMinutes', event.target.value)}
-                />
-              </Field>
-
-              <Field
-                label="Film alert window (minutes)"
-                hint={`Deployed: ${deployed.radarrAlertMinutes || 'off'}. The same, for a film Radarr has just imported.`}
-              >
-                <input
-                  type="text"
-                  inputMode="numeric"
-                  value={draft.radarrAlertMinutes}
-                  placeholder={String(deployed.radarrAlertMinutes)}
-                  onChange={(event) => set('radarrAlertMinutes', event.target.value)}
-                />
-              </Field>
-            </div>
-
-            <Note tone="note">
-              These settings live in the database and survive a restart. A deployment rewrites
-              <code>.env</code>, not this document, so environment-backed values can then disagree;
-              permanent environment changes belong in <code>.env.example</code> as well.
-            </Note>
-            {data?.settings.updatedBy ? (
-              <Note>
-                Last changed by {data.settings.updatedBy}
-                {data.settings.updatedAt ? ` on ${new Date(data.settings.updatedAt).toLocaleString('en-NZ')}` : ''}.
-              </Note>
-            ) : null}
-          </Card>
-        </>
-      )}
+      <GatewaySettingsSection />
    </>
  );
 }
@@ -786,6 +786,47 @@ a {
  color: var(--text);
 }

+/* Tabs split a page that is genuinely several things about one subject. They sit on a
+   hairline directly under the page head; the active tab carries an accent underline. On a
+   narrow console the strip scrolls rather than wrapping. */
+.tabs {
+  display: flex;
+  gap: 2px;
+  margin: -4px 0 22px;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--line);
+  overflow-x: auto;
+  scrollbar-width: none;
+}
+.tabs::-webkit-scrollbar {
+  display: none;
+}
+.tabs button {
+  display: inline-flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 7px;
+  flex: 0 0 auto;
+  padding: 9px 14px;
+  border: 0;
+  border-bottom: 2px solid transparent;
+  margin-bottom: -1px;
+  background: none;
+  color: var(--muted);
+  font-size: 13px;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+}
+.tabs button .ico {
+  width: 15px;
+  height: 15px;
+}
+.tabs button:hover {
+  color: var(--text);
+}
+.tabs button[aria-selected="true"] {
+  color: var(--text);
+  border-bottom-color: var(--accent);
+}
+
@media (max-width: 1400px) {
  :root {
    --rail: 0px;
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ val membyGatewayUrl: String = (project.findProperty("memby.gatewayUrl") as Strin
 val membyDiagnosticLogLevel: String = (project.findProperty("memby.diagnosticLogLevel") as String?)
    ?.trim()?.uppercase()?.takeIf { it in setOf("INFO", "DEBUG", "TRACE") } ?: "INFO"

-val defaultVersionName = "0.3.39"
+val defaultVersionName = "0.3.40"
 val membyVersionName: String =
    (project.findProperty("memby.versionName") as String?)
        ?.trim()
@@ -2145,10 +2145,24 @@ class EmbyRepository internal constructor(
     * Uploads a batch of row-engagement events. Silent on the direct path (nothing is
     * listening) and silent on failure — telemetry must never surface on a TV.
     */
-    fun reportRowEvents(events: List<GatewayRowEvent>) {
-        if (!ServerConfig.isGateway || events.isEmpty() || snapshot.token.isNullOrBlank()) return
+    fun reportRowEvents(
+        events: List<GatewayRowEvent>,
+        onUnsent: (List<GatewayRowEvent>) -> Unit = {},
+    ) {
+        if (events.isEmpty()) return
+        // Nothing is ever listening on the direct path, so drop rather than re-buffer.
+        if (!ServerConfig.isGateway) return
+        if (snapshot.token.isNullOrBlank()) {
+            // A session being (re)established: hand the batch back so it is retried on the
+            // next flush rather than dropped by the caller's drain.
+            onUnsent(events)
+            return
+        }
        scope.launch {
-            runCatching { requireGateway().reportRowEvents(GatewayRowEvents(events)) }
+            val delivered = runCatching {
+                requireGateway().reportRowEvents(GatewayRowEvents(events))
+            }.isSuccess
+            if (!delivered) onUnsent(events)
        }
    }

@@ -62,8 +62,13 @@ class RowAnalytics(
     */
    fun rowFocused(rowId: String, rowKind: String, itemId: String) {
        synchronized(lock) {
-            if (focusedRowId == rowId) return
-            closeOpenFocus()
+            if (focusedRowId == rowId) {
+                // Still the same strip — extend the dwell, but remember the card the
+                // remote actually came to rest on rather than the one it entered on.
+                lastFocusedItemId = itemId
+                return
+            }
+            closeOpenFocus(reArm = false)
            focusedRowId = rowId
            focusedRowKind = rowKind
            focusStartedAt = now()
@@ -92,11 +97,34 @@ class RowAnalytics(
    }

    /**
-     * Closes the open focus measurement — call when leaving the home screen, or before a
-     * flush, so dwell is not lost while the viewer sits on one row.
+     * Closes the open focus measurement outright — call when focus genuinely leaves the
+     * rows (the rail, the hero, an overlay, a selection) or the home screen is left.
     */
    fun endFocus() {
-        synchronized(lock) { closeOpenFocus() }
+        synchronized(lock) { closeOpenFocus(reArm = false) }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Emits the dwell accrued so far and keeps measuring the same row. Used by the periodic
+     * flush: a viewer who sits on one row for two minutes should contribute the whole two
+     * minutes, not one chunk ending at the first flush and nothing after it until they
+     * move to a different row.
+     */
+    fun checkpointFocus() {
+        synchronized(lock) { closeOpenFocus(reArm = true) }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns events to the buffer after an upload could not deliver them, so a transient
+     * network failure costs a delay rather than the batch. Bounded like every other write:
+     * if the buffer is now over capacity the oldest events are dropped.
+     */
+    fun restore(events: List<GatewayRowEvent>) {
+        if (events.isEmpty()) return
+        synchronized(lock) {
+            buffer.addAll(0, events)
+            while (buffer.size > maxBuffered) buffer.removeAt(0)
+        }
    }

    /** Returns everything buffered and clears it. */
@@ -116,18 +144,24 @@ class RowAnalytics(
            impressed.clear()
            impressedItems.clear()
            focusedRowId = null
+            focusStartedAt = 0
+            lastFocusedItemId = ""
        }
    }

    private var lastFocusedItemId: String = ""

-    private fun closeOpenFocus() {
+    /**
+     * @param reArm keep measuring the same row from now, rather than clearing it. A
+     * checkpoint flush re-arms; a genuine departure does not.
+     */
+    private fun closeOpenFocus(reArm: Boolean) {
        val rowId = focusedRowId ?: return
        val dwell = (now() - focusStartedAt).coerceAtLeast(0)
-        focusedRowId = null
-        // Sub-second glances are D-pad travel, not attention. Dropping them keeps the
-        // numbers meaningful and the batches small.
-        if (dwell < MIN_DWELL_MS) return
+        // Sub-threshold glances are D-pad travel, not attention. Drop them — and, when
+        // re-arming, leave the clock running so the unrecorded fraction is not discarded
+        // on every flush.
+        if (dwell >= MIN_DWELL_MS) {
            add(
                GatewayRowEvent(
                    rowId = rowId,
@@ -138,6 +172,9 @@ class RowAnalytics(
                    occurredAt = timestamp(),
                ),
            )
+            focusStartedAt = now()
+        }
+        if (!reArm) focusedRowId = null
    }

    /** Caller already holds the lock. */
@@ -498,6 +498,13 @@ data class BaseItem(
    @SerialName("MembyLifecycle") val membyLifecycle: String? = null,
    @SerialName("MembyLifecycleText") val membyLifecycleText: String? = null,
    @SerialName("MembyPlayable") val membyPlayable: Boolean = true,
+    // Set by the gateway on a Continue Watching card for a title this viewer requested that
+    // has just become watchable, so it can wear a REQUEST READY tag until they start it.
+    // The label is the server's wording (the MembyAirLabel precedent); the flag alone is
+    // enough for an older build, which falls back to its own constant. Both default, so a
+    // cached home payload decodes unchanged.
+    @SerialName("MembyRequestReady") val membyRequestReady: Boolean = false,
+    @SerialName("MembyRequestReadyLabel") val membyRequestReadyLabel: String? = null,
    @SerialName("MembySearchState") val membySearchState: String? = null,
    @SerialName("MembyRequestable") val membyRequestable: Boolean = false,
    @SerialName("MembyPosterURL") val membyPosterUrl: String? = null,
@@ -176,6 +176,12 @@ data class HomeRow(
    val title: String = "",
    val kind: String = "",
    val items: List<BaseItem> = emptyList(),
+    /**
+     * Operator-pinned card shape: "poster" forces upright poster cards, "thumb" forces the
+     * wide landscape cards Continue Watching uses. Empty (the default, and every row from a
+     * gateway that predates this) leaves the client's automatic choice alone.
+     */
+    val layout: String = "",
 )

 /** Everything the launcher renders, in one response. */
@@ -271,6 +271,12 @@ internal fun HomeContentPane(
    // back. Keyed on the destination so arriving at Home never inherits where
    // focus happened to be on another one.
    var rowFocusedBelowHero by remember(homeState.selectedDestination) { mutableStateOf(false) }
+    // The moment focus is no longer on a shelf — up to the hero, across to My Shows, or a
+    // destination switch — close the open dwell measurement, so minutes spent above the
+    // rows are not credited to whichever row was focused last.
+    LaunchedEffect(rowFocusedBelowHero) {
+        if (!rowFocusedBelowHero) homeViewModel.notifyFocusLeftRows()
+    }
    val showHomeHero = shouldShowHomeMovieHero(
        hasMovies = hasContextualHero,
        listAtTop = homeListAtTop,
@@ -616,6 +616,7 @@ internal fun serverHomeRows(
                    "continue" -> CONTINUE_ROW_SECONDARY_METADATA
                    else -> BROWSE_ROW_SECONDARY_METADATA
                },
+                cardLayout = row.layout,
            )
        }
    // A server response is already context-ranked. Do not reapply the static bundled
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ internal fun HomeScreen(
    val lifecycleOwner = LocalLifecycleOwner.current
    DisposableEffect(lifecycleOwner, homeViewModel) {
        val observer = LifecycleEventObserver { _, event ->
-            if (event == Lifecycle.Event.ON_STOP) homeViewModel.flushAnalytics()
+            if (event == Lifecycle.Event.ON_STOP) homeViewModel.flushAnalytics(endMeasurement = true)
        }
        lifecycleOwner.lifecycle.addObserver(observer)
        onDispose {
@@ -683,6 +683,9 @@ internal fun HomeScreen(
                navigationFocusRequester = navigationFocusRequester,
                onRailFocusChanged = {
                    homeState.navigationExpanded = it
+                    // Focus on the rail is focus off the shelves: end the open row dwell so
+                    // it stops accruing while the viewer is in the navigation or an overlay.
+                    if (it) homeViewModel.notifyFocusLeftRows()
                },
                onDestinationSelected = { destination ->
                    homeViewModel.trackJourney(
@@ -262,17 +262,30 @@ class HomeViewModel(private val repository: EmbyRepository) : ViewModel() {
    fun trackRowFocused(rowId: String, rowKind: String, itemId: String) =
        analytics.rowFocused(rowId, rowKind, itemId)

-    fun trackRowSelected(rowId: String, rowKind: String, itemId: String) =
+    fun trackRowSelected(rowId: String, rowKind: String, itemId: String) {
        analytics.rowSelected(rowId, rowKind, itemId)
+        // Opening something ends the current dwell — the viewer has left the row for a
+        // detail page, so time on that page must not be added to the row's total.
+        analytics.endFocus()
+    }

    /**
-     * Closes the open dwell measurement and uploads. Called on a timer and when the home
-     * screen stops, so time spent sitting on one row is not lost.
+     * Focus has moved off the shelves — to the rail, the hero, My Shows or an overlay.
+     * Closes the open dwell measurement so it stops accruing away from the rows.
     */
-    fun flushAnalytics() {
+    fun notifyFocusLeftRows() = analytics.endFocus()
+
+    /**
+     * Emits accrued dwell and uploads. On a timer it *checkpoints* — a viewer sitting on
+     * one row keeps accruing dwell across flushes rather than contributing a single ~20s
+     * chunk until they move — and [endMeasurement] closes it outright for the cases where
+     * the home screen is genuinely being left. A batch the upload cannot deliver is put
+     * back for the next flush rather than lost to a transient network failure.
+     */
+    fun flushAnalytics(endMeasurement: Boolean = false) {
        if (analyticsPausedForPlayback) return
-        analytics.endFocus()
-        repository.reportRowEvents(analytics.drain())
+        if (endMeasurement) analytics.endFocus() else analytics.checkpointFocus()
+        repository.reportRowEvents(analytics.drain()) { unsent -> analytics.restore(unsent) }
        repository.reportJourneyEvents(journey.drain())
    }

@@ -310,7 +323,7 @@ class HomeViewModel(private val repository: EmbyRepository) : ViewModel() {
     */
    val journeySink: JourneySink get() = journey

-    fun endJourney(screen: String) { journey.end(screen); flushAnalytics() }
+    fun endJourney(screen: String) { journey.end(screen); flushAnalytics(endMeasurement = true) }

    suspend fun endJourneyBeforeProfileSwitch(screen: String) {
        analytics.endFocus()
@@ -991,7 +1004,7 @@ class HomeViewModel(private val repository: EmbyRepository) : ViewModel() {

    override fun onCleared() {
        analyticsPausedForPlayback = false
-        flushAnalytics()
+        flushAnalytics(endMeasurement = true)
        super.onCleared()
    }

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ import coil.compose.AsyncImage
 import coil.request.ImageRequest
 import com.ponzischeme89.memby.data.model.BaseItem
 import com.ponzischeme89.memby.ui.theme.MembyAccent
+import com.ponzischeme89.memby.ui.theme.MembyAccentInk
 import com.ponzischeme89.memby.ui.theme.MembyCardCorner
 import com.ponzischeme89.memby.ui.theme.MembyIcon
 import com.ponzischeme89.memby.ui.theme.MembyMutedText
@@ -69,6 +70,12 @@ data class ResumableMediaCardModel(
    val played: Boolean = false,
    val favourite: Boolean = false,
    val isNextUp: Boolean = false,
+    /**
+     * Non-null when this card is a title the viewer requested that has just become
+     * watchable. Holds the tag wording, which the gateway supplies; [REQUEST_READY_TAG] is
+     * the fallback for a payload from a gateway that predates the label field.
+     */
+    val requestReadyTag: String? = null,
 ) {
    val episodeLabel: String? get() = episodeLabel(seasonNumber, episodeNumber, episodeName)
    val progress: Float get() = resumableProgress(playbackPositionTicks, runtimeTicks)
@@ -76,6 +83,9 @@ data class ResumableMediaCardModel(
    val nextUpLabel: String? get() = "Next up".takeIf { isNextUp }
 }

+/** Client fallback for the request-ready tag when the gateway sent no wording. */
+const val REQUEST_READY_TAG = "REQUEST READY"
+
 internal fun BaseItem.toResumableMediaCardModel(
    thumbUrl: String?,
    backdropUrl: String?,
@@ -102,6 +112,11 @@ internal fun BaseItem.toResumableMediaCardModel(
        primaryUrl = primaryUrl,
        played = played,
        favourite = isFavorite,
+        requestReadyTag = if (membyRequestReady) {
+            membyRequestReadyLabel?.trim()?.takeIf(String::isNotEmpty) ?: REQUEST_READY_TAG
+        } else {
+            null
+        },
        // This adapter is used by the Continue Watching card. Within that merged row, an
        // unplayed episode with no playhead is the Next Up half; resumable episodes have a
        // positive playhead and films are never supplied by Emby's Next Up feed.
@@ -333,6 +348,22 @@ fun ResumableMediaCard(
                        }
                    }
                }
+                model.requestReadyTag?.let { tag ->
+                    Text(
+                        text = tag,
+                        color = MembyAccentInk,
+                        fontSize = 9.sp,
+                        fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold,
+                        letterSpacing = 0.5.sp,
+                        maxLines = 1,
+                        modifier = Modifier
+                            .align(Alignment.TopStart)
+                            .padding(8.dp)
+                            .clip(RoundedCornerShape(4.dp))
+                            .background(MembyAccent)
+                            .padding(horizontal = 7.dp, vertical = 4.dp),
+                    )
+                }
                if (focused) MembyArtworkPlayCue(Modifier.align(Alignment.Center))
            }
            Text(
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ data class HomeBrowseRow(
    val emptyMessage: String,
    val showSecondaryMetadata: Boolean = true,
    val showWatchedEpisodeCount: Boolean = false,
+    /**
+     * Operator-pinned card shape from the gateway's section definitions: "poster" or
+     * "thumb". Empty leaves [cardFormat]'s automatic choice alone.
+     */
+    val cardLayout: String = "",
 )

 private fun getHomeRowIcon(row: HomeBrowseRow): ImageVector = when {
@@ -175,8 +180,12 @@ internal fun MediaRow(

        when {
            row.items.isEmpty() && row.loading -> {
-                val isPortrait = remember(row.kind) {
-                    row.kind == MediaRowKind.MOVIES || row.kind == MediaRowKind.SHOWS
+                val isPortrait = remember(row.kind, row.cardLayout) {
+                    when (row.cardLayout) {
+                        "poster" -> true
+                        "thumb", "landscape" -> false
+                        else -> row.kind == MediaRowKind.MOVIES || row.kind == MediaRowKind.SHOWS
+                    }
                }
                LazyRow(
                    contentPadding = PaddingValues(
@@ -226,7 +235,7 @@ internal fun MediaRow(
                        items = row.items,
                        key = { _, item -> item.id },
                        contentType = { _, item ->
-                            if (cardFormat(row.kind, item, artworkStyle) == MediaCardFormat.PORTRAIT) "portrait" else "landscape"
+                            if (cardFormat(row.kind, item, artworkStyle, row.cardLayout) == MediaCardFormat.PORTRAIT) "portrait" else "landscape"
                        },
                    ) { index, item ->
                        val targetFocusRequester = when {
@@ -266,8 +275,8 @@ internal fun MediaRow(
                            { currentOnItemLongPressed(currentItem) }
                        }

-                        val format = remember(row.kind, item.id, item.isEpisode, artworkStyle) {
-                            cardFormat(row.kind, item, artworkStyle)
+                        val format = remember(row.kind, item.id, item.isEpisode, artworkStyle, row.cardLayout) {
+                            cardFormat(row.kind, item, artworkStyle, row.cardLayout)
                        }

                        if (row.kind == MediaRowKind.CONTINUE) {
@@ -314,13 +323,23 @@ internal fun MediaRow(
    }
 }

-private enum class MediaCardFormat { PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE }
+internal enum class MediaCardFormat { PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE }

-private fun cardFormat(
+/**
+ * Resolves a card's shape. A per-row [rowLayout] pinned by the operator ("poster" /
+ * "thumb") wins over the viewer's global [artworkStyle], which in turn wins over the
+ * automatic rule (Continue Watching and episodes landscape, everything else poster).
+ * Pure so [MediaRowCardFormatTest] can pin the precedence.
+ */
+internal fun cardFormat(
    kind: MediaRowKind,
    item: BaseItem,
    artworkStyle: String = "automatic",
-): MediaCardFormat = when (artworkStyle) {
+    rowLayout: String = "",
+): MediaCardFormat = when (rowLayout) {
+    "poster" -> MediaCardFormat.PORTRAIT
+    "thumb", "landscape" -> MediaCardFormat.LANDSCAPE
+    else -> when (artworkStyle) {
        "poster" -> MediaCardFormat.PORTRAIT
        "backdrop" -> MediaCardFormat.LANDSCAPE
        else -> when {
@@ -329,3 +348,4 @@ private fun cardFormat(
            else -> MediaCardFormat.PORTRAIT
        }
    }
+}
@@ -46,6 +46,72 @@ class RowAnalyticsTest {
        assertEquals(6_000L, focuses.single().dwellMs)
    }

+    @Test
+    fun `a checkpoint emits dwell and keeps measuring the same row`() {
+        val clock = FakeClock()
+        val collector = analytics(clock)
+
+        collector.rowFocused("recommended", "MOVIES", "item-1")
+        clock.advance(20_000)
+        collector.checkpointFocus()
+        clock.advance(20_000)
+        collector.checkpointFocus()
+        clock.advance(5_000)
+        collector.endFocus()
+
+        val dwell = collector.drain()
+            .filter { it.event == RowAnalytics.EVENT_FOCUS }
+            .sumOf { it.dwellMs }
+        // The whole 45s is credited to the row, not just the first chunk.
+        assertEquals(45_000L, dwell)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a checkpoint below the threshold does not discard the accrued fraction`() {
+        val clock = FakeClock()
+        val collector = analytics(clock)
+
+        collector.rowFocused("recommended", "MOVIES", "item-1")
+        clock.advance(300)
+        collector.checkpointFocus() // below MIN_DWELL_MS — nothing emitted, clock left running
+        clock.advance(300)
+        collector.endFocus()
+
+        val focus = collector.drain().single { it.event == RowAnalytics.EVENT_FOCUS }
+        assertEquals(600L, focus.dwellMs)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `restored events are retried on the next drain`() {
+        val collector = analytics(FakeClock())
+        collector.rowImpression("favorites", "FAVORITES")
+
+        val undelivered = collector.drain()
+        assertEquals(1, undelivered.size)
+        collector.restore(undelivered)
+
+        collector.rowImpression("recommended", "MOVIES")
+        assertEquals(
+            listOf("favorites", "recommended"),
+            collector.drain().map { it.rowId },
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `restored events past capacity drop the oldest`() {
+        val collector = analytics(FakeClock(), maxBuffered = 2)
+        val stale = List(3) {
+            com.ponzischeme89.memby.data.model.GatewayRowEvent(
+                rowId = "stale-$it", rowKind = "MOVIES",
+                event = RowAnalytics.EVENT_IMPRESSION, occurredAt = "x",
+            )
+        }
+
+        collector.restore(stale)
+
+        assertEquals(listOf("stale-1", "stale-2"), collector.drain().map { it.rowId })
+    }
+
    @Test
    fun `passing through a row is not counted as attention`() {
        val clock = FakeClock()
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+package com.ponzischeme89.memby.ui
+
+import com.ponzischeme89.memby.data.model.BaseItem
+import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
+import org.junit.Test
+
+/** The precedence in [cardFormat]: an operator's per-row pin beats the viewer's global
+ *  artwork style, which beats the automatic episode/poster rule. */
+class MediaRowCardFormatTest {
+    private val movie = BaseItem(id = "m", name = "A Film", type = "Movie")
+    private val episode = BaseItem(id = "e", name = "Pilot", type = "Episode")
+
+    @Test
+    fun automaticRuleWhenNothingIsPinned() {
+        assertEquals(MediaCardFormat.PORTRAIT, cardFormat(MediaRowKind.MOVIES, movie))
+        assertEquals(MediaCardFormat.LANDSCAPE, cardFormat(MediaRowKind.MOVIES, episode))
+        assertEquals(MediaCardFormat.LANDSCAPE, cardFormat(MediaRowKind.CONTINUE, movie))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun rowLayoutOverridesEverything() {
+        assertEquals(
+            MediaCardFormat.LANDSCAPE,
+            cardFormat(MediaRowKind.FAVORITES, movie, artworkStyle = "poster", rowLayout = "thumb"),
+        )
+        assertEquals(
+            MediaCardFormat.PORTRAIT,
+            cardFormat(MediaRowKind.CONTINUE, episode, artworkStyle = "backdrop", rowLayout = "poster"),
+        )
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun globalArtworkStyleStillAppliesWithoutARowPin() {
+        assertEquals(MediaCardFormat.LANDSCAPE, cardFormat(MediaRowKind.MOVIES, movie, artworkStyle = "backdrop"))
+        assertEquals(MediaCardFormat.PORTRAIT, cardFormat(MediaRowKind.MOVIES, episode, artworkStyle = "poster"))
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun unknownRowLayoutFallsThrough() {
+        assertEquals(MediaCardFormat.PORTRAIT, cardFormat(MediaRowKind.MOVIES, movie, rowLayout = "sideways"))
+    }
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+package com.ponzischeme89.memby.ui
+
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
+import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
+import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
+import androidx.compose.ui.test.junit4.v2.createComposeRule
+import androidx.compose.ui.test.onNodeWithText
+import androidx.compose.ui.test.onRoot
+import androidx.compose.ui.unit.dp
+import androidx.test.core.app.ApplicationProvider
+import com.github.takahirom.roborazzi.captureRoboImage
+import com.ponzischeme89.memby.ServiceLocator
+import com.ponzischeme89.memby.data.model.BaseItem
+import com.ponzischeme89.memby.data.model.UserItemData
+import com.ponzischeme89.memby.ui.components.media.ContinueWatchingCard
+import org.junit.Before
+import org.junit.Rule
+import org.junit.Test
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith
+import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner
+import org.robolectric.annotation.Config
+import org.robolectric.annotation.GraphicsMode
+
+/**
+ * The REQUEST READY tag on a Continue Watching card. The claim it makes — that the tag reads
+ * as a temporary marker rather than as part of the artwork, and sits clear of the watched /
+ * favourite icons in the opposite corner — is not something a unit test can check.
+ */
+@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner::class)
+@GraphicsMode(GraphicsMode.Mode.NATIVE)
+@Config(sdk = [34], qualifiers = "w960dp-h540dp-television-xhdpi")
+class RequestReadyCardScreenshotTest {
+    @get:Rule
+    val compose = createComposeRule()
+
+    @Before
+    fun locator() {
+        ServiceLocator.init(ApplicationProvider.getApplicationContext())
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a freshly arrived request wears the request ready tag`() {
+        compose.setContent {
+            PreviewSurface(alignment = Alignment.TopStart) {
+                Box(Modifier.fillMaxSize().padding(48.dp)) {
+                    ContinueWatchingCard(
+                        item = BaseItem(
+                            id = "requested-film",
+                            name = "The Slow Return",
+                            type = "Movie",
+                            runTimeTicks = 108L * 60L * 10_000_000L,
+                            userData = UserItemData(playbackPositionTicks = 0L),
+                            membyRequestReady = true,
+                            membyRequestReadyLabel = "REQUEST READY",
+                        ),
+                        availableWidth = 864.dp,
+                        portraitArtwork = false,
+                        onFocused = {},
+                        onClick = {},
+                        onLongClick = {},
+                    )
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        compose.onNodeWithText("REQUEST READY").assertExists()
+        compose.onRoot().captureRoboImage(
+            "build/screenshots/request-ready/continue-watching-tag.png",
+        )
+    }
+}
@@ -105,6 +105,35 @@ class ResumableMediaCardTest {
        assertNull(model.nextUpLabel)
    }

+    @Test
+    fun `a request-ready title carries the gateway's tag wording`() {
+        val model = BaseItem(
+            id = "film",
+            name = "A Requested Film",
+            type = "Movie",
+            membyRequestReady = true,
+            membyRequestReadyLabel = "READY FOR YOU",
+        ).toResumableMediaCardModel(thumbUrl = null, backdropUrl = null, primaryUrl = null)
+
+        assertEquals("READY FOR YOU", model.requestReadyTag)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `a request-ready title with no wording falls back to the client constant`() {
+        val model = BaseItem(id = "film", name = "A Film", type = "Movie", membyRequestReady = true)
+            .toResumableMediaCardModel(thumbUrl = null, backdropUrl = null, primaryUrl = null)
+
+        assertEquals(REQUEST_READY_TAG, model.requestReadyTag)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun `an ordinary card has no request-ready tag`() {
+        val model = BaseItem(id = "film", name = "A Film", type = "Movie")
+            .toResumableMediaCardModel(thumbUrl = null, backdropUrl = null, primaryUrl = null)
+
+        assertNull(model.requestReadyTag)
+    }
+
    @Test
    fun `landscape artwork prefers thumb over backdrop and primary`() {
        val model = ResumableMediaCardModel(
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ func (s *Server) adminRoutes() http.Handler {
 	mux.Handle("POST /admin/api/deployment-alert", s.adminAuth(s.handleAdminDeploymentAlert))
 	mux.Handle("POST /admin/api/update-policy", s.adminAuth(s.handleAdminUpdatePolicy))
 	mux.Handle("POST /admin/api/request-policy", s.adminAuth(s.handleAdminRequestPolicy))
+	mux.Handle("GET /admin/api/requests", s.adminAuth(s.handleAdminRequests))
 	mux.Handle("GET /admin/api/media-reports", s.adminAuth(s.handleAdminMediaReports))
 	mux.Handle("POST /admin/api/media-reports/{id}/status", s.adminAuth(s.handleAdminMediaReportStatus))
 	mux.Handle("GET /admin/api/sonarr-request-policy", s.adminAuth(s.handleAdminSonarrRequestPolicy))
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ func (s *Server) handleAdminAccounts(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	for _, account := range accounts {
 		identifiers = append(identifiers, watchTimeAccount{ID: account.ID, Username: account.Username})
 	}
-	watchTime := s.watchTimeForAccounts(r.Context(), identifiers)
+	watchTime, priorWeekWatchTime := s.watchTimeForAccounts(r.Context(), identifiers)

 	result := make([]adminMembyAccount, 0, len(accounts))
 	for _, account := range accounts {
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ func (s *Server) handleAdminAccounts(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		}
 		watched, matchedWatchTime := watchTime[account.ID]
 		result = append(result, adminMembyAccount{
-			WatchTime: summariseWatchTime(watched, matchedWatchTime),
+			WatchTime: summariseWatchTime(watched, matchedWatchTime, priorWeekWatchTime[account.ID]),
 			ID:        account.ID, Username: account.Username, CreatedAt: account.CreatedAt,
 			Initials:  stringPreference(accountSettings.Preferences, "profileInitials"),
 			ShortName: stringPreference(accountSettings.Preferences, "shortName"),
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ func (s *Server) gatewaySettingsResponse() adminGatewaySettingsResponse {
 			EmbyHealthSeconds:   int(s.embyHealthInterval() / time.Second),
 			SlowRequestMillis:   effectiveSlowRequestMillis(s.slowRequestThreshold()),
 			LibrarySyncMinutes:  int(s.LibrarySyncInterval() / time.Minute),
+			HomeTTLSeconds:      int(s.homeTTL() / time.Second),
+			RecommendTTLHours:   int(s.recommendTTL() / time.Hour),
+			ForYouRebuildHour:   s.forYouRebuildHour(),
 		},
 		LogLevels:            store.GatewayLogLevels,
 		NotificationDisplays: store.GatewayNotificationDisplays,
@@ -146,6 +149,15 @@ func gatewaySettingsChanges(before, after store.GatewaySettings) string {
 	if before.LibrarySyncMinutes != after.LibrarySyncMinutes {
 		changes = append(changes, "library sweep interval")
 	}
+	if before.HomeTTLSeconds != after.HomeTTLSeconds {
+		changes = append(changes, "home cache lifetime")
+	}
+	if before.RecommendTTLHours != after.RecommendTTLHours {
+		changes = append(changes, "recommendation cache lifetime")
+	}
+	if !sameIntPointer(before.ForYouRebuildHour, after.ForYouRebuildHour) {
+		changes = append(changes, "For You rebuild hour")
+	}
 	switch len(changes) {
 	case 0:
 		return ""
@@ -156,6 +168,13 @@ func gatewaySettingsChanges(before, after store.GatewaySettings) string {
 	}
 }

+func sameIntPointer(a, b *int) bool {
+	if a == nil || b == nil {
+		return a == b
+	}
+	return *a == *b
+}
+
 func joinPhrase(values []string) string {
 	switch len(values) {
 	case 0:
@@ -167,7 +167,22 @@ func adminPreviewData() map[string]any {
 				map[string]any{"from": "details", "to": "playback", "count": 18},
 			},
 		},
-		"/admin/api/requests": map[string]any{"requests": []any{}},
+		"/admin/api/requests": map[string]any{"requests": []any{
+			map[string]any{"userId": "u-1", "username": "matt", "mediaType": "movie",
+				"foreignId": 693134, "title": "Dune: Part Two", "year": 2024,
+				"requestedAt": stamp(2 * time.Hour), "status": "downloading",
+				"statusLabel": "Downloading", "statusDetail": "About 12 minutes left",
+				"progress": 64},
+			map[string]any{"userId": "u-2", "username": "sam", "mediaType": "series",
+				"foreignId": 371980, "title": "Severance", "year": 2022,
+				"requestedAt": stamp(30 * time.Hour), "status": "available",
+				"statusLabel": "Ready to watch", "statusDetail": "In your library",
+				"embyItemId": "abc123"},
+			map[string]any{"userId": "u-1", "username": "matt", "mediaType": "movie",
+				"foreignId": 1032823, "title": "Memory", "year": 2023,
+				"requestedAt": stamp(9 * 24 * time.Hour), "status": "requested",
+				"statusLabel": "Requested", "statusDetail": "Searching for a copy"},
+		}},
 		// A prefix among the terms and an unattributed row in the log, because both are
 		// ordinary here and a preview showing neither would not be a preview of this page.
 		"/admin/api/searches": map[string]any{
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/ponzischeme89/memby/server/internal/store"
+)
+
+// The console's window on what the household has actually asked for.
+//
+// The overview already reports RequestUsage — a count and a last-asked time per viewer —
+// which answers "who uses the feature" and nothing about "what did they ask for". This is
+// the table underneath that number: every stored ask, newest first, with the person
+// attached and the same derived status the viewer's own page shows, so an operator can see
+// that three people are waiting on the same film or that a request has been stuck
+// searching for a week.
+const adminRequestsLimit = store.MediaRequestSweepLimit
+
+// adminMediaRequest is one row of that table: an ask, who made it, and what has become of
+// it. The status half is derived per read by decorateRequests, exactly as it is for the
+// viewer, so the console and the television never disagree about a title's state.
+type adminMediaRequest struct {
+	UserID   string `json:"userId"`
+	Username string `json:"username,omitempty"`
+	myRequest
+}
+
+type adminRequestsResponse struct {
+	Requests []adminMediaRequest `json:"requests"`
+}
+
+func (s *Server) handleAdminRequests(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	ctx := r.Context()
+
+	owned, err := s.store.AllMediaRequests(ctx, adminRequestsLimit)
+	if err != nil {
+		s.loggerFor(ctx).Error("admin media requests read failed", "error", err)
+		writeError(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, "could not read media requests")
+		return
+	}
+
+	// An optional filter to what one viewer asked for, applied here rather than in SQL: the
+	// list is already bounded and small, and AllMediaRequests is the one read the ready
+	// sweep also uses.
+	if userID := strings.TrimSpace(r.URL.Query().Get("userId")); userID != "" {
+		filtered := owned[:0]
+		for _, req := range owned {
+			if req.UserID == userID {
+				filtered = append(filtered, req)
+			}
+		}
+		owned = filtered
+	}
+
+	stored := make([]store.MediaRequest, len(owned))
+	for i := range owned {
+		stored[i] = owned[i].MediaRequest
+	}
+	// One decoration pass for the whole household. The *arr catalogues it consults are
+	// cached for the day and shared, so this is the same cost as one viewer opening their
+	// page. The console is the operator's tool, so it always sees the full progress
+	// vocabulary.
+	cards := s.decorateRequests(ctx, stored, true)
+
+	// A name an ask cannot be attributed to costs the column and nothing else — the id
+	// still tells one requester from another, and the titles are the point of the page.
+	names := map[string]string{}
+	if users, err := s.store.KnownUsers(ctx); err == nil {
+		for _, user := range users {
+			if user.Username != "" {
+				names[user.ID] = user.Username
+			}
+		}
+	} else {
+		s.loggerFor(ctx).Warn("media request owners unresolved", "error", err)
+	}
+
+	rows := make([]adminMediaRequest, len(owned))
+	for i := range owned {
+		rows[i] = adminMediaRequest{
+			UserID:    owned[i].UserID,
+			Username:  names[owned[i].UserID],
+			myRequest: cards[i],
+		}
+	}
+	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, adminRequestsResponse{Requests: rows})
+}
@@ -947,4 +947,26 @@ func TestToRowEventValidatesAndClamps(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Fatalf("user should come from the session, got %q", event.UserID)
 		}
 	})
+
+	t.Run("rejects free text in the controlled fields", func(t *testing.T) {
+		cases := []rowEventPayload{
+			{RowID: "row with spaces", Event: "focus"},
+			{RowID: "r", RowKind: "MOVIES; drop table", Event: "focus"},
+			{RowID: "r", Event: "focus", ItemID: "not/an/id"},
+			{RowID: strings.Repeat("x", 101), Event: "focus"},
+		}
+		for _, payload := range cases {
+			if _, ok := toRowEvent(payload, "u", now); ok {
+				t.Fatalf("expected %+v to be dropped", payload)
+			}
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("keeps a well-formed curated row id", func(t *testing.T) {
+		event, ok := toRowEvent(
+			rowEventPayload{RowID: "curated:movies:genre:science-fiction", RowKind: "movies", Event: "impression"}, "u", now)
+		if !ok || event.RowID != "curated:movies:genre:science-fiction" {
+			t.Fatalf("a normal composed row id should pass, got ok=%v event=%+v", ok, event)
+		}
+	})
 }
@@ -210,6 +210,15 @@ func toRowEvent(payload rowEventPayload, userID string, now time.Time) (store.Ro
 	if payload.RowID == "" {
 		return store.RowEvent{}, false
 	}
+	// Row id, kind and item id are controlled vocabulary the television composes, never
+	// free text — so an event carrying anything else in them was misassembled, and a
+	// pathological value would distort the aggregates the console reads. Drop it whole,
+	// as the journey path does.
+	if !safeAnalyticsValue(payload.RowID, 100) ||
+		!safeAnalyticsValue(payload.RowKind, 40) ||
+		!safeAnalyticsValue(payload.ItemID, 100) {
+		return store.RowEvent{}, false
+	}
 	switch payload.Event {
 	case store.RowEventImpression, store.RowEventFocus, store.RowEventSelect:
 	default:
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ func (s *Server) handleLogin(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 			Actor: req.Username, Target: req.DeviceName,
 			Link: "/admin/logins",
 			Metadata: adminevents.Meta(map[string]any{
-				"deviceId": req.DeviceID, "ip": requestClientIP(r),
+				"deviceId": req.DeviceID, "ip": s.resolveClientIP(r).String(),
 			}),
 		})
 		writeError(w, http.StatusUnauthorized, "sign-in failed")
@@ -205,14 +205,17 @@ func (s *Server) handleLogin(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {

 	// Now that the session exists, the request line this call ends with can name it too.
 	identify(r.Context(), sess)
+	origin := s.resolveClientIP(r)
 	s.loggerFor(r.Context()).Info("signed in",
 		"emby_user", sess.EmbyUserID,
 		"device_id", sess.DeviceID,
 		"protocol", clientLogValue(sess.ClientProtocol),
 		"replaced_session", len(created.ReplacedHash) > 0,
+		"client_ip", origin.String(),
+		"client_ip_via", origin.Via,
 	)

-	address := requestClientIP(r)
+	address := origin.String()
 	s.recordLogin(r, store.LoginEvent{
 		EmbyUserID: sess.EmbyUserID, Username: sess.Username,
 		DeviceID: sess.DeviceID, DeviceName: sess.DeviceName,
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"net"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/netip"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/ponzischeme89/memby/server/internal/config"
+)
+
+// clientIP is where a request came from and how that was worked out. Via is one of
+// "forwarded", "real-ip", "socket" or "none". It is for operational logging and the
+// admin console's directory only — never authentication or access control.
+type clientIP struct {
+	Addr string
+	Via  string
+}
+
+// String is the address, or "unknown" when none could be determined, matching what the
+// login history and the trailer log previously recorded.
+func (c clientIP) String() string {
+	if c.Addr == "" {
+		return "unknown"
+	}
+	return c.Addr
+}
+
+// resolveClientIP works out the originating address of an incoming request. It believes
+// X-Forwarded-For and X-Real-IP only when the immediate peer is a configured trusted
+// proxy, so a client that reaches the gateway directly cannot spoof its address with a
+// header.
+func (s *Server) resolveClientIP(r *http.Request) clientIP {
+	trusted := s.cfg.TrustedProxies
+	if trusted == nil {
+		trusted = config.DefaultTrustedProxyRanges()
+	}
+	return clientIPFrom(r.RemoteAddr, r.Header, trusted)
+}
+
+func clientIPFrom(remoteAddr string, header http.Header, trusted []netip.Prefix) clientIP {
+	socket := parseHostAddr(remoteAddr)
+	if !socket.IsValid() {
+		return clientIP{Via: "none"}
+	}
+	fromSocket := clientIP{Addr: socket.String(), Via: "socket"}
+	if !prefixesContain(trusted, socket) {
+		// The peer is not a known proxy, so nothing it forwarded is believed.
+		return fromSocket
+	}
+
+	// X-Forwarded-For grows by one entry per hop, so the rightmost is the nearest
+	// proxy. Walking right to left, the first entry that is not itself a trusted proxy
+	// is the originating client.
+	forwarded := forwardedChain(header)
+	for i := len(forwarded) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
+		if !prefixesContain(trusted, forwarded[i]) {
+			return clientIP{Addr: forwarded[i].String(), Via: "forwarded"}
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Every forwarded hop was itself trusted. If there were any, the leftmost is the
+	// genuine origin — a direct LAN client behind the household proxy. Otherwise fall
+	// back to a single X-Real-IP, then to the socket.
+	if len(forwarded) > 0 {
+		return clientIP{Addr: forwarded[0].String(), Via: "forwarded"}
+	}
+	if realIP := parseAddr(header.Get("X-Real-IP")); realIP.IsValid() {
+		return clientIP{Addr: realIP.String(), Via: "real-ip"}
+	}
+	return fromSocket
+}
+
+func parseHostAddr(remoteAddr string) netip.Addr {
+	remoteAddr = strings.TrimSpace(remoteAddr)
+	if host, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(remoteAddr); err == nil {
+		remoteAddr = host
+	}
+	return parseAddr(remoteAddr)
+}
+
+func parseAddr(value string) netip.Addr {
+	addr, err := netip.ParseAddr(strings.TrimSpace(value))
+	if err != nil {
+		return netip.Addr{}
+	}
+	return addr.Unmap()
+}
+
+func forwardedChain(header http.Header) []netip.Addr {
+	var out []netip.Addr
+	for _, value := range header.Values("X-Forwarded-For") {
+		for _, part := range strings.Split(value, ",") {
+			if addr := parseAddr(part); addr.IsValid() {
+				out = append(out, addr)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func prefixesContain(prefixes []netip.Prefix, addr netip.Addr) bool {
+	for _, prefix := range prefixes {
+		if prefix.Contains(addr) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/netip"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/ponzischeme89/memby/server/internal/config"
+)
+
+func TestClientIPFrom(t *testing.T) {
+	trusted := config.DefaultTrustedProxyRanges()
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name       string
+		remoteAddr string
+		headers    map[string]string
+		wantAddr   string
+		wantVia    string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:       "direct public client, no proxy headers believed",
+			remoteAddr: "203.0.113.9:52344",
+			headers:    map[string]string{"X-Forwarded-For": "10.0.0.9"},
+			wantAddr:   "203.0.113.9",
+			wantVia:    "socket",
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "through the household proxy, real client in X-Forwarded-For",
+			remoteAddr: "10.0.0.2:41000",
+			headers:    map[string]string{"X-Forwarded-For": "203.0.113.42, 10.0.0.2"},
+			wantAddr:   "203.0.113.42",
+			wantVia:    "forwarded",
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "direct LAN client behind the proxy still shows its LAN address",
+			remoteAddr: "10.0.0.2:41000",
+			headers:    map[string]string{"X-Forwarded-For": "10.0.0.50"},
+			wantAddr:   "10.0.0.50",
+			wantVia:    "forwarded",
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "proxy sets only X-Real-IP",
+			remoteAddr: "192.168.1.1:8443",
+			headers:    map[string]string{"X-Real-IP": "198.51.100.7"},
+			wantAddr:   "198.51.100.7",
+			wantVia:    "real-ip",
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "trusted proxy with no forwarding headers",
+			remoteAddr: "127.0.0.1:5000",
+			wantAddr:   "127.0.0.1",
+			wantVia:    "socket",
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "spoofed X-Real-IP from an untrusted client is ignored",
+			remoteAddr: "203.0.113.9:1000",
+			headers:    map[string]string{"X-Real-IP": "10.0.0.1"},
+			wantAddr:   "203.0.113.9",
+			wantVia:    "socket",
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "unparseable remote address",
+			remoteAddr: "garbage",
+			wantAddr:   "unknown",
+			wantVia:    "none",
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			header := http.Header{}
+			for key, value := range test.headers {
+				header.Set(key, value)
+			}
+			got := clientIPFrom(test.remoteAddr, header, trusted)
+			if got.String() != test.wantAddr || got.Via != test.wantVia {
+				t.Fatalf("clientIPFrom = %+v, want addr %q via %q", got, test.wantAddr, test.wantVia)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestClientIPFromTrustsNothingWhenListEmpty(t *testing.T) {
+	header := http.Header{"X-Forwarded-For": {"203.0.113.1"}}
+	got := clientIPFrom("10.0.0.2:5000", header, []netip.Prefix{})
+	if got.String() != "10.0.0.2" || got.Via != "socket" {
+		t.Fatalf("clientIPFrom with no trusted proxies = %+v, want 10.0.0.2 via socket", got)
+	}
+}
@@ -173,6 +173,10 @@ func validateSectionDefinitions(key string, raw json.RawMessage) error {
 		if definition.MaxItems < 0 || definition.MaxItems > 100 {
 			return errors.New(key + ": row " + id + " has an invalid maximum item count")
 		}
+		if definition.Layout != "" &&
+			definition.Layout != config.SectionLayoutPoster && definition.Layout != config.SectionLayoutThumb {
+			return errors.New(key + ": row " + id + " has an invalid card layout")
+		}
 		if strings.TrimSpace(definition.Component) == "" {
 			return errors.New(key + ": row " + id + " needs a component")
 		}
@@ -163,6 +163,31 @@ func (s *Server) LibrarySyncInterval() time.Duration {
 		s.cfg.SyncInterval)
 }

+// homeTTL and recommendTTL are "the override, or what was deployed" for the two cache
+// lifetimes an operator can reach. They cannot be switched off, so a non-positive stored
+// value falls through to the deployed duration.
+func (s *Server) homeTTL() time.Duration {
+	if seconds := s.gatewaySettings.get().HomeTTLSeconds; seconds > 0 {
+		return time.Duration(seconds) * time.Second
+	}
+	return s.cfg.HomeTTL
+}
+
+func (s *Server) recommendTTL() time.Duration {
+	if hours := s.gatewaySettings.get().RecommendTTLHours; hours > 0 {
+		return time.Duration(hours) * time.Hour
+	}
+	return s.cfg.RecommendTTL
+}
+
+// forYouRebuildHour is the household-local hour the daily For You rebuild is due at.
+func (s *Server) forYouRebuildHour() int {
+	if hour := s.gatewaySettings.get().ForYouRebuildHour; hour != nil {
+		return *hour
+	}
+	return s.cfg.ForYouRebuildHour
+}
+
 // overrideWindow reads one of the three settings that can be switched off: a negative
 // value is off, zero is "whatever was deployed", anything else is the override in the
 // given unit.
@@ -191,6 +216,9 @@ type deployedGatewaySettings struct {
 	EmbyHealthSeconds   int    `json:"embyHealthSeconds"`
 	SlowRequestMillis   int    `json:"slowRequestMillis"`
 	LibrarySyncMinutes  int    `json:"librarySyncMinutes"`
+	HomeTTLSeconds      int    `json:"homeTtlSeconds"`
+	RecommendTTLHours   int    `json:"recommendTtlHours"`
+	ForYouRebuildHour   int    `json:"forYouRebuildHour"`
 }

 func (s *Server) deployedSettings() deployedGatewaySettings {
@@ -208,6 +236,9 @@ func (s *Server) deployedSettings() deployedGatewaySettings {
 		EmbyHealthSeconds:   int(s.cfg.EmbyHealthInterval / time.Second),
 		SlowRequestMillis:   int(s.cfg.SlowRequestThreshold / time.Millisecond),
 		LibrarySyncMinutes:  int(s.cfg.SyncInterval / time.Minute),
+		HomeTTLSeconds:      int(s.cfg.HomeTTL / time.Second),
+		RecommendTTLHours:   int(s.cfg.RecommendTTL / time.Hour),
+		ForYouRebuildHour:   s.cfg.ForYouRebuildHour,
 	}
 }

@@ -65,6 +65,36 @@ func TestNotificationDisplayDefaultsToHomeOnly(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

+func TestCacheOverridesFallBackToDeployed(t *testing.T) {
+	s := &Server{}
+	s.cfg.HomeTTL = 60 * time.Second
+	s.cfg.RecommendTTL = 24 * time.Hour
+	s.cfg.ForYouRebuildHour = 4
+	if got := s.homeTTL(); got != 60*time.Second {
+		t.Fatalf("unset home TTL should be the deployed value, got %s", got)
+	}
+	if got := s.recommendTTL(); got != 24*time.Hour {
+		t.Fatalf("unset recommend TTL should be the deployed value, got %s", got)
+	}
+	if got := s.forYouRebuildHour(); got != 4 {
+		t.Fatalf("unset rebuild hour should be the deployed value, got %d", got)
+	}
+
+	midnight := 0
+	s.gatewaySettings.set(store.GatewaySettings{
+		HomeTTLSeconds: 30, RecommendTTLHours: 6, ForYouRebuildHour: &midnight,
+	})
+	if got := s.homeTTL(); got != 30*time.Second {
+		t.Fatalf("home TTL override not applied, got %s", got)
+	}
+	if got := s.recommendTTL(); got != 6*time.Hour {
+		t.Fatalf("recommend TTL override not applied, got %s", got)
+	}
+	if got := s.forYouRebuildHour(); got != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a rebuild-hour override of midnight must win over the deployed 4, got %d", got)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestLevelNameCoversTheVocabulary(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, level := range store.GatewayLogLevels {
 		if got := levelName(parseTestLevel(t, level)); got != level {
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ func (s *Server) handleHome(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, sess store.S
 		forYouRows     []recommend.Row
 		forYouRowStale bool
 		seriesPlayed   map[string]time.Time
+		surfacedReady  []store.SurfacedReadyRequest
 		ranking        rankingInputs
 		rowStats       []store.RowStat
 		rowStatsOK     bool
@@ -286,6 +287,24 @@ func (s *Server) handleHome(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, sess store.S
 		defer wg.Done()
 		ranking = s.rankingInputs(ctx, sess.EmbyUserID)
 	}()
+	// The requests this viewer has asked for that have just become watchable, to be pinned
+	// to the front of Continue Watching. Read beside the Emby fan-out, not after it: it is a
+	// function of the viewer's id alone, and the overwhelmingly common answer is none.
+	if continueWatching && s.store != nil {
+		wg.Add(1)
+		go func() {
+			defer wg.Done()
+			ready, err := s.store.SurfacedReadyRequests(ctx, sess.EmbyUserID)
+			if err != nil {
+				s.loggerFor(ctx).Warn("surfaced request arrivals unavailable",
+					"user", sess.EmbyUserID, "error", err)
+				return
+			}
+			mu.Lock()
+			surfacedReady = ready
+			mu.Unlock()
+		}()
+	}
 	if s.store != nil {
 		wg.Add(1)
 		go func() {
@@ -346,6 +365,12 @@ func (s *Server) handleHome(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, sess store.S
 	if continueWatching {
 		out.ContinueWatching = prioritizeAiringTodayContinue(out.ContinueWatching, sonarrRow)
 	}
+	// A title this viewer requested that has just arrived is pinned to the front of the row
+	// (or tagged in place if it is already there), so the request journey ends where they
+	// look for something to watch rather than on the My Requests page.
+	if continueWatching && len(surfacedReady) > 0 {
+		out.ContinueWatching = s.injectRequestReady(ctx, cred, out.ContinueWatching, surfacedReady)
+	}

 	// Recommendations are read from their own long-lived cache. A miss means this
 	// response ships without them and a rebuild starts in the background — the home
@@ -391,6 +416,7 @@ func (s *Server) handleHome(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, sess store.S
 	out.Rows = s.personalizeTitlesWith(out.Rows, ranking)
 	out.Rows = personalizeRowsByTitleScores(selectPersonalizedRows(out.Rows))
 	out.Rows = deduplicateRows(out.Rows)
+	out.Rows = s.applyRowLayouts(ctx, out.Rows)
 	rank()
 	// Ratings ride on the cards themselves. Only what is already stored is attached, so
 	// the launcher pays one indexed read rather than a request per poster, and a card
@@ -422,7 +448,7 @@ func (s *Server) handleHome(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, sess store.S
 	}
 	// A partial payload is served but never cached: the next request should retry.
 	if !out.Partial {
-		if err := s.cache.Set(ctx, key, body, s.cfg.HomeTTL); err != nil {
+		if err := s.cache.Set(ctx, key, body, s.homeTTL()); err != nil {
 			s.loggerFor(ctx).Warn("home cache write failed", "error", err)
 		}
 	}
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/ponzischeme89/memby/server/internal/config"
+	"github.com/ponzischeme89/memby/server/internal/recommend"
+	"github.com/ponzischeme89/memby/server/internal/store"
+)
+
+// sectionDefinitionKeys are the three configuration values that hold a page's row
+// composition. A layout override can be set on any of them, and the home payload is the
+// single row source for all three browse destinations on the television, so all three are
+// merged into one lookup.
+var sectionDefinitionKeys = []string{
+	"home.sectionDefinitions",
+	"movies.sectionDefinitions",
+	"tv.sectionDefinitions",
+}
+
+// rowLayoutOverrides collects every operator-pinned card shape from the section
+// definitions, keyed by the definition id. An invalid or empty layout is not an override.
+func rowLayoutOverrides(policy store.FeaturePolicy) map[string]string {
+	overrides := map[string]string{}
+	for _, key := range sectionDefinitionKeys {
+		raw, ok := policy.Values[key]
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		var definitions []config.RemoteSectionDefinition
+		if json.Unmarshal(raw, &definitions) != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		for _, definition := range definitions {
+			switch definition.Layout {
+			case config.SectionLayoutPoster, config.SectionLayoutThumb:
+				id := strings.TrimSpace(definition.ID)
+				if id != "" {
+					overrides[id] = definition.Layout
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return overrides
+}
+
+// applyRowLayoutOverrides stamps the pinned card shape onto each finished row. A row is
+// matched by its exact id first, then by a section id it is a child of ("for-you" pins
+// "for-you:home:evening" too) — the same rule applyRemoteHomeSections uses on the
+// television to rank a family of rows together. A row that already carries a layout (none
+// do today) is left alone. Pure, so it can be pinned by a test.
+func applyRowLayoutOverrides(rows []recommend.Row, overrides map[string]string) []recommend.Row {
+	if len(overrides) == 0 {
+		return rows
+	}
+	for index := range rows {
+		if rows[index].Layout != "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if layout, ok := overrides[rows[index].ID]; ok {
+			rows[index].Layout = layout
+			continue
+		}
+		for section, layout := range overrides {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(rows[index].ID, section+":") {
+				rows[index].Layout = layout
+				break
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return rows
+}
+
+func (s *Server) applyRowLayouts(ctx context.Context, rows []recommend.Row) []recommend.Row {
+	return applyRowLayoutOverrides(rows, rowLayoutOverrides(s.currentFeaturePolicy(ctx)))
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/ponzischeme89/memby/server/internal/recommend"
+	"github.com/ponzischeme89/memby/server/internal/store"
+)
+
+func TestRowLayoutOverridesReadsEveryPage(t *testing.T) {
+	policy := store.FeaturePolicy{Values: map[string]json.RawMessage{
+		"home.sectionDefinitions": json.RawMessage(`[
+			{"id":"favorites","type":"favorites","title":"Favourites","component":"mediaRow","layout":"thumb"},
+			{"id":"continue","type":"continueWatching","title":"Continue","component":"mediaRow"},
+			{"id":"broken","type":"custom","title":"x","component":"mediaRow","layout":"sideways"}
+		]`),
+		"movies.sectionDefinitions": json.RawMessage(`[
+			{"id":"library","type":"library","title":"Library","component":"mediaGrid","layout":"poster"}
+		]`),
+	}}
+	got := rowLayoutOverrides(policy)
+	if got["favorites"] != "thumb" {
+		t.Fatalf("favorites layout = %q, want thumb", got["favorites"])
+	}
+	if got["library"] != "poster" {
+		t.Fatalf("library layout = %q, want poster", got["library"])
+	}
+	if _, ok := got["continue"]; ok {
+		t.Fatalf("a row with no layout must not appear as an override")
+	}
+	if _, ok := got["broken"]; ok {
+		t.Fatalf("an invalid layout must not appear as an override")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestApplyRowLayoutOverridesMatchesExactAndChildRows(t *testing.T) {
+	rows := []recommend.Row{
+		{ID: "favorites"},
+		{ID: "for-you"},
+		{ID: "for-you:home:evening"},
+		{ID: "latest-movies", Layout: "poster"},
+	}
+	out := applyRowLayoutOverrides(rows, map[string]string{"favorites": "thumb", "for-you": "poster"})
+	if out[0].Layout != "thumb" {
+		t.Fatalf("exact match not applied: %q", out[0].Layout)
+	}
+	if out[1].Layout != "poster" || out[2].Layout != "poster" {
+		t.Fatalf("a section id must pin its child rows too: %q / %q", out[1].Layout, out[2].Layout)
+	}
+	if out[3].Layout != "poster" {
+		t.Fatalf("a row that already carries a layout must be left alone: %q", out[3].Layout)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestApplyRowLayoutOverridesNoOpWithoutOverrides(t *testing.T) {
+	rows := []recommend.Row{{ID: "favorites"}}
+	if applyRowLayoutOverrides(rows, nil)[0].Layout != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("no overrides must leave rows untouched")
+	}
+}
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ func (s *Server) runForYouRebuild(ctx context.Context) (scheduler.Outcome, error
 	if err != nil {
 		return scheduler.Outcome{}, fmt.Errorf("read For You rebuild state: %w", err)
 	}
-	if !forYouRebuildDue(state.LastRebuildAt, now, s.cfg.ForYouRebuildHour) {
+	if !forYouRebuildDue(state.LastRebuildAt, now, s.forYouRebuildHour()) {
 		return scheduler.Outcome{}, nil
 	}
 	result, err := s.forYou.RebuildAll(ctx, true)
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import (
 	"crypto/rand"
 	"encoding/hex"
 	"log/slog"
-	"net"
 	"net/http"
 	"strings"

@@ -237,28 +236,3 @@ func isPlaybackItemPath(path string) bool {
 	}
 	return false
 }
-
-// requestClientIP is the viewer-facing address recorded for trailer playback. The first
-// Forwarded address is the original client when the gateway is behind its normal reverse
-// proxy; direct deployments fall back to RemoteAddr. This value is for operational logs,
-// never authentication or access control.
-func requestClientIP(r *http.Request) string {
-	for _, value := range strings.Split(r.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-For"), ",") {
-		if ip := net.ParseIP(strings.TrimSpace(value)); ip != nil {
-			return ip.String()
-		}
-	}
-	if ip := net.ParseIP(strings.TrimSpace(r.Header.Get("X-Real-IP"))); ip != nil {
-		return ip.String()
-	}
-	host, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(strings.TrimSpace(r.RemoteAddr))
-	if err == nil {
-		if ip := net.ParseIP(host); ip != nil {
-			return ip.String()
-		}
-	}
-	if ip := net.ParseIP(strings.TrimSpace(r.RemoteAddr)); ip != nil {
-		return ip.String()
-	}
-	return "unknown"
-}
@@ -73,15 +73,6 @@ func TestComponentNamesThePartOfTheAppARouteBelongsTo(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

-func TestRequestClientIPPrefersOriginalForwardedAddress(t *testing.T) {
-	request := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/v1/items/42/trailers/report", nil)
-	request.RemoteAddr = "10.0.0.2:41234"
-	request.Header.Set("X-Forwarded-For", "203.0.113.9, 10.0.0.2")
-	if got := requestClientIP(request); got != "203.0.113.9" {
-		t.Fatalf("client ip = %q", got)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestIdentifyNamesTheViewerAndTelevision(t *testing.T) {
 	request := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/v1/home", nil)
 	request.Header.Set("X-Memby-Version", "0.1.60")
@@ -31,7 +31,13 @@ func (s *Server) recordLogin(r *http.Request, event store.LoginEvent) {
 		return
 	}
 	if event.IPAddress == "" {
-		event.IPAddress = requestClientIP(r)
+		origin := s.resolveClientIP(r)
+		event.IPAddress = origin.String()
+		// One line per sign-in attempt, so an operator can see which header the address
+		// came from when a reverse proxy is in front of the gateway. Debug keeps it out
+		// of the ordinary log while still being there when the question is asked.
+		s.log.Debug("resolved login client ip",
+			"ip", origin.String(), "via", origin.Via, "device_id", event.DeviceID)
 	}
 	if event.ClientVersion == "" {
 		event.ClientVersion = clientVersion(r)
@@ -248,6 +248,25 @@ func (s *Server) handlePlayback(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, sess sto
 		"negotiation_duration", time.Since(negotiationStarted).Round(time.Millisecond),
 	)

+	// Starting to watch it retires the REQUEST READY pin — the request journey is complete,
+	// and from here the card is ordinary Continue Watching. Best-effort and detached: the
+	// viewer is about to watch something regardless of whether this write lands, and the
+	// age-out sweep is the backstop. itemID is the id the card opened (the series id for a
+	// series request); target.ID is the resolved movie or episode.
+	if s.store != nil {
+		detached := context.WithoutCancel(ctx)
+		go func() {
+			cleared, err := s.store.ClearRequestReadySurfaced(detached, sess.EmbyUserID, itemID, target.ID)
+			if err != nil {
+				s.loggerFor(detached).Warn("request ready pin not cleared", "error", err)
+				return
+			}
+			if cleared > 0 {
+				s.invalidateHomeFor(detached, sess.EmbyUserID)
+			}
+		}()
+	}
+
 	nextAiringAvailable, nextAiringLabel, nextAiringDayLabel, nextAiringCode :=
 		s.nextAiringFieldsFor(ctx, target)
 	writeJSON(w, http.StatusOK, playbackResponse{
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ func (s *Server) buildRecommendations(ctx context.Context, sess store.Session) (
 	// An empty result is cached too: a user with no history should not trigger a full
 	// rebuild on every single home load.
 	if raw, err := json.Marshal(rows); err == nil {
-		if err := s.cache.Set(ctx, cache.RecommendationsKey(sess.EmbyUserID), raw, s.cfg.RecommendTTL); err != nil {
+		if err := s.cache.Set(ctx, cache.RecommendationsKey(sess.EmbyUserID), raw, s.recommendTTL()); err != nil {
 			s.loggerFor(ctx).Warn("recommendation cache write failed", "error", err)
 		}
 	}
@@ -70,6 +70,15 @@ func (s *Server) runRequestReadyScan(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {
 		return "", nil
 	}

+	// Retire pins nobody has acted on in a fortnight before looking at anything else, so a
+	// stale REQUEST READY tag is gone from Home within a sweep of its deadline rather than
+	// leaning on SurfacedReadyRequests' own window clause to keep hiding it.
+	if expired, err := s.store.ExpireStaleReadyRequests(ctx); err != nil {
+		s.loggerFor(ctx).Warn("stale request pins not expired", "error", err)
+	} else {
+		s.invalidateHomeFor(ctx, expired...)
+	}
+
 	owned, err := s.store.AllMediaRequests(ctx, store.MediaRequestSweepLimit)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("request arrivals: read requests: %w", err)
@@ -112,6 +121,22 @@ func (s *Server) runRequestReadyScan(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {
 			if s.announceRequestReady(ctx, req, card) {
 				announced++
 			}
+			// Pin it to the front of the requester's Continue Watching row until they play
+			// it. Only possible once the library has an item id — a title the *arr reports a
+			// file for but Emby has not imported yet is still worth the notification above,
+			// but there is nothing for a card to open. MarkRequestReadySurfaced's own guard
+			// makes the repeat a no-op, so this is safe to call on every observed transition.
+			if card.EmbyItemID != "" {
+				if err := s.store.MarkRequestReadySurfaced(
+					ctx, req.UserID, req.MediaType, req.ForeignID, card.EmbyItemID,
+				); err != nil {
+					s.loggerFor(ctx).Warn("request ready pin not recorded",
+						"user_id", req.UserID, "type", req.MediaType,
+						"foreign_id", req.ForeignID, "error", err)
+				} else {
+					s.invalidateHomeFor(ctx, req.UserID)
+				}
+			}
 		}
 		if err := s.store.SetMediaRequestStatus(
 			ctx, req.UserID, req.MediaType, req.ForeignID, card.Status,
@@ -0,0 +1,179 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net/url"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/ponzischeme89/memby/server/internal/emby"
+	"github.com/ponzischeme89/memby/server/internal/store"
+)
+
+// Pinning a freshly arrived request to the front of Continue Watching.
+//
+// The notification (requests_ready.go) tells the person who asked that their title has
+// landed; this is the other half — putting it where they actually look for something to
+// watch. An unwatched film never appears in Continue Watching on its own and a new series
+// only shows up if they go hunting, so without this the request journey ends a step short of
+// its payoff.
+//
+// It is deliberately cheap. The only new work on the Home path is one indexed Postgres read
+// (SurfacedReadyRequests), and — only when that read is non-empty, which is rare — one
+// batched Emby item lookup for the titles not already in the row. No Radarr or Sonarr call
+// is ever made here.
+
+const (
+	// requestReadyField and requestReadyLabelField are what the television reads. The label
+	// is the server's wording (the MembyAirLabel precedent), so renaming it needs no app
+	// release; a client that predates the field falls back to its own constant.
+	requestReadyField      = "MembyRequestReady"
+	requestReadyLabelField = "MembyRequestReadyLabel"
+	// requestReadyLabel is the tag drawn on the card.
+	requestReadyLabel = "REQUEST READY"
+)
+
+// injectRequestReady tags or prepends the viewer's still-pinned request arrivals in the
+// merged Continue Watching list.
+//
+//   - A surfaced title already in the row (the film itself, or the series an episode belongs
+//     to) is tagged in place — no second card.
+//   - One not in the row is fetched from Emby and prepended, newest arrival first.
+//
+// Any failure degrades to the list untouched: the person was already told by notification,
+// and a missing pin is a smaller disappointment than a broken launcher.
+func (s *Server) injectRequestReady(
+	ctx context.Context,
+	cred emby.Credentials,
+	items []json.RawMessage,
+	surfaced []store.SurfacedReadyRequest,
+) []json.RawMessage {
+	if len(surfaced) == 0 {
+		return items
+	}
+	missing := missingRequestReady(items, surfaced)
+	if len(missing) == 0 {
+		return mergeRequestReady(items, surfaced, nil)
+	}
+
+	ids := make([]string, 0, len(missing))
+	for _, req := range missing {
+		ids = append(ids, req.ItemID)
+	}
+	fetched, err := s.emby.Items(ctx, cred, rowParams(url.Values{
+		"Ids":       {strings.Join(ids, ",")},
+		"Recursive": {"true"},
+	}, fieldsContinue))
+	if err != nil {
+		s.loggerFor(ctx).Warn("request ready items unavailable", "error", err)
+		// The titles already in the row are still worth tagging even when the fetch for the
+		// rest fails.
+		return mergeRequestReady(items, surfaced, nil)
+	}
+
+	byID := make(map[string]json.RawMessage, len(fetched.Items))
+	for _, raw := range fetched.Items {
+		if id, _, _, _ := continueItemFields(raw, nil); id != "" {
+			byID[id] = raw
+		}
+	}
+	return mergeRequestReady(items, surfaced, byID)
+}
+
+// requestReadyIndex maps every item and series id already in the row to its position.
+func requestReadyIndex(items []json.RawMessage) map[string]int {
+	present := make(map[string]int, len(items))
+	for index, raw := range items {
+		id, seriesID, _, _ := continueItemFields(raw, nil)
+		if id != "" {
+			present[id] = index
+		}
+		if seriesID != "" {
+			if _, ok := present[seriesID]; !ok {
+				present[seriesID] = index
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return present
+}
+
+// missingRequestReady is the surfaced arrivals whose title is not already in the row.
+func missingRequestReady(
+	items []json.RawMessage, surfaced []store.SurfacedReadyRequest,
+) []store.SurfacedReadyRequest {
+	present := requestReadyIndex(items)
+	missing := make([]store.SurfacedReadyRequest, 0, len(surfaced))
+	for _, req := range surfaced {
+		if _, ok := present[req.ItemID]; !ok {
+			missing = append(missing, req)
+		}
+	}
+	return missing
+}
+
+// mergeRequestReady is the pure half: stamp the arrivals already in the row in place, and
+// prepend the rest from `fetched` (newest first), stamped. An arrival with no fetched item
+// is simply left out — the notification already carried the news.
+func mergeRequestReady(
+	items []json.RawMessage,
+	surfaced []store.SurfacedReadyRequest,
+	fetched map[string]json.RawMessage,
+) []json.RawMessage {
+	out := make([]json.RawMessage, len(items))
+	copy(out, items)
+	present := requestReadyIndex(out)
+
+	var missing []store.SurfacedReadyRequest
+	for _, req := range surfaced {
+		if index, ok := present[req.ItemID]; ok {
+			out[index] = stampRequestReady(out[index])
+			continue
+		}
+		missing = append(missing, req)
+	}
+	// surfaced is ordered newest first, so this block keeps that order and the whole block
+	// goes in front of the existing row.
+	prepend := make([]json.RawMessage, 0, len(missing))
+	for _, req := range missing {
+		if raw, ok := fetched[req.ItemID]; ok {
+			prepend = append(prepend, stampRequestReady(raw))
+		}
+	}
+	if len(prepend) == 0 {
+		return out
+	}
+	return append(prepend, out...)
+}
+
+// stampRequestReady sets the two tag fields on one item's JSON, leaving everything else
+// alone. It mirrors decorateItemRatings' approach — decode to a map, set, re-encode — so a
+// field the row does not model is preserved.
+func stampRequestReady(raw json.RawMessage) json.RawMessage {
+	var item map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &item); err != nil || item == nil {
+		return raw
+	}
+	item[requestReadyField] = true
+	item[requestReadyLabelField] = requestReadyLabel
+	if stamped, err := json.Marshal(item); err == nil {
+		return stamped
+	}
+	return raw
+}
+
+// invalidateHomeFor drops the cached Home payload for each named viewer, best-effort. Used
+// wherever a request pin is created or retired outside a Home request itself — the ready
+// sweep and the playback handler.
+func (s *Server) invalidateHomeFor(ctx context.Context, userIDs ...string) {
+	if s.cache == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	for _, userID := range userIDs {
+		if userID == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if err := s.cache.InvalidateUser(ctx, userID); err != nil {
+			s.loggerFor(ctx).Warn("home cache not invalidated", "user_id", userID, "error", err)
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+package api
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/ponzischeme89/memby/server/internal/store"
+)
+
+func readyReq(itemID, mediaType string) store.SurfacedReadyRequest {
+	return store.SurfacedReadyRequest{MediaType: mediaType, ItemID: itemID, Title: itemID}
+}
+
+func isStamped(t *testing.T, raw json.RawMessage) bool {
+	t.Helper()
+	var item struct {
+		Ready bool   `json:"MembyRequestReady"`
+		Label string `json:"MembyRequestReadyLabel"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &item); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unmarshal: %v", err)
+	}
+	return item.Ready && item.Label == requestReadyLabel
+}
+
+// The overwhelmingly common case: nobody is waiting on anything, so the row is untouched.
+func TestMergeRequestReadyNoArrivalsIsANoOp(t *testing.T) {
+	items := []json.RawMessage{resumeItem(t, "film", "", "2026-08-01T20:00:00Z")}
+	got := mergeRequestReady(items, nil, nil)
+	if !equalIDs(mergedIDs(t, got), []string{"film"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("ids = %v", mergedIDs(t, got))
+	}
+	if isStamped(t, got[0]) {
+		t.Fatal("item stamped with no arrivals")
+	}
+}
+
+// An arrival not in the row is prepended and tagged.
+func TestMergeRequestReadyPrependsMissingTitle(t *testing.T) {
+	items := []json.RawMessage{resumeItem(t, "film", "", "2026-08-01T20:00:00Z")}
+	surfaced := []store.SurfacedReadyRequest{readyReq("new-movie", "movie")}
+	fetched := map[string]json.RawMessage{
+		"new-movie": continueRaw(t, map[string]any{"Id": "new-movie", "Type": "Movie"}),
+	}
+
+	got := mergeRequestReady(items, surfaced, fetched)
+	if want := []string{"new-movie", "film"}; !equalIDs(mergedIDs(t, got), want) {
+		t.Fatalf("ids = %v, want %v", mergedIDs(t, got), want)
+	}
+	if !isStamped(t, got[0]) {
+		t.Fatal("prepended card not stamped")
+	}
+	if isStamped(t, got[1]) {
+		t.Fatal("existing card wrongly stamped")
+	}
+}
+
+// Newest arrival first when several are prepended (surfaced is ordered newest first).
+func TestMergeRequestReadyKeepsNewestArrivalFirst(t *testing.T) {
+	items := []json.RawMessage{resumeItem(t, "film", "", "2026-08-01T20:00:00Z")}
+	surfaced := []store.SurfacedReadyRequest{readyReq("newer", "movie"), readyReq("older", "movie")}
+	fetched := map[string]json.RawMessage{
+		"newer": continueRaw(t, map[string]any{"Id": "newer", "Type": "Movie"}),
+		"older": continueRaw(t, map[string]any{"Id": "older", "Type": "Movie"}),
+	}
+
+	got := mergedIDs(t, mergeRequestReady(items, surfaced, fetched))
+	if want := []string{"newer", "older", "film"}; !equalIDs(got, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("ids = %v, want %v", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+// A surfaced title already in Continue Watching — by its own id, or as the series an
+// episode belongs to — is tagged in place, never duplicated.
+func TestMergeRequestReadyTagsExistingCardInPlace(t *testing.T) {
+	items := []json.RawMessage{
+		resumeItem(t, "s1e3", "severance", "2026-08-06T19:00:00Z"),
+		resumeItem(t, "the-film", "", "2026-08-01T20:00:00Z"),
+	}
+	surfaced := []store.SurfacedReadyRequest{
+		readyReq("severance", "series"),
+		readyReq("the-film", "movie"),
+	}
+
+	got := mergeRequestReady(items, surfaced, nil)
+	if want := []string{"s1e3", "the-film"}; !equalIDs(mergedIDs(t, got), want) {
+		t.Fatalf("ids = %v, want %v", mergedIDs(t, got), want)
+	}
+	if !isStamped(t, got[0]) || !isStamped(t, got[1]) {
+		t.Fatal("existing cards not tagged in place")
+	}
+}
+
+// A fetch that returned nothing for an arrival degrades to leaving it out rather than
+// inserting a blank card.
+func TestMergeRequestReadyDropsUnfetchableArrival(t *testing.T) {
+	items := []json.RawMessage{resumeItem(t, "film", "", "2026-08-01T20:00:00Z")}
+	surfaced := []store.SurfacedReadyRequest{readyReq("gone", "movie")}
+
+	got := mergeRequestReady(items, surfaced, map[string]json.RawMessage{})
+	if !equalIDs(mergedIDs(t, got), []string{"film"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("ids = %v", mergedIDs(t, got))
+	}
+}
+
+func TestStampRequestReadyPreservesOtherFields(t *testing.T) {
+	raw := continueRaw(t, map[string]any{"Id": "x", "Name": "Keep me", "Type": "Movie"})
+	stamped := stampRequestReady(raw)
+	var item struct {
+		Name  string `json:"Name"`
+		Ready bool   `json:"MembyRequestReady"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(stamped, &item); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unmarshal: %v", err)
+	}
+	if item.Name != "Keep me" || !item.Ready {
+		t.Fatalf("stamp lost fields: %+v", item)
+	}
+}
@@ -155,11 +155,13 @@ func (s *Server) handleTrailerReport(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, ses
 		writeError(w, http.StatusBadRequest, "invalid trailer report")
 		return
 	}
+	origin := s.resolveClientIP(r)
 	fields := []any{
 		"item_id", itemID,
 		"provider", report.Provider,
 		"candidate", report.CandidateID,
-		"source_ip", requestClientIP(r),
+		"source_ip", origin.String(),
+		"source_ip_via", origin.Via,
 	}
 	if reason := strings.TrimSpace(report.Reason); reason != "" {
 		fields = append(fields, "reason", reason)
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ func TestTrailerStartedLogUsesOriginalClientIP(t *testing.T) {
 	request := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/v1/items/film-1/trailers/report",
 		bytes.NewBufferString(`{"candidateId":"youtube-1","provider":"youtube","phase":"started"}`))
 	request.SetPathValue("id", "film-1")
+	// The request reaches the gateway through the household reverse proxy, whose LAN
+	// address is trusted by default, so its X-Forwarded-For is believed.
+	request.RemoteAddr = "10.0.0.2:44321"
 	request.Header.Set("X-Forwarded-For", "203.0.113.42, 10.0.0.2")
 	request, _ = withRequestIdentity(request)
 	identify(request.Context(), store.Session{Username: "viewer", DeviceName: "Lounge TV"})
@@ -76,6 +79,7 @@ func TestTrailerStartedLogUsesOriginalClientIP(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	page := events.Events(0, 10)
 	if len(page.Events) != 1 || page.Events[0].Attributes["source_ip"] != "203.0.113.42" ||
+		page.Events[0].Attributes["source_ip_via"] != "forwarded" ||
 		page.Events[0].Message != "trailer playback started" {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected event: %+v", page.Events)
 	}
@@ -59,6 +59,53 @@ func previousMonth(now time.Time, location *time.Location) (from, to time.Time,
 	return from, to, from.Format("2006-01")
 }

+// priorWeekToDate is last week measured to the same point this week has reached: the local
+// Monday a week ago, up to the same weekday and wall-clock time as now. AddDate keeps the
+// wall clock across a daylight-saving change, so "the same time last week" stays the same
+// time rather than drifting an hour — the reason weekStartIn works in dates too.
+func priorWeekToDate(now time.Time, location *time.Location) (from, to time.Time) {
+	from = weekStartIn(now, location).AddDate(0, 0, -7)
+	to = now.In(location).AddDate(0, 0, -7)
+	return from, to
+}
+
+// watchWeekTrendFloor is how far this week's figure can sit from last week's before the
+// difference is worth showing. The band is the larger of this and a tenth of last week —
+// an absolute floor so a light household is not told "down" over a few minutes, and a
+// proportion so a heavy one is not told "steady" over an hour.
+const watchWeekTrendFloor = 5 * time.Minute
+
+// watchWeekTrend is this week-to-date against the same point last week: a direction the
+// console prints beside the figure, plus the numbers behind it. Direction is "up", "down",
+// "steady" or "none" — the last when there is nothing to compare, the runtimestats
+// DirectionUnknown stance.
+type watchWeekTrend struct {
+	Direction string `json:"direction"`
+	PriorMs   int64  `json:"priorMs"`
+	DeltaMs   int64  `json:"deltaMs"`
+}
+
+// weekOverWeek classifies this week's watch time against last week's to-date figure. Pure,
+// so the console and its tests agree on where "steady" ends.
+func weekOverWeek(currentMs, priorMs int64) watchWeekTrend {
+	if currentMs <= 0 && priorMs <= 0 {
+		return watchWeekTrend{Direction: "none"}
+	}
+	delta := currentMs - priorMs
+	band := priorMs / 10
+	if floor := watchWeekTrendFloor.Milliseconds(); band < floor {
+		band = floor
+	}
+	direction := "steady"
+	switch {
+	case delta > band:
+		direction = "up"
+	case delta < -band:
+		direction = "down"
+	}
+	return watchWeekTrend{Direction: direction, PriorMs: priorMs, DeltaMs: delta}
+}
+
 // weekKey names a week the way the source key needs it — a stable string that changes exactly
 // once per week. ISO year-and-week, so the last days of December cannot collide with the
 // first days of January.
@@ -146,6 +193,10 @@ type watchTimeSummary struct {
 	Matched  bool   `json:"matched"`
 	Username string `json:"tracearrUsername,omitempty"`
 	WeekMs   int64  `json:"weekMs"`
+	// WeekTrend compares WeekMs with the same point last week, so the console can show
+	// whether a person's viewing is up or down without the operator holding last week's
+	// figure in their head.
+	WeekTrend     watchWeekTrend `json:"weekTrend"`
 	MonthMs       int64          `json:"monthMs"`
 	TotalMs       int64          `json:"totalMs"`
 	WeekSessions  int            `json:"weekSessions"`
@@ -220,16 +271,16 @@ type watchTimeAccount struct {
 func (s *Server) watchTimeForAccounts(
 	ctx context.Context,
 	accounts []watchTimeAccount,
-) map[string]store.WatchTimeTotals {
+) (totals map[string]store.WatchTimeTotals, priorWeekMs map[string]int64) {
 	if !s.tracearrEnabled() || len(accounts) == 0 {
-		return nil
+		return nil, nil
 	}
 	location := s.householdLocation()
 	now := time.Now()
-	totals, err := s.store.TracearrWatchTime(ctx, weekStartIn(now, location), monthStartIn(now, location))
+	rows, err := s.store.TracearrWatchTime(ctx, weekStartIn(now, location), monthStartIn(now, location))
 	if err != nil {
 		s.loggerFor(ctx).Warn("watch time read failed", "error", err)
-		return nil
+		return nil, nil
 	}
 	identities, err := s.store.TracearrIdentities(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -238,18 +289,37 @@ func (s *Server) watchTimeForAccounts(
 		s.loggerFor(ctx).Warn("Tracearr identity map unavailable", "error", err)
 		identities = map[string]store.RecommendationIdentity{}
 	}
-	return attributeWatchTime(accounts, totals, identities)
+	attributed := attributeWatchTime(accounts, rows, identities)
+
+	// Last week to the same point, attributed the same two ways, so the console can say
+	// whether viewing is up or down. A failure here costs the arrow, never the figures.
+	priorWeek := map[string]int64{}
+	priorFrom, priorTo := priorWeekToDate(now, location)
+	windows, err := s.store.TracearrWatchTimeRange(ctx, priorFrom, priorTo)
+	if err != nil {
+		s.loggerFor(ctx).Warn("prior-week watch time read failed", "error", err)
+	} else {
+		byID, byName := indexWatchTimeRanges(windows)
+		for _, account := range accounts {
+			window := lookupWatchTimeRange(byID, byName, identities[account.ID], account.Username)
+			priorWeek[account.ID] = window.Ms
+		}
+	}
+	return attributed, priorWeek
 }

 // summariseWatchTime turns the store's row into what the console reads, including the case
-// where there is no row.
-func summariseWatchTime(totals store.WatchTimeTotals, matched bool) watchTimeSummary {
+// where there is no row. priorWeekMs is last week's viewing to the same point, for the
+// week-over-week arrow — zero when there is nothing recorded, which weekOverWeek reads as
+// "no change to show" rather than as a fall to nothing.
+func summariseWatchTime(totals store.WatchTimeTotals, matched bool, priorWeekMs int64) watchTimeSummary {
 	if !matched {
 		return watchTimeSummary{}
 	}
 	return watchTimeSummary{
 		Matched: true, Username: totals.Username,
-		WeekMs: totals.WeekMs, MonthMs: totals.MonthMs, TotalMs: totals.TotalMs,
+		WeekMs: totals.WeekMs, WeekTrend: weekOverWeek(totals.WeekMs, priorWeekMs),
+		MonthMs: totals.MonthMs, TotalMs: totals.TotalMs,
 		WeekSessions: totals.WeekSessions, MonthSessions: totals.MonthSessions,
 		LastWatchedAt: totals.LastWatchedAt,
 	}
@@ -185,6 +185,47 @@ func TestWatchTimeIsAttributedByRecordedIdentityBeforeName(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

+func TestPriorWeekToDateMatchesThePointThisWeekHasReached(t *testing.T) {
+	location := auckland(t)
+	// Wednesday 19 August 2026, mid-evening.
+	now := time.Date(2026, 8, 19, 21, 15, 0, 0, location)
+	from, to := priorWeekToDate(now, location)
+	if got, want := from.Format("2006-01-02 15:04"), "2026-08-10 00:00"; got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("prior week from = %s, want %s", got, want)
+	}
+	if got, want := to.Format("2006-01-02 15:04"), "2026-08-12 21:15"; got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("prior week to = %s, want %s (same weekday and time, a week back)", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestWeekOverWeek(t *testing.T) {
+	minute := int64(60 * 1000)
+	tests := []struct {
+		name           string
+		current, prior int64
+		wantDir        string
+	}{
+		{"nothing either week", 0, 0, "none"},
+		{"first watching this week", 90 * minute, 0, "up"},
+		{"stopped watching", 0, 90 * minute, "down"},
+		{"a few minutes more is still steady", 63 * minute, 60 * minute, "steady"},
+		{"well up on last week", 180 * minute, 60 * minute, "up"},
+		{"well down on last week", 20 * minute, 120 * minute, "down"},
+		{"identical", 45 * minute, 45 * minute, "steady"},
+	}
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			got := weekOverWeek(test.current, test.prior)
+			if got.Direction != test.wantDir {
+				t.Fatalf("weekOverWeek(%d, %d) = %q, want %q", test.current, test.prior, got.Direction, test.wantDir)
+			}
+			if got.Direction != "none" && got.DeltaMs != test.current-test.prior {
+				t.Fatalf("delta = %d, want %d", got.DeltaMs, test.current-test.prior)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestWatchTimeFallsBackToACaseInsensitiveName(t *testing.T) {
 	accounts := []watchTimeAccount{{ID: "emby-1", Username: "Matt"}}
 	totals := []store.WatchTimeTotals{{Username: "matt", WeekMs: 42}}
@@ -202,7 +243,7 @@ func TestAnUnmatchedAccountIsAbsentRatherThanZero(t *testing.T) {
 	if _, ok := got["emby-9"]; ok {
 		t.Fatal("an unmatched account was attributed watch time")
 	}
-	if summary := summariseWatchTime(store.WatchTimeTotals{}, false); summary.Matched {
+	if summary := summariseWatchTime(store.WatchTimeTotals{}, false, 0); summary.Matched {
 		t.Fatal("an unmatched summary claimed a match")
 	}
 }
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ package config
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"net/netip"
 	"os"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -85,6 +86,17 @@ type Config struct {

 	UpstreamTimeout time.Duration

+	// TrustedProxies are the reverse proxies whose X-Forwarded-For and X-Real-IP
+	// headers the gateway will believe when working out where a request originated.
+	// A forwarded header is only honoured when the immediate peer is one of these, so
+	// a client reaching the gateway directly cannot spoof its address by setting one.
+	//
+	// Empty (MEMBY_TRUSTED_PROXIES unset) trusts loopback and the private/unique-local
+	// ranges — every reverse proxy a home deployment puts in front of Memby sits in one
+	// of those. Set it to a comma-separated list of addresses or CIDR ranges to narrow
+	// or widen that, or to "none" to trust no proxy at all.
+	TrustedProxies []netip.Prefix
+
 	// SlowRequestThreshold is how long a request has to take before its log line
 	// carries a stage breakdown. Fast requests deliberately carry none: it is the one
 	// field on the line that varies in width, and a column of them on every /v1/status
@@ -225,6 +237,10 @@ func Load() (Config, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return Config{}, err
 	}
+	trusted, err := trustedProxies(os.Getenv("MEMBY_TRUSTED_PROXIES"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return Config{}, fmt.Errorf("MEMBY_TRUSTED_PROXIES: %w", err)
+	}
 	c := Config{
 		ListenAddr:        env("MEMBY_LISTEN_ADDR", ":8080"),
 		EmbyURL:           strings.TrimRight(os.Getenv("MEMBY_EMBY_URL"), "/"),
@@ -261,6 +277,7 @@ func Load() (Config, error) {
 		SyncAPIKey:              strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MEMBY_SYNC_API_KEY")),
 		AnalyticsRetention:      duration("MEMBY_ANALYTICS_RETENTION", 90*24*time.Hour),
 		UpstreamTimeout:         duration("MEMBY_UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT", 20*time.Second),
+		TrustedProxies:          trusted,
 		SlowRequestThreshold:    duration("MEMBY_SLOW_REQUEST_THRESHOLD", 500*time.Millisecond),
 		EmbyHealthInterval:      duration("MEMBY_EMBY_HEALTH_INTERVAL", 60*time.Second),
 		SonarrURL:               strings.TrimRight(strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MEMBY_SONARR_URL")), "/"),
@@ -408,6 +425,61 @@ func duration(key string, fallback time.Duration) time.Duration {
 	return fallback
 }

+// DefaultTrustedProxyRanges is what MEMBY_TRUSTED_PROXIES falls back to: loopback and
+// the private and unique-local ranges. It is exported so the request layer can use the
+// same set when it is handed a nil list.
+func DefaultTrustedProxyRanges() []netip.Prefix {
+	return parsePrefixes(
+		"127.0.0.0/8", "::1/128",
+		"10.0.0.0/8", "172.16.0.0/12", "192.168.0.0/16",
+		"169.254.0.0/16", "fe80::/10", "fc00::/7",
+	)
+}
+
+func parsePrefixes(values ...string) []netip.Prefix {
+	out := make([]netip.Prefix, 0, len(values))
+	for _, value := range values {
+		if prefix, err := netip.ParsePrefix(value); err == nil {
+			out = append(out, prefix.Masked())
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// trustedProxies reads the MEMBY_TRUSTED_PROXIES list. Blank means the defaults, the
+// literal "none" means an empty (but non-nil) set, and every other token is an address
+// or a CIDR range — with "private" as a shorthand for the default ranges.
+func trustedProxies(raw string) ([]netip.Prefix, error) {
+	raw = strings.TrimSpace(raw)
+	switch {
+	case raw == "":
+		return DefaultTrustedProxyRanges(), nil
+	case strings.EqualFold(raw, "none"):
+		return []netip.Prefix{}, nil
+	}
+	out := []netip.Prefix{}
+	for _, token := range strings.Split(raw, ",") {
+		token = strings.TrimSpace(token)
+		if token == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if strings.EqualFold(token, "private") {
+			out = append(out, DefaultTrustedProxyRanges()...)
+			continue
+		}
+		if prefix, err := netip.ParsePrefix(token); err == nil {
+			out = append(out, prefix.Masked())
+			continue
+		}
+		addr, err := netip.ParseAddr(token)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q is not an IP address or CIDR range", token)
+		}
+		out = append(out, netip.PrefixFrom(addr, addr.BitLen()))
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
 func integer(key string, fallback int) int {
 	raw := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv(key))
 	if raw == "" {
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package config

 import (
+	"net/netip"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"testing"
@@ -89,6 +90,57 @@ func TestForYouRebuildHourIsValidated(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

+func TestTrustedProxiesDefaultToLoopbackAndPrivateRanges(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("MEMBY_EMBY_URL", "http://emby")
+	t.Setenv("MEMBY_DATABASE_URL", "postgres://memby")
+	t.Setenv("MEMBY_TRUSTED_PROXIES", "")
+
+	cfg, err := Load()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	trusts := func(ip string) bool {
+		addr := netip.MustParseAddr(ip)
+		for _, prefix := range cfg.TrustedProxies {
+			if prefix.Contains(addr) {
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{"127.0.0.1", "10.0.0.2", "192.168.1.5"} {
+		if !trusts(want) {
+			t.Fatalf("%s should be trusted by default", want)
+		}
+	}
+	if trusts("203.0.113.9") {
+		t.Fatal("a public address must not be trusted by default")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTrustedProxiesNoneClearsTheList(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("MEMBY_EMBY_URL", "http://emby")
+	t.Setenv("MEMBY_DATABASE_URL", "postgres://memby")
+	t.Setenv("MEMBY_TRUSTED_PROXIES", "none")
+
+	cfg, err := Load()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if cfg.TrustedProxies == nil || len(cfg.TrustedProxies) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("trusted proxies = %v, want an empty non-nil list", cfg.TrustedProxies)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTrustedProxiesRejectGarbage(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("MEMBY_EMBY_URL", "http://emby")
+	t.Setenv("MEMBY_DATABASE_URL", "postgres://memby")
+	t.Setenv("MEMBY_TRUSTED_PROXIES", "10.0.0.0/8, not-an-address")
+	if _, err := Load(); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("expected an unparseable trusted proxy entry to fail")
+	}
+}
+
 func TestRecommendationWeightsMustBeJSON(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv("MEMBY_EMBY_URL", "http://emby")
 	t.Setenv("MEMBY_DATABASE_URL", "postgres://memby")
@@ -91,9 +91,20 @@ type RemoteSectionDefinition struct {
 	Component   string `json:"component"`
 	MaxItems    int    `json:"maxItems,omitempty"`
 	Destination string `json:"destination,omitempty"`
+	// Layout overrides the card shape a mediaRow draws: "poster" forces upright poster
+	// cards, "thumb" forces the wide landscape cards Continue Watching uses. Empty leaves
+	// the client's automatic choice (episodes landscape, everything else poster) alone.
+	Layout   string         `json:"layout,omitempty"`
 	Settings map[string]any `json:"settings,omitempty"`
 }

+// SectionLayoutPoster and SectionLayoutThumb are the two explicit card shapes an operator
+// can pin a row to; anything else means "let the client decide".
+const (
+	SectionLayoutPoster = "poster"
+	SectionLayoutThumb  = "thumb"
+)
+
 type RemoteContinueWatching struct {
 	Enabled        bool   `json:"enabled"`
 	IncludeNextUp  bool   `json:"includeNextUp"`
@@ -321,6 +332,9 @@ func validateRemoteConfigSections(document RemoteConfig) error {
 			if section.Position < 0 || section.MaxItems < 0 || section.MaxItems > 500 {
 				return fmt.Errorf("remote configuration section has an invalid position or item limit")
 			}
+			if section.Layout != "" && section.Layout != SectionLayoutPoster && section.Layout != SectionLayoutThumb {
+				return fmt.Errorf("remote configuration section %q has an invalid layout", section.ID)
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	return nil
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ type Row struct {
 	Title string            `json:"title"`
 	Kind  string            `json:"kind"`
 	Items []json.RawMessage `json:"items"`
+	// Layout is an operator-pinned card shape ("poster" or "thumb") from the section
+	// definitions, or empty to leave the client's automatic choice alone. It is stamped
+	// onto the finished rows by applyRowLayoutOverrides.
+	Layout string `json:"layout,omitempty"`
 }

 // Source is the slice of the Emby client this package needs, narrowed so tests can
@@ -66,6 +66,18 @@ type GatewaySettings struct {
 	// it is still the only way anything is discovered and must stay frequent.
 	LibrarySyncMinutes int `json:"librarySyncMinutes"`

+	// HomeTTLSeconds and RecommendTTLHours are how long the launcher payload and the
+	// personalised recommendation pool stay cached. They cannot be switched off — a TTL of
+	// nothing means every home load rebuilds — so zero keeps meaning "deployed" and any
+	// positive value is the override.
+	HomeTTLSeconds    int `json:"homeTtlSeconds"`
+	RecommendTTLHours int `json:"recommendTtlHours"`
+
+	// ForYouRebuildHour is the household-local hour (0–23) the daily For You rebuild is due
+	// at. It is a pointer because 0 is a legitimate hour, so nil — not zero — is what means
+	// "whatever was deployed".
+	ForYouRebuildHour *int `json:"forYouRebuildHour,omitempty"`
+
 	UpdatedAt time.Time `json:"updatedAt"`
 	UpdatedBy string    `json:"updatedBy,omitempty"`
 }
@@ -125,6 +137,16 @@ func normalizeGatewaySettings(settings GatewaySettings) GatewaySettings {
 	// A day is the ceiling rather than a week: however well the webhooks are working, the
 	// sweep is the only thing that ever notices a file somebody moved by hand.
 	settings.LibrarySyncMinutes = clampOverride(settings.LibrarySyncMinutes, 5, 24*60, true)
+	settings.HomeTTLSeconds = clampOverride(settings.HomeTTLSeconds, 5, 3600, false)
+	settings.RecommendTTLHours = clampOverride(settings.RecommendTTLHours, 1, 168, false)
+	if settings.ForYouRebuildHour != nil {
+		hour := *settings.ForYouRebuildHour
+		if hour < 0 || hour > 23 {
+			// An hour outside the clock is dropped rather than clamped: 25 is a typo, and
+			// silently reading it as 23 would run the rebuild at a time nobody asked for.
+			settings.ForYouRebuildHour = nil
+		}
+	}
 	return settings
 }

@@ -2,6 +2,31 @@ package store

 import "testing"

+func TestNormalizeGatewaySettingsCacheAndRebuildOverrides(t *testing.T) {
+	hour := 25
+	settings := normalizeGatewaySettings(GatewaySettings{
+		HomeTTLSeconds: 2, RecommendTTLHours: 500, ForYouRebuildHour: &hour,
+	})
+	// TTLs cannot be switched off, so a sub-floor value clamps up and an over-ceiling one
+	// clamps down rather than either reading as "deployed".
+	if settings.HomeTTLSeconds != 5 {
+		t.Fatalf("home TTL should clamp to the floor, got %d", settings.HomeTTLSeconds)
+	}
+	if settings.RecommendTTLHours != 168 {
+		t.Fatalf("recommend TTL should clamp to the ceiling, got %d", settings.RecommendTTLHours)
+	}
+	// An hour outside the clock is a typo, and is dropped rather than clamped.
+	if settings.ForYouRebuildHour != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("an out-of-range rebuild hour should be dropped, got %d", *settings.ForYouRebuildHour)
+	}
+
+	valid := 0
+	kept := normalizeGatewaySettings(GatewaySettings{ForYouRebuildHour: &valid})
+	if kept.ForYouRebuildHour == nil || *kept.ForYouRebuildHour != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("midnight is a legitimate rebuild hour and must survive, got %v", kept.ForYouRebuildHour)
+	}
+}
+
 // Normalisation is what stands between a hand-edited row (or a console built against an
 // older vocabulary) and a gateway that cannot decide what day it is.
 func TestNormalizeGatewaySettingsRefusesWhatItCannotUse(t *testing.T) {
@@ -180,6 +180,147 @@ func (s *Store) AllMediaRequests(ctx context.Context, limit int) ([]OwnedMediaRe
 // MediaRequestSweepLimit caps what one pass of the ready sweep will look at.
 const MediaRequestSweepLimit = 500

+// RequestReadySurfaceWindow is how long a freshly arrived request stays pinned to the front
+// of Continue Watching with a REQUEST READY tag if the viewer never plays it. Past this the
+// age-out clears it: an arrival nobody has acted on in a fortnight is no longer news, and a
+// pin that outstays its welcome is worse than one that lapses.
+const RequestReadySurfaceWindow = 14 * 24 * time.Hour
+
+// SurfacedReadyRequest is one arrival still worth pinning: which title, and the Emby item id
+// the card opens and dedupes against.
+type SurfacedReadyRequest struct {
+	MediaType  string
+	ForeignID  int
+	Title      string
+	Year       int
+	PosterURL  string
+	ItemID     string
+	SurfacedAt time.Time
+}
+
+// MarkRequestReadySurfaced records that a request has become watchable and should be pinned.
+//
+// The guard is the whole of the idempotency: the ready sweep calls this on every observed
+// transition to "available", and only the first one — before anything has cleared it — takes
+// effect. A request cleared by playback or the age-out is never re-pinned here; a genuinely
+// new ask is a fresh row with both timestamps null.
+func (s *Store) MarkRequestReadySurfaced(
+	ctx context.Context, userID, mediaType string, foreignID int, itemID string,
+) error {
+	itemID = strings.TrimSpace(itemID)
+	if itemID == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("store: request ready needs an item id")
+	}
+	_, err := s.pool.Exec(ctx, `
+		UPDATE media_requests
+		SET ready_surfaced_at = now(), ready_item_id = $4
+		WHERE emby_user_id = $1 AND media_type = $2 AND foreign_id = $3
+		  AND ready_surfaced_at IS NULL AND ready_cleared_at IS NULL`,
+		strings.TrimSpace(userID), mediaType, foreignID, itemID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("store: mark request ready surfaced: %w", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// SurfacedReadyRequests reads one viewer's still-pinned arrivals, newest first.
+//
+// The window and the cleared check are both in the query so the caller never has to think
+// about either: a row past RequestReadySurfaceWindow, or one playback has cleared, simply
+// does not come back. This is the read Home makes beside its Emby fan-out.
+func (s *Store) SurfacedReadyRequests(
+	ctx context.Context, userID string,
+) ([]SurfacedReadyRequest, error) {
+	cutoff := time.Now().Add(-RequestReadySurfaceWindow)
+	rows, err := s.pool.Query(ctx, `
+		SELECT media_type, foreign_id, title, year, poster_url, ready_item_id, ready_surfaced_at
+		FROM media_requests
+		WHERE emby_user_id = $1
+		  AND ready_surfaced_at IS NOT NULL
+		  AND ready_cleared_at IS NULL
+		  AND ready_surfaced_at > $2
+		  AND ready_item_id <> ''
+		ORDER BY ready_surfaced_at DESC`,
+		strings.TrimSpace(userID), cutoff)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("store: read surfaced ready requests: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+
+	out := []SurfacedReadyRequest{}
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var req SurfacedReadyRequest
+		if err := rows.Scan(
+			&req.MediaType, &req.ForeignID, &req.Title, &req.Year,
+			&req.PosterURL, &req.ItemID, &req.SurfacedAt,
+		); err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("store: scan surfaced ready request: %w", err)
+		}
+		out = append(out, req)
+	}
+	return out, rows.Err()
+}
+
+// ClearRequestReadySurfaced retires the pin for whichever of a viewer's requests point at
+// the given Emby item id — the film itself, or the series an episode belongs to. It returns
+// how many rows it touched so the caller can skip a cache invalidation that would change
+// nothing.
+func (s *Store) ClearRequestReadySurfaced(
+	ctx context.Context, userID string, itemIDs ...string,
+) (int64, error) {
+	ids := make([]string, 0, len(itemIDs))
+	for _, id := range itemIDs {
+		if id = strings.TrimSpace(id); id != "" {
+			ids = append(ids, id)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(ids) == 0 {
+		return 0, nil
+	}
+	tag, err := s.pool.Exec(ctx, `
+		UPDATE media_requests
+		SET ready_cleared_at = now()
+		WHERE emby_user_id = $1 AND ready_item_id = ANY($2)
+		  AND ready_surfaced_at IS NOT NULL AND ready_cleared_at IS NULL`,
+		strings.TrimSpace(userID), ids)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("store: clear request ready surfaced: %w", err)
+	}
+	return tag.RowsAffected(), nil
+}
+
+// ExpireStaleReadyRequests clears every pin past RequestReadySurfaceWindow across the whole
+// household in one statement, and returns the users whose Home cache is now stale. The ready
+// sweep runs this so SurfacedReadyRequests never has to lean on its own window clause to
+// hide a row that should have been retired days ago.
+func (s *Store) ExpireStaleReadyRequests(ctx context.Context) ([]string, error) {
+	cutoff := time.Now().Add(-RequestReadySurfaceWindow)
+	rows, err := s.pool.Query(ctx, `
+		UPDATE media_requests
+		SET ready_cleared_at = now()
+		WHERE ready_surfaced_at IS NOT NULL AND ready_cleared_at IS NULL
+		  AND ready_surfaced_at <= $1
+		RETURNING emby_user_id`, cutoff)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("store: expire stale ready requests: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	users := []string{}
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var userID string
+		if err := rows.Scan(&userID); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if !seen[userID] {
+			seen[userID] = true
+			users = append(users, userID)
+		}
+	}
+	return users, rows.Err()
+}
+
 // SetMediaRequestStatus records what a request was last seen doing.
 //
 // Written only when the state actually moved, so a sweep over a household where nothing has
@@ -615,6 +615,22 @@ ALTER TABLE media_requests ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS last_status TEXT NOT NULL DE
 CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS media_requests_user_requested_idx
    ON media_requests (emby_user_id, requested_at DESC);

+-- The arrival is announced once as a notification, and then pinned to the front of that
+-- viewer's Continue Watching row with a REQUEST READY tag until they start watching it.
+-- These three columns are the memory of that pin: ready_surfaced_at is when the sweep first
+-- saw the title become watchable (and only then, when the library also had an item id to
+-- open); ready_item_id is what the row pins and dedupes against; ready_cleared_at is set the
+-- moment playback starts or the 14-day age-out fires, and a non-null value stops the request
+-- ever being surfaced again — asking afresh after a delete is a new row, which is the case
+-- where the pin is genuinely new.
+ALTER TABLE media_requests ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS ready_surfaced_at TIMESTAMPTZ;
+ALTER TABLE media_requests ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS ready_item_id TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '';
+ALTER TABLE media_requests ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS ready_cleared_at TIMESTAMPTZ;
+
+CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS media_requests_user_surfaced_idx
+    ON media_requests (emby_user_id)
+    WHERE ready_surfaced_at IS NOT NULL AND ready_cleared_at IS NULL;
+
 -- Every sign-in attempt, successful or not.
 --
 -- The sessions table above holds one row per television and is overwritten by the next