Homey Plex application - main discussion thread

phb

dutch would be nice to in time ;-)

MikeOne

Agreed. Need some time to add it..

Trustme2

Ahh, yes Movie pause works

But now I have the problem that homey thinks plex has stopped. And it will shut down my receiver. (If: Plex Stops playing.. shutdown the receiver)
Is it possible to add another "if card"? -If Plex pauses- or something like that? 

Will it be possible in the future to use a Plex card in the 'then' category? -If I press pause on the remote- -then pause plex- etc.

by the way: It's a very nice app! I just have a lot of ideas   

PS another really dumb question: If I paused plex, how do I start it again? Start movie, movie start, movie play, play movie don't work.

MikeOne

Movie continue, movie start, both should work.

you are right, the pause action triggers the 'stop' flow. I already fixed that in the version I'm working on. I added an additional 'pause' flow trigger.

I'm pretty close to releasing the new version in the app store. Contains a lot of changes to the setup and connection procedure and also supports shared servers.

jorden

Or create a card to pause, so everyone can add their own trigger to it

MikeOne

You are.right, I also need to add a pause action..

MarkSwift

@MikeOne When do you think you'll be able to look at adding flow cards for Play / Stop / Pause (Not triggered by voice).

MikeOne

Play and stop is already there, I'm working on Pause and Continue. 
My focus at the moment is an issue I found in the ChromeCast-api module. This issue is causing the Plex app to sometimes 'loose' the connection to the player - resulting in commands no longer doing anything for CC. I need to do a rewrite of the chromecast-api module itself (so not my actual driver). I might do a release without this fix in the meantime, which contains a lot of stability fixes, beter PMS connection logic and the additional flow cards.

MarkSwift

@MikeOne, looking forward to the new flow cards for play, stop!

mitch

@MikeOne, is there a fix for the "no media found" error coming soon? I know time is an issue for you, just curious. 

MikeOne

I hope the new version will fix those issues. I hope to release this new version in a few days. First trying to fix a very flawed ChromeCast module :-)

mitch

@MikeOne, thank you sir. Understood

MikeOne

Okay... a new version with LOADS of changes and fixes has been submitted for app store review.

These are the included updates for version 1.1.0:

• Complete refactor of the settings page
• Complete refactor of the PMS connection logic
• Fix for socket hangup errors causing the App to crash
• Work-around for CPU warnings with very large PMS libraries (needs a proper fix at a later stage)
• Choose your best connection (now allows you to even choose the network interface if more than one is found)
• Added realtime debugging to browser console (on the settings page / plex, open your browser console)
• Addded Shared Server Support (EXPERIMENTAL - especially ChromeCast is tricky)
• Added translation support to main application and PHT + Chrome drivers
• Added Support for DUTCH (at least speech, settings page still needs some more work to translate)
• Tweaks to speech triggers
• Added speech logic that allows for better movie title targetting bij asking: "I want to watch a movie" ("Ik wil een film kijken") - after which you can provide just the title. Because speech parsing is then much easier, the app can use a smart text indexer to determine best match. It also a more natural way of asking for things (btw - also works for series: "I want to watch a series" - "Ik wil een serie kijken".)
• FLOWS: added triggers for play, stop, pause and continue
• FLOWS: added actions for playItem, stop, pause and continue

MarkSwift

@MikeOne, you rock!

MikeOne

Let's hope it gets approved soon :-)

phb

So  @MikeOne you've been busy Top 

MikeOne

Very

MarcoWijk

Great app!! +1000 It could be me, but it also works without external network on. I disabled it, but it still finds my local server!! 

MarcoWijk

@MikeOne ; ..hahahaha "woar kiek ik noar"  Really? Doar hoal ik va'n  

Is there a way to play my music library also, or is that on your to do list?

MikeOne

MarcoWijk said:

@MikeOne ; ..hahahaha "woar kiek ik noar"  Really? Doar hoal ik va'n  

Is there a way to play my music library also, or is that on your to do list?

Homey doesn't understand Twents I'm afraid - kept it there as it was put in one day one of development - easter egg to remind us that Homey was conceived in Twente :-)

Sorry, music is still on my todo list (which is pretty long :-)). The challenge is that Plex treats music completely differently from video content. Different formats, different hierarchies etc. It would take some time to also implement that.

As a short (random order) todo list that is planned for  future versions (of the top of my head, I don't have my actual list handy at the moment):

- Support media continuation (if you have watched a movie half-way for example, Homey will ask if you would like to continue) - this one should be in the next major release for sure.
- Support multiple players from the same type in flows (pretty hard to do at the moment)
- Better, more intelligent transcoding support for ChromeCast (and similar devices)
- Support (the new) Plex Media Player (PMP). I will need to reverse engineer the thing to make that one work.
- Support smart TV's without the need for a chromecast
- Support Apple TV (2)
- Support Music
- Support Queue
- Support indexing multiple servers at once (you can only select one server at the moment, but you also might want to use your own plus a friends shared server simultaneously)
- Support Plex Home and multiple users (really need voice recognition support in Homey for that one). 
- Build in more intelligent media and speech trigger caching (primarily for performance and memory use).

I'm sure I forgot a few :-)

If anyone here is comfortable with using command line stuff, please feel free to install the v1.1.0 version from Github. It might take a few more days before that one is app store approved by the Homey guys.

phil_s

Support Apple TV (3) ;-) Or/and Smart TV(LG) because i do own a chromecast. That would be brillant!!!

MikeOne

phil_s said:

Support Apple TV (3) ;-) Or/and Smart TV(LG) because i do own a chromecast. That would be brillant!!!

Oh sorry, I meant apple TV 3 of course. So are you already using the app with ChromeCast?

phil_s

sorry @MikeOne i my fault: i do not own a chromecast, so it would be cool to have it working with apple tv 3 or smart tv ;-)

Bumblez

Is that in order of priority? (because I'm kind of sad that music support is that far down the list...    )

MikeOne

Random order :-)

Ii'm already experimenting with music support, don't worry..

MarkSwift

Athom, please approve the app!

Bumblez

MikeOne said:

Random order :-)

Ii'm already experimenting with music support, don't worry..

Awesome, thanks! 

MikeOne

Version 1.1.0 is now available in the app store. Please read the README for instructions.

phb

@MikeOne  Great job Mike ,installed  the new version from the app store and playing  with it now

MikeOne

Let me know if you run into any issues okay?