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  • EmileEmile Administrator, Athom

    I have close contact with @MikeOne for the development, so while he's not a member of our team, he's really close. It's mainly our fault that the app isn't ready yet, because I couldn't give him a stable Homey before :-)

  • MarkSwiftMarkSwift Member

    Emile said:
    I have close contact with @MikeOne for the development, so while he's not a member of our team, he's really close. It's mainly our fault that the app isn't ready yet, because I couldn't give him a stable Homey before :-)

    Thanks for the quick response, Emile. Let's hope it makes it to the appstore soon, it's one of the main reasons I bought Homey!

    Oh, and great work on the move to production, good luck!

  • MikeOneMikeOne Member

    Emile said:
    I have close contact with @MikeOne for the development, so while he's not a member of our team, he's really close. It's mainly our fault that the app isn't ready yet, because I couldn't give him a stable Homey before :-)

    Coming week @Emile? ;-)

  • MennoVanGrinsvenMennoVanGrinsven Member

    I have a PMS running at home and am curious about the ways Homey can make use of it.

  • rob_houwelingrob_houweling Member

    I also have a PMS at home, but only once an month :P

  • fuzzybearfuzzybear Member

    Also got both running here one in the cellar and the other running around the house ;)

  • EmileEmile Administrator, Athom

    MikeOne said:

    Emile said:
    I have close contact with @MikeOne for the development, so while he's not a member of our team, he's really close. It's mainly our fault that the app isn't ready yet, because I couldn't give him a stable Homey before :-)

    Coming week @Emile? ;-)

    Definitely! Otherwise you'll get a crate of beer from me ;)

  • carelpeercarelpeer Member
    What I'd like to know: does this work for every plex home theater client. For instance I use plex on my Xbox one. Does the plex remote work for that client as well?
  • MikeOneMikeOne Member
    carelpeer said:
    What I'd like to know: does this work for every plex home theater client. For instance I use plex on my Xbox one. Does the plex remote work for that client as well?
    Hi Carelpeer,

    Sorry I missed your question. 

    It depends I guess. At the moment I'm focussing on getting the stand-alone PHT's to work correctly. Other implementations of Plex clients must all be individually looked at. Those custom players will need some sort of remote control capabilities in order for them to be addressed by Homey Plex app. 

    My longer term plan (after I get the current version beyond BETA) is to split the Homey app in seperate logical parts, possibly even with seperate app store installs:

    1) The core Plex app. This is the app that will connect to your PMS, indexes your media, manages all the speech triggers and contains the logic to determine exactly which media item you would like to play.
    2) Multiple drivers for mulitple plex clients. So the standard PHT client will be a driver. But for example, it might be possible to create a remote control driver specifically for the Xbox plex client (or using some second-screen capabilities). So every specific client will get a specific driver.

    This way, the community could fairly easily create new drivers en install those seperately from the core app, plus it has the advantage that the core-app (which is already pretty big) doesn't grow beyond reason.

    I'm now trying to find time to do a full refactor of the current code base first to get to a version 1.0 (not yet divided as described above). A few core concepts in the Homey API have changed over the past weeks so a refactor of my initial code is needed now.

    I hope to be able to post a Video soon showing a few working scenarios on my home setup (with a real homey), like "Okay Homey, I want to watch Star Trek". 
  • backslashbackslash Member
    Hi there, i'm a newbie @plex. At this moment i'm using Plex media server on MBP (apple) and on my iPhone. I can use iPhone to play music on my Samsung tv. but i can't play it from the MBP directly to the TV :(. via samsung tv i can use a app to play audi and movie from the MBP.

    How dos the Homey plex app works ? thx in advance
  • jordenjorden Member
    The Homey Plex app is best compared to a 'remote control' to control the Plex app that is on your TV, I guess. So if you can't use Plex on your tv now, Homey won't solve that.

    Perhaps a Chromecast is a good, cheap solution to that.
  • tommyjaytommyjay Member
    jorden said:
    The Homey Plex app is best compared to a 'remote control' to control the Plex app that is on your TV, I guess. So if you can't use Plex on your tv now, Homey won't solve that.

    Perhaps a Chromecast is a good, cheap solution to that.
    Plus, Homey already has an app for that!
  • MarcoFMarcoF Member
    edited January 2016
    Emile said:

    MikeOne said:

    Emile said:
    I have close contact with @MikeOne for the development, so while he's not a member of our team, he's really close. It's mainly our fault that the app isn't ready yet, because I couldn't give him a stable Homey before :-)

    Coming week @Emile? ;-)

    Definitely! Otherwise you'll get a crate of beer from me

    https://apps.athom.com/app/nl.kikkert.plex

    One crate for every backer? :naughty: 

    If so; Hertog Jan please :blush: 
  • jordenjorden Member
    URL is not working here, but https://github.com/MikeOne/nl.kikkert.plex does. Going to look through the code to see if I can learn anything from it :)
  • MikeOneMikeOne Member
    Good luck @jorden - it's not yet production ready. I'm refactoring and doing an extensive cleanup this week. Feel free to ask questions though  ;)
  • jordenjorden Member
    @MikeOne: "OK Homey, woar kiek ik noar" :) Just laughing out loud at the office right now!

    No questions for now, but I didn't dive into the development too deep yet.
  • MikeOneMikeOne Member
     :) - tsja, ik woon in Twente.. Die zal er niet inblijven aangezien de spraakherkenning niet echt goed is in twents. 
  • jordenjorden Member
    Nice easter egg though :)
  • MikeOneMikeOne Member
    Anyone tried installing it yet on their Homey? I just did an update of the version on github. It is fully functional, although it needs some more work on features and testing (and design of the settings page really).

    Only english for now. 
  • MikeOneMikeOne Member
    Just an additional update. There were some doubts if the new Plex Media Player (PMP - only accessible for Plex Pass at the moment - and still heavily under development) would allow remote control. It seems I found a way to do it so i expect the new PMP to be also supported by Homey in a (near) future version.
  • kimrorkimror Member
    Great news! 
  • honeyhoney Member
    edited February 2016
    MikeOne said:
    Anyone tried installing it yet on their Homey? 
    How can we install an app what is not in the app store? As far as I know we don`t have access to the file system of Homey, so I have no idea where to start. Could you make a brief tutorial (nothing extraordinary just couple of screenshots with captions) or video?
  • MarcoFMarcoF Member
    https://athomcommunity.slack.com/archives/developers/p1452594732000059

    :heart:
  • MennoVanGrinsvenMennoVanGrinsven Member
    MarcoF said:
    https://athomcommunity.slack.com/archives/developers/p1452594732000059

    :heart:
    Not accesible
  • VincentVincent Member
    You have to make an account here: https://developers.athom.com/slack/
  • MikeOneMikeOne Member
    Yes @MennoVanGrinsven , you can also check out https://developers.athom.com/ - you'll need to install the command line tool. With that you can install any app on your homey.
  • jordenjorden Member
    If only I had a Homey ;)
  • MennoVanGrinsvenMennoVanGrinsven Member
    do not have a homey yet, but i have a plex media server waiting :smile: 

  • honeyhoney Member
    edited February 2016
    Ok the client is here: https://github.com/athombv/athom-cli and here https://www.npmjs.com/package/athom-cli.

    Probably it is a very lame question, please forgive me for that: How can we install the client? Is there a packaged format or an installer?
  • jordenjorden Member
    First download the NodeJS installer: https://nodejs.org/ and install it.
    Then you can use npm to use the package installer. See https://developers.athom.com/

    However, when you want to run an 'app' for Homey, you have to select the Homey you want to install to. And since most of us don't have one yet, it will not run :)
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