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Tile for Plex

MR landen 7 years ago in Panels (dashboards) / Special Tiles • updated by iam 5 years ago • 15

Please add a Tile(s) that can control Plex.

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Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago

We are not planning on interfacing directly to various non-SmartThings platforms (be it Plex, Wink, Vera, Home Assistant, ...) at this time.


If someone develops a conforming "Media Controller" Device Type Handler for Plex for SmartThings, then ActionTiles's Media Control Tile will interface with it.

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Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 7 years ago

We are not planning on interfacing directly to various non-SmartThings platforms (be it Plex, Wink, Vera, Home Assistant, ...) at this time.


If someone develops a conforming "Media Controller" Device Type Handler for Plex for SmartThings, then ActionTiles's Media Control Tile will interface with it.

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Jon Rohan 7 years ago

I was able to do it a couple different ways... Once I document it, I will post instructions.



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Pizzle 7 years ago

please share how you did this! I've been trying to figure out ways to incorporate Tautulli into my dash. This seems like a better approach. Thanks in advance!

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Jon Rohan 7 years ago

This is actually using Tautulli at the moment but I am planning on building out full support just to Plex.  Will post here again once I start beta testing.

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nobbsy 6 years ago

Fantastic start. I love my Plex so any integration to Actiontiles would be much appreciated.

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Gilbert 6 years ago

Hey Jon, just thought Id check to see where you are in the project? I love the idea but havent seen any updates and starting to worry this has died?

Justin Stroud 6 years ago

Where did you leave off on this project, Jon? I'd love to get this working on my setup.

Danny Hathaway 6 years ago

This had much development love this but no news on how its done :(

Diego F. Zamora 6 years ago

Jon, will you be posting the instructions to get PLEX as a tile on the app?   i love what you did and I'm a huge fan of PLEX

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Doug Hanson 6 years ago

I would love this for JRivers Media Center too.

whoismoses 6 years ago

I'm guessing he is using the api to get that info.


https://github.com/Arcanemagus/plex-api/wiki/Plex-Web-API-Overview

KamHouse 5 years ago

Does the Plex Home Theatre Manager SmartApp help with any of this?

https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-plex-home-theatre-manager-smartapp/37415

Terry (ActionTiles) (Co-Founder) 5 years ago

Cool reference, KamHouse...

ActionTiles only works with official, published, standard Device "Capabilities", so I pulled the list from the link. Switch and Music Player are supported, so ... give it a try? The extra Commands are not available in ActionTiles.

capability "Switch"
capability "musicPlayer"
        
        command "scanNewClients"
        command "setPlaybackIcon", ["string"]
        command "setPlaybackTitle", ["string"]
        command "setVolumeLevel", ["number"]
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Yagga 5 years ago

I have done this by using trakt.tv widgets URL to display the banner of newly added items to my Plex server. Adding that URL to ActionTiles Media Tile as a GIF URL. Here is the trak.tv info: https://blog.trakt.tv/widgets-45fd35dba354

iam 5 years ago

So a year later, I'm finally getting around to providing some details:

https://support.actiontiles.com/communities/12/topics/7826-plex-tiles

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