#plexapp

Stream Movies, TV shows and more on your Android TV. 🎬 Cast to your TV, sync offline, and customize your media experience with Plex

Just bought a Lifetime subscription to PLEX Pass! A combination of Synology DS213Air + Roku Streaming Stick (HDMI) + Plex Media Server + Plex Pass is a perfect home theater experience while traveling!

DS213Air

Roku Streaming Stick (HDMI)

Plex Plass (Lifetime)

One of the servers in this example is 192.168.1.33

You want to forward source port ANY to the destination port you set up in Plex's control panel. In this case I chose 32409. You forward any traffic headed from ANY to 32409 to port 32400 as shown in the examples below. 

I've been using Miso for quite some time now for checking into media as I watch it - be it weekly eps, old movies or even at the cinema.

About a month ago, I purchased a Mac mini and have been running the Plex Media Centre app on it and it has been fantastic, however, there is always the manual element of checking into Miso (using either the web interface, or the iPhone app.)

I figured there had to be a better way, so started hunting around. There isn't (at time of writing) a plugin for Plex directly and I don't know Python, so wasn't going to go down that avenue just yet.

After a bit of digging around, I discovered that Plex still exposed the XBMC HTTP commands, so started looking to see what was available. Luckily, it returned the now playing video. So I set about polling this and parsing the output to then lookup the media at Miso and eventual checkin.

My day job sees me doing a lot of PHP work and, whilst this isn't necessarily the most suitable of tools for the job, I decided to write a script to handle checkins for me. What I now have, is something that handles what I have tested so far with fairly decent accuracy.

The PlexToMiso script I have come up with is available at my SVN repository here. Once configured, cron this script to run at ten minute (or so) intervals. It will check to see if Plex is playing, identify the media via Miso and post a checkin, if possible. There is a bit of logging from the script, which you can pipe to a logfile for later perusal.

Checkins are databased for the primary purpose of keeping track of and not double checking in, potentially clogging up people's Twitter and Facebook feeds (my friends hate it). There is also a quick script that gives an output of logged media, based on checkins.

At this time, there is no way via the Miso API to checkin to a specific season/episode, so these are tracked via comments for now.

The end goal of this project, in my eyes, is to end up with a proper Plex plugin but that'll take time given I know neither the Plex framework nor python...

By default, it will scan your entire library every hour.

If your library is rather large and you've just installed Plex Media Centre, it will want to scan your entire library. Then scan it again, and even a little bit more... every hour (and for some reason, it's not smart enough to detect that a previous scan is already running.)

After two weeks of rest, it's time to get back to work. Not entirely sure how I feel about this. One one hand, I'm going back to work... on the other hand, I won't be spending so much money on stuff. I guess it all evens out.

I haven't blogged for quite some time, so what's been going on?

Things have settled down with the house quite well, I've stopped the 'moving in' phase and have started on the 'living in' phase. It's been pretty good so far, haven't had too many issues. I need to have a few things looked at but I'm slowly getting there.

Had a bit of fun the other day putting up a whiteboard in my study (and buying a printer, how much I use that is yet to be determined. I'll definitely start digitising my bills / receipts etc again.) Using the stud finder to get the whiteboard up was interesting, considering it was finding AC where I'm pretty damn sure it shouldn't be and finding studs that weren't there. Needless to say, drilling holes was a bit daunting.

I did make a bit of a mess of the wall behind the whiteboard but it's all covered up now, so won't be a problem!

The next bit of excitement will be mounting my TV on the bulkhead wall for the home theatre. After that a few posters / prints here and there but they can come in time - they're too damn expensive!

Weeds have been cropping up far too much. They've been poisoned now, just waiting for them to die off before I get the bobcat in to scrape, level and remove the extra soil. Fence will go up, then I can start thinking about garden. Well, start working on garden. Already started thinking about it... don't really know where to start, though. Need some inspiration!

I brought a new Apple baby into my life, a Mac mini, currently being used as a media server with Plex. It took a while to index all my media but it's now working damn well.

Seems after all my wanting to visit Bunnings but never having a reason to go has turned into wanting to visit Bunnings and having a reason to go. Three trips this week. I think it's going to become a problem, given how much money gets thrown around whilst there. I'm only buying things as I need them at the moment so it's not too bad... I don't think.