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[REL] Static Media Assets Agent

daeksdaeks Posts: 150Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass
edited February 2017 in Plex Channel Plugins

This is a Metadata Agent for adding a static poster or background images to movies. The intention of this agent is to prevent spoilers on specific libraries like TV recordings. Both images can be overwritten by custom ones. Full qualified path is required for that.

Download
Source: https://github.com/daeks/StaticMedia-Agent.bundle

Installation
See the How do I manually install a channel? support article.

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Original Post:

Hi,

currently I am thinking about a library without any thumbnails esp. for sport recordings. Unfortunately Plex always generates thumbnails. Therefore I have the following idea: Why not adding an agent which copies a static image to each movie found without adding it manually?

Best Answer

  • daeksdaeks Posts: 150Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass
    Accepted Answer

    Updates:

    • Added static background
    • Made everything optional
    • Default image can be overwritten by custom images
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  • daeksdaeks Posts: 150Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass
    edited October 2016

    I tried it myself and got it working. Is there a way to put images to Resources folder and access it dynamically?

  • ZeroQIZeroQI Posts: 1,337Members ✭✭✭

    you are talking about a movie library, since the code you have is for "Movies" libraries, so using a Plex Movie agent, possibly "The MovieDB"...
    "Sport shows" kinda hints at Series library, and you do not mention whose agent you are unhappy with selecting posters or fanarts... Is it 18+ rated "Sports" shows you are talking about ?

    If you do use personal video agent then you have no meta, why dnot do that ?
    Why not put a default poster in the folder and put local metadata agent before the metadata agent in priority ?

    Absolute Series Scanner (ASS): Seasons+Absolute mode series scanner managing subdirectories and AniDB type specials,with a logging off all files (skipped on top of root folder, then sorted one line per file with regex used and info, all series sorted alphabetically) and one with the filelist to reproduce the library on my end with dummy files. It also add all files and recognise specials pretty accurately.

    http AniDB Metadata Agent (HAMA): Some good info there, will have to re-write it at some point... Data folders are kinda mandatory... Huge libraries can fetch 10gb in space. If you have no poster but other metadata is showing, create "Plug-in Support/Data/com.plexapp.agents.hama/DataItems" agent folders as indicated in the readme on GitHub

    Impressed by the agent recognition rate? Consider donating few euros through Paypal: Absolute Series Scanner + HTTP AniDB Metadata Agent. (Donators: xnaas, Sven-7, Niegen, Vorador, Fratal, T. Mayville,  A. Estremera, KJKingJ, Blindsay, ...lacking space)

  • daeksdaeks Posts: 150Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass
    edited October 2016

    I have running a pvr software recording football matches if I dont have time to watch them live. Therefore I dont want to see the score already before watching which sometimes happened. Plex generates thumbnails for each recording automatically without any known option to disable it (except the commandline tool).

    My PVR library was set to personal video agent before, but each recording is stored in a subfolder automatically. So I didnt want to setup a batch job adding several "dummy posters" to each folder / video file by a scheduled task. Maybe I have missed here something how it could be done better?

    Currently the agent is working like a charm, It hides the preview and I have to extend that also for the background image, but for better structuring I would like to move the images into the Resources folder.

  • mbcplexservermbcplexserver Posts: 98Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass

    It is so good to hear that there is at last some movement in this issue where Plex has ruined WAY to many sports results for me! Thank You!!

  • daeksdaeks Posts: 150Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass
    Accepted Answer

    Updates:

    • Added static background
    • Made everything optional
    • Default image can be overwritten by custom images
  • FilposFilpos Posts: 31Members ✭✭

    Had trouble getting this to work but this thread helped to install this agent:
    https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/61309/how-do-i-install-a-new-metadata-agent

  • niallobrniallobr Posts: 149Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass

    Just wanted to add my thanks, I added the bundle today and it seems to be working great.

    Server: Custom NAS w/ Docker | Intel Core i7-8700K | 38TB

    Client: Shield TV | Xbox One S

    Remote: Logitech Harmony Elite

  • mbcplexservermbcplexserver Posts: 98Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass

    Hi,

    I am running Plex on an unRAID server (Linux) and have copied the extracted folder StaticMedia-Agent.bundle to my plugins folder, restarted but still cannot select anything other than

    1, Personal Media
    2, Plex Movie
    3, The Movie Database

    What am I missing?

    Cheers!

  • daeksdaeks Posts: 150Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass

    Have you copied it to the right plugins folder? Are there any errors inside the log?

  • mbcplexservermbcplexserver Posts: 98Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass

    Hi,

    Sorry for the long delay, just revisiting this now as I have setup a new temporary Plex Server to see if this works... I am still getting the same problem of being unable to select your agent and have the log attached to see if you can help as to what is going wrong? Would prefer to move back to Plex if this could work otherwise a permanent switch back to Emby is in order!

    Many Thanks

  • mbcplexservermbcplexserver Posts: 98Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass

    I have installed Plex on a Windows install and a Linux Install and copied the bundle to the locations mentioned here (https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201106098-How-do-I-find-the-Plug-Ins-folder-) but I still cannot see anything other than

    1, Personal Media
    2, Plex Movie
    3, The Movie Database

    I have tried creating new libraries and editing existing ones but I still cannot see the static agent?

  • daeksdaeks Posts: 150Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass

    Have you installed the latest version to the path where local application data is stored?
    it should have the following folder structure:

    \Plex Media Server\Plug-ins\StaticMedia-Agent.bundle

    After restart of the server it should look like:

  • mbcplexservermbcplexserver Posts: 98Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass
    edited February 2017

    Hi mate,

    Thanks for the reply!

    I have downloaded the version from here https://github.com/daeks/StaticMedia-Agent.bundle

    I have installed it here (Please note that the DVBLink & Iplayer Plugins Work and are also installed here)

    I am running the latest Plex Version

    restarted many times and still not available? (I have tried Windows as well so I must be missing something?)

  • daeksdaeks Posts: 150Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass

    Hmm have to tried to rename the foldername from "StaticMedia-Agent.bundle-master" to "StaticMedia-Agent.bundle"? Thats currently the only difference I can see.

  • ZeroQIZeroQI Posts: 1,337Members ✭✭✭

    YES. it will not show otherwise.
    if it still fails, copy Logs/PMS Plugin Logs/com.plexapp.system.log & plexapp.staticmedia-agent.log

    Absolute Series Scanner (ASS): Seasons+Absolute mode series scanner managing subdirectories and AniDB type specials,with a logging off all files (skipped on top of root folder, then sorted one line per file with regex used and info, all series sorted alphabetically) and one with the filelist to reproduce the library on my end with dummy files. It also add all files and recognise specials pretty accurately.

    http AniDB Metadata Agent (HAMA): Some good info there, will have to re-write it at some point... Data folders are kinda mandatory... Huge libraries can fetch 10gb in space. If you have no poster but other metadata is showing, create "Plug-in Support/Data/com.plexapp.agents.hama/DataItems" agent folders as indicated in the readme on GitHub

    Impressed by the agent recognition rate? Consider donating few euros through Paypal: Absolute Series Scanner + HTTP AniDB Metadata Agent. (Donators: xnaas, Sven-7, Niegen, Vorador, Fratal, T. Mayville,  A. Estremera, KJKingJ, Blindsay, ...lacking space)

  • mbcplexservermbcplexserver Posts: 98Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass

    Fantastic!

    Thank you so much! I have everything now masked, no more spoilers! Thanks Again!!!!!!!!

  • Manbearpig_73Manbearpig_73 Posts: 12Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass

    Thanks for this, works perfectly. No more sport spoilers

  • joe_azerjoe_azer Posts: 8Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass

    Hi,

    i can't see static media under shows, i want to use it for TV show spoilers, i can only see it under movies :(

    can that be fixed?

    thanks.

  • daeksdaeks Posts: 150Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass

    The agent should now be available for TV shows as well.

  • jirwjirw Posts: 7Members, Plex Pass Plex Pass
    edited July 2017

    Does anyone know if there is a way to combine this agent with the TVMaze agent? I would like to use the TVMaze agent to get metadata from the web and the static media assets agent to replace images so there are no spoilers. I do not see the option to combine this agent with the TVMaze agent (see screenshots below). Any help greatly appreciated

    Image![](https://us.v-cdn.net/6025034/uploads/editor/i4/tttd1boz3v6f.png "")

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