I’m running the Plex server on my Synology NAS drive. I’ve found a bug in some channel code that I loaded. I’d like to fix it, but, I don’t know ho to go about debugging it. I’d like to walk through the code to make sure my suspicions are correct and that my fix actually works. Is there any way …

If you find out, then do let me know :slight_smile: When I develop towards PMS, I launch ot from command line, and then the combo of log entries and print statements are my friend. So sadly more a trial-error development :frowning:

I cannot speak to any specific issues using a NAS for your PMS and how that would affect updating code and pulling logs. But the best method of debugging is adding log statements to your code. And then pull up the channel log (or system log if it is an issue with the URL service or playback) to see …

@baradanikto I routinely debug my Plex channel code, but only on the local machine since this is also where my Plex Server is. It is most probably possible to remote debug as well, but that would require to set up Python debugger at the box and connect to it. I don’t think it’s necessary though, bec…

czukowski - your answer sounds interesting. Can you explain further? What steps do you take to debug the code? My intent is to debug the code using Visual Studio’s Python add-in. I’m running on Win 7, so, I can easily start the PMS for Windows locally. I’m just not sure how to connect the debugg…

The key is you don’t run your channel from Plex Server, but bootstrap the Framework directly and load your channel code into its sandbox environment. Then it’s just a matter of calling a function you need. There must be quite a lot of paths added to PYTHONPATH though, you’ll need to figure out how t…

@czukowski thank you for your deep explanation on how to setup a plex test environment. Do you think this could be extended in order to test plug-ins?

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czukowski November 18, 2018, 2:07pm 8

@angeloavv this was meant to be a platform for testing plug-ins. I have a channel that I haven’t finished, but it has some tests that could serve as an example, see the Tests directory:

https://bitbucket.org/czukowski/plex-tvkultura/src/4522a9841a9c501b3f37bd1dfcb1a63f2cfb20bc/Contents/?at=master

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