Hey guys,
I wanted to chime in and say that I just noticed PlexAmp was available for linux (I must have been under a rock). I had never used an AppImage program before.
It worked great on my Arch Linux box!
I just download and chmod +x, then popped it into a local ~/bins folder to keep track of it!
As far as keyboard controls, I use LXQt as my window manager and I don’t have media keys on my keyboard. I couldn’t figure out the dbus controls (sounds like that isn’t working yet), but I was able to get keyboard shortcuts to control the player. Most window managers should have something similar where you can bind keyboard shortcuts to a command. Since the player is listening on port 36000, I noticed a couple endpoints that I could hit w/ curl. For me I already have my system volume and mute setup w/ shortcuts to pulseaudio, so I only needed to add, play/pause, skip forward, and skip backward. I’m not sure if the player API is documented someplace, but presumably there are other endpoints you could add as well. Here are how I set mine up:
shift+control+p ==> curl http://127.0.0.1:36000/player/playback/playPause
shift+control+bracketright ==> curl http://127.0.0.1:36000/player/playback/skipNext
shift+control+bracketleft ==> curl http://127.0.0.1:36000/player/playback/skipPrevious
Hope that is useful for someone, and thanks for the great addition to the Plex repertoire!
