Question.
Would it be possible to show a custom announcement when people start Plex? Like scheduled maintenance messages or anything like that. Or would this be too hard to do since the variety of client platforms?
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I’ve asked this question myself before a few years ago. as it stands, no. the differences in plex clients is what i was told as being the reason it wont work.
I personally don’t see why it cant.
What i would like to see is an option from plex.tv settings in your account to write something such as a 140 character message that comes up along side communicating with signing into the platform. where you can write about an update.
Because your the owner of your plex install, and you sign in as your account; other users who share your account would see the message for say, 10 - 30 seconds, then load the library page.
It could be right along the same lines as a message of the day you might see in forums, games when you log into a server, or announcements in a message board.
what other types of implementations can we do?
I really like this because this will help for planned maintenance in an integrated way, rather than emailing all users, etc.
you know, i just realized another placement for notifications that can be done possibly…
you know when we have server version updates and we get the “what’s New” button to look at the changelog from the forums?
why not have that button up next to your user name, where announcements are? but have it work in such a way across most platforms that if your message box on your plex.tv account page (or perhaps your server settings page from plex/web) is empty, no button shows up. when there is a message, it has a clickable button that will have your message?
it can be placed right along side your server name on roku, console, web, tv ect… because at this point all those platforms have it. on ios, android, windows phone, have it show up in the library selection sub menu? should be room there for a button.
Any capability that allows me to post a brief test message somewhere in the interface (how about the login screen?) would be huge! This is my highest priority.
I’d be interested in this capability. I’m very interested in notifying users when there will be scheduled downtime or for possible interruptions. Probably not much I can do when the power goes out, but that’s another issue all together!
Anyone know how the current announcement works when there is an update? Does it cache something locally on the client database with a message, or is it delivered each time you load the plex apps?
If it’s something stored in the local database, might be possible to force text into it.
I use PlexRequest.Net along with PlexPy, which sends out a Facebook post to my group.
https://github.com/tidusjar/PlexRequests.Net
RevitXMan, I’m using both as well, but I’m not interested in contacting users via email (PlexEmail does this too) or facebook (not all of them use facebook). I’d prefer to only notify users that are actively connecting to the service.
I’m using PlexEmail to provide a web page with latest releases, which I could also add a special message to, but this still notifies too many people in my opinion. If the service is down for less than 5 minutes during an upgrade, no one needs to get a notification. If I’m experiencing thunderstorms and power could be knocked out, I’d like to provide that as a temporary message on the plex homepage.
I suppose the biggest problem here is that the plex update notifications go to the account that’s the admin? I don’t know if the users would ever see that upgrade message. Perhaps they would, perhaps not.
Either way, I am more interested in notifying only the users actively using Plex. All the other tools work great for out of band notifications.
Thanks for the reply!
Its going to be difficult to do that as the plex web app is just a pointer to your server. If your internet goes out, I dont think any type of message will work. If anything it’ll have to be an external service. I host my apps, Plexpy/PlexRequest in AWS, which can monitor if my server at my home goes down.
