Hello, I have a PC that is using discord to allow friends and I to watch movies together. This machine is always running and playing movies. What is the best way to control the playback of the movies, say a friend wants to change the movie that they are watching but they can only connect remotely to the media server. All help is welcome, thank you!
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I’m not exactly sure what you’re trying to achieve.
Have you considered simply using Watch Together instead of jumping through those extra hoops?
Using Discord this way allows the user to just set up a “channel” of movies/shows and anyone can drop in/out and watch. A sort of internet radio kind of thing. Watch together requires each user to have an account, and each user has to be on at the same time at the start.
I haven’t messed with them, but perhaps Web Hooks is the way to go?
Yes, that is exactly what the use case is. I want to be able to create something that will tell the player to change/skip the movie, that I can then give to friends and allow them to have control remotely.
With that being said, webhooks does not seem like it would work as the payload can go to a server I have running, but cannot go back and control playback remotely. Are here other ways to do this, or another way with the webhook?
