Hi,
As a Plex newbie I’m loving this application and would love to write some plugins… The Wife Acceptance Factor of this application is HIGH!
Where to start?
Goal-1: Display some HTML content from other (local?) webservers
-This could show traffic/weather/news
Goal-2: Display local webcam video streams
Is there a very basic example that I can modify to display some web-content incl pictures?
Thank you!
DJ
Welcome to the forum! 
I’ve just checked, and most of our photo plug-ins target an old version of the plug-in framework. I’d highly recommend you don’t use one of those as an example - the newer framework is much easier to develop with and is more fully featured. Perhaps check out The White House plug-in as an example of displaying photos. The source of the images is an RSS feed, not a HTML page, but the process should be pretty similar. This plug-in also demonstrates how to display videos.
There’s also some preliminary documentation over at http://dev.plexapp.com/docs, and if you have any questions or get stuck on something we’re always happy to help out on the forum. Good luck! 
The first result is a “plugin” that allows you to view your webcams
(so far I’ve tested it with a Linksys and Axis webcam).
I have 2 challenges (actually 3.488 challenges, but I’ll only bother you with 2)
How to control my camera’s
[list]
[]Need to ‘call’ this URL when selecting a menu option without seeing the result (in HTML I used to ‘target’ the result into an iframe of 0x0 pixels)
[]http://192.168.1.1/axis-cgi/com/ptz.cgi?gotoserverpresetname=
[/list]
**Is it possible to add a menu to a video stream? **
(possibly to change pan-tilt-zoom presets or provide an fancy ‘exit’ or change stream source option?)
Is there a simple checklist on what to do to add preferences?
Would like to add preferences where people can change the Camera URL (text string) and some settings (boolean)
UPDATE: Found it looking at the code in other plugins
Thank you!
DJ
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