I just saw your announcement and I’m worried about my plugins.
I don’t really understand if non-channel plugins will disappear too.
I use the Hellohue plugin to control my lamps while playing/pausing Plex for example and it would be catastrophic if I couldn’t use it anymore.
Many people use that particular plugin to control lights in home cinemas for example.
Please let us know if that kind of utility plugin will also disappear (hope not, we paid for that…) and for the case it would disappear, what have you planned to do for us?
Writing yourself a new external plugin? Because this one is UNIQUE for controlling Philips lamps with Plex.
Hellohue and other utility-type plugins will continue to work for the foreseeable future, though they will have to be installed manually. We cover these kinds of plugins in the FAQ we posted this morning. So no immediate loss of functionality. Long-term, we suggest these plugins go the Tautulli route of being stand-alone apps, leverage Webhooks to achieve this functionality.
That’s what I understood but what do you mean by “long term” exactly?
Because no other plugin does even exist for this, so why would you make something that is working perfectly well disappear, while users have no other solution?
Stand alone apps are a great idea but who will code them?
Please understand that for some of us, that kind of plugin is one of the reason why we bought a licence…
Now you’re telling me that the main reason why I chose Plex and paid for it will disappear?
BTW I also use the “watch later” feature daily, even if I can live without it…
It seems very weird that you chose to delete features that we “signed for” without giving us another way to do the same things than before! Even in the “long term”…
Ok… I’ve tried asking questions on the blog post but my question keeps getting deleted. As a Plex Pass Subscriber, I’m a little put off by that, so will ask my question here regarding plugins. I use the audiobook plugin and have also been using an externally installed plugin to add my own metadata to personal videos and other non-tv/movie related videos that do not have metadata that can be pulled from TVDB or the Movie Database or whatever. Will those plugins continue to work and if they are part of the sunset of plugins in the future, will they stop working at some point? The issue is that almost half of my use of Plex is for personal videos and audiobooks along with the movies, TV and music and losing that functionality without Plex addressing it will be a significant reason for me to part ways and find another single app that will function the way I need it to. Is there any comment on that?
Could you please confirm what you mean by installing plugins manually please. All replies from the blog state that all support for plugins will be gone eventually, but this forum post states that I will be able to install plugins manually after support is dropped.
Does this mean that even after plugin support is dropped, I will still be able to manually install WebTools (and it’s plugins) or not?
Manual installation of plugins will work for the time being (including after the removal of the Plugin Directory from Plex Web) as plugin support will see a gradual deprecation. Eventually, support for them in PMS will be gone, but we don’t have a date set for that at this time. Player apps support will likely drop before PMS as they are updated, redesigned, or rewritten. There will come a point when these plugins will not work at all in Plex, and will need to be rebuilt as stand-alone apps to use our API and web hooks.
I also have hue bulbs however as I use a remote plex library, hello hue did not work for me. If you have a raspberry pi, give me a shout and I can tell you how to manually make it work… its long winded, but it does work.
What is going away soon, is the “Plugin Directory”, meaning the official plugins.
It’s not the physical directory below the Library!
That remains in order to host 3.Party and agents etc for now
