Enable python prints in scanner?

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Is it possible to get the prints to show up in the system console?



I just added a print in the Scan method:



def Scan(path, files, mediaList, subdirs):<br />
  print "SCAN NOW"<br />
......


Doesn't show anything in the Console, which makes it hard to debug
2

Use Log() instead.

3

Log() is a plug-in framework function - these aren’t available in the scanners.



Have you checked the “Plex Media Scanner.log” file (in ~/Library/Logs) to see if the prints end up in there?

4


Thanks for the lead, but can't find any output from the python script, only other output defined in PMS i guess
5

you need to look in Console Message at the top of the sidepane in Console and use print.

6

pretty sure standard prints should work, i can see the stock plex scanners using them in some places, but it doesn’t look like they show up in the log, to see them run plex media scanner in a terminal. (verbose mode is -v if that helps you too, though for me the prints are showing without it)

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Make sure you are looking at the console.app, not the terminal. And AFAIK you have to add a new section to trigger the scan. lots of add section remove section in the debug cycle!