Could you elaborate, please.
How does that link differ from
https://plaxt.astandke.com
Sorry, really late here and far too tired to investigate at the moment but I’m guessing it still only pushes?
It’s nice that it’s clearly an official trakt app all the same.
If that was in reply to my question Plaxt isn’t the “old” Plex scrobbler, just the unofficial webhook
method that many of us have been using for a year or so.
So the important question is if it still pushes only?
It’s a nice start. But scrobbling is only one thing.
Without full sync, Watched, collected, watchlists etc. the webhook is pretty much useless at this point.
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I know that the answer to this should be self evident but my old brain is not sure what is the definition of “pushes” is in this case?
Is that Plex “pushes” any changes or watched status in Plex to Trakt or is it that Trakt “pushes” any changes to status within Trakt to Plex.
If it is the former then it would be pretty good for any situation where Plex is the primary client/server in the system but if it is the latter then it would mean that Plex would not really work in a secondary setup.
My preferred arrangement currently is running Emby as my primary system with Plex running as a backup in case of some catastrophic failure. It sounds like I will be unable to keep Plex updated correctly using the “WebHook” method but if I were to use Plex as my Primary system then Trakt could be used to keep my Emby servers up to date.
I guess I am stuck with manually maintaining Plex’s watched status for now but that is not too egregious as Emby is now VERY stable and reliable so I only need to mess with the statuses about once weekly.
Maybe someone can figure a way to make the Plex/Trakt integration go both ways.
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Haha that’s very on topic. without you even knowing.
Yep the old Plex scrobbler had the ability to push and pull. So regardless of whether I watched something on Plex, Emby Kodi, Netflix or at the cinema those watched statuses’ could be pushed to Trakt and pulled to Plex.
Webhooks as far as I’m aware will only tell Trakt what you watched in Plex and not pull from Trakt to Plex.
My “on topic” comment relates to the fact that after a few rare months of positivity with Plex (I actually love UNO) due to the lack of proper Trakt integration and other client issues I’m ready to jump to Emby where I know that Trakt is fully integrated.
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To clarify here for people unfamiliar with Webooks - yes, this option from Trakt will only scrobble anything played while the integration is enabled, and can only respond to play “events”. There’s no sync (for restoring your play history, or pushing it all to a new trakt account).
Either I am misunderstanding due to my age making my brain unable to absorb new and changing meanings on the fly or “scrobble” is being misused here and elsewhere.
Every definition I have found for “scrobble” relates it to music. I have not found one that even mentions a second use for TV shows or movies.
Actually I do not like it as a verb for describing what Trakt does and I think that a different usage like “Duplicates watched status” or “tracks watched status” or something like that better describes what Trakt does than “scrobble” which does not seem to really mean what its usage is implying when used in relation to Trakt.
While all words are “made up words” it just seems that in this case “scrobble” was made up for a different usage than what it is being used for here.
Things like this often badly confuse many of us old folks.
Hello
If you use the below and not the new plex player, you still have full access to the plex trakt plug-in as before for now. unlike using a browser does not let you open the trakt plug-in sync options just the settings panel.
Hope this helps
At the same time, we recognize there are some exceptions, so we will keep updating Plex Media Player until Jan 30, 2020 (you can find the downloads here).
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I would also like the option applied to plex so that I can pull my data back from trakt if and when I need to, having webhooks is fine but to be useful it needs to be two way.
I’m a little puzzled at the correlation between the trakt plugin & PMP?
As far as I see the trakt plugin will be usable until Plex finally do away with the Plugin directory on the Server.
What am I missing?
But once the syncing is set it syncs on a schedule anyway. Sure if you are used to doing manual syncs I understand. But that’s really more a nice option than a requirement.
That is true, but if like me and you will soon be doing a fresh server OS and plex server install, you will be needing that sync panel to pull your data back from trakt, the new webhooks don’t do this yet, and it seems for most of us now, we cannot access that panel.
But using the old plex media player you can still access it.
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No, you click on the cog icon to bring that up, try clicking just on the main icon it may not now be clickable.
True it isn’t. However, I have never even looked at that page or indeed entered settings there.
I always preferred this
http://trakt-for-plex.github.io/configuration/#/connect
It will happily let you set it to the shortest sync period for an initial pull from trakt for each individual user and then adjust it to full syncing on your preferred schedule.
That said I reinstall my server OS at least yearly and have my PMS data folder nowhere near the OS drive. So basically after the OS reinstall and PMS reinstall it’s actually like the reinstall never happened as far as Plex is concerned. All watched statuses are retained.
Hitsville - i had my boot sector corrupted a month ago…total reinstall of my OS and everything else. All my media was on an external drive, so that was a plus, but lost my PMS and all the watched history. I learned a lesson. Scared the bejesus out of me. Found out how to back up my PMS and did it on another drive, set to BU every three days. Then I bought a RAID and set it to mirroring. Put all my media over to that. Three days of messing around, do not want to do that again. I guess I learned a lot though (spent some money too!).
That’s why my PMS folder resides on it’s own SSD.
Backups work too but I run a 24/7 server and you cannot backup a database on a running system without risking corruption.
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i personally think there is a better chance someone write a new standalone Trakt-Sync-App, before Plex implements it.
But if Plex adds anything, it will probably only be Additional Webhooks
SO VOTE THERE
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