I am attempting to find out if a fully functional Discover feature is going to be rolled out to other platforms. Yes, I have the list of supported platforms. But the list of devices it is fully functional on is very, very small. Which if fine for a beta. But, I can’t find anything at all of work being done to bring it to full functionality on the other platforms.
Does anyone know? Because it is a killer feature that is practically useless right now due to such limited support.
define what you mean by “other platforms” or what particular feature of discover you mean.
By that I mean I have never once actually used a device that was able to open a stream, except for web and I don’t count that as it is never something I would use as a client. Most say that it isn’t supported and you to manually go find the app, find whatever etc… To me this is not useful. Is there any work being done to support opening the corresponding application and correctly playing the requested stream from the Plex client on more devices? Personally I really want it to work with the HTPC client.
It’s a really cool feature. I am eager to build a HTPC with Plex with this feature. If it’s never going to be supported in that capacity on any other devices than currently listed than I can stop waiting for Plex and move on to something else.
Seriously I’ve been waiting forever for someone to make a feature like this.
As far as I was aware it was only the Firestick that recently disallowed deep-linking that Plex uses.
What clients do you have that it doesn’t work on?
Amazon and Roku devices do not deeplink because Amazon and Roku do not allow us to do so. Our apps failed app store approval in those until we removed the ability from them.
The HTPC app would only at best be able to open the browser on your computer like Web which then would not be able to be controlled by the remote being used for HTPC which mostly defeats the purpose of using the HTPC app instead of desktop.
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Thank you for the information. Looks like I’ll have to use Kodi. Not my fav, but options are limited.
OTOH - If I were in the market to buy a new TV or a new Streaming Device that allows for “Deep Linking” what would you recommend?
Our Smart TV app is the same as the Xbox they do not have deep linking be ause it just does not work in due to how the smart TV app works.
All the apps here with Asterisks do not support deep linking https://support.plex.tv/articles/discover/#toc-4
I would only get a TV based on it’s picture quality not it’s smart features
Nvidia Shield Pro 2019 and never look back.
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