I'm new to Plex development, have been reading the docs, wiki and some of the forum posts lately.
From what I've seen, it looks like Plex plugins go under two categories: channels and agents.
However, I'm still wondering if it is possible to build general purpose plugins that can respond to media server events. For example: I'd like to build a plugin that would be "called" every time a TV show started playing.
This would be useful to create plugins that gather statistics on played content or that could post status updates on Facebook/Twitter, scrobble music to last.fm and stuff like that.
Is this kind of plugin development possible? If so, how?!
If not, is there a "requested features" post or somewhere else we could ask for that?
I'm new to Plex development, have been reading the docs, wiki and some of the forum posts lately.
From what I've seen, it looks like Plex plugins go under two categories: channels and agents.
However, I'm still wondering if it is possible to build general purpose plugins that can respond to media server events. For example: I'd like to build a plugin that would be "called" every time a TV show started playing.
This would be useful to create plugins that gather statistics on played content or that could post status updates on Facebook/Twitter, scrobble music to last.fm and stuff like that.
Is this kind of plugin development possible? If so, how?!
If not, is there a "requested features" post or somewhere else we could ask for that?
Thanks! ;)
I don't think it is possible to get that kind of events. I have created a plugin that is parsing the lofile for that kind of actions (see https://github.com/tester22/Plex-Trakt-Scrobbler) that might be a start if you wan't to develop something.
