First off, let me apologize for being noobish, but I’ve been looking through the documentation, and while there’s enough to go on as to what files are needed for a channel and what have you, there’s precious little on how to actually get the channel to show up in Plex Media Center. I have Plex Media Server and Plex Media Center installed on the same Win7 box, and I copied the bundle folder to AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Plug-ins\ under my profile folder, as it seems like this is where the channel plug-ins are stored; however, the plugin doesn’t show up under video channels in PMC, and doesn’t even show up in the installed plug-ins list in the Channel Directory. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?
I should probably specify that I’m using the 9.5 beta, as that’s the only version supported under Windows.
Hi!
Since you posted this in Channel Development I assume you wrote your own plugin?
If so, for a video plugin to show up under the Video Channels, be sure to give it a unique ‘prefix’ in Plugin.AddPrefixHandler, starting with /video (and without spaces or any special characters):
Plugin.AddPrefixHandler('/video/yourpluginname', MainMenu, 'My Plugin', 'icon-default.png', 'art-default.jpg')
Also, be sure to give it a unique 'CFBundleIdentifier' in the *Info.plist* file inside the bundle.
<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key><br />
<string>com.plexapp.plugins.yourpluginname</string>
Another problem could be that the plugin can't load, because of an error in the Python code. Check out the plugin log file for more info. Under Windows 7 the plugin log files can be found in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Plex Media Server\Logs
OK, I found the issue. I was using code copied from the development walkthrough thread, and apparently that C&P’d with spaces instead of tabs. When I put in new lines, Notepad++ put in tabs instead of maintaining consistency. Replacing all the indents with tabs did the trick.
Man, Python is really touchy about whitespace.
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