Keyboard shortcuts for basic actions in Plex Media Player, for RemoteBuddy support

Surprised not to have found this or something related, as it’s pretty fundamental for me personally, and one of the main reasons I use the Plex desktop app rather than just doing everything in the web version.

On OSX, with the new Plex Media Player, keyboard shortcuts for basic things such as stop, previous, next, menu, and other actions seem not to be present. Because keyboard shortcuts aren’t available, RemoteBuddy cannot bind to Plex Media Player actions, and my Harmony remote is rather crippled while using PMP. I’ve contacted RemoteBuddy and they verified that their PMP mappings are as complete as they can be given what PMP exposes.

It would be difficult to list completely all of the actions that are missing, but I’d be happy to help figure out the needed actions and mappings if and when this request is considered. I would also consider looking back to the previous version of Plex HT and mirroring the keyboard shortcut support as closely as possible. Thank you!

The big question:
are you using PMP in windowed or in fullscreen mode?

If you are in ‘windowed’ mode, it is assumed you are using a mouse. The keyboard shortcuts of Plex Web are also available in this mode.

Keyboard shortcuts for the typical ‘remote control’ operation are only available in fullscreen mode:

There are quite a few available
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/208052807-Controlling-the-App

and you can customize them or add some more
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/216459997-Create-your-own-inputmap

2021 clean-up: obsolete (“more” keyboard shortcuts are available in the desktop players / PMP desktop mode; even more in PMP in tv mode or Plex HTPC)