A Plex client designed for the NetTV platform used by Philips, Sharp, B&O and Loewe.
Be warned that since this is in a pre-alpha state it may require some technical ninja skills to get up and running. Needless to say it is “use at own risk”
[] Unable to access local services from a remote server.
Opera (which is used by NetTV) does per default not allow connections from a remote server to the local network. This is an big issue since NetTV apps are hosted remotely and Plex is accessed locally. I’ve created an issue a month ago on the NetTV partner site however they havn’t responded.
It is working in the emulator so it might just be a bug in the NetTV running on my TV since it is running a newer version of Opera than the emulator.
[] Unable to seek in video containers other than MPEG4.
This is kind of weird since the TV is able to seek in other formats when using DLNA but when using the NetTV media object seek is only working for MPEG4. I will create an issue with NetTV partner site, however I’ve kind of lost faith in their willingness to help.
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What is Supported
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[] Home screen like Laika
[] Browse Movies and TV Show from PMS in list view
[] Play media from PMS
[] View meta data
[] Resume from last played position
[]Send progress information to PMS (i.e. can resume on other devices)
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What is not Supported
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[] Transcoding
[] Subtitles
[] Non-video content
[] Search
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Hosted App
The app is available here http://udvikl.es/nettv/plex/ however it doesn’t work on my TV due to restrictions in accessing the local network from a non-local site.
It does work through the NetTV emulator so it may work on some TVs.
While I like the idea, the problem is that the Smart TV Alliance is a bit like DLNA, where it is not an end-to-end specification and there are a lot of vendor specific "loop-holes" (i.e. the reason why DLNA will never, Just Work ;)).
In the Smart TV Alliance current state it is still very separated between NetTV (Philips, Sharp, etc) and LG. NetTV runs on Opera using CE-HTML where LG on WebKit using HTML5.
In my development effort I try to be as non-NetTV as possible, but my current focus is get a CE-HTML app that can be released in the NetTV app store (which might not even be possible due to the local XHR request issue).
But the code is available on [Github](https://github.com/hitolaus/nettv-plex-client) and any help is appreciated :).
I tried a previous version on my Loewe tv. It basically worked as you described (I needed to run it locally to access local assets, for example.)
I norice that you are looking for NETTV in the user agent string now. I don't have the UA for the plex client currently but the DLNA server reports the following:-
I'd be happy to help this project in any way I can (I am a developer by profession, but not javascript) - how do you want to proceed? Private messages, posts on this forum, email exchange?
if not, so the PLEX-Code is the same on all plattforms, only the VIEW-Part is different on other systems, so if you can keep the other parts generic, it should be able to create different views for other platforms like Toshiba/Sony and other.
It is awesome that you guys are willing to help. Since the client is still in a very early state I think it is best if we just keep it on an adhoc-basis at the moment. Write me a PM if you have a question, create a Github issue, create a Github pull request, … it’s all good.
I’m a bit reluctant to create a more coordinated effort right now since I don’t even know if the project has a viable future due to the XHR LAN issue.
In regards to the XHR LAN issue I actually got a reply from NetTV partner support yesterday. Unfortunately they totally misunderstood the question even though I did a long explanation with several examples. Hopefully they will get back to me quicker the second time.
BTW I too am not a Javascript developer, but that is properly why this is so much fun as a hobby project as opposed to the enterprise backend systems I develop at my daily job
hi the client is now basically works with LG TV simulator, i will test it today on my TV
the code is nearly 99,9% the same like philips nettv, i must do some little changes on the CSS files for webkit engine
and some little LG specific video settings
i’m trying to make this changes in different files and create a function to load it on startup, so that the application can detect the right TV engine and load needed files
if its done i will upload it to git and make pull request.
Remember that this is still in a very early state. The installation instructions are in the first post. Due to point 1 under *Major Known Issues* you have to run it on a webserver on your local network.
I'm still in contact with NetTV partner support regarding this issue, but for whatever reason they have trouble grasping the problem :)
But I cant seem to get it to install on a Philips TV. When I browse the URL hosted on my local webserver (apache from xampp) the TV only displays the PLEX logo and does nothing else.
Any chance you can share more details on this issue? It's possible we might have a workaround for you.
Thanks for the reply. Here are the steps I do trying to install the PLEX client.
I also already tried compiling the sources myself and with the downloadable version above.
1. I installed XAMP on my Laptop and started the Apache2 webserver on it.
2. copied the unzipped files (+ .htaccess) into the webroot of the webserver
3. I opened the web page locally (first I had to rename the .htaccess file) in order to test if it is working. Also when I open the page with the .htaccess file it wants me to download something.
4. I go to my TV (Philips TV 37PFL9606K) into the SmartTV App and then to Internet. There I enter the local IP of my Laptop (192.168.0.X).
5. It loads the page fairly quick but then it looks like the page is loading (the big PLEX logo is showing in the middle of the screen). I left it like that for over 1 hour but nothing changed.
