On Deck via API?

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Hi All,

Does anybody know if the ‘on deck’ list can be manipulated via an API? I have my own home-brew home automation system which contains a catalogue of my movies and suggests movies based on when it was last watched etc (no, I dont want to use plex for this) - but when a movie is selected, I would like to put the movie on deck.

I can find plenty of API calls to LIST items from plex, but not many to poke information back into the system.

Anybody?

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Bounce bounce. Anybody? No way of doing this?

Plex, can it be added to the API system?

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A year late, but I’ve been waiting for this a long time, too. Finally had the endurance to find a solution:

You need to make two calls:

/:/timeline?ratingKey=$key&state=playing&time=60000&duration=$duration&X-Plex-Client-Identifier=$plexClientIdentifier

(immediately) followed by

/:/timeline?ratingKey=$key&state=stopped&time=120000&duration=$duration&X-Plex-Client-Identifier=$plexClientIdentifier
  • $key is the ratingKey of the item you want to add
  • $duration is the duration of the item in milliseconds - not sure if it needs to be correct, but it needs to be there
  • $plexClientIdentifier the client identifier your app signed in with - not sure either if this needs to be a valid one, but my server at least insists on the parameter being there

These calls basically say

  • Hey, I’m watching this thing, and I’m at the one minute mark!
  • Meh, I stopped watching at the two minute mark…

And thus it appears on deck, with the option to continue from 2 min.

The exact numbers probably don’t matter, but they need to be different.