Hi, is there any chance that in some future there would be OpenPHT for Android devices? I mainly ask about cell phones, not tablets. I saw that Kodi is available from some time on Android, but is also not working on cell phones, and as OpenPHT is based on XBMC, I thought it might be possible, right?
No offense to @copytco, but please don’t make an Android App. The official Plex app is more than fine. The Home Theater App (Plex Media Player) is where Plex has lost their way, IMO. Without OpenPHT, my Home Theater experience would be much less positive than it is now. PMP is just chaotic to use by comparison. Stay focus on OpenPHT for the Home Theater.
@eugovector, official Plex app does not support subtitles offset, which is a huge drawback for me, as the subtitles downloaded by Plex are often shifted.
@copytco said:
Hi, is there any chance that in some future there would be OpenPHT for Android devices? I mainly ask about cell phones, not tablets. I saw that Kodi is available from some time on Android, but is also not working on cell phones, and as OpenPHT is based on XBMC, I thought it might be possible, right?
Just FYI: Kodi does work on many Android phones, though perhaps not on all of them.
I am at this very moment running Kodi v16.1-Jarvis on my HOMTOM7 phone, and have also installed the “Plex for Kodi” addon (requires PlexPass subscription at this beta stage of development). This works fine for accessing my Plex library and IMO even has some advantages over the standard “Plex for Android” client app. For non-PlexPass users the older PlexBMC addon may serve a similar purpose, though getting it to work well with modern Kodi versions may be tricky. I strongly recommend not using any v17 or v18 Kodi with the existing PlexBMC addon versions, as they were designed for older Kodi versions.
Note that I’m not saying that the GUIs of Kodi or its addons are ideal for use on a phone’s touchscreen, since they were mostly designed for XBox gamepad or PC keyboard use, rather than touchscreen interface. But some newer Kodi skins are fairly well adapted for touchscreen use, and the Plex addon will probably be greatly improved in coming versions.
(And hopefully that addon will also be released for non-PlexPass users, once it leaves beta stage.)
Best regards: dlanor
@dlanor, thanks for your input.
As far as I see Kodi will not run on my Galaxy S2. Despite that, I have managed to make Kodi on my laptop talk to Plex via KodiPlexConnect plugin, which works with the latest version of Kodi. Furthermore it does not limit range of other add-ons to be used simultaneously and works with all skins available.
So if I would be upgrading to a new cell phone, I guess I would go for that solution. As for now there is not much, unless OpenPHT developers would build the app for Android system.
@copytco said:
@dlanor, thanks for your input.As far as I see Kodi will not run on my Galaxy S2. Despite that, I have managed to make Kodi on my laptop talk to Plex via KodiPlexConnect plugin, which works with the latest version of Kodi. Furthermore it does not limit range of other add-ons to be used simultaneously and works with all skins available.
PlexKodiConnect is a nice addon too, though I was unable to make it work with my own Plex library. Possibly that was due to the total size of it (appx 50,000 videos split over movies but mainly TV show episodes). But even if it had succeeded my attempt to use it showed up one main drawback with it, which is that every time you’ve scanned media into PMS you also need to rescan the Plex library into Kodi through PlexKodiConnect, which is an equally ‘heavy’ operation. In my case each attempt to scan my library would consume many hours (only to end in failure).
The advantage of the other addons PlexBMC and the new “Plex for Kodi” is that they need no such scanning at all.
Everything added by PMS media scanning is automatically available through Kodi as well without any additional work.
And while neither of them has the same degree of skin compatibility, PlexBMC does work fine with a few skins, and the new “Plex for Kodi” addon provides its own ‘app-like’ layout which works independent of the skins used for other parts of Kodi.
So if I would be upgrading to a new cell phone, I guess I would go for that solution. As for now there is not much, unless OpenPHT developers would build the app for Android system.
That is an interesting possibility but I’m afraid it would raise the workload too much for the limited OpenPHT team.
That workload has already increased significantly from the original focus only on RasPlex for the Raspberry Pi, to now include OpenPHT builds for more than half a dozen different PC operating systems as well as several different embedded system types (similar to RasPlex but for other hardware).
I think that the requirements for an Android app build are so different from those of the other builds that this alone may double the total current workload, which is why it will probably never happen unless some other team starts a separate project to port OpenPHT into Android app form. It’s still open-source so everyone’s free to join the fun.
Best regards: dlanor
@dlanor said:
Possibly that was due to the total size of it (appx 50,000 videos split over movies but mainly TV show episodes). In my case each attempt to scan my library would consume many hours (only to end in failure).
If you get the time, I’d be extremely interested if you tried PKC again with your huge library ;-). Sync has changed since the last few versions
@croneter said:
@dlanor said:
Possibly that was due to the total size of it (appx 50,000 videos split over movies but mainly TV show episodes). In my case each attempt to scan my library would consume many hours (only to end in failure).If you get the time, I’d be extremely interested if you tried PKC again with your huge library ;-). Sync has changed since the last few versions
I do intend to try it again, as I want to have a full understanding of all available Plex clients.
But so far I haven’t gotten around to it, having a lot of other stuff to deal with as well.
But even assuming that the scan/sync does work better in newer PKC versions, it’s still a hassle having to add new media both in PMS and in Kodi. And that problem worsens when you consider doing it for multiple Kodi installs (I have half a dozen on various devices), as this syncing will need to be repeated on each of them, in order for each to have full access to the Plex library. That’s why I see the Kodi library integration of PKC as being not only its strength (which it is) but also a weakness when dealing with multiple devices. So once I get it working I’ll probably maintain it only on a single Kodi instance.
Best regards: dlanor
