Would be so f-ing sweet. Dimming down for a seconds when playing a movie, dimming back Up in pause and stop. Bring it! Please
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I’ve been wanting this since I started using plex in 2012. And I can’t understand at all why it is still not a thing. People have found workarounds with plugins etc. But then they stopped supporting plugins. Its like they are trying to make people stop using plex. Are they listening to the users at all? I mean, if the plex devs don’t want to make certain features, why stop other people from doing so? I’ve tried the HelloHue plugin, but that doesn’t work very well because they stopped us from using your own plugins. It’s ridiculous.
I would like one or more from the plex dev team to answer me/us about this. Why can’t I use plugins anymore? Especially since not allowing us that is limiting our usage. And are the team developing some way for us to use Philips Hue with plex? I want something very simple, like this, but a bit more customizable in turms of color and light %:
Movie starts = Lights off
Movie pause = Lights 50%
Movie stops = Lights 100%
How can this be so difficult to accomplish?
As a Plex Pass subscriber I’m getting a bit tired of the plex team removing ways for me to customize my own plex experience.
Plugins, even if it would only work for windows platforms, is such a great way for the community to create solutions that the plex devs either won’t create, can’t create, or have the time to create. Removing this option for the community is just a stupid thing do to,
Voted. Please make this a thing.
MrMC has this. The app is awful, and I want to continue using the native Plex app (I am on Apple TV 4K).
There seems to be an API to connect the media player with an existing hue entertainment area.
Please Plex, make it possible.
I know you are looking for official support, but I will add another option. One can use a combination of Tautulli and then some kind of local hue client (shell script, python, curl) to trigger the lights. Create a basic script for each event (start, pause, stop) or create one with parameters if you are a bit more advanced. Configure tautulli to run the local scripts for each event based on the criteria you define (time of day, users, media type, etc).
http://jheyman.github.io/blog/pages/HueRaspberryControl/
plenty more, I use qhue for mine with this exact setup and even have some additional logic in the script to check sunrise / sunset and set the brightness a little differently for each event depending on the current time relative to sunset or sunrise.
You should be able to do this with Plex webhooks really easily.
Still nothing on this? Its so weird because you can already install plex on smart tvs
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Please make this +1
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I use webhooks to do this. In my case I’ve got Lutron Radio RA2. I have webhooks setup to send to a server running a small script that receives the webhook, filters for the player ID that I care about, then take action depending on play/pause/stop and triggers a lighting scene in RA2. It works great.
It’s really not reasonable to expect Plex to provide an integration for every type of smart bulb/dimmer/etc out there.
I wonder if there is any genius out there with both homeassistant and plex that could automate this via https://www.home-assistant.io/ integration.
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thanks - but this one is for Windows/Mac screen only, not directly for a TV
