Dear plex users, it would sounds stupid, but thinking about watching a tv show on my Echo Spot, on a Sunday morning in my bed sounds like heaven to me. So after i got success by playing music on it from plex, (Alexa, Ask plex to play Public Ennemy"…which worked, with the music played directly from the SPOT speakers itself, i thought i could also watch a movie on the integrated screen (it worked with amazon Prime video). But Alexa mentioned something about video player etc… and it didn’t worked. Any chance that will be a feature that will be integrated later ?
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We have no current plans to support video content on Echo devices
Hi, what about the music? When i asked: Alexa ask plex “artist”, it plays music to my nexus player but not from the echo spot itself. When i ask alexa to plex to change the player, it just keep saying only one player (nexus player) it detected. I want to use echo spot speakers. Does it makes sense?
Are you considering making plans to add support, or did you discuss and decide “we will not support this use case”?
If it is the latter, I’m curious what went into the decision making process. As I understand it, it would not be difficult to make your skill send the video stream and creds to the show. Perhaps there is a technical challenge there that I’m not aware of and, if so, I’d love to better understand it.
I would really like to be able to use my Echo Show to see Plex content! Plex plugins might actually allow Plex to stream YouTube over to the Echo Show and Spot and enable them to play third party content. That would be awesome!
We have no current plans to support video on Echo devices. We built a proof-of-concept and it didn’t work well.
Hi, any feedback regarding using the echo spot build-in speaker to play plex music? I’m bored using bluetooth or switching on my audio video system while Echo spot has a build in speaker. When i ask plex to play music, it displays plex logo, but no sound. But if i ask plex to play music on nexus player, then i got music in the living room, but for this i must switch on my audio system of course. what i want is to use Echo build in speaker with my plex music library. any chance?
Is there any way we can persuade you to enable video on the Echo Show or Echo Spot? I have the Echo Show on my nightstand and it would be cool to watch a movie while dozing off. Please? Puhleeze!
I also would love to have video streaming on my echo show. What if the show required some level of transcode? Even if down to 480p?
ugh, lack of video support on the Echo Show is exceedingly frustrating. :-/
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It’s a real shame Plex doesn’t play video on echo show without hacking around it using a web browser solution, the device is obviously capable otherwise Prime Video wouldn’t be playing seemlessly.
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I’m very interested in this as well. Hopefully someone puts this on the roadmap!
I just use the Plex skill and say "Alexa, ask plex to play “XXXXXXX” where XXXXXXX = Artist/Album/Playlist and it usually works. Plex is somewhat picky about playing music playlists. I haven’t figured out why it will play some but not others, but you can get it to play the whole library by saying “Alexa, ask Plex to play my music.”
Really wish you would change your mind and support video especially on the echo spot
I have been using Hulu Live TV with my New 10" echo shows since they came out. It works extremely well. “Alexa watch NBC” … Tuning to NBC on Hulu. I use this in the Master Bathroom, Kitchen and at my desk. Really no problems. However, Hulu is now raising the price of there live TV and it was already too high with all the services I have so plan to cancel it. I have PLEX with HDHomeRun devices and the DVR. If I could do the same with PLEX I would begin to use PLEX much more. Please consider supporting the ECHO Show as another client device for VIDEO Playback. Thanks.
There’s a feature request here: Alexa Video Skill for Echo Show. Vote for it!
Please elaborate on what didn’t work regarding the proof of concept. Its seems to me that there are many people on this forum who would like to see video on Echo screen devices.
I’ve been reasonably successful playing music from Plex on my Echo Show 5. It works most of the time. After ripping all my CD’s to use with Plex I decided to give Amazon Music Unlimited a try. The integration is obviously much better. I tried getting Plex to play a video but got the message about no player on my network and ended up here. It looks like they aren’t going to support it. Just wanted to let the Plex folk know that I will probably be dumping their product since I’m happy with Amazon Music Unlimited and if it can’t play videos, I don’t have any use for it.
And why the hell would that be? Then just change your plans. You should really prioritize support for more devices! Progress on that is really a joke with Plex! I`m a developer myself… i would do it for you… not for free of course! I honestly dont understand what you guys are doing all the time… everything takes ages. I would do this within a couple of days! So get cracking!
I used to use Plex on my old Sony Dash, basically a beefed up Chumby, and it worked great. I used it all the time! The echo play devices are more powerful and certainly are capable of playing other streaming services. Is it that Amazon is a pain to deal with?
