Hi,
I am trying to solve a rather simple problem. I want to say ‘Alexa, tell PLEX to show movie_name on LGTV’.
It is not as easy to do as it looks. I have configured and installed Alexa skill to control Plex. I have altered the code to choose an avilable Plex player from Alexa by command, so if a new player is there - i can choose it. And I can tell it to play content into standard PlexTheater on Windows just fine when it is chosen as a player. But i cannot solve a puzzle how to push this stream into a DLNA device.
A big piece that is missing is the ability to do what an old ‘Coherence’ code did in 2009 or what ‘LocalCast’ app is able to do now - to push a stream into available DLNA renderer in the network. Huge benefit of this method is that it automatically turns on a device - a TV or a receiver as soon as LocalCast stream arrives.
I have Python script that allows to push stream into ChromeCast and can use that but ChromeCast cannot activate the device it sits on, so it is far from an ideal solution.
Does OpenPHT have a feature to define some existing DLNA renderer as a destination, so if i would tell Plex to use this instance of OpenPTH as a client and Plex would start streaming into it - it would buffer the stream and send it into the configured DLNA device?
Essentially all i want is for OpenPHT to act as a pre-configured LocaCast instance. Is it possible?
