@charlas said:
Tried hacking together a wrapper for the Web Client, and it launches fine etc, but unfortunatly the focus gets taken away from the login form, so keyboard disappears. Anyone got any links to how to pre-auth to the service as Panny apps are just HTML5 apps, and sideloading the app to the TV is Child’s play.
Had been planning on trying that but hadn’t gotten around to it yet. Not sure if this is still functional but might be worth a shot →
Essentially, disabling authentication requirement on your local network MIGHT mean it just detects the local server and goes straight through?
Out of curiosity, what takes the focus away? TV system or something else? Have you tried perhaps pairing a bluetooth mouse to the TV so you can manually reselect the login fields?
EDIT:
If you’re familiar with JavaScript this might help. From what I gather, you would use this to generate the Auth Token request that usually comes up on the Plex apps etc, then just authorise it from any logged in account on the network.
I’ll have a play when I’ve got 5 mins, did try local auth, but that’s pretty much dead now if you have local users. I’ll knock some jscript together and see what I can get going.
Right, having a look into it all, this should be fairly simple for Plex to sort, they already have a SmartTV Alliance app (Toshiba etc) so it should be all of a matter minutes to get it working on the latest Firefox OS, as it’s STA 3 compliant.
Anyone know who to contact about it? I don’t mind putting some time into getting it working/fixed for the Panny’s, but need access to the code base.
nobody willing to help this guy out? I am sure someone must be able to point him in the right direction. There is a guy called mattseeley who is a plex employee that seams to have wanted to help people out before (check his post on page 21 of the posts)
"Hi everyone. My name is Matt, I’m one of the trio of Plex Smart TV app developers.
Agreed. It’s unfortunate developers need to pay Panasonic to access the dev resources. It makes sense to filter out casual developers but still, they should move the pay gate closer to app submission versus the front door.
Dumping the AJAX-CE SDK is good move. It predated many HTML5 features and required custom elements and proprietary APIs all over the place. I’m hoping the newer Panasonics A) don’t use Opera Presto and B) have multiple cores available to the browser. We see fairly good performance on LG NetCast and webOS devices. I’m hopeful Panasonic is looking to compete here. Although reading the docs it looks like MP3 audio isn’t supported; I hope that’s referring to mp3 audio streams in video vs audio files with mp3 containers and mp3 audio.
Plex’s Smart TV app runs on other Smart TV 3.0 spec devices like Toshiba and LG. One of my colleagues has a picked up a 2014 Panasonic TC50AS660. We’re anxious to play. Nothing more concrete at the moment, but wow, 23 pages! You all need an app. "
Thanks for that, I was hoping someone from the Plex team would come forward, but obviously not, I’ve hit up Matt though and I’ll wait and see what they say. From Pre-Lim testing it’s childs play to sideload apps onto the Panasonic’s (at least mine which is FFOS based) so even if Plex don’t want to submit it for code review etc then it would be childs play for End Users to get it working themselves.
I have a wrapper for the Web Client working, and it’s OK. But not ideal, as the web client is mouse controller based etc.
I’ll let you know, but not exactly holding out all that much hope. If it doesn’t pan out, when work and wedding, family and university (yes uni at 43!) calms down a bit ill see what I can do.
Looks that way, it’s a pitty as it really should be child’s play really to get it working on the FFOS, seems as its already working on the STV3 platform (like the Toshiba stuff) and the FFOS 2.4 and above is conformant to the spec (2.5/2.6 full spec compliance).
I’ll see what I can do when I get a few hours at home (testing on the FFOS emulator is a pain, so access to the TV is best) and see if I can get something usable put together. Might ask some of the UI guys from the office to knock me something together if they have some time.
Anyone got any images/videos of the STV3 app running on one of the other platforms, so I have a guide of design etc.
Holy crap, I just bought a new Vierra and didn’t even consider that it might not have access to a plex app, my old crappy no name TV that only works when it feels like it has a plex app, but this one doesn’t?!? I can’t believe this thread has been going for 5years and there’s still not a reasonable out come.
I’m a bit bummed because plex isn’t even working for me in the browser and I’m yet to find a supported file in the DLNA spot…
@charlas said:
Tried hacking together a wrapper for the Web Client, and it launches fine etc, but unfortunatly the focus gets taken away from the login form, so keyboard disappears. Anyone got any links to how to pre-auth to the service as Panny apps are just HTML5 apps, and sideloading the app to the TV is Child’s play.
Had been planning on trying that but hadn’t gotten around to it yet. Not sure if this is still functional but might be worth a shot →
Essentially, disabling authentication requirement on your local network MIGHT mean it just detects the local server and goes straight through?
Out of curiosity, what takes the focus away? TV system or something else? Have you tried perhaps pairing a bluetooth mouse to the TV so you can manually reselect the login fields?
EDIT:
If you’re familiar with JavaScript this might help. From what I gather, you would use this to generate the Auth Token request that usually comes up on the Plex apps etc, then just authorise it from any logged in account on the network.
Yeah Local auth is practically non-existent if you log in with Plex accounts. Just doesn’t work any more. As for focus, as the page is rendered the focus seems to go login field/password field/OK button as it renders and as it hits the OK button the focus obviously goes off the text field and pop, no keyboard.
I’ve had so much on that not tried anything else recently, but yeah a work around might be temp pairing a mouse/keyboard and logging in, hadn’t though of that. But not really a long term solution.
Might have a play over the weekend if I get 20 mins.
I started building a client but I’m going to need some help getting it over the line. It’s in react. I will try and get it playing some content and then get it up on github and hopefully get some contributions so we can get a decent app on the store.
