Hi good people.
Are there any plans to update Plex for Kodi? Current version 0.1.6. has problems since the update to 18.x.
Android TV Box.
2 Likes
I wonder the sameâŠ
afaik itâs no longer under active development, at least not by Plex:
if you look down this thread:
there may be a fork of it, but I have not tried it
Hi, I pretty much use Plex for Kodi addon every day. For streaming radio and then move on to using my own plex library or podcast search. I wish (like in the browser edition of plex) u were able to control the playlisting there on kodi as well⊠jukeboxING.
-wbm
1 Like
Is it really not in active development? Canât fathom why tbh. Itâs UI is legitimately far superior than any other Plex product and under Kodi at least youâre guaranteed 99% of things will Direct Play.
5 Likes
I definitely agree.
Kodi is the only reason why I have the premium pass.
1 Like
Hi
I have been using this app for the last 3 years, from kodi apk update version now 18.1 android apps. No facing any problem. However, this may be a problem at a reason i regularly update this apps.
The fact that itâs all in python and all the .py files are there makes it easy for anyone to customize or change. Iâve taken it and made major changes to it for myself. Made it mark items watched when using external players, redid the U/I a ton, have had a ton of fun with it. Added descriptions on hover as well as basic info like movie resolution, audio type, length etc on the home view.
It all started when I couldnât get plex for kodi to mark my item as watched when using external player (which is needed for madVR to work).
6 Likes
Please share the modified add-on on Github. I love the UI changes you made.
4 Likes
Plex has always had issues for me on Kodi 17.x - when switching songs it frequently causes Kodi to crash, and the Vero4k player reboots. This is something I hoped would be fixed with Kodi 18.x.
Since the update things have gotten worse: when playing a song, after a minute or so the screensaver clock pops up, but only in the middle. That is to say, around the edge of the screen you can still see Plex playing the song. Very odd behaviour, to say the least. Another thing is, now when I try to switch to a different song the screen goes completely black.
I sincerely hope there will be continued development for Plex for Kodi to sort out the bugs.
Would you mind sharing your version of the addon?
Ok guys, I have shared this. You can grab it here:
http://hifiandtheater.com/files/script.plex.zip
Thereâs a readme file in the folder called how-to-install-update.txt. iâll paste the contents of that file here so that anyone that wants this can read the steps and decide if they still want it before downloading it.
I made this plex modification for myself. Hopefully it works for you but if not, well, I made it for myself 
The feature changes are:
- Massive UI changes and additions.
- Support marking as watched for external players (important for windows using madvr). Item gets scrobbled after 5 mins.
This may be in conflict with desired behavior if you are using internal player and wish to use resume support. - Exiting plex now exits Kodi.
- Actual filename being played gets stored in c:\htpc\plexapi folder if this exists. If not, nothing happens with this.
This feature is useful for scripts that may want to do some things based on the real filename - Libraries can be filtered from plex for kodi now by renaming the library to something with â-â in the name.
So if you dont want to see music, change it to music- and it wonât show up in this interface.
All my testing has been done using external players as thatâs my only use for plex for kodi on my HTPC.
Installation
There are a few steps required to install this updated version of plex.
-
Install plex for kodi addon from video repository and make sure itâs working in plex.
-
Recommended to wipe out kodi library entirely and configure plex to load as a service.
This will allow kodi to just become plex and to get into plex within 1 second of load. -
Recommend use estuary as theme.
-
To install updated addon, we will use the install folder addon at c:\program files (or wherever you installed kodi).
Copy this folder (script.plex) to c:\program files\kodi\addons
Delete %appdata%\kodi\addons\script.plex -
Copy teh fonts file. If youâre using estuary default theme, then just copy script.plex\Fonts.xml to c:\program files\kodi\addons\skin.estuary\xml\ and overwrite the Fonts.xml file there.
Or you can modify your fonts file yourself if you are not using estuary. The path to that skin is something like:
c:\program files\kodi\addons\skin.estuary\xml.
Specifically we need definitions for font06, font08, and font09. See the lines added to estuaryâs font.xml:
<---------- cut here ----------->
<font>
<name>font06</name>
<filename>NotoSans-Regular.ttf</filename>
<size>14</size>
<style>lighten</style>
</font>
<font>
<name>font08</name>
<filename>NotoSans-Regular.ttf</filename>
<size>18</size>
<style>lighten</style>
</font>
<font>
<name>font09</name>
<filename>NotoSans-Regular.ttf</filename>
<size>20</size>
<style>lighten</style>
</font>
<---------- cut here ----------->
Otherwise the title and description will be blown out too big.
4 Likes
Looks really nice!
Could you guide me and others on the UI changes? Which files did you edit?
Thanks!
Many files were edited. If you want to know, install the plex for kodi from repository then download mine and do a diff of the folders using something like beyond compare.
I have an OSMC Vero4k. It was running Kodi 17.x and last month it did an automatic update to 18.1 and recently I believe to 18.2.
Before and after the update to Kodi 18.1 I was running the official Plex app, version 0.1.6.
As Plex was having the issues described before, I followed the advice of uninstalling 0.1.6 and then installing version 0.1.7a2, downloaded from here: https://github.com/pannal/plex-for-kodi/tree/develop
However, the issues mostly remain.
Edit: I completely reinstalled Kodi on the Vero, and re-installed Plex 0.1.6. No change.
i have an old android 4.x device that can only use Kodi 16.1 and it is at version 0.1.3. Anyone know how to get the 0.1.6 on it? It runs 1080p great and has hdmi out so I want to keep it running as long as possible.
I like your mod only think that i would like to change is to use original backgrounds dim.
Other issue is in home screen over tv shows, continue watching posters are showing only half squares. Thanks
With the lates Plex server version 1.16.0.1226 I can get server strings in my native language (hungarian) like âContinue Watchingâ, âOn Deckâ , etc. but because hungarian not ascii texts the Plex for Kodi log output crashes.
Error text: unicodeencodeerror ascii codec canât encode character \xf6 kodi
My only fast solution was to comment out those log outputs in files in the plex for kodi install zip file.
in \lib_included_packages\plexnet\serverdecision.py
def init(self):
...
#util.WARN_LOG("Server requested new playback decision: {0}".format(self))
in \lib_included_packages\plexnet\plaxplayer.py
def getServerDecision(self):
...
if decision.isSuccess():
pass#util.LOG("MDE: Server was happy with client's original decision. {0}".format(decision))
elif decision.isDecision(True):
#util.WARN_LOG("MDE: Server was unhappy with client's original decision. {0}".format(decision))
return decision.getDecision()
else:
pass#util.LOG("MDE: Server was unbiased about the decision. {0}".format(decision))
Me too, crashing when playing music, rebooting the entire box. Itâs really too bad.,
Great job! Thank you for your hard work! But for some reason changes in player.py do not work on the android-tv console (HIMEDIA Q10 / Android 7) via external video player. I use the Himedia video player (this choice goes through the xbmc wrapper). Could this be due to the difference in the interpretation of the python commands on android and windows? Please help me!
