Which players can we control with plexamp? I was hoping I could control android from it, but my player doesn’t appear in the list.

If you can, hit https://plex.tv/api/v2/resources.xml?auth_token= and see how your Android device is showing up. This should explain how Plexamp is trying to find it. The web app might be availing itself of other indirect methods to find the phone. If the address coming from resources isn’t correct, …

Yep, resources shows the same faulty address that plexamp was trying to connect to. Interestingly, plexamp also has a 10.x address

Does it have the correct address too? Or just the faulty one? Can you post the full entry for it? And what is the IP of the phone?

/api/v2/resources.xml 404’d for me so i hit /pms/resources.xml instead. <MediaContainer size="8"> ... <Device name="Matthew_s MacBook Pro" product="Plex Media Player" productVersion="3.35.2" platform="Konvergo" platformVersion="2.5.0.792-1bc7f225" device="OSX" clientIdentifier="r66j03a4e9wv8mrm…

@matthewdias said: After signing out and signing in again, Plexamp shows the proper address. The same did not work for Pixel 2. Sorry, having trouble parsing this, might be the wine. Plexamp should ask for those resources details every time you launch the app, or select a player or a server. You…

Sorry, to be clear, the resources response was showing an incorrect connection address for Plexamp. After signing out and signing in again, the response showed the correct address. I attempted clearing data in the android app but that didn’t fix the issue. Here’s the full response lol <MediaContain…

So seems like there are two separate issues here. resources.xml is getting the wrong ip, while /clients gets the right one the android service that reports presence for /clients is getting killed when the app is backgrounded

@matthewdias said: So seems like there are two separate issues here. resources.xml is getting the wrong ip, while /clients gets the right one the android service that reports presence for /clients is getting killed when the app is backgrounded If you check your phone’s IP, does it not correspo…

It doesn’t, that’s the problem.

I’ve pinged the Android folk.

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After recent updates, these issues seem to be solved.

Loving PlexAmp for iOS

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