Great - thanks for all your hard work :)
Hmmmm I've just tried to download the skin zip file from github via the correct "raw" url and I'm getting a "blob is too big" error.
After some research it seems as though github have a hard restriction on single binary file sizes. Makes perfect sense, stops people using it as a file host.
I suspect hosting the ZIPs elsewhere would probably be required unfortunately...
Thanks, that's going to cause issues then as I don't think I can split stuff over different locations. I might have to switch everything from github then - luckily I'm pretty sure I can do that seamlessly with an add-on update.
EDIT: hmm - should be able to whack it on googlecode. Looks like I have my evening planned now..
Sounds like it should work to me. Could you just not updated the datadir element in "addons.xml" for the repo addon to point to googlecode folders for the ZIPs?
e.g
its currently: http://github.com/hippojay/repository.plexbmc.addons/raw/frodo/download
Which in turn the addon appends "//-.zip"
If you upload your ZIPs to a subdir with the same names as on github to your google code and point your datadir to the root d/l folder it should work.
If you then re-bundle the repo addon.xml (re-gen md5 too) and bump its version number people should get an updated download dir.
Thats my take on it anyway.... I might and probably will be wrong :)
Plexbmc won’t connect to the plex server (the server runs on windows),
When I call this http://localhost:32400/servers, it send me:
The address is localhost/127.0.0.1, but plexbmc or any clients use it and try to connect with ip 127.0.0.1:32400, so it refuse to connect, log file:
NOTICE: Unable to connect to 127.0.0.1:32400
Reason: [Errno 111] Connection refused
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Let me just check - you can call the media server directly using http://localhost:32400/servers , but XBMC/plexbmc cannot contact the server on this same address? You don't have any firewall blocking of certain applications do you?
In fact, it's a bit strange that it's reporting the localhost address as the the media server, rather than the network address. Does this device have a working network connection?
I've had this issue before on my PMS, but then on a NAS. Unsure how to solve in it Windows, but i can confirm it is definately a PMS issue, not PleXBMC !
Thank you, Hippojay!!! It has been a while since I last used PleXBMC and your recent version is incredible 
I am using the latest Frodo 12.0 with the Aeon Nox 4.0 skin. I created custom main menu items linked to favorites created in PleXBMC. This looks and works great! I did notice a couple of things I wanted to ask you about.
- Cast information/metadata is not being populated. Is that supposed to be working?
- Once a movie has been started, I can Resume from the previous location; but if I choose Start from Beginning, it keeps starting from the Resume position. Is this a known bug?
-Rc
Hi,
- It’s an XBMC bug. Apparently they accidentally removed it when doing some code migration work. It’ll be added back in with 12.1.
2 whoops. Lets call it a ‘feature’ shall we :-). I’ll fix later tonight as I know what the issue is.
Thanks for the fast reply :)
1. Good to hear it will be resolved in Frodo 12.1.
2. Nice 'feature' ;-) Appreciate the quick fix!
-Rc
p.s. I love the Plex Control option for audio/subtitle tracks!! Works perfectly :)
I fixed some network problems I was having with my Mac, and the PleXBMC helper is working great now! The only oddity I noticed is that when sending something to PleXBMC from plex web, a message pops up saying “There was a problem trying to play <movie_name> on Plexbmc client”. However, it actually plays just fine.
Ok I just uninstall PMS, delete all files and registry keys. Reinstall and now it returns the good network address, strange... but for me it works :rolleyes:
Done - and thanks for finding. Migrated to googlecode and checked. Repo will show an automatic update and quartz is now available and installable. I'll add the link to repo 2.0.2 to the first page.
** PleXBMC 3.0.7 **
Quick fix and a new feature:
[list]
[] FIX: “start from beginning” would always start from resume point (wrong python indentation!!)
[] ADD: Plex GDM discovery (this is the new standard way to discovery server and will replace bonjour eventually). Currently it is selectable in settings (off, bonjour, gdm)
[/list]
http://repository-plexbmc-addons.googlecode.com/git-history/frodo/download/plugin.video.plexbmc/plugin.video.plexbmc-3.0.7.zip
** PleXBMC Helper 3.0.5 **
Some small changes:
[list]
[] ADD: speed up response time for helper to play media
[] FIX: Error message when starting through Plex/web
FIX: Removed on screen notification if remote playback failed, as sometime this occured when playback was successful. I guess that if it fails, you’ll notice anyway!
[/list]
http://repository-plexbmc-addons.googlecode.com/git-history/frodo/download/script.plexbmc.helper/script.plexbmc.helper-3.0.5.zip
** PleXBMC repository 2.0.2 **
All these updates are in the PleXBMC repository and those running them should get the updates fairly soon (or you can force an update check if you are desperate).
The repository itself has also been updated, as I needed to move to a different host to allow the skin downloads to work. So if you don’t immediately see the two addon updates, you may need to first check for an update on the repository (although this should happen automatically after a while).
** Quartz V3 PleXBMC 0.7.4 **
You may notice a small update for Quartz V3 - this is nothing functional, but a small change to the internal addon data to meet XBMC versioning guidelines for Frodo final. Again, auto updates will occur, but if you already have 0.7.3 installed, then you don’t need to install 0.7.4.
Just installed the PleXbmc plugin on atv2 with Frodo, I have one question. Is there a way to view shared libraries (servers)? My personal media is all avaible, but my friends is not.
Thanks
If you fill in your myplex details in the plugin settings, then it should be able to retrieve and display the shared libraries too.
Thanks for the quick fix of the resume problem!! Really appreciated. But i have some questions:
- Can i completly disable some menus? e.g. the Music menu since i don’t have any music on my plexmediaserver
- Instead of removing the music menu could i display the content of xbmc library or plugins? (i’d like to use the shoutcast plugin of xbmc)
Regards,
weelkin
My setup isn’t working. Plex Server is running on my iMac with IP 192.168.0.107.
My Pi is running Raspbmc with the Plexbmc plugin. When I try to open the ‘Movie’ section it says: ‘Unable to connect host’. And it shows and empty list.
In the log file it find’s my iMac but then it changes the IP to: 10.211.55.2:32400
Can someone help me out?
Edit: I think its working now. I just logged in with my Plex account on the Pi and tried ‘publish server’ on my Plex server…
Edit 2: Nope…same empty list. But I can see fanart now.
PleXBMC will use the address data held within the Plex Media server - I have seen some instances where there are two entries within the data and PleXBMC is unable to determine which one to use, so it uses the first one. I’m guessing that if you look in http://192.168.0.107:32400/servers it will show two entries for the same device - but with two different addresses?
Yes, thats true it’s showing two entries. But what can I do about it?
