PlexBMC Helper (Target not showing in Plex App)

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I am under the impression from the PlexBMC Wiki Page that installing PlexBMC will cause my Kodi installation to show up as a "play to" target from within the Android Plex app.  I hope I am reading that right, because that is my goal.

 

I followed the installation instructions on the Wiki, and can access my Plex content through the menus now (which is cool) but I still cannot get Kodi to show up as a target.

 

Can someone please let me know if:

1. It's supposed to

2. What I might be doing wrong?

 

Thank you,

- Jeff

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Can't remember for sure, but I had a similar problem.

If you go into the Kodi Settings -> Services -> Remote Control - tick on the options for this system and other systems.

Pretty sure that's the one you need.

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Hmm that doesn’t work.


I sure wish I could get a definite answer on this. The “helper” doesn’t seem to be well documented.

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I would try post in the PlexBMC thread, [here](https://forums.plex.tv/topic/106593-plexbmc-xbmc-add-on-to-connect-to-plex-media-server/), to get it noticed more. This is a third party tool and thus you'll have to get help from either the dev or other people using it.

Unfortunately the setting above is what got me working when I was in a similar position. What version are you running? I'm on v4.0.0.0 beta4, before that I was having a lot of Plex Home issues. The first post is the link above has the links to the betas on the release site if you haven't seen them already.

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Okay, thanks buddy. I appreciate the help.

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Okay, thanks buddy. I appreciate the help.

I already replied to this issue in the other thread, but I'll expand on the issue differently here.

The main problem is that the 'helper' addon is obsolete (all existing versions of it).

It's no longer compatible with new versions of XBMC/Kodi or current PlexBMC versions (which are needed for Kodi).

To use existing 'helper' addons you would have to stick to very old XBMC versions (Early Gotham versions or older), and corresponding PlexBMC versions.

The 'helper' compatibility was lost in some of the late Gotham versions, so anything newer than that will not work.

But in all other respects the new line of PlexBMC versions by hippojay works fine with the latest Kodi versions, and my hope is that he will in time also include the 'helper' ability to receive media 'casts' without needing any 'helper' addon. (He already included the 'helper' ability of reporting 'Now Playing' info to the server.)

Best regards: dlanor

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I disagree dlanor, I am running 14.2 Helix with v4.0.0.0 beta for PlexBMC and the Helper and both are working great.

I guess what you say is true if you don't want to run beta code, but I just installed the helper above last weekend and it's been working perfectly.

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Thanks for that explanation dlanor!


adam, can you link me the repository for the v4 beta? I’ll try that.

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This is from the first post of the link I added above where I got the links:

Releases of PleXBMC and PleXBMC Helper are available on github, at these links:

Download the zip of the version you'd like to install, and "install from zip file" in XBMC. Installation this way won't allow for automatic updates.

The versions when you go to the site are for the beta, the post just hasn't been updated to reflect that fact.

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N/m, its 3.4.2 of the helper that I have that is working. The beta is just for the main plugin. My bad, but it does work on 14.2 Helix.

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Hey, it looks like I didn't have 3.4.2 of the helper installed.  I had 3.4.1...  oops.

Anyway, it works beautifully now.  Thank you so much for your help! 

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Great news!!!