PlexKodiConnect: Kodi Plex Integration Done Right

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4692

The official plex app on my LG tv seems to do this automatically aswell

And also plex web seems to do this.

4693

You can do this with skinhelper widgets

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Just make sure you turn on the setting in the options
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4694

Thank you very much i will try that now.

Will it only work for certain skins ?

I am using the latest beta of amber atm, what skin is that you are using ?

Thanks

4695

Amber uses the skinhelper addon it’s one of its dependencies

Kodi Leia/Matrix (tested with latest nightly as of 2019-05-23)
script.favourites
script.skin.helper.service
script.skin.helper.widgets

I use Embuary

4696

Thanks I have it working :blush:

Luckily it is only TV shows that need this because I have my movies set up in 3 different sections (“UFC”, “4k Movies” and “Movies” so this trick would not work for them as standard widgets just jumble them all up.

Only PKC widgets can separate the different libraries ? Correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks again

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I’m not sure what you mean

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I have 3 different movie libraries on my Plex server.

Using the standard Kodi movies library, they show all 3 libraries mixed up as 1 big movies library.

To split them up I have to set up different nodes provided by PKC for each 1.

When I set up the widgets for these nodes I have to make sure I select widgets from PKC or again the normal Kodi widget shows all 3 libraries mixed into 1.

4699

Is there a way to make fast forwarding & rewinding faster just like when i play videos through kodi-nfs server streaming from my PC to my TV, it’s lagging even at 8X?

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Playback is entirely controlled by Kodi, not PKC. It’s best if you ask this question in the Kodi forums

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On Kodi 18 PlexKodiConnect does not send information tautulli information about the end of viewing.

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And @anothername
PKC uses Kodi library functionality whenever possible - it’s much faster than building something dedicated. Unfortunately, Kodi does not support a “stacking of items” :frowning_face:

4703

Please ask the Tautulli guys/developers what they need - I have no idea…

4704

I forgot to mention I use nvidia shield also this happens when i use regular plex through kodi too. Guess I have to ask kodi forums.

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@croneter
Thanks for the reply.

Thanks to @anothername I found out it is possible to get the episodes stacked using skinhelper.

Unfortunately this only seems to work for the official Kodi widgets and has no effect on PKC widgets.

Is that something only the skinhelper Devs could fix ?

Thanks again

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I’m very new to Kodi. I’ve had plex for a long time and use it on Roku. I just added Plexkodiconnect and it works great…but just a couple of questions (I’m sorry if this has been answered) this post is miles long. Everything synced and works great. I noticed upon installing it said to disable autoplay…so if autoplay is turned off, does this mean things won’t autoplay, or can I just go to a TV season folder and select “play from here” and it will play without interruption?

Lastly, I had to change the audio settings because everything with slightly out of sync (audio/video), but just by a fraction, but enough for me to notice. I’m not sure why as this wasn’t an issue on Roku. Anyway, I solved it by changing the audio offset to ahead 0.075s and defaulted it for all media. Now, everything I’ve played so far is perfectly in sync. Not sure why I had to to this.

thanks :slight_smile:

4707

have any Skin similar to the Plex look?

4708

Nope. You can make your own with something like Aura though, it’s probably one of the closer ones…

4709

Kodi autoplay throws all your movies into the playqueue, for example, potentially thousands of videos. That renders PKC unresponsive. You will notice :wink:. As long as you don’t notice, don’t worry about the autoplay setting.

Can’t help you there - Kodi is entirely responsible for playback and thus for delays :wink:

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The widget you’re refering to stems from the Kodi add-on skinhelper. It does NOT use “native” Kodi library functionality but instead just collects a bunch of xbmcgui.ListItems() - which is super slow.
Currently, neither Kodi nor PKC provide a functionality to stack episodes of the same show.

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Changelog

version 2.8.1 (beta only):

  • Fix playback startup and RuntimeError: Unknown exception thrown from the call “XBMCAddon::xbmcplugin::setResolvedUrl”
  • Refactor Plex API
  • Fix TV Show clearlogo not displaying during playback
  • Fix rare UnicodeDecodeError on library sync
  • Add additional info dialog for PKC synching playlists
  • Update translations