PlexKodiConnect: Kodi Plex Integration Done Right

@croneter said:

@Govnah said:
I assume Music w/ direct paths defined is still broken? Before I go down this road again given the large music library thought I would ask - defined direct paths or not for music?

Thanks

Plex Music is still broken:

  • If you use direct paths, Kodi will delete songs instantly
  • If not using direct paths, Kodi will try to scan Plex folders it cannot access. If you have a large library, this will likely crash Kodi

Seems to be working for me w/ direct paths enabled and paths defined accordingly for Music.

Thanks

@zpaolo11x said:
With PlexKodiConnect growing faster to be a great solution for many users (in my setup it works much better than PleXBMC) it would be great to have a dedicated forum section, or at least a [RELEASE] thread with no comments where we can always find the newest version.

I usually watch this page for the latest releases.
github.com/croneter/PlexKodiConnect/releases

The TV Shows info screens are showing movie infos in my case:

If I click Play in info screen it asks me to edit movie name or says ‘Playlist cant find next item to play’. I have nvever used playlists on kodi or plex.

Log attached,..

Also cant play file:

17:45:21 T:6968 NOTICE: PlexKodiConnect PlaybackUtils → Play called.
17:45:21 T:6968 NOTICE: PlexKodiConnect PlayUtils → Kodi cannot access file None - no direct play
17:45:21 T:6968 NOTICE: PlexKodiConnect PlayUtils → The add-on settings bitrate is: 320, the video bitraterequired is: 4011
17:45:21 T:6968 NOTICE: PlexKodiConnect PlayUtils → The network speed is insufficient to direct stream file. Transcoding
17:45:21 T:6968 NOTICE: PlexKodiConnect PlayUtils → File is transcoding.

Network is hard wired all way through!?

@\0 said:
The TV Shows info screens are showing movie infos in my case:

If I click Play in info screen it asks me to edit movie name or says ‘Playlist cant find next item to play’. I have nvever used playlists on kodi or plex.

Log attached,..

Also cant play file:

17:45:21 T:6968 NOTICE: PlexKodiConnect PlaybackUtils → Play called.
17:45:21 T:6968 NOTICE: PlexKodiConnect PlayUtils → Kodi cannot access file None - no direct play
17:45:21 T:6968 NOTICE: PlexKodiConnect PlayUtils → The add-on settings bitrate is: 320, the video bitraterequired is: 4011
17:45:21 T:6968 NOTICE: PlexKodiConnect PlayUtils → The network speed is insufficient to direct stream file. Transcoding
17:45:21 T:6968 NOTICE: PlexKodiConnect PlayUtils → File is transcoding.

Network is hard wired all way through!?

Thanks, known bug, will be fixed in next release.

Regarding transcoding: In the PKC settings, choose video settings of 1920x1080, 40Mbps

@zpaolo11x said:
With PlexKodiConnect growing faster to be a great solution for many users (in my setup it works much better than PleXBMC) it would be great to have a dedicated forum section, or at least a [RELEASE] thread with no comments where we can always find the newest version.

+1 :wink:

Already have hundreds of comments. Hard if not impossible to find a specific post, e.g. regarding a bug.

And how would we go forward with this request?

Many thanks for your addon :slight_smile:

@Monstar316 said:
Has anyone tried or know if TVTunes add-on should work with PlexKodiConnect? I just installed it the other day, it downloaded all the time themes but it doesn’t play if I’m browsing my Movies or TV Shows library.
I’ve checked all configuration on TVTunes but still nothing.
If it doesn’t work, it’s no issues. Just wanted to know so I know whether to uninstall TVTunes or not.

On another note, I noticed that PlexKodiConnect works alongside PlexPy :slight_smile: Great work, @croneter

Will TVTunes work if Direct Paths are set up rather than the default setup on PKC?

@Monstar316 said:

@Monstar316 said:
Has anyone tried or know if TVTunes add-on should work with PlexKodiConnect? I just installed it the other day, it downloaded all the time themes but it doesn’t play if I’m browsing my Movies or TV Shows library.
I’ve checked all configuration on TVTunes but still nothing.
If it doesn’t work, it’s no issues. Just wanted to know so I know whether to uninstall TVTunes or not.

On another note, I noticed that PlexKodiConnect works alongside PlexPy :slight_smile: Great work, @croneter

Will TVTunes work if Direct Paths are set up rather than the default setup on PKC?

Yes it will along with many other native addons (such as my next up notification one)

Hey,

I’m trying to use the Plex Companion to fling something from another Plex account to Kodi - do you know if this should work ?

I have two plex accounts one is the PMS owner ( which sees all content ) and then I’ve shared the PMS server to another account which has a subset of content.

I’m trying to fling from an android phone that is signed in as PMS owner to kodi which is signed in with the lesser privileged account - it seems to work for content that the lesser privileged account has access too - but not content that it does not have access too.

@johoja12 said:
Hey,

I’m trying to use the Plex Companion to fling something from another Plex account to Kodi - do you know if this should work ?

I have two plex accounts one is the PMS owner ( which sees all content ) and then I’ve shared the PMS server to another account which has a subset of content.

I’m trying to fling from an android phone that is signed in as PMS owner to kodi which is signed in with the lesser privileged account - it seems to work for content that the lesser privileged account has access too - but not content that it does not have access too.

Exactly, that is by design

@jenser200278 said:
I’ve noticed, music working again :slight_smile:

I’ve also noticed, that the track names include the track numbers of the album. Is there a ability to remove these numbers from the track names?

Yes, no idea why music works again :-D.

If your track names include the track numbers, then that’s a skin “issue”

@raginbajin said:
First, I got to say that PlexKodiConnect is awesome… I like it a ton.

The only thing is that I am having a bit of trouble with On-Deck. It seems to not match up with what I am seeing within the Plex Applications. I’m not sure what the deal is. Everything else looks right. I only have one users. I see most of what should be in On-deck but there are a few other episodes that show up when they should not be showing up.

Am I missing a setting or is this always going to be off like this?

In the next release, you can go to the PKC settings, Appearance tweaks and turn off “Extend Plex TV Series “On Deck” view to all shows”. You will then see the standard Plex On Deck episodes

@cronoter Is there anyway to disable full sync completely? To just do it manually? And leave constant enabled of course.

@bigbadrabbit said:

@bigbadrabbit said:
After installing PKC 1.1.3 i can no longer sort my TV shows by “Date added”. The option isn’t showing up anymore.

Can this be fixed in the next release? Thanks.

Don’t wanna bother you, @croneter! Are you aware of this bug?

@bart.plessers said:
Running
PMS 0.9.16.4
PKC 1.1.3

Music: after initial sync of music library, DateAdded is NOT correct:

albums seems to be added in revers alphabetic order wich is -if the crawler syncs alphabetically- indeed the same as DateAdded.

Installed fresh Kodi & plugins

I suppose this is a bug?

Kind regards,
B

Unfortunately, I can’t fix this. Kodi has an annoying way of repeatetly updating its Music database and overwriting the values I set.

@Hufvudet said:
@cronoter Is there anyway to disable full sync completely? To just do it manually? And leave constant enabled of course.

No, you cannot disable full sync completely - why would you want to? You can, however, set a frequency above the standard 30 minutes

There are some small changes that will never get picked up by the background sync. Hence I enforce full syncs at some point :-).

Has anyone attempted to use PLexConnect with the new Alpha 17 builds? Too scared to even try it on my Surface since its working so well but curious about the new skin and touch interface :wink:

Works pretty well on Krypto / 17 - using it since about a week on a odroid xu4 and it’s really fast and stable.

@croneter a few days ago I was playing around with your ‘develop’ GitHub branch (can’t help but dabble)…

I installed ‘develop’ over the 1.1.3 release… I was amazed to see that landscape art and banners were available in my skin (from what seemed to be ‘PlexConnect’)

I cannot work out if this is something you have enabled via PlexConnect (think I saw a discussion regarding fanart.TV you were having) or whether I have some how inadvertently crisscrossed me Emby server ? (have Emby server running alongside PlexServer).

just intrigued to know how this was possible.

thanks, keep up the great work, looking FWD to the next release.

A new release is out for you guys.

  • Plex Watch Later / Plex It is now available!
  • Added banner art where available (looking at you @mini.Plex ;-))

Download: https://github.com/croneter/PlexKodiConnect/releases

##Changelog##
version 1.1.4
(you will need to rescan your library)

  • Plex Watch Later available as a separate Video Node!
  • Fix Kodi Movie Info showing instead of Episode Info
  • New settings option: use default Plex On Deck TV Shows
  • Fix TV show on deck view
  • Enable playstate update if Kodi does not give us a Kodi DB id
  • First startup: Add warning for large music libraries and not using Direct Paths
  • Fix KeyError: ‘librarySectionID’ during syncPMStime
  • Retrieve banner art when available
  • New setting: I own this PMS (needed if you manually set your IP)
  • Increased default full sync frequency to 60 minutes