I’ve noticed an issue where whenever I try to play something on Watch Later, it just brings up a keyboard with “Enter the movie name” instead of playing the video.
@lock571 said:
I’ve noticed an issue where whenever I try to play something on Watch Later, it just brings up a keyboard with “Enter the movie name” instead of playing the video.
I’m using pkc to populate my spmc database with local file paths (not using Plex to stream the content). When I’m in a TV show there is no submenu that says “episode information”. Additionally over in Movies the “Movie Information” screen doesn’t have an option for trailers. As this is a native Kodi feature I expected it to still be there.
@rcrh said:
I’m using pkc to populate my spmc database with local file paths (not using Plex to stream the content). When I’m in a TV show there is no submenu that says “episode information”. Additionally over in Movies the “Movie Information” screen doesn’t have an option for trailers. As this is a native Kodi feature I expected it to still be there.
How exactly did you navigate to these episodes where the episode info screen is missing? For On Deck and Recently Added video nodes, there is a kodi (and not PKC) bug sometimes (not always) preventing you to access this info screen.
PKC populates the Kodi trailers with links to plex pass trailers. No plex pass no links, obviously. As PKC completely takes over the Kodi database and the Kodi movie scanner that would add trailers is omitted, you cannot get “kodi trailers”.
Plus, as I elaborated a couple of posts ago, trailers are a plex pass feature. Plex needs to make money somehow to implement new features (unlike me ;-))
Just some feedback on the new version. Checking for new IP is working. Local server is found as local and not as remote anymore. So far everthing works.
@sylus said:
Just some feedback on the new version. Checking for new IP is working. Local server is found as local and not as remote anymore. So far everthing works.
@cculpepp said:
Just updated to v1.2.0. Running SPMC 16.3 on Shield. Did a database reset after the upgrade and now artwork won’t download (discart, clear logos, etc.) Artwork that is supplied by the Plex server is fine, just the artwork that PKC adds isnt downloading. It was working flawlessly in the previous version.
I’m also getting the same with the most recent version. @croneter do you know what happened here (have not had time to look at the code yet)
@cculpepp said:
Just updated to v1.2.0. Running SPMC 16.3 on Shield. Did a database reset after the upgrade and now artwork won’t download (discart, clear logos, etc.) Artwork that is supplied by the Plex server is fine, just the artwork that PKC adds isnt downloading. It was working flawlessly in the previous version.
I’m also getting the same with the most recent version. @croneter do you know what happened here (have not had time to look at the code yet)
If you know how to interpret debug logs (I sure can’t), I posted my logs on the issue on the PKC Github bug forum.
@cculpepp said:
Just updated to v1.2.0. Running SPMC 16.3 on Shield. Did a database reset after the upgrade and now artwork won’t download (discart, clear logos, etc.) Artwork that is supplied by the Plex server is fine, just the artwork that PKC adds isnt downloading. It was working flawlessly in the previous version.
I’m also getting the same with the most recent version. @croneter do you know what happened here (have not had time to look at the code yet)
@rcrh said:
I’m using pkc to populate my spmc database with local file paths (not using Plex to stream the content). When I’m in a TV show there is no submenu that says “episode information”. Additionally over in Movies the “Movie Information” screen doesn’t have an option for trailers. As this is a native Kodi feature I expected it to still be there.
How exactly did you navigate to these episodes where the episode info screen is missing? For On Deck and Recently Added video nodes, there is a kodi (and not PKC) bug sometimes (not always) preventing you to access this info screen.
PKC populates the Kodi trailers with links to plex pass trailers. No plex pass no links, obviously. As PKC completely takes over the Kodi database and the Kodi movie scanner that would add trailers is omitted, you cannot get “kodi trailers”.
Plus, as I elaborated a couple of posts ago, trailers are a plex pass feature. Plex needs to make money somehow to implement new features (unlike me ;-))
I’m navigating to my shows by selecting “TV SHOWS”, and then the show and then the season and then the episode; and not from the submenu.
Concerning the trailers I get the conflict now. Since the Kodi scanner isn’t running it can’t add the trailer info.
I watched progress with excitement and finally got time to give PKC a try (coffee time for croneter)
I have different Movie Libraries in Plex and learned that there are different ways of splitting them in Kodi thanks to PKCs extra information.
I found out that these three ways of creating a new custom entry in the main menu seem to lead to similar results (based on Aeon Nox, at least browsing the movies looks same in the first moment):
Choose Video Library → Playlist → “Plex name-of-my-plex-movielibrary” (choose show playlist)
Results in select action: ActivateWindow(VideoLibrary,special://profile/playlists/video/Plex 7.xsp,return)
I’m not in to Kodi that much. Is 2) a so called video-node? (yes, I saw the other entries which give me started movies etc which is very useful). Are the playlists in 3) updated with every PKC sync?
Are there key advantages or disadvantages with either of these three methods?
Only tell PMS we’re connected to what we’re playing. This should enable the Plex Media Server to fall to sleep because PKC is not constantly bugging it
@daywalker said:
I watched progress with excitement and finally got time to give PKC a try (coffee time for croneter)
I have different Movie Libraries in Plex and learned that there are different ways of splitting them in Kodi thanks to PKCs extra information.
I found out that these three ways of creating a new custom entry in the main menu seem to lead to similar results (based on Aeon Nox, at least browsing the movies looks same in the first moment):
Choose Video Library → Playlist → “Plex name-of-my-plex-movielibrary” (choose show playlist)
Results in select action: ActivateWindow(VideoLibrary,special://profile/playlists/video/Plex 7.xsp,return)
I’m not in to Kodi that much. Is 2) a so called video-node? (yes, I saw the other entries which give me started movies etc which is very useful). Are the playlists in 3) updated with every PKC sync?
Are there key advantages or disadvantages with either of these three methods?
Many thanks for the coffee!
Yes, 2 is video nodes. If you can, use that, because it will give you useful sub categories like on deck and recently added. The other methods don’t do that.
The playlist in 3 is never updated,but contains a smart filter for the respective library. So in a sense, if you sync and get new pms items, the playlist will indeed show them immediately.
If not using video nodes, it doesn’t matter which of the other methods you’re using
Movie Collection art work:
This might be swinging for the fence but I’ll ask anyway.
I’ve created movie collections in Plex and they have successfully been passed over to Kodi. However there is no poster or fanart for the collection. Each movie in the collection has the right artwork but the main collection is blank. This often also happens in Kodi but you can then select the set and choice artwork from the items in the set. With PKC you don’t get the choice of any of the items in the collection. You can only “browse”. If the items in the set can’t be made available it would be nice if PKC selected one of the items.
Like I said, this is a small feature but it sure would be great.
@rcrh said:
I’m using pkc to populate my spmc database with local file paths (not using Plex to stream the content). When I’m in a TV show there is no submenu that says “episode information”. Additionally over in Movies the “Movie Information” screen doesn’t have an option for trailers. As this is a native Kodi feature I expected it to still be there.
How exactly did you navigate to these episodes where the episode info screen is missing? For On Deck and Recently Added video nodes, there is a kodi (and not PKC) bug sometimes (not always) preventing you to access this info screen.
I’m navigating to my shows by selecting “TV SHOWS”, and then the show and then the season and then the episode; and not from the submenu.
Concerning the trailers I get the conflict now. Since the Kodi scanner isn’t running it can’t add the trailer info.
Here is a bit more info concerning the “EPISODE INFO” screen: If I’m in a show with only one season the menu item is there. However, if the show has multiple seasons the menu item is missing.
I hope that helps track down the issue.
@rcrh said:
Movie Collection art work:
This might be swinging for the fence but I’ll ask anyway.
I’ve created movie collections in Plex and they have successfully been passed over to Kodi. However there is no poster or fanart for the collection. Each movie in the collection has the right artwork but the main collection is blank. This often also happens in Kodi but you can then select the set and choice artwork from the items in the set. With PKC you don’t get the choice of any of the items in the collection. You can only “browse”. If the items in the set can’t be made available it would be nice if PKC selected one of the items.
Like I said, this is a small feature but it sure would be great.
A little confused on what you are asking but to get the collection poster, just browse to it and select it, I have done this and it works perfect for posters but no fanart.
Finally, PKC notices correctly if you’ve changed a movie’s or tv episode’s filename!
##Changelog## version 1.2.2
Fix filename change recognition for episodes and movies - finally! If you experienced this, you will have to manually reset the Kodi database in the PKC settings
Fix PKC resume points set way too high
Clarify that transcode settings are TARGET quality
