Yeah this is my dream feature. Bring it!
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Maybe Iām missing something, but why on earth would you want an interface that invites you to miss the beginning of media you have a local copy of? Do you want commercials injected too?
Seems to me the only real benefit to this would be a ārandomizerā type featureā¦perhaps a āPlex Rouletteā button would make more sense?
Imagine being able to wake up on Saturday morning, make your bowl of cereal and then turn on Plex and your Saturday Morning cartoons are running like it was back in the day. On Friday evening we used to have whatās called āDetective Hourā which showed a crime series of sorts. I would love to sit back on Friday evening and āzapā to Plex channel 3 which has detective shows going on.
This is mostly a nostalgia thing and I think that if you havenāt experienced it or have good memories of it growing up you probably wouldnāt understand. You could set it up two ways, one is random so it just runs in the background and you can start in the middle of a show or you can have it so that it āmovesā the block of TV so that whatever is running starts from the beginning.
Anyway, I think that would be an absolute dream to have, specially since I am unable to choose what to watch myself, but love something random coming on in your chosen āchannelā.
I would love to have āStar Trek channelā, āSaturday Morning Cartoons channelā, ā80s action channelā etc. and I can switch between them and I donāt have to chose what I watch since Plex does that for me.
Maybe it fulfills a dream of being the head of programming at a TV channel, I donāt know 
I just want this. Badly.
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A feature that could be in this would be so that you could write to Plex: āMake a 3 hour block of TV shows that aired between 1985 and 1987ā and it would go ahead and do it.
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You can half accomplish most of what you seek with genre-based smart playlists and using the shuffle feature. The biggest gap as I see it is having a multi-channel (or multi-playlist) guide to peruse.
Yeah the smart playlist feature is cool. Is there a shortcut to switch to the next playlist (like clicking next channel on your remote control)?
Another workaround is to install Kodi, then install PlexKodiConnect to be able to use your Plex library and then install PseudoTV. That actually works well, but Kodi and specially PseudoTV is crashing left and right.
If only there was a way to create smart playlist from multiple libraries or at least combine smart plyalists, then we would be pretty close to realising this dream
No shortcut but you just go back maybe one time and pick another playlist. Same effort as hitting a guide button and selecting a new channel.
You can also just use Kodi as a stand-alone and have it point to the directories themselves. In terms of crashing I found this branch to be more stable: https://github.com/Enigma0/script.pseudotv.min - itās a minimalist PseudoTV addon but hasnāt been updated in a while. Truthfully I donāt need anymore functionality than it provides and itās never crashed. It also automatically generates only local content channels.
I actually have a request for multi-library smart-playlists: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/211706/request-multi-library-smart-playlists-automatically-adds-new-content-based-on-configured-filters#latest
Thanks for the tip on PseudoTV Min. Sadly it crashes for me when I try to change channel using the arrow keys. I like that it started to play the first channel right away instead of waiting for all channels to get ready.
Use PlexKodiConnect (https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/210023/plexkodiconnect-let-kodi-talk-to-your-plex/p1) to sync your Plex library to Kodi, and then use PseudoTV in Kodi as normal, but now using your Plex library as the backend.
@jkalland said:
Maybe Iām missing something, but why on earth would you want an interface that invites you to miss the beginning of media you have a local copy of? Do you want commercials injected too?
PseudoTV has the ability to start a show or movie from the beginning once you find something you want to watch.
@Ryanf86 said:
@jkalland said:
Maybe Iām missing something, but why on earth would you want an interface that invites you to miss the beginning of media you have a local copy of? Do you want commercials injected too?PseudoTV has the ability to start a show or movie from the beginning once you find something you want to watch.
Yep, easy to start from the beginning. And, just to be different, I do have a few commercials interleaved just for fun. Of course, I get to pick the commercials, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7RkzuJLoI
@deepseth said:
Use PlexKodiConnect (https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/210023/plexkodiconnect-let-kodi-talk-to-your-plex/p1) to sync your Plex library to Kodi, and then use PseudoTV in Kodi as normal, but now using your Plex library as the backend.
This is really cool, thank you for letting me know about PKC.
I would still like to have PseudoTV built into Plex though.
For those who have Kodi running, we do have the option of using the new Plex for Kodi app.
https://forums.plex.tv/categories/plex-for-kodi
@astrofisher said:
For those who have Kodi running, we do have the option of using the new Plex for Kodi app.
https://forums.plex.tv/categories/plex-for-kodi
Does that integrate into the Kodi library, and/or work with PseudoTV?
@strapdoc said:
I would still like to have PseudoTV built into Plex though.
Likewise, but itās going to be a lot of work to update all the clients across a wide range of platforms to do it, so Iām not holding my breath.
@deepseth said:
@strapdoc said:
I would still like to have PseudoTV built into Plex though.Likewise, but itās going to be a lot of work to update all the clients across a wide range of platforms to do it, so Iām not holding my breath.
Could be done server sideā¦ Not holding my breath though.
The creation of playlists for channels is largely trivial (smart playlists based on networks/genres/etc), itās then displaying the live TV style interface with tv guide and channel surfing thatās a major client side amount of work.
Iād love to see this built into native Plex clients too, but I donāt anticipate channel surfing from my iPad anytime soon
@deepseth said:
The creation of playlists for channels is largely trivial (smart playlists based on networks/genres/etc), itās then displaying the live TV style interface with tv guide and channel surfing thatās a major client side amount of work.Iād love to see this built into native Plex clients too, but I donāt anticipate channel surfing from my iPad anytime soon
Yeah, I already have the playlists created - Lifetime Network, Hallmark Channel, SyFy Channel etc. Just need the interface on the client side - thatās all. 
For those that donāt understand the draw to this, one of the great things about this is the ability to flip through channels just like cable. Granted, itās just a simulation where you pick the media that goes into it, but itās a damn good simulation and fills in that void of being able to flip channels for those of us that cut our cable/ satellite. I have pseudotv on my PC, but itās just too much of a pain to get it up and running. Iād rather have it on plex so I can watch it on any TV in the house.
EDIT: one more thingā¦ For me, it doesnāt have to be exactly pseudotv. Plex could have itās own plugin called āChannelFlipā or something like that with their own interface. I mean itās just a series of playlists based on real world time. I hope someone creates this.
