RasPlex 0.6.0 released - Issues and Feedback

I tried it tonight and couldn't get it working with my library.

Library works on other devices, Pi just shows me search and watch later.  I do have encryption switched on my plex server though, one of those green padlock things

I running version 0.9.12.3

I tried it tonight and couldn't get it working with my library.
 
Library works on other devices, Pi just shows me search and watch later.  I do have encryption switched on my plex server though, one of those green padlock things
 
I running version 0.9.12.3


You need to change the PMS Network settings 'Secured connections' to preferred or disabled until the next release.

Regards

I just a Pi 2 and started using Rasplex, I'm very impressed! I was running xbmc on an android box but got tired of no refresh rate switching and general clunkiness.

My one issue is that when I navigate my film collection using letters (by pressing the numbers on the TV remote, using CEC) is that it jumps to the letter, but doesn't display any thumbnails until I press a direction (then it updates everything visible). Can this be fixed?

On another note, how do I install the UAS? I understand this is my only way to (potentially) display IMDB ratings as a number, which is something I miss. Or is this not the place to ask as it's something I need to sort out server side (I'm using OpenMediaVault)? I also miss trailers but it seems I need Plex Pass for that...

I just a Pi 2 and started using Rasplex, I'm very impressed! I was running xbmc on an android box but got tired of no refresh rate switching and general clunkiness.
 
My one issue is that when I navigate my film collection using letters (by pressing the numbers on the TV remote, using CEC) is that it jumps to the letter, but doesn't display any thumbnails until I press a direction (then it updates everything visible). Can this be fixed?
 
On another note, how do I install the UAS? I understand this is my only way to (potentially) display IMDB ratings as a number, which is something I miss. Or is this not the place to ask as it's something I need to sort out server side (I'm using OpenMediaVault)? I also miss trailers but it seems I need Plex Pass for that...


Did you undertake pre-caching?

What is UAS?

Did you undertake pre-caching?

What is UAS?


Unsupported App Store?

You install that to your Plex Media Server.

Did you undertake pre-caching?
 

I did, yes.

Also as a suggestion- perhaps using full range rgb should be added to the options menu. I needed to add hdmi_pixel_encoding=2 to the config.txt. I wouldn't be surprised if a fair few people are unwittingly watching a washed out image!

Well I'm just about ready to give up on Rasplex. My install is continually getting corrupted prompting a reinstall. I've tried several different sd cards and it happens with all of them. Too bad too since I really like how it works but it looks like Kodi may be a better option at this point.

Well I'm just about ready to give up on Rasplex. My install is continually getting corrupted prompting a reinstall. I've tried several different sd cards and it happens with all of them. Too bad too since I really like how it works but it looks like Kodi may be a better option at this point.

that usually points to a crap power supply. I wouldn't be too quick to quit. I use a Pi2 as my daily at the moment. :) [NUC, Chromecast and Android box too]

Well I have it powered by the USB port on the TV. It doesn't display a low power icon so I figured all was well. I'll try an external PS and see if that makes a difference.

I have mine powered off the telly USB too. But it’s providing enough power and stays on regardless of the telly being on and off. Therefore less likely to crash/corrupt.


It’s designed to be left on. It’s not using a lot of power!

Yeah mine shuts off with the TV. I have no problem with it being on all the time so that's not an issue.

What gets me is I can shut it down (the TV) many many times but it just seems to be when I go to turn it on after it's sit for a while that it won't boot. Weird.

Well I have it powered by the USB port on the TV. It doesn't display a low power icon so I figured all was well. I'll try an external PS and see if that makes a difference.

That was the cause of the corruption. Each time you turn off the TV it effectively 'pulls the power plug' out of the RPi Linux computer running RasPlex.

(Only a few TV models deliver power to USB ports even in the standby state, as in the case described by 'Jammy B'.)

Imagine for a moment the HDD corruption that would occur if you were to daily turn off a normal desktop computer by randomly pulling its mains power cord...

That's effectively what you do when turning off a TV set powering a Raspberry Pi, without first performing shutdown from inside its OS or applications.

Such shutdown may be performed automatically by proper configuration of the CEC adapter in RasPlex, but even then it can fail for several reasons.

1: The CEC protocol of the TV set may be incompatible with this functionality (varies widely between TV manufacturers).

2: The TV set may attempt to do the right thing, but not allowing sufficient delay time between CEC commands and physical power-off.

3: Ongoing RasPlex activities at the time of TV turn-off may require longer than usual time for the software shutdown process.

Any of those scenarios is likely to result in physical power-off during write operations of the SD card (normal activity logging), and that will often result in corrupting the SD card contents, very similar to how you could corrupt HDD contents by pulling the power plug of a normal computer during its activities.

Using an external power supply should eliminate this problem, assuming that you use the side menu command "Shut Down" in RasPlex each time you intend to switch that PSU off.

Best regards: dlanor

Would it be possible to use the numbers on your remote control to type when searching? Like how they're used to jump to a letter when browsing your collection (how you would text on an old mobile phone)?

Would it be possible to use the numbers on your remote control to type when searching? Like how they're used to jump to a letter when browsing your collection (how you would text on an old mobile phone)?


Try creating a keymap.xml file in the /storage/userdata/keymaps folder with the following contents:

    
      Number0
      Number1
      JumpSMS2
      JumpSMS3
      JumpSMS4
      JumpSMS5
      JumpSMS6
      JumpSMS7
      JumpSMS8
      JumpSMS9
    
  
Regards

Can somebody please tell me the location for the hyperion effects?


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Try creating a keymap.xml file in the /storage/userdata/keymaps folder with the following contents:
 

    
      Number0
      Number1
      JumpSMS2
      JumpSMS3
      JumpSMS4
      JumpSMS5
      JumpSMS6
      JumpSMS7
      JumpSMS8
      JumpSMS9
    
  
Regards

This did't work I'm afraid

This did't work I'm afraid

Thanks, still working on this.

Are you using CEC (TV remote) or an IR remote?

Regards

CEC

Thanks

CEC
 
Thanks


That explains why it doesn't work for you, most TV manufacturers don't allow CEC access to numeric keys.

You can try this for yourself, if you run cec-client on the command line and press the number keys on your remote you'll find no response, it's also a way of finding out which other buttons are supported though.

Regards

That explains why it doesn't work for you, most TV manufacturers don't allow CEC access to numeric keys.

You can try this for yourself, if you run cec-client on the command line and press the number keys on your remote you'll find no response, it's also a way of finding out which other buttons are supported though.

Regards

But they do work when I press them to jump to a letter when browsing my moive/TV collection...