Hello everyone, I just got a Amazon Echo and since the Plex app for it seems to be in dev hell right now, I’m just trying to set up a simple command with IFTTT so that I can pause/unpause Plex with the Echo.
I’m pretty sure I got it all figured out, but I can’t for the life of me get
http://192.168.1.18:3000/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=Pause()
To work. .1.18 is the TV’s IP address. The command is the only thing I have dug up so far about controlling plex thru http. Any help would be appreciated.
If you get the port right (38400) it might work with PHT but won’t work with PMS. AFAIK, PMS no longer supports (has grown beyond) xbmc http commands.
What is the issue with the Samsung app? There are a number of us using it. Is it the age of your television / firmware?
There is nothing wrong at all with the Samsung app (I was referring to the Amazon Echo app when I said dev hell) (well…there’s plenty wrong with it but nothing in relationship to this at least.) I’m just trying to set it up so anyone in the room can pause Plex by just saying “Alexa, trigger pause”. The only way I know to send a pause command from a computer to a plex client would be using the API, but I can’t find like, any documentation really for sending commands to a plex CLIENT.
As far as the Samsung App it self, I have a brand new UN65KS9800 on the latest firmware (don’t see where it list the firmware version in the settings, but I got another update about a week ago).
Plex on it is…well, it’s ok but it’s got its share of issues. The biggest annoyance is any time the sound source of a Plex video changes from DTS/Dolby Digital/DTS Neo, I have to go into the TV settings (Home->Settings->Sound->Expert Settings->Audio Format) and switch it manually.
Also, anytime I go to the main page for a TV Show, (Where is has Play/Play All/Shuffle/Info/"…" as options, the boxart for the Show, and then all the seasons listed) It locks up for about 5-30 seconds. Everytime. It is insanely annoying when looking for a new show to watch and I have to sit there and wait for it to unfreeze so the remote responds again. It does the same thing for Movies.
The filter options are also various degrees of borked, though I see it has been getting better with updates. It’s almost fixed now except 1) You can’t set more than one filter (2016 Horror for instance), 2) If you back out and then go back to browse all, it clears the filter (but not sort options or unwatched flag) this may be intentional, but since it doesn’t do the same for sort/unwatched I dunno and 3) If I have a filter set, sometime when I am browsing through everything, if I open a show to see more info, then go back to the list…the order has changed. For instance, expected behavior if I was browsing all unwatched comedy by rating and I clicked on Adventure Time to see the description of the show, then when back to the list is that I would still be above Adventure Time. Sometimes, my cursor is in the same spot but the order has changed, so I’ll be over a different show and Adventure Time will be located somewhere else in the list.
The real biggest issue though is there are like 50 different versions of Plex Clients floating around depending on the device and most of them look different, have different behavior, different options, different issues/workarounds and even different features. Plex desperately needs to take a few months with a feature lock and consolidate everything to the same experience across the board. I have a number of family and friends that use my server and it is frustrating beyond belief to help diagnose issues when basic options and features may be missing from whatever plex client they are using because they are using game console/roku/ios/chromecast/plex web/PHT/pms/smart tv/android tv/android phone/etc and almost none of them act/look/have the same features as the other. It’s been brought up many times before on the forums and I’ve given up hope of that ever going away at this point tho, lol. It makes it stupid hard to develop anything 3rd party for plex if it has to have client interaction.
