+1 (Another vote for it!!!)
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What would be awesome was if there was some sort of message functionality to let people know of server downtime and for them to seamless pop up when streaming content. :)
I’d love to see this implemented so you can have an ordered list of who has too priority vs bottom… Also having sync at a lower priority than streaming.
The fact you mention splunk sounds like you'd be capable of setting up plexWatch with plexWatch/Web.
I'm mobile or I'd toss some links in, but plexWatch should be in my signature.. and from there you can find the front end, plexWatch/Web.
Thanks ljunkie.
Everything works great now. I used the instructions to get PlexWatch working and have a Windows task running at 1 minute intervals.
What I have is PlexWatch generating a log with user activity. It also contains the IP address, because I have debugging turned on.
I installed Splunk and it continually reads the PlexWatch log indexing it so I can easily view it from a browser. Because it has the IP address Splunk can perform a dnslookup of the ipaddress and give me more details of the user (although really not needed since I'm not Netflix :) ).
I can perform any searches, reports I want on user activity. Easily give me a list of shows user x watched last week, yesterday or even a month ago. In fact I have Splunk generate a PDF report at 1 AM to send through email of yesterday's Plex activity.
It makes it nice since I have a shared library for 7 other plex users.
I love this.
3 Rokus
1 AppleTv using PlexConnect
Android and IOS Plex for Sync
7 Users sharing my library (with whatever devices they use)
Custom Icons for User interface
800+ Movies
160+ TV Shows
PlexWatch and Splunk for user activity.
Thanks for everyone's help.
I've voted for this already but I have an idea for something to add to the list.
It would be great if you could manage watch schedules to allow you to setup scheduled times when users can access your shared server. It should be per user and maybe you could set parameters like maximum streams and bitrate allowed here too.
This would be useful if for instance you work from home and must have enough upload bandwidth during the day, you could then disable any streaming between 9 and 6, or limit it to a lower bandwidth.
This could also be great as part of the parental controls idea, so you can set up watch schedules for everyone in the family to allow streaming only during certain times.
Not sure if this has been mentioned before but I think this would add a lot of control to the person running the media server.
+1. Great features!!
any chance of getting plexWatch native?? :(
Thanks ljunkie.
Everything works great now. I used the instructions to get PlexWatch working and have a Windows task running at 1 minute intervals.
What I have is PlexWatch generating a log with user activity. It also contains the IP address, because I have debugging turned on.
I installed Splunk and it continually reads the PlexWatch log indexing it so I can easily view it from a browser. Because it has the IP address Splunk can perform a dnslookup of the ipaddress and give me more details of the user (although really not needed since I'm not Netflix :) ).
I can perform any searches, reports I want on user activity. Easily give me a list of shows user x watched last week, yesterday or even a month ago. In fact I have Splunk generate a PDF report at 1 AM to send through email of yesterday's Plex activity.
It makes it nice since I have a shared library for 7 other plex users.
I love this.
3 Rokus
1 AppleTv using PlexConnect
Android and IOS Plex for Sync
7 Users sharing my library (with whatever devices they use)
Custom Icons for User interface
800+ Movies
160+ TV Shows
PlexWatch and Splunk for user activity.
Thanks for everyone's help.
Would it be possible to post some sort of guide on how you set this up?
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I did not read this entire thread, but I would like to add that I'd love for the 'Now Playing' section to not be server specific. For unrelated reasons I currently have 2 servers. I'd like to be able to see all of who is playing from plex.tv/web w/o having to choose a drop down for the server.
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although there is another working alternative to plexwatch in plex notify for windows ... still in early beta but functioning and recording stats, pushing notices out to third party services & most importantly logging & notifying server downtime!
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UPDATE:
There is now a third party solution that covers almost all of the above requests. They are mentioned in the posts below but for convenience I am adding them to the OP here:
PlexWatch by ljunkie:
Will create a db and allow one to track usage over time via the terminal. Many metrics are stored.
PlexWatchWeb by eleese:
https://forums.plex.tv/topic/82819-plexwatchweb-a-web-front-end-for-plexwatch/
Front end GUI for PlexWatch via Web Browser
I have been using these tools since August and they work great. Does about 99% of what I wanted.
Though I appreciate the work done by 3rd party community contributors, I dislike having to install 5 or more other apps/packages just to get the functionality I believe Plex should be able to do on it's own. I use Plexwatch because I needed an easy to use method and for now it's text file notification works for me.
But even it, to someone less technically inclined, could have been difficult.
Elan, other employees, I see you liked this feature request.
Please, get it in by 1.0.
I too would love a log of who streamed what when. I really like the newly polished activity screen, great step forward... The ability to throttle or prioritize trans-coding would be great too.
Though I appreciate the work done by 3rd party community contributors, I dislike having to install 5 or more other apps/packages just to get the functionality I believe Plex should be able to do on it's own. I use Plexwatch because I needed an easy to use method and for now it's text file notification works for me.
But even it, to someone less technically inclined, could have been difficult.
Elan, other employees, I see you liked this feature request.
Please, get it in by 1.0.
Agreed. I saw some of these third party solutions... but figured this was going to be stock eventually anyway.
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Folks, as stated in the one of the "Pinned" posts in this forum "Rules for this forum (Inc. How to Vote.) " ... simply replying +1 doesn't fully get attention.
You must "Like" the "FIRST" post of the thread you want to "Vote" for.
Just an FYI, as I noticed kevinkarada didn't "Like" the first post.
