Please add back the API. It super sucks without it. I had another thread talking about this but it got closed due to inactivity (I hate forums that do that by the way)
Reposting what I had there:
In the iOS app there seems to be no more “Advertise as Player” option for the Remote Control API (not related to “remote playback”). And any previous commands to control a device’s player like play/pause/change track no longer work because the app now refuses the connection despite having an authenticated plex token.
I made a whole app for automatically enabling subtitles temporarily upon rewind which no longer works except on the Apple TV app which hasn’t gotten the new experience yet.
Is there some other way to control the player directly via API? I tried sending commands directly to the server with the device ID and stuff and it doesn’t seem to work, only sending it directly to the player device would.
This is a HUGE bummer.
I’ve literally disabled app updates on my AppleTV because I rely on my own subtitles app too much. I only stream plex to my apple tv. At this rate it seems like I’m never going to upgrade to the new plex experience, not that I care to. The new API was announced ages ago and I expect it is still a long ways off. I’ll probably find an alternative to plex before it comes along.
One option I’d be happy with is if they released ‘plex classic’ versions of the apps or something. Even if they don’t get updates. I STILL cannot believe they just ripped the API out of the apps completely, released a new version without feature parity, and got rid of the previous version.
