Danbush Posted November 12, 2013 Posted November 12, 2013 Plex is a wonderful tool for media viewing, categorizing, etc. and I think it would be great to join that with Alfred. I know Plex has an api though I don't know enough about it to get the job done myself. I was thinking at first it would be awesome to be able to just search through the media server from within Alfred (perhaps being able to hit enter on a title and it launch the web version of plex). Something that it could technically also due based on a glance at the API is actually controlling a remote plex media center, which would be awesome. What do you guys think? surrealroad 1
jdfwarrior Posted November 13, 2013 Posted November 13, 2013 Plex is a wonderful tool for media viewing, categorizing, etc. and I think it would be great to join that with Alfred. I know Plex has an api though I don't know enough about it to get the job done myself. I was thinking at first it would be awesome to be able to just search through the media server from within Alfred (perhaps being able to hit enter on a title and it launch the web version of plex). Something that it could technically also due based on a glance at the API is actually controlling a remote plex media center, which would be awesome. What do you guys think? So.. I'm intrigued now. Looking into this. Looking through their api.
jdfwarrior Posted November 13, 2013 Posted November 13, 2013 Just so you know.. totally possible to search. Working on more
Danbush Posted November 13, 2013 Author Posted November 13, 2013 Just so you know.. totally possible to search. Working on more HOLY COW! AWESOME!
jdfwarrior Posted November 13, 2013 Posted November 13, 2013 HOLY COW! AWESOME! Have it distinguishing between movies and tv shows now. They have individual icons (i'll work on getting album art). If it's a tv show, it was showing the title of the episode, now shows it as [show] - [Episode]. Also have it showing ratings for the shows and movies and the year they came out. Totally doable to make it show recently added, and other categories like that. Will prob add separate keywords for those. I'll keep working on it when i get time and keep you in the loop with what i get working
Danbush Posted November 13, 2013 Author Posted November 13, 2013 Have it distinguishing between movies and tv shows now. They have individual icons (i'll work on getting album art). If it's a tv show, it was showing the title of the episode, now shows it as [show] - [Episode]. Also have it showing ratings for the shows and movies and the year they came out. Totally doable to make it show recently added, and other categories like that. Will prob add separate keywords for those. I'll keep working on it when i get time and keep you in the loop with what i get working That is incredible! You rock!!
jdfwarrior Posted November 14, 2013 Posted November 14, 2013 That is incredible! You rock!! Oh snap, so I have it working. I still have a lot of stuff that needs to be added to this to make it worth having but I can now search my plex library in Alfred, see results as feedback, select a file, and it plays. Right now it is only set to play on a remote player so.. in my setup, I have a computer hooked to the tv that is there solely for plex. The plex client is always running on it. I can control it and make it play/pause and all that remotely from Alfred now! Sweet! surrealroad 1
Danbush Posted November 14, 2013 Author Posted November 14, 2013 That's excellent. I plan on finishing an htpc build in the next few weeks to do exactly that haha
jdfwarrior Posted November 15, 2013 Posted November 15, 2013 That's excellent. I plan on finishing an htpc build in the next few weeks to do exactly that haha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIaGdN-NUmg A little preview of what I have so far (watch in HD if you can) I had the artwork showing for the results but since Alfred can't use urls as icons for results yet, I would have to download the icon for all of them in order to show them. It can be done but slows things down a good bit (especially on a library the size of mine). One query downloaded over 10mb of artwork Don Dahl and surrealroad 2
Danbush Posted November 15, 2013 Author Posted November 15, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIaGdN-NUmg A little preview of what I have so far (watch in HD if you can) I had the artwork showing for the results but since Alfred can't use urls as icons for results yet, I would have to download the icon for all of them in order to show them. It can be done but slows things down a good bit (especially on a library the size of mine). One query downloaded over 10mb of artwork This is really amazing. Definitely one of the more advanced workflows I've ever seen, and you've only been working for 2 days!
sks Posted November 16, 2013 Posted November 16, 2013 (edited) this is totally awesome! will it be possible to control a remote PMS? or only with local? you should post this in the plex forum. i think many users will think about using alfred, just because of that Edited November 16, 2013 by sks
jdfwarrior Posted November 16, 2013 Posted November 16, 2013 this is totally awesome! will it be possible to control a remote PMS? or only with local? you should post this in the plex forum. i think many users will think about using alfred, just because of that By remote are you meaning a machine on another network or a different machine on the same network? Different machine on another network.... I THINK should work but would obviously require certain configurations on your behalf (port forwarding on the router, etc). Controlling another machine on the same network definitely works. The video linked above, the server isn't running on the machine the video is being recorded on. The Plex client is running on my iMac, while the Plex server is running on my HTPC. When the client starts up, it connects to the server and announces that its available. From there, commands are sent to the server, and the server tells the client what to do. So, the workflow isn't telling the local player what to do. It sends the command to the server, and then it's coming back from the server. I haven't posted it in the Plex forums yet but did mention it the the person running the @plexapp twitter account. We talked back and forth a bit the other night when I posted the video. He mentioned it to all his followers. They seemed very excited about it. I've just about got browsing the library working right. Just needs a few more little tweaks. I wish having to request and download all the artwork and such didn't affect performance so much. I'd love to include that as well. I may see if I can just limit search results to 10-ish and see if that helps performance. If so, I'll drop that back in.
jdfwarrior Posted November 16, 2013 Posted November 16, 2013 This is really amazing. Definitely one of the more advanced workflows I've ever seen, and you've only been working for 2 days! Another quick update. Got the ability to browse the library working http://cloud.dferg.us/G4yr surrealroad and Danbush 2
sks Posted November 18, 2013 Posted November 18, 2013 (edited) yeah, the local remote of a PMS , was what i meant. usually, i only want to control PMCs i'm sitting next to ;D this whole thing is pretty amazing. good job! dont want to hit the line - and i don't know whether this is possible or not. but if its possible, maybe you could inculde a little info box for a movie/series/episode? like clicking on the right arrow and a info-popup shows up. or like the normal alfred integration, when searching something -> right arrow -> options page shows up. this could include a cover, the rating, and a little infotext. Edited November 19, 2013 by sks
williamsavona Posted November 21, 2013 Posted November 21, 2013 Sorry, don't have anything to add here, I just wanted to say: THANK YOU DAVID! This is amazing!! Going to use the crap out of this everyday!
jdfwarrior Posted November 22, 2013 Posted November 22, 2013 Sorry, don't have anything to add here, I just wanted to say: THANK YOU DAVID! This is amazing!! Going to use the crap out of this everyday! I need to get back to work on this. I haven't had time to touch it this week. I got a few people to test it the other day and things didn't go as smoothly as I had hoped. I need to trace down what the issue is. Don't know if it's differences in API (caused by differences in server version)? It works great with the versions I currently have installed.
surrealroad Posted November 25, 2013 Posted November 25, 2013 I need to get back to work on this. I haven't had time to touch it this week. I got a few people to test it the other day and things didn't go as smoothly as I had hoped. I need to trace down what the issue is. Don't know if it's differences in API (caused by differences in server version)? It works great with the versions I currently have installed. Let me know if you need another tester
Don Dahl Posted November 25, 2013 Posted November 25, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIaGdN-NUmg A little preview of what I have so far (watch in HD if you can) I had the artwork showing for the results but since Alfred can't use urls as icons for results yet, I would have to download the icon for all of them in order to show them. It can be done but slows things down a good bit (especially on a library the size of mine). One query downloaded over 10mb of artwork Holy ****. When this feature/workflow is polished that'd be a key point for tons of potential new buyers i believe. Truly amazing.
jdfwarrior Posted January 13, 2014 Posted January 13, 2014 Any updates on this? I need to go back and take a look at it again. Everything seemed to work perfectly on my machines at home (iMac and Macbook Air) but when I distributed to others, it broke. I'm not sure what the issue was unless it was a difference in Plex config somewhere (not sure what it would have been) or a difference in server version or what. I may just put what I have up on Github and let others fork it and tinker with it as well and see what they can come up with. surrealroad 1
sks Posted January 28, 2014 Posted January 28, 2014 i would really like to see this working. maybe there is a developer in the plex forum willing to fork this
KCray Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Patiently waiting for this workflow. Looks epic.
subvertbeats Posted March 2, 2014 Posted March 2, 2014 Yeh, what others said - this looks incredible - hope to see something published soon Thanks for the hard work David
tresni Posted September 10, 2015 Posted September 10, 2015 Someone did a pretty major rewrite at one point see: https://github.com/laazyj/Alfred.Plex You should be able to download the Zip file from there, extract it, create a fake workflow in Alfred, right click -> Show in Finder, drag and drop extracted files there. (I've tried renaming the zip to .alfredworkflow and that didn't work, this was the quickest way I could find.) Doesn't seem to work if you have Users configured on plex, keeps saying it can't find the plex server JacobMiller 1
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