PlexKodiConnect (PKC)

Combine the best frontend media player Kodi with the best multimedia backend server Plex

PKC synchronizes your media from your Plex server to the native Kodi database. Hence:

Use virtually any other Kodi add-on
Use any Kodi skin, completely customize Kodi's look
Browse your media very fluently (cached artwork)
Automatically get additional artwork (more than Plex offers)
Use Plex features with a Kodi interface

Have a look at some screenshots to see what's possible.

Download and Installation

See here for detailed instructions: Installation

Warning

Use at your own risk! This plugin assumes that you manage all your videos with Plex (and none with Kodi). You might lose data already stored in the Kodi video and music databases as this plugin directly changes them. Don't worry if you want Plex to manage all your media (like you should ;-)).

Some people argue that PKC is 'hacky' because of the way it directly accesses the Kodi database. See here for a more thorough discussion.

PKC Features

Support for Kodi 21 Omega, Kodi 20 Nexus, Kodi 19 Matrix, Kodi 18 Leia
Preliminary support for Kodi 22 Piers. Keep in mind that Piers is still in early alpha version - any issues you encounter are probably caused by that. Please do not use nightly versions as they tend to break stuff. To install PKC on Kodi Piers, simply use the PKC repo for Kodi Omega
Skip commercials/advertisements, skip intros and skip credits
Amazon Alexa voice recognition
Cinema Trailers & Extras
If Plex did not provide a trailer, automatically get one using the Kodi add-on The Movie Database
Plex Watch Later / Plex It!
Plex Companion: fling Plex media (or anything else) from other Plex devices to PlexKodiConnect
Automatically sync Plex playlists to Kodi playlists and vice-versa
Plex Transcoding
Automatically download more artwork from Fanart.tv, just like the Kodi addon Artwork Downloader
Automatically group movies into movie sets
Direct play from network paths (e.g. "\\server\Plex\movie.mkv"), something unique to PKC
Delete PMS items from the Kodi context menu
PKC is available in the following languages. Please help and easily translate PKC!
- English
- German
- Czech, thanks @Pavuucek
- Spanish, thanks @bartolomesoriano, @danichispa
- Danish, thanks @FIGHT
- Italian, thanks @nikkux, @chicco83
- Dutch, thanks @mvanbaak
- French, thanks @lflforce, @ahivert, @Nox71, @CotzaDev, @vinch100, @Polymorph31, @jbnitro, @Elixir59
- Chinese Traditional, thanks @old2tan
- Chinese Simplified, thanks @everdream
- Norwegian, thanks @mjorud
- Portuguese, thanks @goncalo532
- Russian, thanks @UncleStark
- Hungarian, thanks @savage93
- Ukrainian, thanks @uniss
- Lithuanian, thanks @egidusm
- Korean, thanks @so-o-bima

Additional Artwork

PKC uses additional artwork for free from TheMovieDB. Many thanks for lettings us use the API, guys!

Donations

I'm not in any way affiliated with Plex. Thank you very much for a small donation via ko-fi.com and PayPal, Bitcoin or Ether if you appreciate PKC.
Full disclaimer: I will see your name and address if you use PayPal. Rest assured that I will not share this with anyone.

Ethereum address for donations:
0x0f57D98E08e617292D8bC0B3448dd79BF4Cf8e7F

Bitcoin address for donations:
3BhwvUsqAGtAZodGUx4mTP7pTECjf1AejT

Request a New Feature

Kindly leave a detailed description as a new GitHub issue.

Issues and Bugs

Have a look at the Github Issues Page. Before you open your own issue, please read How to report a bug.

Credits

PlexKodiConnect shamelessly uses pretty much all the code of "Emby for Kodi" by the awesome Emby team (see https://github.com/MediaBrowser/plugin.video.emby). Thanks for sharing guys!!
Plex Companion ("PlexBMC Helper") and other stuff were adapted from @Hippojay 's great work (see https://github.com/hippojay).
The foundation of the Plex API is all iBaa's work (https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect).

croneter / PlexKodiConnect

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