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ecleese / plexWatchWeb

A web front-end for plexWatch.
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Media from Plex Channels such as Daily Show & Colbert Report not supported #18

Open vwieczorek opened 10 years ago

vwieczorek commented 10 years ago

Not sure what the possibilities here are, but episodes from these channels show up grouped together as "Season0 Episode0" without a thumbnail and a dead link. Screen Shot

ecleese commented 10 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. I have started coding for channel media. I'm not sure on a release for this yet but I'm working on it.

ecleese commented 10 years ago

I'm using The Daily Show as my test media and I'm finding a variety of issues with the way channel media is played back and monitored.

For instance, if you use Plex/HT it appears to stream directly and never even registers with PMS so /status/sessions are nonexistent for that stream. AppleTV via PlexConnect also does not register to PMS /status/sessions/. If using Plex/Web, /status/sessions does work but certain xml elements are different from local media episodes (season and episode are two examples that are missing).

I hate to say it but channel monitoring from PMS right now seems to be limited. I'll will write some conditional logic to fix the poster images for recently watched. I'm not sure how to handle charts just yet, will have to think about it.

rcork commented 10 years ago

I would avoid writing too much conditional logic to try to account for all the different ways channels can be viewed and represented in PMS. Maybe code the common denominator and then add functionality over time as PMS is updated to be more consistent