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A Discord bot that displays live data from Tautulli
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[FEATURE] - Use Plex API to gather system stats #223

Closed identd113 closed 5 months ago

identd113 commented 5 months ago

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The feature is appropriate for Tauticord

Feature Type / Category

Integration (e.g. New service integration)

Feature Details

Currently , tauticord provides stats (CPU/memory) of the device running the tauticord instance, which may not be the same as the device running Plex. This information may be available, via https://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/server.html#plexapi.server.StatisticsResources This would allow tauticord to provide a more realistic view of the Plex Server environment

nwithan8 commented 5 months ago

I've done some preliminary research on this when it was requested a few weeks ago. The Plex API does offer up the information, so that shouldn't be a problem. The main concern is how to establish a Plex API connection via Tautulli, since the only configuration that Tauticord takes is details to connect to Tautulli. As far as I know currently, Tautulli will not reveal its Plex token to allow us to proxy to Plex. I also don't want to add Plex configuration to the bot directly, because that opens a whole can of worms of "what data comes from Tautulli versus what data comes directly from Plex".

I'll continue looking. If I do find a way to proxy to Plex via Tautulli, I'll probably have to add that to the underlying API library first.

nwithan8 commented 5 months ago

I've done some preliminary research on this when it was requested a few weeks ago. The Plex API does offer up the information, so that shouldn't be a problem. The main concern is how to establish a Plex API connection via Tautulli, since the only configuration that Tauticord takes is details to connect to Tautulli. As far as I know currently, Tautulli will not reveal its Plex token to allow us to proxy to Plex. I also don't want to add Plex configuration to the bot directly, because that opens a whole can of worms of "what data comes from Tautulli versus what data comes directly from Plex".

I'll continue looking. If I do find a way to proxy to Plex via Tautulli, I'll probably have to add that to the underlying API library first.

UPDATE: Yes, it will be possible, as the Plex token used in Tautulli can be retrieved programmatically via Tautulli's API. The underlying Tautulli API library is being updated to add support: https://github.com/nwithan8/pytulli/pull/48

nwithan8 commented 5 months ago

@identd113 This has been added in v5.6.0, and will require a Tautulli configuration change to get working: https://github.com/nwithan8/tauticord/releases/tag/5.6.0