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Offical Plex for Kodi add-on releases.
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Ability to change the Plex 'friendly name' #54

Open keithah opened 7 years ago

keithah commented 7 years ago

Users have reported wanting to change the FriendlyName, to differentiate when they have multiple Plex for Kodi setups in their Plex environment. This will especially be useful once Plex Companion is supported along with media flinging.

The precedent is: Roku has it in settings, PMP has it via an advanced configuration file.

ref: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1325328/#Comment_1325328

andyblac commented 7 years ago

how about adding the last part of the MAC address to the friendly name, so PMS and other app that look for client name to display what playing see them as different devices.

i.e. Kodi Plex Addon 81:31 Kodi Plex Addon E1:46

just a thought!

Skaronator commented 7 years ago

How about the Device Name? When I'm using the Android app for our Android TV it'll say "Sony Bravia 2015 4k" or something like that.

keithah commented 7 years ago

It's on schedule to discuss with the Plex folks in our next meeting.

sjorge commented 7 years ago

Kodi has a friendly name you can set, this can potentially just be read and use instread?

keithah commented 7 years ago

You're welcome to submit pull requests, otherwise we will support this when we're able too.

keithah commented 7 years ago

Stop posting here. Use the forum.

andyblac commented 7 years ago

pull request added https://github.com/plexinc/plex-for-kodi/pull/93

this change is so the plugin uses the hostname as friendly name, which can be set in os's like LibreElec to what ever you want.

keithah commented 7 years ago

Thanks @andyblac. We probably want Plex in there too, but @ruuk will review. We appreciate your contribution!

Skaronator commented 7 years ago

Fixed in #95 so you can close this issue.