Plex integration

[svenvg93]

Will there be in the future integration with Plex?? and possibly in what time frame???

[maxdmyers]

Not much, sorry. My dad was in the hospital for a bit. I should be able to resume work tomorrow. I’ll post an update with where I leave off.

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On Monday, October 28, 2013 at 10:31 AM, svenvg93 wrote:

@maxdmyers (https://github.com/maxdmyers) is there has been some progress??

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[svenvg93]

Okew, I hope everything goes well with your dad. Take your time.

[styxit]

I think @joen-mauritzon is (also?) working on this. At least he made some commits regarding plex. I'm not sure if this is for his personal use or maybe will send a pull request once he's finished.

[maxdmyers]

Yup, looks like he's got it. I'm stopping work on this indefinitely, unless he refuses to submit a pull request for some reason.

[svenvg93]

Do you guys have an link. So we can see it.

[roboroy]

https://github.com/joen-mauritzon/HTPC-Manager

[styxit]

I would recommend to wait until this has been finished and accepted as a pull request before using this on a daily base.

[wazoo]

That fork doesn't work, the section IDs are hard coded in which won't work (i.e. Movies are 1), its a good first try though. It does require that python-lxml be installed and allow without authentication on local networks enabled, though.

[styxit]

That is probably also the reason is is not yet merged or made public :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Like i said, better wait until it has been merged into my master-branch or someone else finishes the plex integration.

[wazoo]

Yeah, I was just curious and couldn't resist :) Maybe I will fix what he has already, it has the basic functionality for "Latest Movies" and "Latest TV" but I don't think it exposes any control.

[fonix232]

Pretty interesting integration of Plex into the main view, replacing XBMC... Makes me question, what happens if a user wants both?

I believe we might need more flexibility on the front page, e.g. a drag-n-drop widget system. I know it means a LOT of work, and sounds easier than being done, but it would definitely profit in the future, as the features expand.

[svenvg93]

Any updates??

[joen-mauritzon]

I see that you're talking about my fork here. I made it mainly for fun (learn some Python) so I'm not sure if I get enough time to actually finish it. The front page works for me (and thats mainly the page I use), thats why I kind of stopped working on it. I might try to get some time into it, but since I move to a house soon I dont think I'll have much spare time in the near future.

[shapetheLOLa]

What a shame :(

[joen-mauritzon]

Indeed, its a shame. I added some more stuff just now, but there is still a lot of stuff missing.. Styxit has been busy with the functionality in the standard version ;)

[svenvg93]

How goes the development?

[wazoo]

@svenvg93 Are you aware that every time you ask for an update it emails everyone on this thread? If you want to see progress you could try contributing some code, if not then I imagine someone will post an update when there is one.

[tester22]

Would be great if someone with a huge library could test this: https://github.com/tester22/HTPC-Manager I don't have that many items in my library and I am working on optimizing the speed.

[tahngarth]

@tester22 Just loaded it up and it's definitely on the slow side. It seems to load about 4 covers per second. It also got hung up on an image, it spent at least a minute then I assume timed out and continued on. I also noticed that all movies gets grouped into a single "Movies" group and all TV gets lumped together ( I have Anime, Kids TV and TV). It's looking awesome so far though, thanks!

[shapetheLOLa]

I also loaded it just up. I have about 150 Movies and it loaded rather fast, I don't know what server version tahngarth is running or maybe he considers big libraries from 500 Movies upwards :D Also I do have about 50 TV Shows and also there id did load up pretty fast, great work !

[tester22]

@tahngarth I decided to make the Plex integration as similar to the XBMC as possible. Therefor I am merging all sections prior to sending data back to the user (this might be the bottleneck). Would it be better if I split the library in sections? If so I could use paginate on the serverside and that would hopefully reduce the loadtime alot. But it seems strange that it takes that long. What hardware are you using. I am using a Raspberry Pi as HTPC server and my Plex Server is on a Readynas and with that minimal hardware I load the 50 images in 4-5 sec.

[styxit]

Loading times on xbmc (and probably also your plex module) can be really long when loading the images if PIL is not installed. because the full size images are downloaded every time without resizing and probably also with our caching.

[tahngarth]

Exactly 250 movies around 23 seconds to load. 179 TV shows and it took about 10 seconds. It didn't' seem to get hung on any and went much faster this time. The server is a 6 core amd 16 gigs of ram, HTPC Manager and Plex running on different VM's within that server. "Would it be better if I split the library in sections?" Define sections, chunks of the alphabet, or unmerging the similar media types (TV, Anime, etc)? I actually don't consider my library large, I'd say medium at best. Is the Latest Movies/Latest TV shows expected to work at this point?

[tahngarth]

Installed pillow (for some reason I installed python 32 and can't find a 32bit PIL installer) and it definitely made things much faster.

[tester22]

Ok will split the library in sections. Recently added is not working yet but had some progress with other things today.

[styxit]

@tester22 If you need any help or information from me, just let me know. If you can get Plex up and running smoothly, i would be happy to merge it into the main branch!

[svenvg93]

@tester22 Great work!! I look forward to the functions you want to build in.

[Robpollard]

Hi! I'd be delighted to see this in HTCP-Manager. I'm running it on a Synoloy NAS and having access to plex would be aweseome, since I don't use XBMC.

[mbnn]

When can this be merged into the master branch? Cause it works like a charm!

[JanStevens]

Yes I would love to see a merge of this to the master branch

[styxit]

@tester22 any comment on this? Are you planning on adding any crucial functions soon, or is this ready for merging?

[tester22]

I planned to add a couple of features before this was merged but havn't been able to finish them:

• playback control for clients that supports it.
• start items from library
• split library in sections like the server
• music support
• server commands (like library update)
• fix the bugs on the image cache
• implement gooddaymate.

But maybe it can be merged sooner.

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[firstchair]

+1

[tester22]

@tahngarth I have made some changes to how data is loaded from Plex so would be nice if you could test it and let me know if it works better now.

[tahngarth]

Sorry, was out of town. Seems to load a lot faster now, if it loads at all. The very first time I tried it the movies section never loaded, as soon as I refreshed it it loaded very nicely. Haven't had an issue since.

[tester22]

Great the issue with the first load was probably due to an old version of the javascript loaded in the browser. Will try to tidy up the code and add some more features before it is time for a pull request. This is wha't I am planning to add before the pull request:

• playback control for clients that supports it (done in my local test branch)
• start items from library (almost done in my local test branch)
• music support

[styxit]

Good to see this is still continuing!

[hashworks]

Would love to see this in here as well.

[tester22]

I am almost done with the integration now. There are some javascript issues that needs to be fixed and once that is done I will make a Pull request.

[shapetheLOLa]

Any idea when this will be implemented in main branch? :(

[styxit]

Just wait until @tester22 says its ready.