This custom component (using a slightly modified universal media player) combines Apple TV and Plex media players into a single player.
WHY:
When Plex media is playing on an Apple TV, the Apple TV media player is unable to display:
- Movie year, library, correct content type (movie instead of music)
- TV show name, TV show episode art
- Any of Plex’s rich meta-data (ex. track, album artist, media rating, Plex username, etc)
EXAMPLE: Plex TV Show shown through the Apple TV component
EXAMPLE: Plex TV Show shown through my ATV-Plex component
EXAMPLE: Plex Movie shown through the Apple TV component
EXAMPLE: Plex Movie shown through my ATV-Plex component
EXAMPLE: Plex Music meta-data shown through the Apple TV component
EXAMPLE: Plex Music meta-data shown through my ATV-Plex component
EXAMPLE: Plex TV show shown through my ATV-Plex component and mini media-player
As a bonus, this component will display the info from 1 player if the other is down (ex. Displays Plex player if Apple TV player is down, vice-versa). You can now hide all your Apple TV and Plex media players and just use this one.
USAGE:
- Get your Apple TV and Plex media players to display in HA properly
- Copy everything from here to your HA’s custom_components/my_universal/ directory
- Add a new universal player with your Apple TV media player listed as the first child and your Plex media player added as the second child (ORDER IS IMPORTANT).
media_player:
- platform: my_universal
name: Living Room | UMP
auto_name: true
auto_icon: true
icon: mdi:video
children:
- media_player.living_room_apple_tv
- media_player.living_room_plex
