Hry, you can just select the music library via UI or specify its name manually and thats it.
Make sure you are on the latest version.
Are you sure? Because just casting Lovelace views is working fine?
Yes it was discussed multiple times here and on github.
Testing the card, but if i turn on my samsung tv, there is no “play” icon on the card
i always need to hard refresh the webpage/view, then its visible
is this normal behaviour?
Thank you for the support, I’ll keep playing around with the config to try solve the problem.
If I manage to make it work on my installation, I’ll post here, what was wrong with my configuration, maybe it can help others.
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There is an automatic refresh every couple of seconds on the latest version.
Hmm, i use hacs , so should have latest version…
I tried again, switched from input boolean to my Google hub, i know it’s available, but play icon doesnt until I do q hard refresh
Just tested again, i have an input_select , the default value = plexplayer | samsung … if i then switch it to the media_player.google_hub, i can wait for minutes, the “play” icon doesnt appear on any movie
If i then to a hard refresh in chrome, the “play” icon appears
hey @JurajNyiri i identified the “oops , something went wrong” when casting to google cast devices…
Seems when adding plex as integration, if you dont provide the token, since its optional, then the error is displayed… readded plex again, now with token,and the error below is gone!!
could be usefull for others
thnx @jjlawren for the support!!
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If I pick an episode/movie that I’ve allready seen some of. It will start from the beginning. Is there a way to resume playing?
Hello,
not currently.
Hi, I have multiple user accounts and don’t use the log in automatically feature on my main client. When I use this component, it forces the Plex login screen instead of playing the media. Furthermore, it always defaults to the main account.
Is there a way to use this component to play something as my child’s account? That’s the use case I have for it, so that I can play something for my kids while I’m not in the room. Thanks!
Got this working for a music library playing to a next hub. both plex and HA accessible by https. HA supervised running directly on bare-metal Wyse box.
here’s the lovelace config
- title: PlexMusic
panel: true
cards:
- type: custom:plex-meets-homeassistant
token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ip: 192.168.0.120
protocol: https
port: 32400
libraryName: Music
entity: media_player.living_room_display
When I point the browser to my HA URL (duckdns), the browser (Chrome) initially confirms a secure connection until I go to the Plex Meets HA tab then comes up as an insecure connection and will not Cast to the player. Library and thumbnails are visible an can be selected although Play button now greyed out.
I’ve tried using Edge as well as while it doesn’t loose security as above, it returns an error “Error: Plex server did not respond
Details of error: Network error”.
Have tried restarting Duckdns and HA but errors are still there. Have checked and Duckdns is up and Duckdns logs do not report errors and confirm cert if valid till 22/2/22. Also tried setting “Secure Connection” in Plex to ‘required’ rather than ‘preferred’.
Any help much appreciated as would love to use this component.
update: media is now playable but still coming up as insecure as soon as the Plex tab is selected
You cannot use IP with https per definition. You need to use a proper certificate for a hostname instead and use a hostname instead of IP. Putting in an exception in a browser will not workaround this and is not a good solution.
awesome, thanks for coming back to me. I’ll try the domain address
hey ive got a question.
is it possible to play the movie/series in the actual plex app on my Shield oder LG TV? If i select something to watch from the custom card ive got the problem that its not opening in the plex app and i cant forward or rewind the video. It always crashes when i try to.
Thanks!
Yes, you can use both plexPlayer and android TV (better) for shield.
Thanks for your super fast reply. I cant seem to get it to work 
ive got two entities: 1x media_pl ayer.plex_plex_for_android_tv_shield_android_tv & media_player.shield.
heres my config. doenst make a difference which entity im using.
type: custom:plex-meets-homeassistant
protocol: http
sort: titleSort:asc
displayType: ‘’
playTrailer: true
showExtras: true
showSearch: true
ip: 192.168.0.xxx
token: TOKEN
port: ‘32400’
entity:
androidtv: media_player.shield
libraryName: Filme
maxCount: ‘10’
maxRows: ‘’
useHorizontalScroll: ‘No’
useShuffle: ‘No’
displayTitleMain: ‘Yes’
displaySubtitleMain: ‘Yes’
minWidth: ‘’
minEpisodeWidth: ‘’
minExpandedWidth: ‘’
fontSize1: ‘’
fontSize2: ‘’
fontSize3: ‘’
fontSize4: ‘’
minExpandedHeight: ‘’
title: ‘’
Hey,
Use ui editor if possible, it makes your life a lot easier.
Is that entity from android TV integration? It you are not using ui editor, you need to read and understand detailed configuration readme on github.
Please also describe what exactly happens when you launch a movie.
Hey. Thanks for getting back to me. After numerous reboots it works flawlessly and plays my files in the native plex app. Thank you very much for this awesome custom component
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