Good point. Sorry I was deep googling how to get Plex managed accounts on HA and this thread was the only source. Subject for new topic then.
Nice work @JurajNyiri
So if I have a tablet that I want to play music on, from a Plex server, I have 2x options, correct? 1, have the plex app also running on the tablet, and user this card to play āfromā HA to the Plex Client.
Or,
Figure out why my DLNA is not working from Plex and use the built in Media Sources.
Am I missing anything obvious here?
Thanks
I believe you have a third option. The Plexamp app.
I have an Android tablet setup, its running the Home Assistant App,and the Plex App. I have this card set up, and it works great, I can cast from a computer loading the dashboard, no issue.
But on the Android device itself, when I have the dashboard up with the card on it, I just get āError, Plex server did not respond, network Errorā
It it possible to Cast to the same device ?
Check readme. You probably are using HTTPS ha with http Plex.
Greeting Juraj,
Iām just starting to use this and am probably doing things a bit differently than most and discovering glitches that nobody in this thread has mentioned. I also checked the currently open issues and DETAILED_CONFIGURATION.md and didnāt find anything. It might be PEBKAC so my apologies in advance.
I need to be able to horizontally display more than the default 3 media images. I have horizontal scrolling enabled. Iām using a 14" wide, 3" tall 4K touch display that sits at the top 3U of my AV rack. Itās dimensions mean that I want to be able to have many library items displayed horizontally, and only a single row.
I thought I could change the number of images displayed by altering āMinimum width of the card (Optional)ā from the default (blank) to something larger. But I canāt work out the correlation between this value and the number of media items displayed.
What is this value used for?
Edit (30 minutes after I posted this, of courseā¦): I found a way to do what I need. I use a custom card ācustom:layout-cardā, with layout_type: custom:vertical-layout.
type: custom:layout-card
layout_type: custom:vertical-layout
cards:
- type: custom:plex-meets-homeassistant
protocol: http
sort: titleSort:asc
playTrailer: true
showExtras: true
etc etc etc
aspect_ratio: 100%
layout:
width: 800
max_cols: 1
Which works. So Iāll keep this in here for others to use.
The other problem is that the browser memory/resource problem that was experienced in the early versions of PMHA, and was fixed back then, comes back when trying to use larger libraries. For my smaller libraries (a few hundred items), it works fine. But for a library of 1000 or so, it starts to struggle. And for my movie library of several thousand, it essentially hangs the browser tab and consumes 2GB of memory. This is on both Chrome and FF (under ubuntu). Latest versions of PMHA, ubuntu, HASS, Chrome, FF etc.
I can limit the # of items displayed or use collections or avoid using the Movies library at all, so there are workarounds, but I thought you might want to know.
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Is there a way to make this show Playlists, in the same way that movies and TV shows are listed? I know you can use a single playlist as a library, but I would like to list my playlists to easily choose from a list if it is possible.
BTW, I absolutely love this card, I have 3 separate views dedicated to it on a wall-mounted tablet (Movies, TV shows, Deck).
A playlist browser/picker in the same fashion as movies or shows would be killer. Iāve spent a lot of time crafting playlists for my music, and it would be great to be able to browse and select them from the card.
Great work, love this card.
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jumping on this thread, im struggling to get this to work as well
type: custom:plex-meets-homeassistant
protocol: https
sort: titleSort:asc
playTrailer: false
showExtras: false
showSearch: true
ip: https://plex.xxxxxxxxx.xyz
token: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
port: ā32400ā
remove āhttps://ā from the ip address. I donāt see an entity:
does anyone know of a way to have it launch the plex app on my nvidia shield when i go to play something from this? If plex isnt open it shows its playing on my plex info but nothing shows up on the shield. as soon as i open plex it allows it to play right where its at (plessed play 45 seconds ago? it starts playing from 45 seconds)
Would a āscript to execute before starting the mediaā be the place?
also anyway to fix an issue when having a movie collection and a tv collection with the same name only one collection shows up and not the other when making two cards?
Getting the same issue as user above: āPlex server did not respondā
Also when I first navigate to the card, I get āUnable to connect to home assistantā
This only happens on android, windows system works fine.
Only happens with this card, home assistant connection is fine. Both Plex and HA are https, and the card is configured for https. Already cleared cache/storage of app. On latest version of HA, and full reboot of the HA VM.
(Interestingly, seems to only affect HA app - if I try from browser on android, it loads fine)
Anybody already resolve same thing or have suggestions?
Has anyone tried or thought about doing something similar to this using Jellyfin instead of plex? I LOVE this integration! I setup dashboards for each of my kids rooms with a tablet. I like that I can setup each card in a tab to play a tv show or movie and itāll go to the player in the room. However, Iād like to use Jellyfin instead of Plex.