I am running Plex which s streaming to a Chromecast. When I play a movie from the Plex, I get…
and a blank black screen on DMP
If I stream something from YouTube to the CC, I get…
and
Will probably need to see the log from ha to see what Plex is reporting when you play deadpool. What happens if you play the YouTube first then play dead pool?
Nothing at all shows up in the log and the DMP screen just goes back to blank
So your mediaplayer (Gorgon) is plex and you stream the movie to a Chromecast
or is Gorgon your Chromecast?
I think I know what is going on hence the question.
Could you do this for me
http://YOUR_IP_HERE:8123/api/states/media_player.gorgon?api_password=YOUR_HA_PASSWORD here
and copy the results here on your next post. No screen print since I have no interest in your password.
CC is Gorgon, Plex server doesn’t show up as an entity in HASS, but I do have it in my config and have the plex.conf file setup with the correct token. PMS has never shown up as an entity in HASS.
{
“attributes”: {
“entity_picture”: “http://192.168.0.90:9000/music/current/cover.jpg?player=00:01:02:03:04:2d”,
“friendly_name”: “Gorgon”,
“icon”: “mdi:television”,
“media_content_type”: “music”,
“supported_media_commands”: 447
},
“entity_id”: “media_player.gorgon”,
“last_changed”: “2016-05-30T04:58:00.519790+00:00”,
“last_updated”: “2016-05-30T04:58:00.519790+00:00”,
“state”: “unknown”
}
Could you do it again but play Deadpool for instance
I thought of that too and…
{
"attributes": {
"entity_picture": "http://192.168.0.90:9000/music/current/cover.jpg?player=00:01:02:03:04:2d",
"friendly_name": "Gorgon",
"icon": "mdi:television",
"media_content_type": "music",
"supported_media_commands": 447
},
"entity_id": "media_player.gorgon",
"last_changed": "2016-05-30T04:58:00.519790+00:00",
"last_updated": "2016-05-30T04:58:00.519790+00:00",
"state": "unknown"
}And if I play something on YouTube…
{
"attributes": {
"entity_picture": "http://192.168.0.90:9000/music/current/cover.jpg?player=00:01:02:03:04:2d",
"friendly_name": "Gorgon",
"icon": "mdi:television",
"media_content_type": "music",
"supported_media_commands": 447
},
"entity_id": "media_player.gorgon",
"last_changed": "2016-05-30T04:58:00.519790+00:00",
"last_updated": "2016-05-30T04:58:00.519790+00:00",
"state": "unknown"
}Yeah I figured such. Your PMS is serving the video as music?
What happens when you enter http://192.168.0.90:9000/music/current/cover.jpg?player=00:01:02:03:04:2d in a browser.
404 Not Found: music/current/cover.jpg
PMS is not setup to serve video as music. My Movies are setup as a Movie Library
You stream the video to your CC in what way? Directly from PMS to CC or…
This MAC address 00:01:02:03:04:2d is from which device?
ps: You know the page works right? 
it’s something in your PMS setup.
Through the Plex app on my android phone
Yeah, I’m starting to see that LOL
okay so what happens? you stream the screen of your phone to chromecast or?
your plex app is the actual mediaplayer to the PMS. I bet you that MAC address is your phone’s correct?
I use the Plex app on my phone to stream to the CC via the CC app on the phone which adds a stream icon to the Plex app. I start the movie on my phone and then click the CC icon or click the icon and then start the movie. Either way works
I’m not sure what that MAC is. It is neither my phone or the CC. In fact, I don’t see it anywhere in my network map
Yup thought so. So the MAC address must be your phone’s and I trust you entered the correct IP in the index.html
It’s an indirect action which causes the info being sent to HA actually being wrong (for HA that is) the info you see is what is being sent/forwarded between the apps.
So you will never see the image in that way.
Is that the IP address for the computer running Plex Media Server?
yes it is indeed