I have been toying with HA for a few days now. Really…this is something I can work with!! Not sure why it took me so long to get around to trying??
I have an issue with Plex. The Integration setup was flawless, but the controls on the media player cards do not work. At All.
The Plex media player cards show the title image and timeline - but play / pause / etc simple do not work.
Now, for the LG TV…
Whenn trying to control the WEBOS card while Plex is playing, it will PAUSE - but it will not play after pausing… The LG TV has very discreet pause and play remote control functions - but HA is showing a combined play-pause button. I think this is the problem with webos integration, but I don’t even know where to begin looking.
For example - on some TVs hitting pause will pause the movie, and hitting pause again will resume. This is not the case with LG OLED TVs You need to hit the play buttton. But the LG media player card, while playing Plex shows a single pause/play button.
Any ideas??? I’d like to be able to pause & play plex so I can also write automation and scripts for lighting, etc.
Plex clients must be on the same network subnet as the Plex server (not HA server) in order to be controlled. They also need to be able to reach each other directly on the network.
If they must remain on separate subnets, it’s possible to use UDP repeaters across them.
I put both Plex and HA containers on HOST network and things are working.
Of course my reverse proxy doesn’t work anymore and I have to specify port in the URL instead of just domain - but it works!
@707kevin did you ever figure this out? I’m trying the same thing and it’s the same! It’s very fustrating, I am able to pause just fine and I’m also able to play fine, however I can’t use the play/pause control. It’s weird…
Plex and Home Assistant have to be on the same network broadcast domain. meaning same subnet / VLAN, and no NAT or proxy between them.
I have Plex and Home Assistant in docker containers, and were on the docker bridge network (Docker network 172.16.1.0/24) wile my Plex clients where on my LAN network. So the UDP traffic for controls from Plex server and Plex clients was not flowing at all. Although video / audio was fine.