Okay I added my Plex server to the locat /etc/hosts file on the HA machine. Can now resolve over DNS.
Have changed “/config/plex.conf” to use “PlexName:PORT rather than IP:PORT”
This is my resulting log file:
Error while setting up platform plex
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 160, in _new_conn
(self._dns_host, self.port), self.timeout, **extra_kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 80, in create_connection
raise err
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 70, in create_connection
sock.connect(sa)
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 603, in urlopen
chunked=chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 355, in _make_request
conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1229, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1275, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1224, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 1016, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/http/client.py", line 956, in send
self.connect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 183, in connect
conn = self._new_conn()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 169, in _new_conn
self, "Failed to establish a new connection: %s" % e)
urllib3.exceptions.NewConnectionError: <urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fd8e1e56828>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 449, in send
timeout=timeout
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 641, in urlopen
_stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 399, in increment
raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=32400): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fd8e1e56828>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py", line 126, in _async_setup_platform
SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/asyncio/tasks.py", line 416, in wait_for
return fut.result()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 57, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/plex/sensor.py", line 57, in setup_platform
plex_token, config.get(CONF_VERIFY_SSL))], True)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/plex/sensor.py", line 91, in __init__
self._server = PlexServer(plex_url, None, cert_session)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/plexapi/server.py", line 102, in __init__
data = self.query(self.key, timeout=timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/plexapi/server.py", line 341, in query
response = method(url, headers=headers, timeout=timeout, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 546, in get
return self.request('GET', url, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 533, in request
resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 646, in send
r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 516, in send
raise ConnectionError(e, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=32400): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fd8e1e56828>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))
Connection lost. Reconnecting…
Seem to be trying to connect to Plex via localhost… ?