Plex Pass subscribers can configure Webhooks - I was wondering if it might be possible to point these at HA, such that the media player / activity sensor get updated ‘immediately’ - maybe this could mean the scan_interval gets reduced to something lower (so its more of a backup).
That is almost possible already as soon as this gets addressed…
With emby this already works if you point the webhook at a REST call of home assistant to a script you can access all the json data in that script.
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ah! I see. I had no idea you could configure scripts like that, which makes sense. and yeah, as soon as I posted this, I decided just to run a node.js server to forward the request and had to do multipart decoding because of course plex does that 
I will have a look
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I very much appreciate your input there!
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I would love to see this directly implemented.
Until it is implemented, I wrote a small Python daemon which translates the multipart messages to JSON ones and forwards them to my home assistance instance: https://github.com/lorenzschmid/pyTransferMultipart
Right on! Put this in a Docker container and this is the “sidecar” pattern, for what its worth
I’m less familiar with Docker (and a container for a simple script might be a bit of an overkill) but please feel free to implement it.
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I use Docker, but I must admit that I don’t know as much about it as I’d like to. Can you explain what you did to make this work, please?