How to get plex home theater status

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Hello everyone,

if someone is wondering how to bind a dimmer or switch to a plex home theater than this will help you out:

step 1:
install shell-execute plugin

step 2:
add a new device with the following config:
you need to change PLEXIP to the ip of the plex home theater

{
  "id": "plex-status",
  "name": "Plex status",
  "class": "ShellSensor",
  "attributeName": "plex-status",
  "attributeType": "string",
  "command": "curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --silent -X POST -d '{\"jsonrpc\": \"2.0\", \"method\": \"Player.GetProperties\", \"params\": {\"properties\": [\"speed\"],\"playerid\": 1}, \"id\": 1}' http://PLEXIP:3005/jsonrpc?request= | awk '{print substr($1,43,1); }' | awk '{ if($1 == \"\"){print \"Home / offline\"}else if($1 == 1){print \"Playing\"}else if($1 == 0){print \"Pause\"} }'",
  "interval": 200
}

step 3:
add a rule like this one:

plex-status of plex-status is equal to “Pause” for 3 seconds

turn blabla on

and:

plex-status of plex-status is equal to “Pause” for 3 seconds
OR
plex-status of plex-status is equal to “”

turn blabla off

Enjoy!

ps. if someone wants to make a plugin for plex home theater, that would be great.

thx for that nice workaround!

@defser said:

ps. if someone wants to make a plugin for plex home theater, that would be great.

what about creating a feature request?

@leader21 said:

what about creating a feature request?

Done

If i find some time besides my school project i will look if i can create one myself.

@defser Great stuff. Thanks for sharing!

I have just tried the the POST request as shown if your example which gives me a parse error. Any ideas?

pi@raspi2 ~ $ curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --silent -X POST -d '{\"jsonrpc\": \"2.0\", \"method\": \"Player.GetProperties\", \"params\": {\"properties\": [\"speed\"],\"playerid\": 1}, \"id\": 1}' http://192.168.178.70:3005/jsonrpc?request=
{"error":{"code":-32700,"message":"Parse error."},"id":null,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}

Try removing the back slashes from the command. They are needed inside of pimatic.

@defser Thanks. This worked almost. I also had to change the playerid value to 0 in my case.

I have started to work on an plugin for this.
The current version supports loading info from the server for all players but playback controls are not supported: http://forum.pimatic.org/topic/840/plex-home-theater-player-status