Plex Plugin - first release

[psycik]

I generally just use spotify and airplay to an apple tv.

BTW, there's a new version there that hopefully you can exclude music.

[smacrae]

Cool, thanks....will give it a go in the morning....

[smacrae]

Thanks, that worked.

Just wondering...three things

1. When in the plug in it's quite slow between clicks (the nature of the NextPVR interface I gather)...especially when scrolling down many files...any chance of a grid view, and/or with title art?
2. When clicking the back button on ones remote it takes you back to the main NextPVR menu, trouble is when you go back in to Plex it goes back in to the submenu you came out of rather than resetting back to the root
3. Any chance of locating the "Movie"s and "TV Shows" the main NextPVR menu rather than in the Plex menu?

If the above is out of the realm of what you'd like to do I understand, just thought I'd ask...thanks for the work thus far....it's all working at the moment....

[psycik]

1. That's possibly because of the album art, as in each time you move to an item, it then goes and reads the album art for that item. On the flip side if I went grid view I'd generally have to load all the images first. That said I should look at enabling a grid view. That said, you should be able to rip down the list pretty quickly, are you choosing each individual item, or using ch+ ch- keys to do page at a time?

2. Some would call that a feature it can be handy to have it where it left off, and yes sometimes annoying (why the root menu option is there)/

3. The only way I could do it, would be pretty hacky, which would be to take a copy of the plugin and call it "Movies" and another copy called "TV Shows" - maybe that's a wishlist item for sub to figure out a way we could do that.

[smacrae]

1. Yeah, you're right...it does pause when loading album art...I can jump through (which I didn't know about with ch+ ch- unless you just told me, thanks) however...a grid view with a cache that just checks for new additions/deletions without loading the album art each time would be fantastic

2. It actually is a great feature....trouble is if you're half way through scan through 500+ movies and want to go back just one level to TV shows it can be somewhat of an annoying feature going all the way back to root. Do you know what the key is to just go back one level (back) and I can just program my harmony remote I guess?

3. Hacky I can deal with :-) Just would look really nice...XBMC'ish without all the issues in the PVR version that are still present...lets face it the NextPVR interface is still vastly better than XBMC for Live TV (Nice guide, scheduling recording, way more stable and Comskip working to name a few things).

[psycik]

1. Yeah, you're right...it does pause when loading album art...I can jump through (which I didn't know about with ch+ ch- unless you just told me, thanks) however...a grid view with a cache that just checks for new additions/deletions without loading the album art each time would be fantastic

2. It actually is a great feature....trouble is if you're half way through scan through 500+ movies and want to go back just one level to TV shows it can be somewhat of an annoying feature going all the way back to root. Do you know what the key is to just go back one level (back) and I can just program my harmony remote I guess?

Hmm I can probably fo tho (assign ".." To a key I mean). Anything you'd prefer? Menu is home (equivalent I back) maybe the prev button then.

3. Hacky I can deal with :-) Just would look really nice...XBMC'ish without all the issues in the PVR version that are still present...lets face it the NextPVR interface is still vastly better than XBMC for Live TV (Nice guide, scheduling recording, way more stable and Comskip working to name a few things).

Hmm I'll think about this one. I could probably hard code it, but I'd rather not.so I'd need some way of assigning a copy of the plugin for a section. Then a copy of the plugin to another section.

And hope they don't both respond to key presses and events.

[smacrae]

Actually...I currently have the Menu and prev button assigned to back, if I could change the prev button to the '..' that would be the best of both worlds, do you know the ".." code key for this? I use a combination of Harmony remote (so I can assign this way) or if not possible I also use EventGhost so could easily assign an action to the pref button.

I'll keep my fingers crossed on the other two points :-) Happy to beta test as much as you need/like.

[smacrae]

Psycik, or anyone else, know the keymap for '..' in this plugin? I'd like to map it on my Harmony remote to go back one level at a time rather than to root.

[psycik]

Control-w rings a bell or me. The previous channel command. That's what I'm thinking of using (previous channel) I just need to find out if my memory has served me correctly

The remote guide in the wiki should tell you

[smacrae]

Just tried to Control-w, no go...tried looking in the keymaps wiki but nothing about a one section back/prev command....