Hi. I've recently bought the above. I have the chromecast connected via ethernet as well as my plex server. However I am using my iPad to cast. I was attempting to avoid wifi by connecting the chromecast direct so I can stream HD without concern but by streaming from my wifi device is it still using wifi?

Today we announce the release of OpenPHT 1.8.0.

This release focuses on fixing transcoding compatibility with PMS 1.3.x or newer and adding Voice Control (Alexa) support.

Big thanks to @benjaminwolf, @daniel.cull, @dlanor, @MagnumDoomguy, @DeadEyeFlint and @bkury for working hard to ensure it's polished and ready to roll!

New
- Voice Control (Alexa) support
- Support server terminated playback
- Use music metadata from Streaming Brain
- Only load first 200 items in a photo slideshow
- Addon repository is refresed on start
- Non-working Airplay setting is removed from preferences
- Updates the HIDRemote class to the latest version (thanks @xzcvczx )
- Update german language file (thanks @Eloo )
- Option to display server name instead of user name in home listing (thanks @Fmstrat )
- Updated to ffmpeg 2.8.11
- Embedded: Upgraded to LibreELEC 8.0 base OS
- Embedded: Dropped bundled hyperion

Fixes
- Fixes transcoding issues when using PMS 1.3.x or newer
- Re-downloads theme music if it failed first time
- Fixes a crash in search
- Fixes a crash due to missing openssl locking
- Fixes a memory leak when using ssa subtitles
- Fix pin pad alignment in default skin

Known Issues
- Auto-update of windows portable installs will fail and corrupt your portable install

Downloads
For Windows, OS X, Embedded and Linux see OpenPHT 1.8.0 GitHub page
For Raspberry Pi devices see RasPlex 1.8.0 release post

Auto Update
OpenPHT 1.8.0 is scheduled to be available on the pre-release update channel within the next 24-48 hours.

Bugs?
Please report bugs on GitHub, https://github.com/RasPlex/OpenPHT/issues

I've read many thread on the forum concerning this problem since 2015, but I can't find a permanent solution myself.

My machine enters sleep mode every 5 minutes of inactivity, and it does it properly.
My PMS is reachable from outside my LAN, so that my friends can stream any content of my library. However, after they have finished watching the movie, or after I finished to watch a movie with my Chromecast, the PC doesn't enter sleep mode anymore, even for days, even though it should do it every 5min of inactivity.

As mentioned in other threads in the forum, the only working solution is that of closing PMS and launching it again, but since my friends could watch anything anytime, even when I'm sleeping, having the PC powered-on overnight, it's not optimal.

PMS build: 1.7.5.4035

I'm currently using Kodi with plexkodiconnect on my RPi3 with no end of buffering issues, so am thinking of switching to RasPlex. One of the best features of Kodi is the Photo screensaver. Can anyone tell me if RasPlex is capable of showing photo's on the screensaver?

I have RasPlex 1.6 running on a RPi1 without any buffering issues, but I can't seem to get the screensaver option to stay on Photos, it keeps resetting to FanArt.

https://github.com/psyciknz/NextPVR-Plex

Version 0.5 - updated metadata agent for null summaries, added whats new to channel

Set Agent and channel to common version number (0.5)
-Agent now handles null summary entries @homeyghomey

-Channel sees the return of the What New entry - viewable when using the all view (preferences)
-Channel changed container to mpegts which seems to work for h.264 and mepg2, and allows recordings again. Thanks @piltous
-Channel added a version number to the title.

At some point I'll figure out the unsupported app store. Any issues post in this thread. The others can probably be locked.

There is an issue that I have with current version of Plex for Android:

• description: if my bluetooth headphones are connected, i get the error "Media player error! Resetting." when trying to play any music track. If the bluetooth headphones are not connected, i don't get the error and music plays fine. If i start the track while headphones are not connected and then pause the track, connect the headphones and resume the track, i don't get the error for current track, but when it moves to the next track i get the error.
• phone model: Samsung Galaxy S8 (also observed on Galaxy S7 edge)
• bluetooth headphones: Skullcandy Smokin Buds 2
• music track format: mp3 @ 320kbps
• as far as I remember i've been having this issue since few months ago (back then on Galaxy S7 edge). I can say for sure that in december last year or so the issue was not present with the same phone, same headphones, same music tracks.

Anybody having the same issue? Any solution?

Hello everyone, These past few year my PMS, DS713+,samsung TV my AppleTV and I were more than happy together seeing what we wanted when we wanted and we think living like this until death us depart
BUT these times, as files are getting bigger I'm experiencing some troubles and I'm wondering if it's my DS713+ that's not powerful enough..
I get some movies in /mkv format that sizes 10GB . If i try to see it from an AppleTV (connected in wifi) it took ages to load in directplay and freeze every 40sec.
No matter, i try it on my samsung TV which is connected in ethernet with CPL at 2000Mbps, still freezing..
Well, let's see it from my computer, in ethernet directly (no cpl) but it's worse : every movies (even thoses that weight 600MB) took ages to load and freezes.

Other movies with lighter sizes plays well on AppleTV and SamsungTV. but plays like crap in PMS player directly on synology app.

May it be a problem of DS713 cpu obsolete, or is it more a connection problem ?

Hey everyone,
Early January I gave the very talented Sander a challenge, and we worked a week on it. The challenge was to try and create a Dreambox plugin which I could use in my setup which would fetch my cousins dreambox content.
I am pleased to say that we have a working first draft which you guys can tryout if you want to.

It uses the raw stream at a specific IP, but we also tried to build in support for having a transcoder at a seperate address in case people outside your network wants to view, but has limited bandwidth.
The development of that plugin is on hold at the moment, but you are welcome to try it out: https://github.com/sander1/Dreambox.bundle

EDIT: The above link is for the original version which now is outdated. The latest greeeny101-version can be found here: https://github.com/g...Dreambox.bundle

Go into the plugin, choose preferences. In the host field you add the IP address to your dreambox. In the "web interface port" you add the port which the web interface uses. This plugin uses the web interface to change channels. The field called "Streaming video port" should contain the port from which you stream transcoded material (if any).

Maybe in the future Sander will have time to help me flesh this out, but for now this is what exists. Let me know how it works for you guys.


Limitations: This plugin is only tested with the web interface that is called Enigma Web Interface - Pli Edition. Until more development is done to support the Dreambox API, no other web interface will work I believe.

Tried installing and reinstalling Plex 1.7.5 tonight only to have it fail repeatedly. My plex instance runs in a LXC container on Proxmox. Below is the output of the failed install. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

dpkg -i ~/plexmediaserver_1.7.5.4035-313f93718_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 52543 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../plexmediaserver_1.7.5.4035-313f93718_amd64.deb ...
Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plexmediaserver.service.
Unpacking plexmediaserver (1.7.5.4035-313f93718) over (1.7.1.3856-757424396) ...
Setting up plexmediaserver (1.7.5.4035-313f93718) ...
dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver (--install):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu17) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
plexmediaserver

PlexKodiConnect (PKC)

Combine the best frontend media player Kodi with the best multimedia backend server Plex

PKC combines the best of Kodi - ultra smooth navigation, beautiful and highly customizable user interfaces and playback of any file under the sun - and the Plex Media Server.

Have a look at some screenshots to see what's possible.

Please Help Translating

Please help translate PlexKodiConnect into your language: Transifex.com

Content

• Warning
• What does PKC do?
• PKC Features
• Download and Installation
• Additional Artwork
• Important notes
• Donations
• Request a New Feature
• Known Larger Issues
• Issues being worked on
• Credits

Warning

Use at your own risk! This plugin assumes that you manage all your videos with Plex (and none with Kodi). You might lose data already stored in the Kodi video and music databases as this plugin directly changes them. Don't worry if you want Plex to manage all your media (like you should ;-)).

Some people argue that PKC is 'hacky' because of the way it directly accesses the Kodi database. See here for a more thorough discussion.

What does PKC do?

PKC synchronizes your media from your Plex server to the native Kodi database. Hence:

• Use virtually any other Kodi add-on
• Use any Kodi skin, completely customize Kodi's look
• Browse your media at full speed (cached artwork)
• Automatically get additional artwork (more than Plex offers)
• Enjoy Plex features using the Kodi interface

PKC Features

• Amazon Alexa voice recognition
• Plex Watch Later / Plex It!
• Plex Companion: fling Plex media (or anything else) from other Plex devices to PlexKodiConnect
• Plex Transcoding
• Automatically download more artwork from Fanart.tv, just like the Kodi addon Artwork Downloader
• Automatically group movies into movie sets
• Direct play from network paths (e.g. "\\server\Plex\movie.mkv"), something unique to PKC
• Delete PMS items from the Kodi context menu
• PKC is available in the following languages:
  • English
  • German
  • Czech, thanks @Pavuucek
  • Spanish, thanks @bartolomesoriano
  • Danish, thanks @FIGHT
  • Italian, thanks @nikkux, @chicco83
  • Dutch, thanks @mvanbaak
  • French, thanks @lflforce, @ahivert, @Nox71, @CotzaDev, @vinch100, @Polymorph31, @jbnitro
  • Chinese Traditional, thanks @old2tan
  • Chinese Simplified, thanks @everdream
  • Norwegian, thanks @mjorud
  • Please help translating

Download and Installation

Install PKC via the PlexKodiConnect Kodi repository below (we cannot use the official Kodi repository as PKC messes with Kodi's databases). See the github wiki installation manual for a detailed guide. Please use the stable version except if you really know what you're doing. Kodi will update PKC automatically.

Stable version	Beta version

Additional Artwork

PKC uses additional artwork for free from TheMovieDB. Many thanks for lettings us use the API, guys!

Important Notes

1. If you are using a low CPU device like a Raspberry Pi or a CuBox, PKC might be instable or crash during initial sync. Lower the number of threads in the PKC settings under Sync Options. Don't forget to reboot Kodi after that.
2. Compatibility:
   • PKC is currently not compatible with Kodi's Video Extras plugin. Deactivate Video Extras if trailers/movies start randomly playing.
   • PKC is not (and will never be) compatible with the MySQL database replacement in Kodi. In fact, PKC replaces the MySQL functionality because it acts as a "man in the middle" for your entire media library.
   • If another plugin is not working like it's supposed to, try to use PKC direct paths

Donations

I'm not in any way affiliated with Plex. Thank you very much for a small donation via ko-fi.com and PayPal if you appreciate PKC.
Full disclaimer: I will see your name and address on my PayPal account. Rest assured that I will not share this with anyone.

Request a New Feature

Known Larger Issues

Solutions are unlikely due to the nature of these issues

• A Plex Media Server "bug" leads to frequent and slow syncs, see here for more info
• Plex Music when using Addon paths instead of Native Direct Paths: Kodi tries to scan every(!) single Plex song on startup. This leads to errors in the Kodi log file and potentially even crashes. See the Github issue for more details

Background Sync:
The Plex Server does not tell anyone of the following changes. Hence PKC cannot detect these changes instantly but will notice them only on full/delta syncs (standard settings is every 60 minutes)

• Toggle the viewstate of an item to (un)watched outside of Kodi
• Changing details of an item, e.g. replacing a poster

However, some changes to individual items are instantly detected, e.g. if you match a yet unrecognized movie.

Issues being worked on

Have a look at the Github Issues Page. Before you open your own issue, please read How to report a bug.

Credits

• PlexKodiConnect shamelessly uses pretty much all the code of "Emby for Kodi" by the awesome Emby team (see https://github.com/MediaBrowser/plugin.video.emby). Thanks for sharing guys!!
• Plex Companion ("PlexBMC Helper") and other stuff were adapted from @Hippojay 's great work (see https://github.com/hippojay).
• The foundation of the Plex API is all iBaa's work (https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect).

Hi

For some reason, I can't steam ALAC (Apple Lossless) files via DLNA from Plex. I have a pair of Yamaha N-XN500 active speakers that support ALAC (in fact, I'm using a different DLNA client to stream ALAC files right now).

Anyone got any idea?

Thanks

Hello everyone. First of all, excuse my english, I'm spanish and I'm trying to explain as clear as I can. I will be concise.
I hace my Plex media library and accidentally yesterday I deleted it. I'm trying to recover it in my mac but no success. Today I opened plex app and in my regular internet browser, safari, it opens and everything is like allways, all the movies with all the data and all the posters, backgrounds...etc. when I open any movie for editing in the posters and background there is nothing, but the artwork is in the interface. I though it may be possible for the safari cache, and searching my mac i found a folder inside of caches folder named PlexMediaServer with 28GB (My library was 16GB), and inside this library, in a lot of folders there is all artwork, posters, images...etc, including other smaller but the originals too. The problem is that all images have names that is impossible to identify, and my question is if there is an option to use this folder to recover the library images folder. Please, help me I'm very sad because it has been lot of months to finish my library. Thanks everyone, I hope you have understand me.

Hello everybody
I have a small bug with plex Xbox app :

Description:
When I turned off theme music in the setting of the app, if I close the app, the theme music comes back.

Server version: 1.7.5.4035 on Raspberry Pi 3
App version : Plex for Xbox One 1.8.0.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Opened app
2. Navigated to Setting
3. Pressed Theme Music Enabled => It's off
4. Navigated to Shows, It's OK
5. Press Xbox button
6. Press Start on Plex and close the app.
7. Opened the app
8. Navigated to Shows => Theme Music is on

Expected: Theme Music keep turning off

Actual: It's keeping on

Already mentioned here without solution.
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/198606/why-does-the-theme-music-keep-turning-on

Thank you,

Hej
Finns det någon svensk ninja som lyckats pilla ihop en playlist som verkligen fungerar bra?

Hello

I have ran out of space on my QNAP NAS TS869L and need to copy all my files over to a new storage pool and remove the old.

If i turn off the media server in the App's can i just remove the old "multimedia" files and rename the new NAS storage pool "multimedia" and turn it back on again or do i need to redirect all my plex items to it individually ?

I really do not want to loose years of meta data so thought i would check first for the best way todo this before trying, please forgive me if it is explained elsewhere as i would like to know of any problems or best ways anyone else had/used.

Cheers

Grendeloak

I've never built a computer before but figured it could be a fun project to build an inexpensive Plex server. I will be using Windows 7(or Ubuntu), transcoding up to 4 streams at a time and running PMS, Sonarr, Couch Potato and SABnzbd.

My main question is if it'll matter much if I'm downloading and transcoding media at the same time using the same hard drive? Or should I use a different computer to download my media and then transfer those files over to the new Plex server during times no one is using Plex?

Thanks all!

Hi, I am using Plex Server on both, a synology NAS Server at home and a raspberry plex server at my working appartement (from my backup disk). Is it possible to run both servers having a single plex pass licence?

Hi everybody,
this is the first time I write on this forum so hope someone can help me.
I just upgraded Plex Media Server on my QNAP Nas (TS 251) to version 1.7.5.4035 and I immediately noticed that I cannot sign-in with my Plex account.
When I try to access a message prompts saying "Cannot access Plex". The Nas is properly working on internet (I upgraded also some other apps).
Is there something I can do or is a general problem on Plex ?

Thanks in advance,
Stefano.

Does anyone know what version or when Plex no longer allowed changing the IP address manually or manually updateing of the libraries?

I would like to know either the date or version(s) that this occurred. I need both. Thank you.

Hello,

i face the problem of PMS crashing (v. 1.7.4.4017) when transcoding videos into web player app (usually 720p or 1080p hevc source video transcoding into the web player app). The server crashes irregularly, usually when i am not home (so i cant simply to restart the shield). Usually my brother (who uses firefox for watching videos in web app) reports that PMS stopped working.

So I just did some "stress" test to find out the cause. I dont know the cause but i will describe what happened. At first i started to stream 3 simultaneous videos in Firefox and 1 in Edge (2 of them 1080p, 2 were 720p, all in HEVC format). Everything over local wifi. Simultaneos streaming was generally OK, just some minor buffering regarding 1080p videos. Than i closed the Edge browser and the 3 streams (2x1080 and 1x 720p) remained playing. Than i stopped both 1080p streams, while 720p was still running. Than I decided to start again one of the 1080p streams (from last saved position). By this action, the server crashed and stopped working totally. So even the 720p stream was ended. PMS was dead (even Plex app on Shield could not connect to PMS). The only way to bring Plex to life is to restart whole Shield TV - after that it is OK. But for how long? This crashes happens too often to my taste. It is so frustrating, plex is not reliable at all.

I must point out that this crashing happens also when not stressing Shield with multiple streams. It seems to be the issue only regarding web app player, not connected to multiple simultaneous streaming (after all, i have set limitation to max 3 simultaneous transcodes on PMS). After restarting Shield I downloaded logs but I dont understand them (but i am able to provide them for investigation).

Any help? Your lifetime plex subscriber.
Zdenek