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[Docker] NowShowing - Generate an email & webpage of Plex recently added content

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NowShowing

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Description / Background

NowShowing is the successor of the popular plexReport docker. The original brainchild of bstascavage (https://github.com/bstascavage/plexReport). Further developed by NinthWalker & enhanced by GroxyPod, NowShowing adds additional improvements and features in a friendly, easy to install docker.

Introduction

The NowShowing docker provides a summary of new media that has recently been added to Plex, giving the Plex owner the option of delivering the information in two ways:
1) An email summary sent to all or selected users of the Plex Server
2) A webpage for users to visit

Web Page Example
Email Example

Supported Platforms

  • unRAID v6.3.x (Fully Supported)
  • unRAID v6.x (Supported, but docker template may appear different)
  • Linux platforms with Docker support (Supported, with a few manual settings like ENV Variables & Time)

Supported Email Clients

  • Gmail
  • Zoho
  • Most Email providers with SSL SMTP support (Not all tested)

Supported Plex Agents

  • Plex Movie
  • TheMovieDB
  • TheTVDB

Prerequisites

  1. Plex
  2. Docker
  3. Plex Movie or TheMovieDB set as your Agent for Movie sections on the Plex server
  4. TheTVDB set as your Agent for TV sections on the Plex server
  5. An Email account that supports SSL SMTP

Installation on unRAID

Preferred Method: Community Applications

Step 1: Click on Apps & type in "NowShowing"

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Step 2: Click Add

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Step 3: Select your branch

Selecting Default will install the latest stable version of NowShowing.
Selecting dev will install the latest development version of NowShowing.
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Step 4: Fill out the template

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Step 4a: Advanced Section - Optional

Optional - Enter in Plex Token instead of using sername/password
Optional - Modify the UID/GID
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Step 5: Installation is complete

Your installation of NowShowing is complete. If you desire to change any of the config files they can be found at your /config install path.

You can also install by adding the following template repository to unraid:
https://github.com/ninthwalker/docker-templates/

You can now edit the advanced.yaml (and optionally email_body.erb & web_email_body.erb) with your own settings in your appdata dir. See /config/advanced.yaml.example and below for details.

By default, the email will be sent out every Friday at 10:30am, and the web report will be generated once a day at 11:30pm local time. To change the schedules, enter in your own cron time in the advanced.yaml file. Restart the docker to have the changes take effect. See this page for help creating a time/date in cron: https://crontab.guru/


Plex Client for Sharp Aquos

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Hi,

Are there any plans to make a Plex Laika client for Sharp Aquos TVs? The model in question is the lc-46le824.

Many thanks in advance!

Robsta

Batch Handbrake Script

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Hey everyone,

So I took the time to learn a tiny amount of cmd line and figured I'd share my script in case there are others who could get some use out of it. It's a simple script; uses mediainfo cmd line to compare a numerical value to a variable such as bitrate or resolution, then encodes the files that fall within your parameters using handbrake. I'll attach the .bat files and the code in case you'd rather create the file yourself (for safety reasons). For the attached files, change extension to from .txt to .bat

My scripts are currently set up for 720p encoding, but most of the settings can be easily modified, just carefully look through the script and edit. Search google for handbrake & mediainfo cmd line variables for help on how to edit those.

I know it's not the cleanest, it's literally my first and only script I've ever made.

Some simple instructions:
1. Download MediaInfo cmd line & Handbrake cmd line. Rename them MediaInfo.exe & HandBrakeCLI.exe
2. Create folder to store cmd line & batch files.
3. Run batch script and follow on screen instructions.

1080p to 720p downconvert script:

@echo off
set mediainfo="%~dp0MediaInfo.exe"
set result="%~dp0width.txt"
set handbrake="%~dp0HandBrakeCLI.exe"
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
Set /P a=Enter source path:
set a1=%a: =_%
set src=%a1:"=%
if not %src:~-1%==\ set src=%src%\
Set /P b=Enter destination for converted files:
set b1=%b: =_%
set dest=%b1:"=%
if not %dest:~-1%==\ set dest=%dest%\
for /R %a% %%j in (*.*) do (
    Echo Filepath is: %%j
    %mediainfo% --Inform=Video;%%Width%% "%%j" > %result%
    set /P width=<%result%
    del %result%
    echo Width is: !width!
    if !width! GTR 1280 (
    set fpath=%%~dpj
    set fpath=!fpath: =_!
    set trg=!fpath:%src%=%dest%!
    if not !trg:~-1!==\ (set trg="!trg:_= !\") else (set trg="!trg:_= !")
    set fnl="!trg:"=!%%~nj.mkv"
    if not exist !trg! mkdir !trg!
    %handbrake% -i "%%j" -o !fnl! -f mkv -e x264 -q 20 --vfr -a 1,1 -E av_aac,ac3 -B 192 -w 1280 --keep-display-aspect -x level=4.1:vbv-bufsize=7000:vbv-maxrate=4500) else (echo No need to transcode.)
)
cmd /k

Bitrate downconvert script:

@echo off
set mediainfo="%~dp0MediaInfo.exe"
set result="%~dp0bitrate.txt"
set handbrake="%~dp0HandBrakeCLI.exe"
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
Set /P a=Enter source path:
set a1=%a: =_%
set src=%a1:"=%
if not %src:~-1%==\ set src=%src%\
Set /P b=Enter destination for converted files:
set b1=%b: =_%
set dest=%b1:"=%
if not %dest:~-1%==\ set dest=%dest%\
for /R %a% %%j in (*.*) do (
    Echo Filepath is: %%j
    %mediainfo% --Inform=General;%%BitRate%% "%%j" > %result%
    set /P bitrate=<%result%
    del %result%
    echo Bit Rate is: !bitrate!
    if !bitrate! gtr 4500000 (
    set fpath=%%~dpj
    set fpath=!fpath: =_!
    set trg=!fpath:%src%=%dest%!
    if not !trg:~-1!==\ (set trg="!trg:_= !\") else (set trg="!trg:_= !")
    set fnl="!trg:"=!%%~nj.mkv"
    if not exist !trg! mkdir !trg!
    %handbrake% -i "%%j" -o !fnl! -f mkv -e x264 -q 20 --vfr -a 1,1 -E av_aac,ac3 -B 192 -x level=4.1:vbv-bufsize=7000:vbv-maxrate=4500) else (echo No need to transcode.)
)
cmd /k

Plex for Xbox one .. Search

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Is there a way to search on the xbox one plex app, I cant seem to find it.

PKC - Editing Nodes in Kodi 17.1

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Hey guys,

i set up my Android Box with PKC now, finally for the first time everything runs who i wanted things to run so thank you PKC, the Plex and the Kodi guys!

One thing which I am actually struggling with is the editing of my Nodes. Under the category Movies i got some nodes like e.g. recently added. When now editing the nodes in the settings menue, and i am like deleting the random node because i dont want to have it, the nodes still show up under my movie section. Also nodes that are reordered are shown in the same exact location like before.

So ok it seems that the settings are not saved after all, but why? When still in the Kodi menue, all the settings are memorized as long as i am in the settings menue. E.g. when i reorder the nodes, exit the menue (still in the settings) and go back to editing the movie category, the nodes are still reordered.

Am I doing something wrong here?

PleXBMC and live channels always an error.

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I am wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if you managed to solve it, I have been using PleXBMC on Kodi 16, 16.1 and now 17.1 and i have never got channels too work [Always has the check log error].

If i use Plex.tv on my windows 8.1 laptop the channels work no problem so i know it is not an issue with my server or how i have the server setup.

My Movies and TV shows work perfectly fine.

On another note if i try to play the same channels on the FireTV app from Amazon store [So is the latest version] again Movies/TV shows are 100% but channels instantly have the "Playback has stopped because the connection to the Plex Media Server has been lost" error

So in short Live TV channels even BBC iPlayer etc will not work on PlexBMC or Plex FireTV

I can provide an error log for Kodi if needed but i thought maybe someone else had the same issue and found a fix.

Thanks in advance.

Webhooks error

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I have slack team with some webhooks comming in from diffrend application all working fine,
i saw that plex has a webhook feature also, so i create a new webhook url in my slackteam for receiving status update for my account.

i am a plex premium user, enabled webhooks in server settings, and copy/past the webhook url that i have created in my slack team in my user account settings.
but i does not work, i see the error : [0xf1fffb40] WARN - Webhook: Error delivering payload to https://hooks.slack.com/services/******: 500 the https:// url is my slack webhook url, checkt twice !!

did a plex server restart, using the latest version on a sygnology NAS .

PlexKodiConnect: Direct Path with Multiple Volumes?

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Hello,

my PMS running on MacMini and the Files are stored on 2 external HDD's in different folders for "Movie" and "Movie-Kids"

I'll use (Native) Direct Path in Kodi for faster Playing and to prevent the SleepMode from MacMini.

So, is It possible to use Direct Path with multiple volumes (for Movie's) in KodiPlexConnect?

greetings

Chris


Plex, WOL, DD-wrt, port range??

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Hi all!
Im trying to enable WOL on plex-traffic using a DD-WRT router but things are not working for me...

Ive been following numerous tutorials and guides so im not sure exactly what ive done and havent done, but the situation is as follows:

I upgraded DD-WRT to latest stable version for my device (asus rt-n13u b1); V3.0-r31221 std, configured USB storage, installed optware and enabled logging, set log level to HIGH and enabled logging for both accepted, dropped and rejected.

The server is a windows 10 box, with WOL functioning (tested and confirmed working) and latest version of Plex Media Center.

The clients for this test is my laptop (macbook, 10.10.5 (yosemite) using the web app) and my android phone (v6.0), using the plex media player app.

The script im using is included at the bottom of this post.

Now, i do get entries popping up on the URL: http://192.168.1.1/user/wol.html (WOL-script log) and i do get sporadic entries there, but not every time i try to access my server.

I digged a bit and came across the system log on the URL: http://192.168.1.1/Syslog.asp and from what i gathered, it appears as if plex uses a number of ports, not only the default 32400.
My system logs mention 32412, 32414 and probably a few others that i havent found yet..

So my big question is; what ports are actually in use when the client (android app and/or web app) tries to connect to the server using default port?

The almost as big question would be; how can one edit the shellscript (found below) to incorporate more than one PORT?
I imagine that something like "if=PORT>PORTMIN && <PORTMAX" instead of "PORT=".
However, i am no programmer nor have i any skills with scripts so any and all tips would be greatly appreciated!

`#!/bin/sh

Enable JFFS2 and place script in /jffs/ then run on startup in web interface.

You can check the log from http://192.168.1.1/user/wol.html

INTERVAL=1
PINGTIME=1
OLD=""
PORT=32400
WOLPORT=9
TARGET=192.168.1.25
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
MAC=12:34:56:78:90 # i have used correct mac, just anonymizing my script..
WOL=/usr/sbin/wol
LOGFILE="/tmp/www/wol.html"

echo "" > $LOGFILE
echo "["date"] AUTO WOL Script started.
" >> $LOGFILE

while sleep $INTERVAL;do
NEW=dmesg | awk '/ACCEPT/ && /DST='"$TARGET"'/ && /DPT='"$PORT"'/ {print }' | tail -1
SRC=dmesg | awk -F'[=| ]' '/ACCEPT/ && /DST='"$TARGET"'/ && /DPT='"$PORT"'/ {print $7}' | tail -1
LINE=dmesg | awk '/ACCEPT/ && /DST='"$TARGET"'/ && /DPT='"$PORT"'/'

if [ "$NEW" != "" -a "$NEW" != "$OLD" ]; then
if ping -qw $PINGTIME $TARGET >/dev/null; then
echo "NOWAKE $TARGET was accessed by $SRC and is already alive at" date "
">> $LOGFILE
else
echo "WAKE $SRC causes wake on lan at" date "
">> $LOGFILE
$WOL -i $BROADCAST -p $WOLPORT $MAC >> $LOGFILE
echo "
" >> $LOGFILE
sleep 1
fi
OLD=$NEW
fi
done`

XPlay does not seem to play back mp3 or Flac

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Does anyone know how to get FLAC and MP3 audio to playback on XPLAY LG client. I have already disabled direct play options in the settings page?

DVBLink Channel Plugin Stopped Live TV

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Since the last major update of Plex, the Live TV stream has stopped working with the DVBLink Channel. It used to work flawlessly before the update and now it just spins when you try and view the live TV stream. The channel list works, the recorded streams play back without any problems, just not Live TV anymore.

HDHomerun + Plex Stopped working again

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Hey folks, I have the latest version of the HDHomerun plugin for plex. I had TV stream working and then recently it just stopped working. I verified IP settings was correct and I see in the HDHomerun logs the tuner gets the call, plex says it is buffering but the video never plays.

I have run into this multiple before where my ability to stream just stops working, but all methods Ive used to resolve in the past don't seem to be doing the trick anymore. Any suggestions?

ALAC Does not play

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I receive an error dialog box on LG TV WebOS 3.5 when trying to play any audio encoded as ALAC.

Plex Authentication token expiry time, or permanent?

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Hey All :)

Simple question, title mostly states it all.

I've searched and read numerous articles and googled for hours, without finding any clear as sky, documentation for it.

I want to know for now is if the x-Plex-Token i can obtain through making a HTTP Request to sign_in.json is permanent or does expire at some point?

As in, is it safe to store in a local DB and then forget everything about it even exists, without having to worry about renewing it again in 60 or 90 days.
I know of course that the token most likely will die if I sign it out from the server/accounts page..

It's mostly for use in a local environment between a few friends.

VBox dvr

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This is more a question for the Plex Support but I am not sure where it should go. I own a VBOX which is much more reliable than the HDHomerun which I ended up returning. I have checked out the API and it seems quite reasonable. It also allows recording to a NAS box. Are the Plex team considering supporting other products for their DVR program?


Multiple user accounts on xbox one?

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I run Plex on multiple devices at home and have the Xbox set up for the kids to access movies using Plex. I'm only able to log into the main admin account on Plex and can't switch users.  If there is a way, please let me know how to switch users. If not, please add this feature. 

PKC - TV Shows play fine, Movies suddenly dont

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Hey guys,

suddenly i cant play anymore movies on my android tv box with pkc installed. Strangely enough i didnt make any changes to the settings what so ever. Last week movies would still run on the setup (Kodi 17.1, PKC latest build).
Another strange thing is that tv shows still play fine.

What i notice on playing a movie: The movie loads up correctly, it shows title and length of the film. Still the tv stays black, whilst the movie seems to be playing in the background (the position counter of the movie is increasing). Also when i jump to a certain time of the movie, it shows the image of the movie to that second and nothing more.

Here is my Debug Log https://paste.ubuntu.com/24633260/

Right now im trying to reset my pkc db because it was mentioned in some of croneters answers on a thread where someone had a similar problem.

Someone of you knows whats going on here?

Looking for Apple TV 4 Beta Testers

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I've been working on an alternative client to Plex’s Apple TV app that I'd love to get some beta testers for.

Here’s a video of it in action:

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If you‘re interested, you can sign up here to get an invite via Testflight: https://catch-tvos.herokuapp.com

Thanks!

Movies count lower in Plex, but Kodi shows accurately.

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Hi all,

I have been a long time Kodi user, and recently moved to Plex. Intially i had used Kodi's third party app "Media Companion" to scrape my movies.
And the movies count show up accurately in Kodi. But when i moved to Kodi, and added the movie folder to the Plex library, the movie count is close to 700 movies low.

Is there a Plex scraper (third party or inbuilt) that i can use to add the missing movies to the libary, but i would not like to mess up the original metadata that kodi downloaded in the first place. I'd just want to find and add the missing movies in Plex.

FetchTV Client?

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Hi Everyone,
I was just interested in how many people would like this to happen? I've seen a few posts around the interwebs about this since FetchTV went open source.
Is anyone working on a client for FetchTV? Are there any discussions taking place?

Thanks! :)

PS. for anyone that doesnt know what fetchtv is, see here: www.fetchtv.com.au/
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