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Plex Integration Setup

Is there anything specific that needs to be done in order to connect Homarr to Plex? I'd assume an area to place the Plex instance URL, or some sort of API key field? I've enabled the Plex & Jellyfin widget but it doesn't seem to do anything. Thank you in advance!

Manicraft1001•449d ago

Yes, for Plex you need to do the following: https://support.plex.tv/articles/204059436-finding-an-authentication-token-x-plex-token/ @📝 Documentation author can anyone add this do the documentation?

Plex Support

Finding an authentication token / X-Plex-Token | Plex Support

While not something most users will need to worry about, sometimes you may need to find the value for an...

Manicraft1001•449d ago

For Jellyfin, you can use username and password of an account.

Bon•449d ago

Where do you place this authentication token?

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Manicraft1001•449d ago

In the integration configuration of your Plex app - edit app - click on integration tab - update secret - save - exit edit mode You may need to refresh the page after configuring the app.

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Bon•449d ago

Ahh I see. You set the config in the Plex app. What is the Media Server widget for then? Do you need the Plex app setup in order to enable the Media Server widget?

Manicraft1001•449d ago

For integrating and displaying data. The configuration on the app is only for configuring tha access. No. But if you want to display data, you need Jellyfin or Plex

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Bon•449d ago

I understand. I was just confused as to why my Media Server integration isn't working. You guys mentioned that you need to input the secret, but that's on the Plex app, not the Media Server widget Didn't realize the Plex app had to be configured in order to get the Media Server widget working

Manicraft1001•449d ago

Yes. Since you can have multiple Plex instances, you must configure this per app. @lassley7 can you maybe add this and other related information to the documentation?

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Manicraft1001•449d ago

Yes, I can do that tomorrow. It's 1 AM. I need a break 😅

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Bon•449d ago

Appreciate the help guys. I'll see if I can get the widget working 🙂

Manicraft1001•449d ago

Sure, no problem. Let us know if you habe trouble

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Bon•449d ago

A-ha, realized why I was having issues. It's exactly as you said Lassley. The "Internal address" set in the Plex app must be the exact IP address to the plex instance. I usually did ${plexIP}/web/ so that the ping setting could actually ping a web address. But doing so broke the Media Server widget since the widget would try to check ${plexIP}/web/status/sessions instead of the correct ${plexIP}/status/sessions Maybe the Media Server widget should only take the protocol, IP, and port of whatever is set under "Internal address" in the app? Instead of taking the protocol, IP, port, and path?

Manicraft1001•449d ago

No, because some people have their Plex exposed to: http://example/plex Then, the widget would completely not work

Bon•449d ago

Then perhaps a setting on the Media Server widget where the user inputs the IP to use? What do people usually do for their Plex app? Since putting the exact IP will cause the ping to 401

Manicraft1001•449d ago

No. As I already mentioned, this wouldn't solve the problem of having multiple servers. I think something like /web . But I can't recall exactly, since I use Jellyfin myself 🙂

Bon•449d ago

That fixes the ping, but breaks the Media Server widget 🙃 Guess I'll just disable the ping setting Oh wait, I can just set the "up" status to 401

Manicraft1001•449d ago

I know. But we can't do anything about that for now. I guess the only option is to allow the status code in the ping Yes, exactly this

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Manicraft1001•449d ago

Remove/web

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Manicraft1001•447d ago

Note that you also must refresh the page after saving or wait 30 seconds

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Bon•446d ago

Nope, I think there's a bug with status codes other than 200

Bon•446d ago

https://github.com/ajnart/homarr/issues/726

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Allowing any status other than 200 for ping doesn't work · Issue #7...

Adding status codes to the list in the network tab doesn't seem to do anything. If you add a tile pointing to https://httpstat.us/401 and add 401 to the list of online statuses, you still g...

Bon•446d ago

Will have to wait for that to be fixed, then we should be good 👍

Manicraft1001•446d ago

I'll assign it to ajnart I don't have enough time to work on Homarr rn, sorry

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Manicraft1001•425d ago

Yes, allow the returned status code in the network tab There is no other wait as far as I know

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