[mythtv-users] Plex integration

[Matt Emmott]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Larry Kennedy <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Dec 4, 2015, at 10:48 PM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> On 5 Dec 2015 14:38, "Gabe Rubin" <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Hi list,
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>> > I added a roku to one of my tvs that does not have a frontend.  I want
>> to use the plex app on the roku to access my recordings.  I have added the
>> mythtv channel to plex to do this, but want plex to have see the recordings
>> on its own.
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>> > I use mythlink to create human readable names for my recordings and
>> have that in a directory called /recordings.  When I try to add a library
>> and navigate to that directory, it appears empty.  I am unsure what needs
>> to be done for plex to see these.  Incidentally, I have a directory /music
>> that plex has no issues seeing and was able to successfully add a music
>> library using the same method.
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>> Not sure if you know but there is a Plex plugin or channel (not sure of
>> exact terminology) for MythTV. Once you set that up all the recordings
>> appear with their proper titles and you don't need mythlink etc. I have it
>> on mine. Let me know if you can't find it and I can check my server for
>> more details.
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>> Have a look at
>> https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/152258/plex-frontend-to-mythtv
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>> I set up the channel and that works. I just wanted Plex to access the
>> recordings directly for a more pretty interface. Using the channel for the
>> time being.
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> I've found that Plex can properly manage my MythTV recordings *only* if I
> am lucky enough to populate the correct metadata with the
> mythmetadatalookup script, followed by mythlink creating the human readable
> titles.  And this only works part of the time, provided that the ttvdb
> website has the proper season and episode information.  Otherwise, lack of
> good metadata results in file names Plex cannot handle.
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> On the other hand, if you download and use the mythtv channel script for
> Plex, this script will query the database and populate the list of
> recordings mostly the same way the MythTV frontend does it, so it does not
> depend on the metadata being there.
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I got this working a long time ago and I agree, having the shows show up in
the TV section is much nicer than browsing to the MythTV "channel" in Plex.
Search the archives for some tips... I went through quite a bit of
wrangling to make mine work but it ended up working pretty well at the
time. One important piece is that the symlinks you create don't
automatically delete when the recordings go away, so Plex thinks they're
still in your library and you get a lot of file not found errors.

For the longest time I've been meaning to go back and hone the process, and
write up something for the wiki. Somebody yell at me and maybe I'll get
around to doing it.
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