[mythtv-users] Plex integration

[Khanh Tran]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Larry Kennedy <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com>
wrote:

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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.
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>> 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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> MATT!  Can you write this up for the benefit of all?  :)
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The mythlink.pl script should be deleting the previous symlinks every time
you run it.  I've been using this command line for years with Plex.  I
divide my recordings into recording groups, which I then have separate Plex
libraries for:

mythlink.pl --link /mnt/plex-tv --format %U/%T/%T\ -\ %oY-%om-%od\ -\ %S

This will export "original airdate", along with the show's name and
episode.  Plex's metadata scanner will take care of the rest from there.
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