Plex Status - Video, Audio, Photo, Play Progress

[racquemis]

Script has been updated, please update.

Several Changes:
- User Variables were updated every iteration causing excessive triggering of events when used. This has been fixed to only update on state change.
- Reduced default plex_ViewOffsetTimeout value from 15 to 10. Stopped State should get detected more quickly
- Added an error counter. Plex Server is now considered offline when three consecutive requests timeout or fail.

[nayr]

getting 401 Unauthorized, I have 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 in my list of networks without auth.. seems to be ignoring it.

*edit*
Fixed it, signed the server out of myplex and restarted service.. now it works.

[nayr]

I am getting alot of stoping and starting, when in fact I know its not

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Episode Playing: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:03:38/0:10:00)
Episode Playing: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:03:53/0:10:00)
Episode Stopped: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:03:53/0:10:00)
Episode Playing: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:04:09/0:10:00)
Episode Stopped: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:04:09/0:10:00)
Episode Playing: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:04:24/0:10:00)
Episode Playing: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:04:40/0:10:00)
Episode Stopped: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:04:40/0:10:00)
Episode Playing: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:04:55/0:10:00)
Episode Playing: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:05:11/0:10:00)
Episode Stopped: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:05:11/0:10:00)
Episode Playing: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:05:26/0:10:00)
Episode Playing: Octonauts - The Humphead Parrotfish (0:05:42/0:10:00)

changed the default of ViewOffsetTimeout back to 15 and that seemed to alleviate it, seems to be hitting a race condition.

also appears that plexStatus_IDX does nothing

edit, I also encounter some escaping issues, this may be my version of domo.. its not the latest

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2015-12-27 22:26:15.315  Error: SQL Query("UPDATE DeviceStatus SET SignalLevel=12, BatteryLevel=255, nValue=0, sValue='Playing Episode: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States - Johnson, Nixon & Vietnam: Reversal of Fortune (0:01:48/0:57:57)', LastUpdate='2015-12-27 22:26:15' WHERE (ID = 114)") : near "s": syntax error

[racquemis]

Yup Plexstatus_Idx is a remnant of an early version. It does nothing anymore. I'll change back the Viewoffsettimeout back to 15. Should have realised 10 is to tight. It's equal to the plex session update interval.

I've not seen the escaping issue myself, but seems to be an domoticz issue. It should escape on it's own but it's clearly not. Quite the security issue, allowing sql injections through the api. I'll test it with the latest domoticz version when I'm back from work.

[nayr]

escaping issue was fixed with updating, now to get regressions fixed.

[MaXa]

Works great, but it crashes with the Plex Trailer Preview option. First trailer = ok. After trailer change it crashes. When loading a movie the script runs fine. Has it todo with the movie time calculation?

P.s: on my ubuntu machine i had some problems starting this script with crontab and the crontab @reboot option. So i just put the script in my /etc/rc.local file. Yes, its a quick 'nd dirty way but it works.

Update:
Short demo's running fine
Movies running fine
Crashes on trailers (Plex Feature)

Update after some more tests:
From a normal movie to a trailer -> ok. After loading second trailer it crashes. After loading normal movie again, the scripts continues to work.

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./plex.py", line 101, in <module>
    durTotalSeconds = long(long(videoduration) / 1000)
TypeError: long() argument must be a string or a number, not 'NoneType'
None
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./plex.py", line 346, in <module>
    ErrorCount+=1
NameError: name 'ErrorCount' is not defined

[nayr]

try modifying this line:

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      if plex_ShowPlayProgress and isinstance(videoduration, int):

it will check that videoduration is an integer before firing of those calculations, the next else statement looks like sets all the values to 0 if that's not a number.

I am thinking trailers are not giving you a correct videodurration, would have to show us what the XML of your plexserver is when you crash

[racquemis]

Good catch, had not tested the script with trailers since i didn't have plex Pass.
Nayr suggestion should work. it will disable playprogress when it has invalid input

Since you got a NoneType Exception this should also just work just fine:

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if plex_ShowPlayProgress and videoduration is not None:

When the problem occurs again, please go to:

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http://<PLEXURL>:32400/status/sessions

and tell us whats listed under 'duration'

Fixed the missing ErrorCount definition. Just add ErrorCount=0 at the top of the file. No idea why it was missing, all my local copies do have that line.

[MaXa]

I'll check the fix this afternoon. For now I quickly reproduced the situation and captured the XML output for your analysis.

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<MediaContainer size="1">
<Video addedAt="1453701678" contentRating="PG-13" extraType="1" guid="http://api.internetvideoarchive.com/2.0/DataService/VideoAssets(378429)?lang=en&bitrates=2500,1500,450" index="1" key="/library/metadata/3576" lastViewedAt="1453654209" originallyAvailableAt="2010-09-26" ratingKey="3576" sessionKey="1" summary="" thumb="/library/metadata/3576/thumb/1453701678" title="Ant-Man" type="clip" viewOffset="18022" year="2010">
<Media aspectRatio="1.78" bitrate="2500" container="mp4" height="1080" id="9255" premium="1" videoResolution="1080" width="1920">
<Part container="mp4" duration="149000" id="9260" key="/services/iva/assets/378429/video.mp4?bitrate=2500" optimizedForStreaming="1">
<Stream codec="h264" height="1080" id="19897" index="0" selected="1" streamType="1" width="1920"/>
<Stream codec="aac" id="19898" index="1" language="English" languageCode="eng" streamType="2"/>
</Part>
</Media>
<Media aspectRatio="1.78" bitrate="1500" container="mp4" height="720" id="9256" premium="1" videoResolution="720" width="1280">
<Part container="mp4" duration="149000" id="9261" key="/services/iva/assets/378429/video.mp4?bitrate=1500" optimizedForStreaming="1">
<Stream codec="h264" height="720" id="19899" index="0" selected="1" streamType="1" width="1280"/>
<Stream codec="aac" id="19900" index="1" language="English" languageCode="eng" streamType="2"/>
</Part>
</Media>
<Media aspectRatio="1.33" bitrate="450" container="mp4" height="480" id="9257" premium="1" videoResolution="480" width="640">
<Part container="mp4" duration="149000" id="9262" key="/services/iva/assets/378429/video.mp4?bitrate=450" optimizedForStreaming="1">
<Stream codec="h264" height="480" id="19901" index="0" selected="1" streamType="1" width="640"/>
<Stream codec="aac" id="19902" index="1" language="English" languageCode="eng" streamType="2"/>
</Part>
</Media>
<User id="1" thumb="https://plex.tv/users/e9bc26ab62648057/avatar" title="maxbierlee"/>
<Player address="10.1.1.42" machineIdentifier="253ce4af-488f-4dd2-9d59-dd6229db5073" platform="Chrome" product="Plex Web" state="paused" title="Plex Web (Chrome)"/>
</Video>
</MediaContainer>

[racquemis]

Thanks for the information, this helps. It seems some clips produce the duration attribute but not the viewoffset attribute. Others have the ViewOffset but not the duration.
The fix should be enough, PlayProgress won't be shown but that isn't really important anyway


Has anyone else noticed the issue that the script sometimes thinks that there is no media playing while there actually is? I've noticed this ever since i starting dimming my lights based on the user variables.
Pretty annoying having the lights undim for 10 seconds during a movie. Can anyone spot the problem in the code? I looked at it many times but i've yet to find the cause.

[denisb88]

Thanks for this great script.
It works fine BUT only for english title.
When I try to read movie with accents (I'm french), I get an error.

u'\xe9'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/volume1/@appstore/domoticz/var/scripts/plex3.py", line 164, in <module>
PlayString = urllib.quote(PlayString)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 1294, in quote
return ''.join(map(quoter, s)

How to fix it ?

[racquemis]

Thanks for the feedback.
It's Probably an issue with escaping. I came across same thing. I'll post an updated script this evening when i get back from work, it may fix the problem.

[denisb88]

Thanks from France for this fast reply

Just another thing, how can I translate in french the message in Domoticz "Not Playing Media" ou "Playing Video" ?

[racquemis]

"No media playing" is a string constant in the script. You can easily replace it yourself.
Playing Video is a bit more tricky for a novice. "Video" & "Stopped" is a constant and can be replaced the same way as "no media playing". It's prefixes however are retrieved directly from the Plex API call response which is fixed to english

Therefore it's best to add several string replace statements just before the domoticz URL is built in the script. You can google 'python string replace' to see how it's done.

Replace the following text which your own translation:
- Playing
- Paused
- Buffering

[denisb88]

Thanks but when I search for "No media playing", the result is negativ.
If I replace a string, must the script be stopped and relaunched or no ?
If it must be stopped, how can I stop it on my synology ?

[racquemis]

That's because the string has been url encoded, you should be able to find:
No%20Media%20Playing

Yes the script must be restarted. if you followed the instructions in the first post the script will only be started at startup. So the easiest way is to just reboot the system.

I'll get back to you for the escaping problem, was to tired yesterday to do anything.

[denisb88]

Thanks for all.
I will wait for escaping problem.

[racquemis]

The script has been updated. Strings should now be properly encoded as utf-8
Script with no longer crash when there are accents in the title.
Quick test:

[denisb88]

Thanks
I will try

[denisb88]

I'm sorry but it doesn't work
I get

Episode Paused: X-Files : Aux frontières du réel - Nouvelle génération - 1ère partie (0:00:18/0:44:40)
IDLE
u'\xe8'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "plex2.py", line 164, in <module>
PlayString = urllib.quote(PlayString)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 1294, in quote
return ''.join(map(quoter, s))
KeyError: u'\xe8'