Plex Status

galadril · Post by **galadril** » Wednesday 09 September 2015 14:36

But with these script, you get the status of your Plex Media Server

Prepare Domoticz
If you don't know how to create a virtual sensor chances are you have never done this before.
- Go to "Hardware"
- Fill in the name field with a desired name (like "Virtual")
- Choose for type the "Dummy, does nothing, use for virtual switches only"
- Click on "Add"
- The added hardware is now added to the hardware list. In the same row there is a "Create virtual sensor" button shown. Click on it.

Hardware
Now you are ready to create virtual devices.
- Go to "Hardware"
- Press "Create virtual sensor".
- Fill in the name field with a name like 'Plex'

Devices
Now you are ready to create a virtual device.
- Go to "Hardware"
- Press "Create virtual sensor".
- Fill in the name field with a name like 'Plex'

Plex script
Config the parameters in the Plex script:

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#config plex url
plexURL 			= '<plex ip>:<plex port>' #base url (default port = 32400)
	
#domoticz settings
domoticz_host      	= ''
domoticz_port      	= ''
domoticz_url       	= 'json.htm'

#domoticz idx
domoticz_PlexStatus = '' #idx of device

Put the script under /domoticz/scripts and make the script executable:
"sudo chmod +x /home/pi/domoticz/scripts/plex.py"

Test
Run the script by calling:
"sudo python /home/pi/domoticz/scripts/plex.py"

If Plex Server is not playing anything, this is the result:

Create the Cronjob
Now all ingredients are available to read the data from the portal and insert them into Domoticz.
- execute "sudo crontab -e"
- add the following line "*/10 * * * * /home/pi/domoticz/scripts/plex.py"
- exit crontab. Now everything should be working for you.

Scripts
plex.py

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#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib, urllib2, hashlib
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET

#config plex url
plexURL 			= '<plex ip>:<plex port>' #base url (default port = 32400)
	
#domoticz settings
domoticz_host      	= ''
domoticz_port      	= ''
domoticz_url       	= 'json.htm'

#domoticz idx
domoticz_PlexStatus = '' #idx of device

#building url
requestURL = 'http://'+plexURL+'/status/sessions'
print requestURL


try:
  #call session url
  test = urllib.urlopen(requestURL).read()
  print test

  root = ET.XML(test)
  print root.tag

  videotitle = root.find('Video').attrib['title']
	
  print 'Video Playing: ' + videotitle
  urllib.urlopen("http://" + domoticz_host + ":" + domoticz_port + "/" + domoticz_url+ "?type=command&param=addlogmessage&message=Video Playing: " + videotitle)
	
  #uploading values to domoticz
  url = ("http://" + domoticz_host + ":" + domoticz_port + "/" + domoticz_url+ "?type=command&param=udevice&idx=" + domoticz_PlexStatus + "&nvalue=0&svalue=Playing: " + videotitle)
  urllib.urlopen(url)
	
except Exception: 
  print 'IDLE'
  #uploading values to domoticz
  url = ("http://" + domoticz_host + ":" + domoticz_port + "/" + domoticz_url+ "?type=command&param=udevice&idx=" + domoticz_PlexStatus + "&nvalue=0&svalue=IDLE")
  urllib.urlopen(url)
  pass

MAidEN · Post by **MAidEN** » Sunday 27 September 2015 20:36

Hi,

I have a problem with this script. My plex server is on NAS Synology.

When I request 'http://'+plexURL+'/status/sessions' I have this return :

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This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<MediaContainer size="0"></MediaContainer>

I tried to change url like (this URL return live activity on my plex server) :
requestURL = 'http://'+plexURL+'/web/index.html#!/activity/playing'

But the script doesn't work :

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sudo python plex.py
http://192.168.0.249:32400/web/index.html#!/activity/playing
<html><head><title>Not Found</title></head><body><h1>404 Not Found</h1></body></html>
html
IDLE

Can you help me?

JoshDinsdale · Post by **JoshDinsdale** » Monday 26 October 2015 17:31

Any Chance you could update this to support authorization for those of us that use PlexHome?

Many Thanks.

atomicpapa · Post by **atomicpapa** » Thursday 05 November 2015 14:32

I'm thinking authorization may be my issue as well. When I run the test on the script, I receive the following error:

http://192.168.0.6:32400/status/sessions
IDLE
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "plex.py", line 43, in <module>
urllib.urlopen(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 86, in urlopen
return opener.open(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 207, in open
return getattr(self, name)(url)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 358, in open_http
return self.http_error(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 371, in http_error
result = method(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 682, in http_error_401
errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 380, in http_error_default
raise IOError, ('http error', errcode, errmsg, headers)
IOError: ('http error', 401, 'Unauthorized', <httplib.HTTPMessage instance at 0x768597d8>)

That last line pretty much says it all. Is there a way around this?

racquemis · Post by **racquemis** » Saturday 07 November 2015 17:06

Try this
Go to your plex media server settings. On the Network page find the settings that says "List of networks that are allowed without auth " and enter the ip address and subnet of the device running the script. Gateway IP could possiby work aswell.
Enter something Like: 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0

As soon as you saved the settings and restarted the server only the specified devices/networks can access the plex server without authentication

j0ystick · Post by **j0ystick** » Sunday 08 November 2015 1:44

Works nicely also on a linux install from current git (not on rpi), same host for plex server and domoticz (IPs both set to 127.0.0.1).
Thanks!

trollmar · Post by **trollmar** » Wednesday 25 November 2015 0:02

Nice THX!!!
Works on RPi2!!

Maybe in future we could change the Icon for utilitys (Text Objects)!!

zotya · Post by **zotya** » Sunday 06 December 2015 20:34

A very similar script written in PHP

https://github.com/zoltanlaczko/domoticz-plex

gflvern · Post by **gflvern** » Sunday 03 January 2016 18:29

MAidEN wrote:Hi,

I have a problem with this script. My plex server is on NAS Synology.

When I request 'http://'+plexURL+'/status/sessions' I have this return :
Code: Select all
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<MediaContainer size="0"></MediaContainer>
I tried to change url like (this URL return live activity on my plex server) :
requestURL = 'http://'+plexURL+'/web/index.html#!/activity/playing'

But the script doesn't work :
Code: Select all
sudo python plex.py
http://192.168.0.249:32400/web/index.html#!/activity/playing
<html><head><title>Not Found</title></head><body><h1>404 Not Found</h1></body></html>
html
IDLE
Can you help me?

Did you get a solution to this?

When I try to access /status/sessions I get a 401 unauthroized error. I've tried changing the network setting in plex but no luck.

gfl

nayr · Post by **nayr** » Monday 04 January 2016 3:12

log out of myPlex on the plex server, and then restart plex server for good measure... then go change the subnet and save. should work, even after logging back into myplex.

gflvern · Post by **gflvern** » Monday 04 January 2016 21:34

nayr wrote:log out of myPlex on the plex server, and then restart plex server for good measure... then go change the subnet and save. should work, even after logging back into myplex.

Thanks, eventually got it working after a couple of stop/starts!

gflvern · Post by **gflvern** » Monday 04 January 2016 21:52

I was just playing with the script to show the Season name as well as the title.

I used

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season = root.find('Video').attrib(''grandparentTitle')

That works find for TV programmes but not movies that don't have that value. Can some point help me with how to handle that exception?

Thanks

gfl

alphabetagamma · Post by **alphabetagamma** » Friday 12 February 2016 11:34

Hi all,
after some work on this scripts i can tell it works fine.
BUT
if you get

"IOError: ('http error', 401, 'Unauthorized', <httplib.HTTPMessage instance at 0x768597d8>)"

while running it ,
it appears to be a unauthorized access not from your plex server but from domoticz when updating the plex status

Quickest solution to fix it is to allow self IP connection without authentification from configuration panel.

e.g.: 127.0.0.*;0.0.0.*

In order to try your connexion launch the below test.py python script adapting your config in the setting section

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$ python test.py

if it is asking you for login and password you should enable your ip for no authentification.

$ python test.py
http://127.0.0.1:8080/json.htm?type=com ... value=IDLE
Enter username for Domoticz.com at 127.0.0.1:8080:

if it is returning the following you are just fine

{
"status" : "OK",
"title" : "Update Device"
}

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import urllib, urllib2, hashlib

#domoticz settings
domoticz_host         = '127.0.0.1'
domoticz_port         = '8080'
domoticz_url          = 'json.htm'

#domoticz idx
domoticz_PlexStatus = '4' #idx of device

url = ("http://" + domoticz_host + ":" + domoticz_port + "/" + domoticz_url+ "?type=command&param=udevice&idx=" + domoticz_PlexStatus + "&nvalue=0&svalue=IDLE")
print (url)
# uploading values to domoticz
x = urllib.urlopen(url)
#x = urllib.urlopen('https://www.google.com/')
print(x.read())

kllngtme · Post by **kllngtme** » Tuesday 21 June 2016 23:01

I'm using Windows for this. I can only seem to get the status/sessions page to load if I add my Plex token to it but even then, It's producing an error I can't seem to figure out. If I just try and browse to 192.168.1.2:32400/status/sessions it will give me 401 Unauthorized. It's only when I add the extra bit, to inlcude my plex token that it actually seems to pull the information

The output is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Domoticz\scripts\python>plex.py
http://192.168.1.2:32400/status/session ... n=blahblah
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MediaContainer size="0">
</MediaContainer>

MediaContainer
IDLE
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Domoticz\scripts\python\plex.py", line 85, in <module>
urllib.urlopen(url)
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 87, in urlopen
return opener.open(url)
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 213, in open
return getattr(self, name)(url)
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 364, in open_http
return self.http_error(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 377, in http_error
result = method(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 689, in http_error_401
errcode, errmsg, headers)
File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib.py", line 386, in http_error_default
raise IOError, ('http error', errcode, errmsg, headers)
IOError: ('http error', 401, 'Unauthorized', <httplib.HTTPMessage instance at 0x0000000002C2E7C8>)

What's interesting as well is that when I had a show playing, it seemed to pull the information but still included the errors after traceback..

I've tried removing my pin to my login as well as restarting the server several times.

ben53252642 · Post by **ben53252642** » Monday 04 July 2016 20:16

Wrote a bash script that updates a variable in Domoticz with the playing state of a specific user eg: playing, paused or idle.

It only updates the status if it doesn't already match.

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#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]
do
plexuser="ENTERPLEXUSERNAME"
domoticzvariablename="ENTERTHENAMEOFTHEVARIABLE"
domoticzvariableIDX="3"
plexstatus=$(curl -k -s 'https://192.168.0.4:32400/status/sessions' | sed -n "/"$plexuser"/,/title/p")
if [[ $plexstatus == *"playing"* ]]
then
status="playing"
fi
if [[ $plexstatus == *"paused"* ]]
then
status="paused"
fi
if [[ $plexstatus != *"$plexuser"* ]]
then
status="idle"
fi
# Check existing status of variable in Domoticz
variablestate=$(curl -s "http://192.168.0.5/json.htm?type=command&param=getuservariable&idx="$domoticzvariableIDX"" | grep "Value")
# Check if Plex status matches existing variable set in Domoticz
if [[ $variablestate != *"$status"* ]]
then
echo "Status changed: $status"
curl -s "http://192.168.0.5/json.htm?type=command&param=updateuservariable&vname="$domoticzvariablename"&vtype=2&vvalue="$status"" 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null
else
echo "Status in sync"
fi
sleep 1
done

Below is a basic Lua script to act on changes to the variable

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commandArray = {}
if (uservariables["ENTERTHENAMEOFTHEVARIABLE"] == 'paused' and otherdevices['Bens Bed Lamp'] == 'Off') then
commandArray['Bens Bed Lamp']='On'
end
return commandArray

q8djent · Post by **q8djent** » Saturday 26 November 2016 22:38

racquemis wrote:Try this
Go to your plex media server settings. On the Network page find the settings that says "List of networks that are allowed without auth " and enter the ip address and subnet of the device running the script. Gateway IP could possiby work aswell.
Enter something Like: 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0

As soon as you saved the settings and restarted the server only the specified devices/networks can access the plex server without authentication

Dude seriously been looking for a solution for days!! and yours has fixed my problem THANK YOU!!!!

multinet · Post by **multinet** » Saturday 25 March 2017 9:09

Hello

Since a plex update, the url of plex http:// ...... /status/sessions return a 401 unauthorized

Multinet

matteos1 · Post by **matteos1** » Wednesday 13 September 2017 13:49

if domoticz have username and password?

Goldwing1973 · Wednesday 13 September 2017 23:16

Is there a easy way not to log the "Idle" State?
I would like to be put in the log when something started to play or stopped to play.

dizzyweb · Post by **dizzyweb** » Monday 02 October 2017 8:39

Well, you want to log at least that you're not playing anything anymore. And if you don't want to repeat the values all the time, you'll have to check what the current value in domoticz is, which makes it a bit more complicated. The current script doesn't get any data from domoticz and to be honest, I don't know how to do that from a regular python script.

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