Played From Plex plugin

[jhuebel 2]

Plex has become an unstable mess. So, I decided to switch to Emby. But I wanted to save all the Movie and TV Show played status. This plugin accomplishes that. It's only been tested on x86 hardware (Synology NAS). You can find the plugin here: https://github.com/jhuebel/PlayedFromPlex

Any feedback is welcome. The usage of the plugin should be pretty self-explanatory. But take a look at the README on the GitHub page for details.

[Luke 42858]

Thanks for sharing.

[jhuebel 2]

I should note that this also includes a Scheduled Task that runs every six hours. So, if you've already migrated a user from Plex to Emby, you'll probably want to remove them from the User Mappings. But the intent of the Scheduled Task is to sync played status for users that are still using Plex until you have a chance to migrate their devices.

Edited 13 hours ago by jhuebel

[RedNo7 6]

Thanks for sharing.

...I'm using a QNAP NAS and will happily share how it works on it.

[RedNo7 6]

OK, it works!

However, at least for QNAP, both PlayedFromPlex.dll & meta.json had to be in %ProgramData%\Emby-Server\plugins, not a subdirectory.

I was unable to see my friends (other Plex accounts with Library access).  Will that be possible at some point?

I was running watchstate in a docker container on my QNAP until now and this is a great replacement!

edit: I set the files to `666` to match the others in the `Plugins` directory.

Edited 10 hours ago by RedNo7

[jhuebel 2]

I'm not sure if I can get played status for Friends. Played state may be stored in their own Plex account. But I'll look into it.

Also, does Emby have a "Friends" feature like Plex? Or would I just sync with a user that I setup? I'm new to Emby and don't have any other Friends who currently use it.

[jhuebel 2]

Just pushed release 1.0.9.0 to GitHub. No new functionality. Just added an icon/graphic for the plugin.

[RedNo7 6]

26 minutes ago, jhuebel said:

I'm not sure if I can get played status for Friends. Played state may be stored in their own Plex account. But I'll look into it.

thanks!

27 minutes ago, jhuebel said:

Also, does Emby have a "Friends" feature like Plex? Or would I just sync with a user that I setup? I'm new to Emby and don't have any other Friends who currently use it.

Like you, I'm new.  I have just set them up as users.  Tbh, I haven't shared it with the family yet, but would like the played state 'correct' when I do.

[RedNo7 6]

wow - just got the alert for v1.0.10.0 which has added Plex friends - nice one!

[jhuebel 2]

I pulled back 1.0.10.0 since Claude was treating it as a "bugfix" release. I re-released it as 1.1.0, since it's really a feature update. There's no functional difference between 1.0.10.0 and 1.1.0, though.

But yes, that includes "Friend" support now.  Enjoy!

https://github.com/jhuebel/PlayedFromPlex/releases/tag/v1.1.0.0

Edited 2 hours ago by jhuebel

[RedNo7 6]

brilliant - thanks!