• dom@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Does it resume from the last time they watched? Does it work with TV shows too and track which episode they are on?

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      8 months ago

      The Plex deep links will automatically resume. TV shows are tricky. For that, I use the Plex integration of Home Assistant to play a random episode. It’s supposed to be super powerful, but I haven’t got it to work reliably yet (which is why I didn’t focus on TV Shows in the blog post).

      service: media_player.play_media
      data:
        media_content_type: EPISODE
        media_content_id: |-
          { 
            "library_name" : "TV shows",
            "show_name": "SHOW NAME HERE",
            "shuffle": 1,
            "maxresults": 1
          }
        enqueue: replace
      target:
        entity_id: media_player.plex_plex_for_apple_tv_apple_tv
      
      
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        8 months ago

        Thank you, this gives me enough to start and play with.

        My kiddo doesn’t really care too much about movies but loves TV shows. Maybe I solve it with a script if I can’t get the native plex link to work

        This is going to be a good winter project for me

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      8 months ago

      And I’m wondering if these could be adjusted to have the card be “inserted” and turn off when the card is removed?

      I have some nfc tags sitting around but they are much thicker. Maybe I can 3d print something those tags can click into and make like a mini vhs player for them