This will effectively dump out every single piece of information from your Plex server. Installing the New Plex Nodes New Plex Nodesĭrag out the notification node and connect it to the debug. When it’s finished, you’ll find two new nodes available to you on the left hand side. Let’s kick it off with the configuration of the node.įirstly, go to your node-red install and go to “manage palette”, then click on the install tab and paste in node-red-contrib-plex-ws after a short moment, you should see the node come up and you can install it. In this post, I wanted to scratch the surface with a couple of flows that could be useful, as well as some ideas to build on. It outputs everything you could possibly want to know about your server’s activity as well as a wealth of things you’ll never want to know again.

When configured correctly this node can output a wealth of information from your Plex server. I recently stumbled across an excellent Plex integration in node-red called: node-red-contrib-plex-ws. I’ve already shown you how you can control lighting and other devices via the webhook function built into Plex (see here), but I wanted to do more.

I use an HD homerun which turns Plex into the perfect DVR. I have a lifetime Plexpass subscription, and an enterprise server containing not only all my movie and music backups, but also my TV recordings. I’m a big fan of Plex, and have been using it for years.

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