When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangibl...

  • dom@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

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

    • savjee@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      1 year 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
      • dom@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        1 year 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

    • dom@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      1 year 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