Initial support for Plex Media Server w/Plex Home

[mannkind]

Based on #4328 and fixes #4239, but supports fetching the authentication token using username/password while still being able to use just an auth token if you want.

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[RuudBurger]

What is the client-identifier and why is it set to b3a6b24dcab2224bdb101fc6aa08ea5e2f3147d6?

[mannkind]

The Client-Identifier is what uniquely identifies a "device" associated for a given Plex Media Server. b3a6b24dcab2224bdb101fc6aa08ea5e2f3147d6 is just the sha1 hash of the words "CouchPotato Notifier"

[Ockingshay]

Has this been implemented yet? Pretty crucial for all Plex users, which i bet is quite a large % of CP users.

SickRage has implemened this as their fix: SiCKRAGE/SiCKRAGE@03b17d6

[Ockingshay]

and this is a guide on how to find one's auth token: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/204059436-Finding-your-account-token-X-Plex-Token

[chuckkay]

mannkind,
couldn't wait for merge so manually installed you fix works great thanks...

Question: can you take a look at fixing something else with plex server notification...

It seams CouchPotato is telling Plex to update all Video Related Libraries... including My Home Videos (of which i have a lot) this makes each update take too long.. Fortunatly plex is not refreshing TV Library on every couch potato notification...

I have 3 Video Related Library's
My Movies
My Kids Movies
Home Videos
on couchpotato notification Plex is refreshing all three...

even though Couchpotato only uses two directories for categories and renaming settings
(My Movies & My Kids Movies)

any chance of a fix... or even better, instead of rescanning the whole, could it just update a specific movie or path....

[weezywee]

@Developers - Is this going to be merged?
@anyone - How do I merge this with my local copy until it is officially merged?

[valeriomazzeo]

+1 we do want this!

[mannkind]

@weezywee - I followed github's documentation to pull in the change locally.

I really hope support for Plex Home gets merged soon, even if it's not my pull request.

[weezywee]

@mannkind - Thank you!

[Ockingshay]

sickbeard have now also implemented this: https://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard/pull/890/files

Is this fix ready to merge as is? Unusually for CP, you lot are the last to implement :-)

[jwillmer]

push!

[RuudBurger]

Sorry for the slowness guys. Getting ready for my first kid. Not much time right now ;)