A collection of scripts for use with Plex/Tautulli and a custom pre-roll generation script.

lights-controller.sh

Script used to control lights on a Phillips Hue system. Depends on curl. Recommended setup is adding this as a script to run in Tautuli.

To obtain the ID to use for the script, follow the basic Hue API tutorial to generate one.

The first script will setup the lights for the main movie and the second for the pre-show trivia and trailers.

Script 1

• Conditions:
  • Media Type is movie
  • Library Name is Movies (adjust this to match your own library name)
• Triggers and arguments:
  • Playback Start off [ID]
  • Playback Stop on [ID]
  • Playback Pause dim [ID]
  • Playback Resume off [ID]

Script 2

• Conditions:
  • Media Type is clip
• Triggers and arguments:
  • Playback Start dim [ID]

trivia-gen.sh

Script used to transform a collection of videos and video slides into a random subset that will be at least as long as the requested length (defaults to 10 minutes) before the transitions are applied.

Depends on ffmpeg (brew install ffmpeg, apt-get install ffmpeg, choco install ffmpeg, etc.) and ffprobe-python (pip install ffprobe-python). Works by building a list of random slides/videos until the length of the generated video is at least 600 seconds (pass a number as the first argument to use that number of seconds instead), does a first pass merging the different sets of slides together with a fade, then does a second pass concatenating the videos generated in the first pass and the randomly chosen videos. Simply place the videos and image slides in the slides/ subfolder before running, each image slide accounts for 15 seconds. The script will fail with errors if there isn't enough videos to satisfy the length requirement. For Q&A style slides, the first slide should be named {name}_q.{ext} (question) and the last slide {name}_a.{ext} (answer) with an optional clue slide between them named {name}_c.{ext} Videos should be in mp4/h265 format and have a resolution of 1920x1080, concatenation will fail if there is a mismatch and this is the format generated for images. You can convert them using Handbrake, ffmpeg, or several other solution.

Tautulli Script

• Conditions:
  • Media Type is movie
  • Library Name is Movies (adjust this to match your own library name)
• Triggers and arguments:
  • Playback Stop nopythonpath