Number of playing streams?

[dragon299]

Is there a possiblity to read the number of currently playing streams using this adapter?

Sry for this stupid question I am not able to find a state which gives me this number.

[Zefau]

Which version are you on?
The state plex.0._playing.playing (Players currently playing) holds the current players playing.

What information are you looking for? Probably no effort to add it.

[dragon299]

Thanks for your fast answer. Looks like this (plex.0._playing.playing) is exactly the state I am looking for. Unfortunately it is missing in my environment.

Please find attached a screenshot:

I run version 0.3.1 currently.

[Zefau]

Try the version from the latest repository.

[dragon299]

The newest version gives me the mentioned state. Unfortunately it is not exactly what I am looking for. I need a state which gives me the number (Integer) of concurrent streams running at the moment.

In plex.0._playing.playing I see only the devices/players currently streaming. I tought I could count those devices with a little script but that does not work, because if there a multiply streams from the same device (sample chrome), I will have only one entry.

Would it be possibly to add such a state to this adapter?

Thank you for your efforts.

[Zefau]

I could add that, but how do you have multiple streams from the same device? I thought it is only possible to have one stream per device at a moment?

[dragon299]

You can watch multiple streams if you start plex in multiple chrome tabs. Of course this is not a really common task but you could have 2 different users, which watch something in paralell on two different pc´s using chrome.

[Zefau]

That's true. I will implement the number of concurrent streams with one of the next releases.

[Zefau]

Please check out v0.8.0 if the newly added state streams does fit your needs. Thanks

[dragon299]

Looks like there is a bug in v0.8.0. The adapter is not able to start in my environment. Please find attached the error message:

error by controller[0]: at Adapter.ready (/opt/iobroker/node_modules/iobroker.plex/plex.js:90:32)
error by controller[0]: TypeError: Cannot read property 'forEach' of undefined

[Zefau]

Sorry. Could you try version v0.8.1 from Github?

[dragon299]

thanks a lot, the new version works perfectly and the new "streams" state is exactly what I was looking for.

[Zefau]

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