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...
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_tvThank 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