PlexConnect

Fixes

1. Plex.tv login (credits to @ActionAnalytics)

Known limitations

PlexConnect does not support enhanced PMS security features. Therefore:

1. You can't use Secure connections = Required in PMS network settings (otherwise PlexConnect will always use remote connections to access PMS). Secure connections = Preferred is recommended
2. You can't use remote libraries (owned or shared) hosted in a PMS that has Strict TLS configuration enabled (access is permited, thumbnails and fanart will not be shown, and play fails)

Fixes

1. Use HTTP to access local servers

Known limitations

PlexConnect does not support enhanced PMS security features. Therefore:

1. You can't use Secure connections = Required in PMS network settings (otherwise PlexConnect will always use remote connections to access PMS). Secure connections = Preferred is recommended
2. You can't use remote libraries (owned or shared) hosted in a PMS that has Strict TLS configuration enabled (access is permited, thumbnails and fanart will not be shown, and play fails)

Fixes

1. Support TV Show libraries in PMS 1.22+
2. Ignore SSL errors when connecting to plex.tv
3. Thumbnails & Cover Art Missing (credits to @bloerwald)
4. YouTube/get_video_info (credits to @bloerwald)
5. Enable xvid mediabadge (credits to @bloerwald)

Enhancements

1. Script to easily install PlexConnect in a jailbroken ATV3
2. New --config_path argument to move cfg files to a subfolder (see #579, credits to @dlgoodr)

Fixes

1. Support Plex Movie libraries in PMS 1.20+
2. Overwriting path in getSubtitleJSON (credits to @gavinbeatty)

Enhancements

1. ATV3 jailbreak install instructions updated with Plex icon (credits to @franconovel)
2. Smaller icons (credits to @ghokun)

Fixes

1. Channels are enabled
2. Transcoding parameters are enabled

Enhancements

1. Live TV & DVR
2. Options for docker situations
3. Add support for taglines in channel template
4. Faster fanart generation, usefull when PlexConnect is installed in low speed devices
5. Reverse proxy samples for apache and nginx
6. Added flac, opus and mpegts mediabadges
7. Tautulli support
8. Server discovery prefers local access to servers when available
9. Support for music libraries introduced in PMS 1.18.0.1846
10. Remove Transcoder action setting (plexconnect now relies on the PMS transcoder)

Fixes

1. mov_text subtitles were triggering transcoding
2. MyPlex renamed to Plex account
3. Hide pin (home user)
4. New forum URL
5. x-plex tokens reviewed for better PMS & Tautulli integration

Warning

The localization system that allowed PlexConnect translations was discontinued. Therefore translations can't be updated and some new functionalities, such as Live TV & DVR, can't be translated.

Files

This release includes code developed by @SheaSmith , @moodyblue, @Fish2, @patelhiren, @izznogooood, @bwynants and @nadavcoh.

Enhancements

1. 5.1 audio tracks are supported (AC3 directplays / other codecs are transcoded to AC3)
2. Plex Icon - now you can replace trailers icon (or another app's icon) with a Plex icon
3. New devices where PlexConnect can be installed - jailbroken iPad and iPhone
4. New Status page (can be used to check if PlexConnect DNS service is running)
5. Security - access external providers using https instead of http
6. Docker improvements
7. Updated norwegian translation
8. Date included in logs (previously was time only)
9. Playlists can be used for photos (previously was for Movies, TV Shows and Music only)
10. New badges eac3 and mpeg2-video
11. Add context menu item to allow media to be deleted

Fixes

1. video urls where plugins would send key with spaces but url would have encoded those spaces to '+'
2. Do not trigger transcoding unnecessarily (mediaBufferSize=80000 instead of default)
3. Image compression and fanart improvements
4. Remove bitrate limit for lossless audio in music
5. Photos are rotated (using ttranscoding) when needed (as per their EXIF)
6. ATV can hang during DirectPlay due to buffer overrun
7. Channels are broken #516

and many others

Files

PlexConnect-master.zip

A huge thanks to @Fish2, @izznogooood, @wahlmanj and of course to @iBaa and @roidy, whose latest changes and support were key to make 0.6 available.

Major improvements:

• Revamped Audio/Music handling (for iOS>=7.0. That version got a new XML audio player... thanks Beats!)
• GUI improvements: Fanart, Backgrounds... (needs PIL/Pillow library for Python)
• Playlists support (video/audio): continuous play, shuffle, also for TVShow/Season/Episodes
• Save ATVSettings.cfg after changes

Current state - release with a couple of known issues:

• Subtitle renderer: sync issue after RW/FF/jumping in the file - currently blaming PMS/transcoder?!?
• Stacked files: resume into subsequent parts - aTV's "playlist" doesn't seem to support that.
• Audio replay: only one song in a row. :-(

v0.3 wasn't that stable... MyPlex moved from plexapp.com to plex.tv.

(as of 25Dec13: MyPlex login non working as MyPlex changes its URL.)

• MyPlex: remote libraries, shared servers
• easier install (certs...), easier aTV icon switching
• daemons for Linux, OSX, aTV (jailbreak)

...and much, much more.

State of the art - with mostly everything (but MyPlex) working.

(as of 27Aug13: defunct with Apple's switch to https)

Very first PlexConnect release.
Also, last one with support for iOS 5.01 and 5.02 (both lack the nav bar option).