[komplex]

I've given this a whirl in an effort to help sync between my devices only running Plex and all good so far.  One thing on Plex I can't find in the add-on is the playlists that appear on TV for Start Watching or Rediscover.   Are these available but maybe under a different name?

You can just make a playlist similar to those. I done 2 like this

xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<smartplaylist type="tvshows">

    <name>Rediscover</name>

    <match>all</match>

    <rule field="lastplayed" operator="inthelast">

        <value>18 month</value>

    </rule>

    <rule field="lastplayed" operator="notinthelast">

        <value>2 month</value>

    </rule>

    <rule field="playcount" operator="is">

        <value>0</value>

    </rule>

    <limit>10</limit>

    <order direction="ascending">random</order>

</smartplaylist>

And

xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<smartplaylist type="tvshows">

    <name>Start Watching</name>

    <match>all</match>

    <rule field="numwatched" operator="is">

        <value>0</value>

    </rule>

    <rule field="numepisodes" operator="greaterthan">

        <value>2</value>

    </rule>

    <rule field="playcount" operator="is">

        <value>0</value>

    </rule>

    <limit>10</limit>

    <order direction="ascending">random</order>

</smartplaylist>

[Corporall Clegg]

I am finding it impossible to play music from my local Plex server using PKC.
When I set up PKC with the default add on settings (not direct play) my music would show and play but it it would have frequent intermittent pauses, when using direct play my files show up under Music in Kodi Matrix 19 Estuary on a Shield TV, but when they are played the entire album is quickly scrolled though and nothing else happens, no sound, no error or crash.
I had direct play setup per the instructions on the wiki and I am fairly sure the set up is correct but honestly the wiki is a bit confusing in regards to direct play and seems to be contradictory to the settings in PKC in Kodi Matrix on a Shield TV.

At this point I have come to the conclusion that PKC dose not function with a Plex music library.
Has anyone else been able to get it to work with Matrix on a Shield TV and Plex on a windows 10 server?

[xxfury2xx]

After more than a year of flawless performance my PKC install went to sh!t. It stopped wanting to connect to my server, but I couldn't figure out why. Ultimately, I thought the best path forward was to uninstall and re-install fresh from the repo. However, I'm no longer able to install PKC all the way. I'm able to download and install it from croneter's repo, but it all falls apart during the setup.

I get the instruction to link PKC to Plex and it finds my server just fine, but at the very end when it says it needs to restart Kodi it just doesn't work. It will close Kodi down, but doesn't open it back up again. I have to manually open Kodi, only to be greeted by the same screen asking me to link my device. This happens again and again and again without stopping. It's an infinite loop where it closes down Kodi followed by wanting to do the initial setup process all over again. My only recourse is to delete the the PKC plugin folders from AppData so that I can use Kodi again.

Has anyone come across this issue? How can I solve this and get my setup working again? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

[Croneter]

After more than a year of flawless performance my PKC install went to sh!t. It stopped wanting to connect to my server, but I couldn't figure out why. Ultimately, I thought the best path forward was to uninstall and re-install fresh from the repo. However, I'm no longer able to install PKC all the way. I'm able to download and install it from croneter's repo, but it all falls apart during the setup.

I get the instruction to link PKC to Plex and it finds my server just fine, but at the very end when it says it needs to restart Kodi it just doesn't work. It will close Kodi down, but doesn't open it back up again. I have to manually open Kodi, only to be greeted by the same screen asking me to link my device. This happens again and again and again without stopping. It's an infinite loop where it closes down Kodi followed by wanting to do the initial setup process all over again. My only recourse is to delete the the PKC plugin folders from AppData so that I can use Kodi again.

Has anyone come across this issue? How can I solve this and get my setup working again? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Ouch :-(

I have seen issues in the past where Kodi does not want to safe add-on settings for some reason. This is probably what you're experiencing. I don't really know how you could fix this, unfortunately. Any chance you could reset Kodi completely?

Edit - maybe this helps? https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=339896 Permission issues are likely...

[xxfury2xx]

After more than a year of flawless performance my PKC install went to sh!t. It stopped wanting to connect to my server, but I couldn't figure out why. Ultimately, I thought the best path forward was to uninstall and re-install fresh from the repo. However, I'm no longer able to install PKC all the way. I'm able to download and install it from croneter's repo, but it all falls apart during the setup.

I get the instruction to link PKC to Plex and it finds my server just fine, but at the very end when it says it needs to restart Kodi it just doesn't work. It will close Kodi down, but doesn't open it back up again. I have to manually open Kodi, only to be greeted by the same screen asking me to link my device. This happens again and again and again without stopping. It's an infinite loop where it closes down Kodi followed by wanting to do the initial setup process all over again. My only recourse is to delete the the PKC plugin folders from AppData so that I can use Kodi again.

Has anyone come across this issue? How can I solve this and get my setup working again? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Ouch :-(

I have seen issues in the past where Kodi does not want to safe add-on settings for some reason. This is probably what you're experiencing. I don't really know how you could fix this, unfortunately. Any chance you could reset Kodi completely?

Edit - maybe this helps? https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=339896 Permission issues are likely...

Wanted to post an update. Blowing up my Kodi install and starting from scratch got PKC working again. Not fun having to set everything back up again, but I'm viewing it as a nice push to finally upgrade to Kodi Matrix.

[Luterin]

With the last update (3.6.0) subtitles stops working after a second or so, only a few lines work. Worked fine until last update.

Goes for both subtitles next to media file and indexed by Plex, as well as Plex own auto downloaded subtitles. Downloading subtitles in Kodi when something is playing still works, and it do show the available subtitles from Plex, but no matter which is chosen of those, it does not work. Only the newly downloaded one works.

Tried changing preferred playback mode from Direct Path to Direct Play, and it's still the same, but when I change to Direct Stream it seems to work, but then it starts to transcode some media that wasn't transcoded with Direct Play?

[Luterin]

With the last update (3.6.0) subtitles stops working after a second or so, only a few lines work. Worked fine until last update.

Update:
It seems that the issue is that subtitles are "downloaded" and turned on at the start in Kodis interface, "Enable Subtitles:On", but after a second or two it gets turned off. It works if I just enable the subtitles again, but this behavior is something that changed with v3.6.0

My guess is that it might have something to do with this fix in v3.6.0 compared to v3.5.xx
"Fix PKC changing subtitles on playback start unnecessarily"

[Croneter]

With the last update (3.6.0) subtitles stops working after a second or so, only a few lines work. Worked fine until last update.

Goes for both subtitles next to media file and indexed by Plex, as well as Plex own auto downloaded subtitles. Downloading subtitles in Kodi when something is playing still works, and it do show the available subtitles from Plex, but no matter which is chosen of those, it does not work. Only the newly downloaded one works.

PlexKodiConnect now defaults to using the Plex settings for subtitles and audio streams, NOT the Kodi settings (what you're used to...). Meaning that if you use Plex Web and navigate to a movie, if there is no subtitle selected there, Kodi will not show a subtitle once you start playback.

You can change this behavior to always use Kodi instead of Plex settings for subs and audio streams in the PKC settings

[Luterin]

With the last update (3.6.0) subtitles stops working after a second or so, only a few lines work. Worked fine until last update.

Goes for both subtitles next to media file and indexed by Plex, as well as Plex own auto downloaded subtitles. Downloading subtitles in Kodi when something is playing still works, and it do show the available subtitles from Plex, but no matter which is chosen of those, it does not work. Only the newly downloaded one works.

PlexKodiConnect now defaults to using the Plex settings for subtitles and audio streams, NOT the Kodi settings (what you're used to...). Meaning that if you use Plex Web and navigate to a movie, if there is no subtitle selected there, Kodi will not show a subtitle once you start playback.

You can change this behavior to always use Kodi instead of Plex settings for subs and audio streams in the PKC settings

Thanks for the help and info, changing that fixed my issue!

[Petar Ustabashiev]

I have problem accessing my friend’s remote server. I am setting up the connection to his server, the library syncs correctly but in the end when I try to play something it does not start and I get an error message “Unauthorized for PMS”. This should not be a problem as I have access to the server of my friend through the native Plex app on my Nvidia Shield Pro.
Any ideas?

[ultrax]

With the new 9.0.1 Shield TV Firmware PKC crashed after starting with a clean Kodi install.

[jbinkley60]

With the new 9.0.1 Shield TV Firmware PKC crashed after starting with a clean Kodi install.

Another option you can consider is leveraging the Mezzmo Kodi client and connecting to Plex in DLNA mode.  It's been fully tested with video, music and pictures from a Plex server.  it won't be as feature rich as the native client but you can try it to see.


Jeff

[ultrax]

The option in pkc to cache pictures is broken. after it enabeld, kodi shut down. without this option, pkc and kodi runs. i think, its a problem with the kodi websaver, you have to enabled.

[sylvio2000]

Does PKC support syncing photos with plex?
In my plex server I have created a library with photos. This is the only folder PKC does not recognize. Is this a bug or is not supported?

[m33ts4k0z]

The option in pkc to cache pictures is broken. after it enabeld, kodi shut down. without this option, pkc and kodi runs. i think, its a problem with the kodi websaver, you have to enabled.

Pictures work... Somewhat... I can see my libraries under the Picture main menu item -> Picture Addons PKC but then when I try to click on a thymbnail, Kodi turns black and shows nothing. Then going back to the list with the back button makes the thumbnails show again. In other words, I can't show a full screen picture looks like. But videos in these "picture" libraries work correctly.