Kitana VS python-plexapi

Look into Kitana.

The Plex-Trakt-Scrobbler does this. You'll need the Kitana Plex plugin web frontend to access Plex-Trakt-Scrobbler's UI.

the old plex trakt plugin still works for me, need to use https://github.com/pannal/Kitana to access the the old interface however.

There is also an addon for plex that gives you more control, plex trakt scrobbler. Sadly plex has mostly done away with addons (I think that is why the addon is mostly unmaintained) so I use kitana to manage addons. trakt-for-plex may also be useful.

You need Kitana to access your Plex plugins.

2) Pair it with Kitana to access the web gui.

With kitana 'https://github.com/pannal/Kitana' you can run manual push/pull syncs. Along with more control over other plex plugins.

It still works! You just can't get to plugin GUIs anymore through the Plex app. You can run Kitana (https://github.com/pannal/Kitana) for this though

Did you set the sync to run at a lower interval? Or maybe to not wait until the server is idle? You can also try a manual sync and check the messages see if it returns any errors. The only way to do that is through Kitana after Plex got rid of the plugin interfaces. I run my own public instance at https://kitana.bas.sh if you want to use it.

Oh shit! I never even bothered to look because I asked a long time ago and was given and emphatic no. It looks like there is a playlist class. So I'll have to play with that and see what it can do.

I wanted a way to pick a random album from a collection and tell the Plexamp client connected to my speakers to play it. I wrote a detailed post about a simple way and a fancy way to do this using the unofficial Python Plex library.

It is the library agent change this guy was on the right track https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi/issues/534

Sources: https://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://github.com/pkkid/python-plexapi

There's no in the box option for that, but you can easily make something that can do it with things like the python plex api. Get random movie, send play command with offset for some random point. Sleep some random amount of time. Send a stop command and repeat the previous steps.

You should look into the python PlexAPI wrapper library. Here is an equivalent script using PlexAPI.

I am not sure if there is an official way most people do this, but I think the best bet would be to use data directly from plex - https://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/server.html#plexapi.server.PlexServer.sessions to loop through every so often and get a list of current sessions (currently playing media). Once that goes empty start a timer for shutdown. If a session starts again end the shutdown, you could even look at to see if something is "paused" and have a different shutdown time for paused vs nothing playing if you really wanted.