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How I Built an NFC Movie Library for my Kids (simplyexplained.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by savjee@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] dom@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Does it resume from the last time they watched? Does it work with TV shows too and track which episode they are on?

[–] savjee@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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_tv

[–] dom@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Thank 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

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