Anyone try giving this a go yet?

 

http://elan.plexapp.com/2013/06/04/introducing-plexconnect-an-appletv-client-which-thinks-different/

https://github.com/roidy/PlexConnect

 

It is so you can use AppleTV (un-jailbroken) as a Plex interface. Not sure if this is something that could or could not be run from unRAID.

 

EDIT: I did just find this:

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/57831-plex-atv-think-different/page-27#entry401895

Basically his post was:

 

"I got this working on UnRaid 5.0rc12 by installing python and changing the port for the built-in web interface to port 8008."

 

I reached out to find out what version of python, is a specific version is needed. I am not sure how to change the default port, hoping somewhere here could point me in the right direction.

I got it working, and its soooooo much smoother than the iphone/ipad through AIRPlay... THANK YOU PLEXCONNECT!

 

I have it running on RC13.

 

*Make note of your unRAID internal IP, if you have SimpleFeatures it is displayed in the main page in the upper right hand corner

 

For AppleTV side, please follow this: https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect/wiki/OSX-and-ATV-with-5.2-firmware-and-ethernet-internet-connection-installation-guide

 

For unRAID side, please follow below:

1. Change your default port for unRAID to something other than 80, something like 8008.

    To do this go to your go file on your flash drive and replace /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & with /usr/local/sbin/emhttp -p XX & (where XX equals the port)

    Not sure if needed, but I rebooted here

1. Install python on your Plex server (since I have CouchPotato and Sickbeard running, I already had it), maybe someone can send me some manual steps and I will gladly update with how to do this.

2. Copy the download https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect/archive/XML_templates.zip to your destination of choice (below you will notice I used a cache drive).

3. Go to your destination (/mnt/cache/apps/plexconnect) and modify the file Settings.py with the following:

    return '8.8.8.8'  # google public DNS and replace 8.8.8.8 with the IP you saved from your apple tv

 

4. go to puTTy and type in the following (you should be able to close puTTy after this):

nohup python /mnt/cache/apps/plexconnect/PlexConnect.py &

*thanks to mrow

 

This should get you going.

Very neat.

Thanks for your help setting this up, I am having issues with it though. Everything works fine but only if I start by using python PlexConnect.py. I have tried running the nohup command both on OS X in terminal and using puTTy on windows. Either way I get the message 'nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out'', the AppleTV will keep trying to access trailers until I press the menu button.

 

I have little experience with running console commands but it seems like plexconnect isn't starting, do you have any suggestions on what to do?

Can we please merge this into the other thread in the customizations thread as this really isn't a plugin?

 

Kryspy