Hello!

 

plexWatch & plexWatchWeb are two fantastic add-ons to Plex Media Server that give great insight onto what is being watched on your system. plexWatch is the back-end (perl script) that pulls the Plex server for "now watching" information and sends alerts via various means (push notification, email, twitter, etc.). plexWatchWeb is a web-based (PHP) front-end for plexWatch that visualizes all the info into great tables and charts.

 

Details for both can be found in the Plex Forums:

 

plexWatch: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/72552-plexwatch-plex-notify-script-send-push-alerts-on-new-sessions-and-stopped/

plexWatchWeb: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/82819-plexwatchweb-a-web-front-end-for-plexwatch/

 

Both require a PlexPass in order to function.

 

I think it would be a great unRAID plug-in as it provides great insight, into what seems to be the most popular software ran on unRAID, Plex. I've already had a pretty good start with getting plexWatch installed on my unRAID 5.0 server. Details here: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/84937-plexwatch-on-unraid/

 

I'm hoping someone in on this board would be willing to help get both plexWatch and plexWatchWeb bundled into a package. Im not very familiar with what it would take to get perl and a php server bundled up and running consistently. Everything I'm reading seems a bit outdated (unWeb, simple features, unMenu, etc.).

 

Thanks for any help you can provide!

I'm pondering this myself.

 

I'm thinking separate plug-ins for plexWatch and plexWatchWeb. Different dependencies and different configuration settings.

 

Are you by chance using SimpleFeatures? It appears the SimpleFeatures Web Server plugin may be the quickest, easiest way to get the necessary PHP-supporting server set up.

 

I may play with it some if I can find time this afternoon/evening.

I haven't been successful at getting Simple Features up and running. I'm sure it's some kind of incompatibility with other plug-ins I have installed.  Closest I've come is with unWeb, but ran I to some weird permissions issues and could t save the plexWatchWeb config file.

I would love to see these as plugins!

I would be very interested seeing these as plugins also.

I would try contacting the devs, ljunkie and eleese on Plex forums to see if they would like to help with this. They've been really active and helpful with setups on different OS's.

 

I´ve been using it since day one and I love it. Really helps keeping track of my dozens of users.

Looks like someone got it running... I tried using these steps to no avail: https://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/72552-plexwatch-plex-notify-script-send-push-alerts-on-new-sessions-and-stopped/?view=findpost&p=490357

 

gonna have another go during the holiday break.

Got it installed and running on a test machine. Now looking at adding the web portion to it. SimpleFeatures web server seems to cause issues with other plugins, any other suggestions?

 

Unfortunately, I've been stuck on the web portion as well. I'm going to try and get a standalone webserver running until SF is updated. (IF it's updated...) the only requirements for the web portion is PHP. Shouldn't be too bad, just need to find the time.

Well. I got it up and running. Both plexWatch and the web portion. Even had a pretty good install on reboot. One major issue: one of the dependencies for plexWatch was causing segfault when any cronjob would run so it broke the required every minute run of plexWatch and any other cronjob. Pretty bummed. My alternative right now I am looking at is getting a virtual machine running to handle plexWatch. We'll see how that goes and if it is worth it.

Update for anyone interested. I got Ubuntu running in virtual box and have it running plexWatch. plexWatch and PlexWatch/web are both hosted on my unRAID cache drive and all is running very smooth at the moment.

 

May be a bit heavy just to run this but I have plenty of memory so its not really a problem right now.

I would love to see these as plugins!

Would also love to see a plug in. Well done Joe. Sounds like a mini project. No VMs setup at the moment.

 

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I have shared access to 3 of my friends which all have their own PLEX accounts. However, there is no way for me to tell what they are watching or doing on my server at any given time. I can not see if they are connected, what they are viewing or what they have viewed, basically no system managment with users.

 

I am running PLEX on my UnRaid server >> PlexMediaServer-0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd-unRAID

 

It would be nice to see if there was a way to know who is accessing your server at any given time, as well, each user I would think would have their own metadata. It seems as well if any user is using my server, if I have not watched something for example and they have, it will show it as watched for me as well. Even when using my phone, same thing, I can not see what my phone is doing, or viewing from the server side. Not sure why this is not working being a PLEX PASS member, however perhaps it has no been coded for UnRaid PMS.

 

Any thoughts or suggestions would be helpful. Thank you. :-)

 

 

I was looking here, but can't seem to figure out how it works >> https://github.com/ljunkie/plexWatch/tree/v0.2.0

 

I can help you get it setup if you would like, I'm at work so I'll check back here when I get home and send you a pm

on connection monitoring...if you've not found it,

The recently released DYNAMIX GUI has plugins for both a web server and monitoring active streams.

DYNAMIX is a branch of SimpleFeatures that works great with 5.0

I can help you get it setup if you would like, I'm at work so I'll check back here when I get home and send you a pm

 

I wouldn't mind some help either. I have plexwatchWeb running, but can't get the perl dependencies for plexwatch

I can help you get it setup if you would like, I'm at work so I'll check back here when I get home and send you a pm

 

I wouldn't mind some help either. I have plexwatchWeb running, but can't get the perl dependencies for plexwatch

 

See what I did was run plexwatch and plexwatchweb in a virtualbox running ubuntu, how are you trying to accomplish it?

I can help you get it setup if you would like, I'm at work so I'll check back here when I get home and send you a pm

 

I wouldn't mind some help either. I have plexwatchWeb running, but can't get the perl dependencies for plexwatch

 

See what I did was run plexwatch and plexwatchweb in a virtualbox running ubuntu, how are you trying to accomplish it?

 

I want it running directly on unRAID using the Dynamix webserv

I can help you get it setup if you would like, I'm at work so I'll check back here when I get home and send you a pm

 

I wouldn't mind some help either. I have plexwatchWeb running, but can't get the perl dependencies for plexwatch

 

See what I did was run plexwatch and plexwatchweb in a virtualbox running ubuntu, how are you trying to accomplish it?

 

I want it running directly on unRAID using the Dynamix webserv

 

I havent tried that but perhaps once I upgrade my server to Dynamix I will give it a shot

I have it working and made a shell install.

 

More Info/Issues here - http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31414.0

 

EDIT: removed old info and pointed to other thread