I plan/hope to include Plex support as well, but their API is… way WAY more involved. 😢 And I think I may need an entitlement from Apple to do it, so I'm at their whims as well. 😭
Regardless, feeling pretty good about the Channels integration so far. 😎 Beta testers, expect something in a few days.
@caseyliss@getchannels@maddox What a remarkably clever feature! Of course you would want the thing you’re watching to automatically be detected and presented to you when you open the app.
(I’m sure there are some Luddites that will insist on manually typing because they don’t like nice things) 🙄
• This won't work unless I request and receive a multicast entitlement from Apple; I will be asking tomorrow.
• The Plex APIs are… shall we say… creaky… so I'm not sure how well this will work in the wild
• This would not be possible without “A” and "H". I'm happy to tag them but they're both asleep and I don't want to risk it just in case they're not comfortable. Anyway, when I say "would not be possible", that's not me being cute. It literally wouldn't have happened.
@caseyliss ah, I wasn’t hit by that. I was just hacking something together for personal use, against their HTTP endpoints on my local network. Still a PITA.
@caseyliss Yeah agreed… but it is a commercial product, and JSON is hardly new.
I wouldn’t even mind the XML if it was sane in the semantics it presents. To do what I want to do (I think quite a simple use case), I have to call one endpoint, use some of the return values when driving another, refactor a response… it just lacks delight for the person driving the API. Feels like it’s not really meant to be used at all.
@chrispoole From what I've gathered, both from my own looking around, and from people inside, is that the APIs are ancient and creaky and are designed to serve Plex and only Plex.
@caseyliss another vote for Infuse. I’ll beta test the hell out of it, if this becomes a thing, but understand if that’s not doable and/or lower priority. 🙏💖
Thanks to “A” ( @alexjsp ) pointing out a TMDB API endpoint I wasn't aware of, this looks way better now. And when you tap it, rather than doing a search, it will actually go to the episode being viewed. 🤘🏻
If you're a Plex and Callsheet user, hopefully (if Apple comes through) sometime soon neither Alex nor "H" ( @hsousa ) should ever pay for drinks again.
@caseyliss out of curiosity: how does this interact with Apple TV user profiles?
Suppose you’re watching something on Apple TV, and your kid opens the app. Do you see what you’re watching? (Or vice versa.) Or does Apple tie the Bonjour services to the Apple ID somehow?
(I think this is a cool feature; I’m just a bit worried there’s a privacy hazard.)
@caseyliss as a nerd, I would love it if you supported some very basic Boolean search. Which I’m sure the api does not help with, but I wish I could do “actor x and actor y”
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