Plex client for Zidoo devices - ZidooPlexMod

So I read someone got zdmc working by inputing IP instead of server name.
Now, playback in zdmc is working, I tried couple of files. No problem, phew!
About Plex, still troublesome.
It launches but it gets killed a few seconds after it starts.
Still, you can hear the music! here is a vid.

 

Thanks for the video. Can you collect the debug traces for ZidooPlexMod(directions are in the first post). I'm not sure what ZidooPlexMod could be doing to kill the zidoo player but maybe the queries for status are causing problems. Hopefully the debug data will have something.

 

Does it play in Zidoo internal player if you directly add that film?

 

I couldn't install ZidooPlexMod from the repo. Here is the error message "script.module.requests version 2.27.1+matrix.1 could not be satisfied". Any idea? Thanks a lot.

 

It's saying it can't find that dependency. What version of ZDMC/Kodi do you have installed?

edit: If you go to the kodi settings->system->add-ons->manage dependencies does it list the "requests" script? If so what version does it show? And if you click on it does it show as disabled?

 

Thanks.
I installed ZDMC 20.2 from your post on page 1.
I couldn't find "manage dependencies" menu in kodi system setting. I attached two screen shots, one from the add on system setting, the other is the installation page for zidooplexmod

 

You're in standard mode, you need to be in Advanced or Expert mode to see that option. After you do that then check the "Manage dependencies" and see if that script.module.requests is listed in there. The other thing that might help is if you enable debug logging in the "Logging" section just under the "Add-ons" section. Then exit fully out of ZDMC, start ZDMC, try to install from the repo, then DM me the kodi.log file(/Storage/Android/data/com.zidoo.zdmc/files/.kodi/temp/kodi.log).

 

Sorry to take a step back to the topic of NFS for a moment, but I noticed an issue. I am using a Zidoo Z9X with firmware v6.4.65_G and running PlexToZidoo v2.6.

I was having some performance issues with SMB, and after the recent PlexToZidoo update incorporating NFS, I figured I'd give it a shot. It works great for me, and solved all of my performance issues.

Except one issue. For any file with certain punctuation in the filename, such as a comma or an apostrophe, although there is no error in debug menu, it will not play. I noticed that the substitution gets messed up (see example). I've also tested that some other punctuation, such as periods, exclamation points, and hyphens, work fine.

When the same files with commas in the filename are played directly via NFS mount in Media Center, they play fine. So, it must be something in the way that PlexToZidoo recognizes certain punctuation when doing its substitutions. I'm hoping it's an easy fix (vs. having to rename all files with commas in filename).

 

Are you doing the substitutions in PlexToZidoo or the new support in ZidooPlexMod for the substitutions?

If you're doing the path substitutions through PlexToZidoo then please try this new version, https://github.com/bowlingbeeg/PlexToZidoo/releases/tag/v2.7 and see if that fixes things. If you're doing the path substitution though ZidooPlexMod then I still need some time to fix that.

 

I was doing substitutions using PlexToZidoo not ZidooPlexMod. I haven't tried every possible edge case, but it looks like PlexToZidoo v2.7 seems to have fixed the problem. Thank you!

 

Thank you. script.module.requests is not listed in "Manage dependencies". But today, when I enabled the debug logging and tried to install the add-on again, everything works fine. There was no error any more.

 

Great!

 

Hello,

I'm trying to get this to work, but unfortunately, I haven't been lucky so far. I'm getting the error shown in the pictures. I'm using the original Plex client on the latest Zidoo beta.

Thx for the help!

 

Your first picture is really blurry so it's hard to tell exactly what it says but I think it's saying it can't find the plex library. Did you change the "Plex library name(s) to include" option in PlexToZidoo?

 

Just pushed version 0.3.9 to the bowlingbeeg.kodi repo. Lots of changes in this one. Here are some of the highlights

1. There is now support for using "watched" indicators(aka the green checkmark) instead of "unwatched". The default is now "watched" but you can change it back to "unwatched" in the Plex settings. On the home screen go to your user id->Main->Use modern inverted watched states. You can also load your own image for the "watched" indicator. See the PM4K thread for more details, link is below
2. Lots of new settings for spoilers. You can obfuscate unwatched episodes(title and/or picture). There are a few settings in the Plex settings. On the home screen go to your user id->Main->No TV spoilers
3. You can now hide and re-arrange your libraries right from the gui. Just click on the menu button on the remote when a library is selected and you can hide or move it. Since this is now built into the gui I am removing support for the customlayout.xml file that I added. So after upgrading that will not work anymore and you'll revert back to the default order of libraries. Please use the gui to set things up how you would like them.
4. There were some performance improvements that you should hopefully notice.

For a full list of changes check out the post here:
https://forums.plex.tv/t/pm4k-plexmod-for-kodi-18-19-20-21/481208/2081