
Simply put, a Plex client device is what you stream your media to, such as a Roku, Apple TV, or Android TV set-top box. Plex Media Server runs on several platforms including Linux, Windows, macOS, and Docker. As such, you can digitize your entire film, television show, and music collection, then store it on your server and use Plex to play your media remotely. You can think of it as a sort of do-it-yourself (DIY) Netflix or Spotify where you provide the audio and video files, and Plex organizes that content, downloads metadata and box art, as well as lets you access it from anywhere around your home or from abroad. Whereas the likes of Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ let you subscribe and stream content from their platform, with Plex you provide all of the movies, TV shows, and music. The ability to use media player entities, continuous playing of media items, and more wouldn’t be possible without for HACS, help with config flow, guidance on all things python, and always being willing to help.Plex is a media server software solution.

Continuous play when playing a show, ondeck, latest, etc.Media automatically resumes where you left off.The entity’s friendly name is now used for it’s device name.HA’s media_player entities are now used for devices.Component listens for IFTTT and DialogFlow calls automatically (no more intents, scripts, or automations needed).This update requires at least HA version 2021.2.0.


The majority of Plex Assistant has been rewritten and as such has many breaking changes.įollow the update guide for breaking changes, what needs to be removed, and how config has changed.
