Inexpensive Movie Server ?

JOHNBONZ wrote: »

I downloaded Plex and store my movies on a stand alone computer- call it a movie server. I then access this movie server from other computers using Plex interface - IP address - http://192.168.1.3:32400/web/index.html
Now I want AMX to also access and control. Has anyone done this?

Not with Plex. It has been done with XBMC in the past, but they moved everything to JSON-RPC. It hasn't been touched since.

I was personally considering writing a module for it and selling it, but I honestly doubt it would be high in demand. It would mean spending a lot of time on development for a few sales. So unless I could sell the modules for $10k a piece it wouldn't really be viable.

On an iOS device you could just launch a PLEX (or KODI) remote app. Achieving what you want to do in a much cheaper fashion. (This doesn't give you the control you probably want on native AMX devices)

Edit: nevermind, R Verstappen has attempted it, see:
https://github.com/rverstappen/AMX

He hasn't touched it since four years ago so I don't know if it works.

Edit2:

I checked the module out, but it's still using HTTP requests so it won't work any more. You would need to write a JSON-RPC module.