Trying to get my first binding working (Plex)

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EDIT: I’m a new user so can only put in 2 links. httx == http. Sorry!

I’m totally new to open hab (and pretty new to linux) so I’m struggling a little bit!

I followed the guide here https://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki/Linux---OS-X and installed my plugins using apt-get as they suggested, but there is no /addins folder under /etc/OpenHab/ so I don’t know if it installed correctly!

Long and short of it the sitemap is showing my plex commands, and pressing the buttons is not working. I can’t see any errors in the logs I can find in /var/log/openhab so I’m at a bit of a loss.

I did add in the plex:username, plex:email and plex:authenticationToken settings into the openhab.cfg as per the suggestion in this forum post: Plex Binding on Plex Home setup (which should probably exist in the wiki httxs://github.com/openhab/openhab/wiki/Plex-Binding I’m guessing!)

Any help would be awesome!

Thanks

Ross

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It looks like I only have 1.7.1 installed for the plex binding (not 1.8) so I’m guessing this could be my issue

Still not sure how to get version 1.8!

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Ok, addons are installed in /usr/share/openhab/addons. And Plex 1.7.1 is in there!

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Found version 1.8 here: https://openhab.ci.cloudbees.com/job/openHAB/

After upgrading to it nothing has changed - perhaps I need to reboot the server?!

Sorry for the running monologue, but hopefully it will help someone in the future.

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a reboot sort of fixed it - it doesn’t look that reliable as it appears to keep everything paused. Anyway, I’m further now than I was!

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Make sure you only have one plex binding jar file in the /usr/share/openhab/addons folder at any time. Look at your /var/log/openhab/openhab.log file for anything suspicious.

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@rossdargan: You need the plex:password settings in openhab.cfg as well.

G

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Odd, it appears to work without that in there (I’m using the 1.8 binding and have the auth token in there instead).

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Looks like that was what I was missing! thanks!