core: Cannot call script with Plex Collection

The problem

I am trying to make a script which plays a movie from Plex Collection to my Chromecast but it keeps making an error: [u]No movie results in ‘Movies’ for {‘collection’: ‘Harry Potter’, ‘year’: ‘2001’}[/u]

In Plex documentation stands that you can call the script with the collection name. It recognises year, title and also a library name but always it has a problem with Collections. I can see my collection in Collections tab in Plex Web App with no problem and I am also using the same name. I double-checked. 😃

Thanks for any help.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2022.5.4

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

plex

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/plex

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

service: media_player.play_media
data:
  entity_id: media_player.living_room_tv
  media_content_type: movie
  media_content_id: 'plex://{"library_name": "Movies", "collection": "Harry Potter", "year": "2001"}'

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 16 (6 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Ok, I tested it with plexapi and at first, it gave me only [] for all attempts wtih my collections. But then I tried to delete all my Collections and created them manually again. Then when I tested it in plexapi, it finally worked. It listed all movies in that collection. I don’t remember if originally it was a smart collection or a manually created collection, but I assume it was a problem with my originally created collections. So I think that now it will work with Home Assistant scripts, but I give it a try and let you know.

branislavbudzak on May 20, 2022