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[1849.88 --> 1857.36] But it looks like, also, if you were a user of the Alarm MQTT project that's a similar project that helps, you know, |
[1857.44 --> 1863.06] you set up alarm panels with your own home automation system, that's still looking for a maintainer. |
[1863.12 --> 1864.44] That was another one of his projects. |
[1864.78 --> 1869.38] So perhaps, you know, it's worth keeping an eye on Wall Panel for a little while and see where it goes. |
[1869.38 --> 1874.92] I love it because it's in the Amazon App Store and the Google Play Store and other places, of course. |
[1875.26 --> 1880.52] But being in the Amazon App Store means that you can go pick up a Fire tablet when they're on cheap sales |
[1880.52 --> 1884.96] and just, you know, toss that app on there via their App Store, and you're good to go. |
[1885.16 --> 1889.34] But it seems like maybe Fully Kiosk Browser is a pretty good contender and worth looking into. |
[1889.42 --> 1890.38] So I'll give that a try soon. |
[1891.14 --> 1896.10] Yeah, when we stop using our Fire tablet as a baby monitor, I'm going to put the Fully Kiosk Browser on that. |
[1896.48 --> 1899.32] Remember I put Lineage on that tablet a little while ago? |
[1899.64 --> 1900.60] It's been super solid. |
[1901.00 --> 1904.26] We just leave it plugged in all the time because the battery is completely knackered anyway. |
[1905.04 --> 1907.86] And we just use it as a Wyze Cam baby monitor. |
[1908.34 --> 1909.66] You know, we can pull it up on our phones. |
[1909.84 --> 1910.74] It's really useful. |
[1911.36 --> 1914.20] The one thing that Wall Panel does, and I'd be curious to see if Kiosk does this, |
[1914.54 --> 1918.76] Wall Panel communicates back to Home Assistant over MQTT, which is really nice, |
[1918.76 --> 1925.58] and also can turn the front-facing or rear camera into a camera that you can feed into Home Assistant. |
[1925.84 --> 1926.60] Oh, okay. |
[1927.34 --> 1928.26] That's pretty legit. |
[1928.60 --> 1929.32] That's pretty cool. |
[1929.48 --> 1935.18] It is nice because it turns every tablet into a camera that's feeding Home Assistant. |
[1935.64 --> 1936.26] I love that. |
[1936.32 --> 1940.26] But I have to say, so I've bought a lot of these Fire tablets, probably half a dozen. |
[1941.00 --> 1943.46] And thrown half of them in the sink as well, I might add. |
[1943.46 --> 1945.58] Yeah, there was that. |
[1946.06 --> 1948.76] Because, you know, I have some here at the studio and I have some at home. |
[1949.08 --> 1954.24] And this most recent one I got, which I think is like a 7-inch or something like that, I can't remember. |
[1955.14 --> 1957.06] And I've had another 7-inch or 4 from them. |
[1957.24 --> 1959.14] It crashes almost every day. |
[1960.10 --> 1961.16] It's a piece of garbage. |
[1961.34 --> 1964.26] So sometimes these, so maybe if I did put Lineage on there, it'd be in better shape. |
[1964.34 --> 1966.04] I think it's the OS and all that crap. |
[1966.04 --> 1971.34] And the fact that it acts as an echo, I think also, which I thought would be neat. |
[1971.72 --> 1975.14] I thought that'd be neat, but it's too slow and leggy. |
[1975.58 --> 1979.62] I saw this going around online, Alex, and I think you already have the solution for it. |
[1979.66 --> 1981.64] But I don't know if we've ever mentioned it on the air. |
[1981.84 --> 1983.40] So I thought this would be an opportunity. |
[1983.40 --> 1993.36] Essentially, and we all have been through this, a self-hoster goes through a lot of effort to set up a beautiful Plex library. |
[1993.60 --> 1999.60] In this particular case, he has 8,000 movies, curated movies in his Plex library. |
[2000.12 --> 2001.76] Everything's beautifully set up. |
[2002.38 --> 2003.76] All of the art's working. |
[2004.48 --> 2009.04] Gigabit Ethernet from the video player back to the NAS that has everything on it. |
[2009.04 --> 2013.86] But when the wife sits down on the couch, she goes to Netflix every single time. |
[2014.58 --> 2018.96] And so he said, OK, so I'm just curious, you know, what is it about Netflix that you like more? |
[2019.06 --> 2024.96] And she tells him that she likes that Netflix kind of just tells her this is what's trendy right now. |
[2025.58 --> 2026.82] You'll probably like these. |
[2027.10 --> 2029.88] And there's too much choice when she's using Plex. |
[2030.10 --> 2034.46] And he wanted to know if there was a way to create her a curated experience. |
[2034.46 --> 2038.22] Now, you and I happen to share Plex instances, and I've been on your server. |
[2038.22 --> 2044.70] And I know that you really have taken or at least put some effort into curating collections. |
[2044.70 --> 2048.16] And you can go to your collection screen and you have collections of everything. |
[2048.26 --> 2049.52] And it looks like you automated that. |
[2049.56 --> 2056.66] And I thought that'd probably be the solution for this individual who's trying to come up with a way to curate the experience for family members. |
[2057.36 --> 2058.32] Collections for days, bro. |
[2058.52 --> 2059.68] Yeah, I've got loads of them. |
[2060.00 --> 2061.00] Yeah, you do. |
[2061.14 --> 2063.44] I use this thing called Plex Meta Manager. |
[2063.78 --> 2065.16] I'll put a link to it in the show notes. |
[2065.16 --> 2066.72] It's a Python script. |
[2067.00 --> 2071.90] And this thing basically just runs through your Plex library using the Plex API. |
[2072.52 --> 2080.08] Looks at the different TMDB IDs, IMDB IDs, and creates collections based on those IDs. |
[2080.76 --> 2085.78] And the really nice thing about this is it has a whole bunch of predetermined collections. |
[2085.78 --> 2088.98] So if I go to my movies right now, I've got a popular section. |
[2090.00 --> 2093.66] And in there, it looks at what's popular on IMDB, for example. |
[2094.24 --> 2100.10] And right now, I look at my top four on here, and I've got the Tomorrow War, Mortal Kombat, The Matrix. |
[2100.50 --> 2104.80] I guess a lot of people are catching up on The Matrix ahead of the version four coming out. |
[2104.94 --> 2105.80] And The Wrath of Man. |
[2105.80 --> 2112.68] I didn't have to do anything to create this collection except set up Plex Meta Manager in the first place. |
[2113.06 --> 2116.88] I've got an Ansible role that I use to do this linked in the show notes as well. |
[2117.26 --> 2120.52] And essentially, all it does is it puts a couple of config files in YAML, |
[2120.98 --> 2125.02] and I can set up collections based on stuff that I want. |
[2125.08 --> 2127.68] So I want a bunch of collections based on decades, say. |
[2128.30 --> 2130.50] I've got that set up in my config file. |
[2130.50 --> 2136.26] But honestly, the defaults it comes with, you've got popular, top-rated Oscars, |
[2136.40 --> 2139.46] and then it starts doing things like by studio, by actor, |
[2140.04 --> 2144.74] all sorts of different filters, basically, that it creates these collections with. |
[2145.04 --> 2146.28] That's exactly what he needs. |
[2146.52 --> 2149.14] And that's actually something I think I want to take advantage of, too, |
[2149.18 --> 2152.98] because I've done a few manual collections, and I just don't keep up with it. |
[2153.38 --> 2154.78] It's a pain to keep up with, absolutely. |
[2155.32 --> 2158.34] Now, this script, I have it set on a cron job to run every night. |
[2158.34 --> 2161.42] And let me just go and look in my health checks instance, |
[2161.54 --> 2164.36] because I've started monitoring how long it takes these jobs to run. |
[2164.80 --> 2166.22] Ah, a nice metric. |
[2166.44 --> 2170.10] Plex Meta Manager, it takes, on average, let me have a look, |
[2170.46 --> 2175.78] anywhere from an hour to the longest, I think was the first one, |
[2175.82 --> 2177.18] was about four hours to run. |
[2177.72 --> 2179.64] So it's something you want to set up to run overnight, |
[2179.74 --> 2182.66] because it will churn through your library every single time it does it. |
[2183.02 --> 2186.08] And if you have a lot of content, obviously that could take a while. |
[2186.08 --> 2188.82] So just be aware of that. |
[2188.94 --> 2192.10] But yeah, I mean, looking at the average time here, it's about an hour for me, |
[2192.12 --> 2194.50] and I've got about a thousand movies in my collection. |
[2194.72 --> 2196.26] So just be aware of that. |
[2196.90 --> 2199.30] Also, just a note, people have been writing in and letting us know, |
[2199.38 --> 2202.16] and we also saw after we recorded last week's episode, |
[2202.16 --> 2204.18] we mentioned that there was a big change in the way |
[2204.18 --> 2206.32] 2U devices were handled with Home Assistant. |
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