Another one of my favorite views from the Home Assistant dashboard – Media Center. One view to cover all media players in the house. Some virtual sensors track TV hours, individual streaming apps usage, plex users, etc. Integrations Apple TV 4K Android TV Spotify Sonos Echo devices as Alexa media players Plex Media Server Meural […]
This project is a journey from an idea to a working prototype. When I started this project in 2017 with just a simple idea, I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but it’s been such a fun learning experience for me. Prototype This is how it started in 2017. I started with […]
I’m sorry for taking too long to finish the second part of this series. I realize now that a lot of the media renamer tools from the previous post are obsolete or there are better alternatives. Also, some of them are not compatible across all OS. In this post, I will show you how to […]
Do you want your digital video library to look as good as this? Do you want to scrape your media for metadata (download metadata and artwork of TV shows and Movies) locally so that it is compatible with most media players and media center softwares such as Plex Media Center, XBMC, Windows Media Center, etc.?
First of all, let me tell you, I was as disappointed as you might be when I found out that my Xbox 360 won’t play mkv file only because it chooses not to. (maybe because of licensing issues). So, without much hope, I tried to google for some workaround to make it play the mkv files, […]