Plex Integration (In-App and as Plexamp Player)

[jxrxme]

I really love the WiiM Amp so far. Most music I listen with the Amp is using Plexamp + Chromecast to WiiM Amp.

A native Plex Integration would be highly appreciated. Integrated in the WiiM Home App and additionally as Plexamp compatible player in the network since listening to music with Plexamp is way more fun.

I would absolutely beta test this feature.

 

[jamesstruble]

Any updates on this project. I don’t want to go back to raspberry pi and ropieee. I suspect that you can just download the code from the Plexamp site. Please please

 

[thechez]

Yeah, as you’d expect, I’m aware of that but that doesn’t mean the resources are available to do it.

Plex definitely seems strapped for resources much of the time. Their client support list is outrageously long and their product development has been shifting away from power users to more explicit revenue generation.

I need to be in the WiiM app to link additional rooms, anyway, so no big issue for me to browse there while at home. Only time I'm in Plexamp now is to download albums for mobile listening.

Agreed. Plex has been too busy releasing their shit storm of a new 'experience'. It's worked fine for me but I've spent a lot of time fine tuning my network. But, PlexAmp hasn't really seemed to move much. I'm still dealing with the fact that my Ultra can't play files without transcoding via ChromeCast. It would be nice if we could see the Wiim products as an endpoint instead of them developing a pseudo app.

 

[pieterv1]

Agreed. Plex has been too busy releasing their shit storm of a new 'experience'. It's worked fine for me but I've spent a lot of time fine tuning my network. But, PlexAmp hasn't really seemed to move much. I'm still dealing with the fact that my Ultra can't play files without transcoding via ChromeCast. It would be nice if we could see the Wiim products as an endpoint instead of them developing a pseudo app.

In the meantime we got a webradio widget on the Ultra literally nobody was asking for and doesn't even show any stations in my country

 

[Burnside]

In the meantime we got a webradio widget on the Ultra literally nobody was asking for and doesn't even show any stations in my country

Maybe that was produced as they weren’t relying on a third party like Plex to participate in its development

 

[pieterv1]

Maybe that was produced as they weren’t relying on a third party like Plex to participate in its development

It sure must've been a lot easier as most of the code was probably there already in the WiiM Home App. It has never been on the roadmap even.