Gdm plexapi.gdm

Support for discovery using GDM (Good Day Mate), multicast protocol by Plex.

# Licensed Apache 2.0 # From https://github.com/home-assistant/netdisco/netdisco/gdm.py

Inspired by:

hippojay’s plexGDM: https://github.com/hippojay/script.plexbmc.helper/resources/lib/plexgdm.py iBaa’s PlexConnect: https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect/PlexAPI.py

class plexapi.gdm.GDM

Bases: object

Base class to discover GDM services.

Variables:

entries (List<dict>) – List of server and/or client data discovered.

scan(scan_for_clients=False)

Scan the network.

all(scan_for_clients=False)

Return all found entries.

Will scan for entries if not scanned recently.

find_by_content_type(value)

Return a list of entries that match the content_type.

find_by_data(values)

Return a list of entries that match the search parameters.

update(scan_for_clients)

Scan for new GDM services.

Examples of the dict list assigned to self.entries by this function:

Server:

[{‘data’: {

‘Content-Type’: ‘plex/media-server’, ‘Host’: ‘53f4b5b6023d41182fe88a99b0e714ba.plex.direct’, ‘Name’: ‘myfirstplexserver’, ‘Port’: ‘32400’, ‘Resource-Identifier’: ‘646ab0aa8a01c543e94ba975f6fd6efadc36b7’, ‘Updated-At’: ‘1585769946’, ‘Version’: ‘1.18.8.2527-740d4c206’,

},

‘from’: (‘10.10.10.100’, 32414)}]

Clients:

[{‘data’: {‘Content-Type’: ‘plex/media-player’,

‘Device-Class’: ‘stb’, ‘Name’: ‘plexamp’, ‘Port’: ‘36000’, ‘Product’: ‘Plexamp’, ‘Protocol’: ‘plex’, ‘Protocol-Capabilities’: ‘timeline,playback,playqueues,playqueues-creation’, ‘Protocol-Version’: ‘1’, ‘Resource-Identifier’: ‘b6e57a3f-e0f8-494f-8884-f4b58501467e’, ‘Version’: ‘1.1.0’,

},

‘from’: (‘10.10.10.101’, 32412)}]

plexapi.gdm.main()

Test GDM discovery.