plex2ifttt

This awesome project transforms Plex webhooks into webhook events for IFTTT.

I use this to automatically dim my lights when my home theater is playing media on Plex, and raise them once it's done (or paused).

It is currently capable of generating 3 events:

• plex_play - A play event (play, resume, scrobble)
• plex_play_day - A play event that happens during the day (hardcoded to US/pacific time right now)
• plex_pause - A pause or stop event (pause, stop, finish)

It also filters the webhooks by username and player UUID, which is necessary to make sure your lights aren't dimming when someone in another room is doing stuff.

These events are sent to your IFTTT webhook url as the event.

https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/<event>/with/key/<IFTTT-KEY>

setup

Get your IFTTT key by visiting https://ifttt.com/maker_webhooks and clicking "Documentation."

If you do not know your player's ID, the app logs all unknown player IDs.

You can specify multiple user or player IDs by comma separating them.

Deploy with Docker:

  docker run \
    -e USER_ID=<username1>,<username2> \
    -e PLAYER_UUID=<uuid1>,<uuid2> \
    -e IFTTT_KEY=<key> \
    -n plex2ifttt \
    -p 8080:8080 \
    xanderstrike/plex2ifttt

You must make this route available to the Plex server, either by colocating on the same machine, the same network, or making it publicly accessible on the internet.

Set up Plex to hit your webhook URL at /hook.

Create an IFTTT rule to consume a webhook with one of the above events and do a thing you'd like.