Homebase (for Plex)

If you run a Plex Media Server that you share with users outside of your home, Homebase is a simple webpage that can easily direct your users to services such as Ombi to request new content and it can present useless useful and boring fun statistics about your media server. As a bonus, there is included a matching template for the Tautulli Newsletter.

Demo - Link

Features:

• Plex online status
• Current server activity
• Plex library totals organized by library type (show, movie, artist)
• Monthly active users
• Top Content Ratings, Top Genres, Top Platforms, and Most Popular TV Shows & Movies
• Custom "Recently Added" template for Tautulli HTML Newsletter

Requirements:

• Plex Media Server
• Tautulli
• Webserver with PHP (requires cURL module)
• A general grasp of HTML and CSS to do any sort of customization

Installation & Setup:

• Download project files
• Fill in PLEX_URL and PLEX_TOKEN in plex-api.php
• Fill in TAUTULLI_URL and TAUTULLI_TOKEN in tautulli-api.php
• Edit the menu links in index.html to your desire (starting on line 38)
• Edit the Request Content & Recently Added* sections and their links as you see fit
• Upload the files to your webserver
• Enjoy!

* In order to use the Recently Added template, you'll have to do a few things:

• Be sure to edit the menu links in recently_added.html as you had in index.html
• Put the recently_added.html file into a folder accessible by Tautulli and then enter the path to this file under your Tautulli Settings: Settings > Notifications & Newsletters > Custom Newsletter Templates Folder (you'll need to click "Show Advanced" to see this setting)
• You'll then want to enter a publicly accessible folder under "Newsletter Output Directory" (personally, I am just using the /recentlyadded directory since I'm hosting these files on the same server that Tautulli is running)
• Next, add a "Newsletter Agent" and specifically make sure to click "Save HTML File Only" under "Saving & Sending" and it would be advised to enter index.html under "HTML File Name"

Theming:

Homebase is currently themed with Plex's official color scheme but if you wish to change it, feel free to modify custom.css / custom.min.css.

Issues:

• The current functions to get the Top Genres and Top Content Ratings currently make as many calls to Plex as there are genres and content ratings, which can be a very large number in many cases. This could certainly be made more efficient.

Want to help out?

This whole project is very much an experiment for me so I am definitely open to suggestions to improve any aspect of this code. The more I've been working on this, the more apparent it is I should lean more on PHP to collect/sort these statistics and implement a database of some kind to store everything (particularly Top Genres, Content Ratings, Writers, Directors, Actors, etc). I may still do that but it would undoubtedly require a complete rewrite of what's here, so don't expect me commit anything like that to this repo.

Troubleshooting

If you're experiencing issues, please feel free to submit an issue and I'll do my best to help you solve it!

License

Licensed under The MIT License. Not affiliated with Plex Inc or Tautulli.