What problem does it solve? It lets you play movies and TV shows on household Plex players, control active playback, and get recommendations from the existing library without touching the Plex API, Home Assistant, or hand-written scripts directly. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Playback and control: Play titles by name, play the next episode of a show, pause, resume, stop, seek, adjust volume, and switch subtitle or audio tracks across Roku, Fire TV, and desktop players. - Library-grounded recommendations: Use genre vocabulary from library_overview with discover and similar_to to suggest only titles that actually exist on the server, including "something like Inception" requests. - Playlists and library fixes: Build and play playlists for movie nights, repair watched flags with mark_watched, refresh mismatched metadata, and rescan libraries after new downloads. - Use Case: Someone says "put a fantasy epic on in the theater." The skill checks player readiness, queries the library's genre vocabulary, finds a matching unwatched title, plays it on the theater Roku, and confirms playback actually started. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to play a specific movie or show on a named room's TV, such as "play The Matrix in the theater," and it will resolve the player, start playback, and confirm the session began.
