HOWTO: Commands are working successfully

[Zefau]

I finally got the commands to work on all my clients.
Here is how it works with Plex now.

The list of clients can be retrieved as usual via /clients.
The attribute protocolCapabilitiesstates which commands are supported by a client. The commands are documented on the Plex Wiki.

To eventually apply the command use the player IP and port, the command and most important the parameter X-Plex-Target-Client-Identifier, which is the machineIdentifier found in /clients.

EXAMPLE
/clients:

<MediaContainer size="4">
	<Server name="Living Room" host="192.168.1.13" address="192.168.1.13" port="32500" machineIdentifier="12345678-ABCD-12AB-9876-ZYX1337ABC" version="2.5.1" protocol="plex" product="Plex for Apple TV" deviceClass="stb" protocolVersion="1" protocolCapabilities="playback,playqueues,timeline"/
</MediaContainer>

URL to call (paste in Browser to try or via GET request):
http://192.168.1.13:32500/player/playback/play?X-Plex-Target-Client-Identifier=12345678-ABCD-12AB-9876-ZYX1337ABC

Once again: Only commands listed in the attribute protocolCapabilities are supported.

[Zefau]

https://github.com/plexinc/plex-media-player/wiki/Remote-control-API
https://forums.plex.tv/t/client-http-api/119434/5?u=zefau
https://plex.tv/api/resources?X-Plex-Token=_token_

[phillipj]

Wow, thanks a lot for the thorough explanation and reference to plex forums 💯

I wouldn't be surprised if we could make some of this a part of this npm package. Especially thinking about the X-Plex-Target-Client-Identifier parameter you mention.