Giant Bomb Plex Channel

Okay, just pushed a fix and made a PR. This should work a little better now and not just outright stop working. It just won't return things it can't find and you'll see what the server returned in the logs if you care to look.

https://github.com/plexinc-plugins/GiantBomb.bundle/pull/12

The Plex duders have been pretty good about merging my stuff quickly in the past, so hopefully that'll be the case here too. Once they merge it, if you haven't changed your local files with the modification @evilspectre suggested above, you can get my fixed version by simply updating your plugins. If you've changed the files at all, the simplest thing to do is to uninstall and then re-install the plugin.

@3van: I'm not sure if it was your change, but now I'm seeing channels, but there's no "Latest" option.

Hey duders....running in to a bug in which if I enter an API key, no videos show up. I only get the 'Latest' channel with nothing present inside it. If I remove the API key, it starts working again. Doesn't matter what I enter as an API key, nothing works. Any help is appreciated.

I'm seeing the same thing where when I put in my API key it shows an empty "Latest" folder and when I take it out I get all of the non-subscriber content.

Same thing is happening to me. If I put in an API code I get no content, take the code out the content shows up.

Same here. Basically makes it not usable if I want to watch premium videos from it

Yeah, adding my API key breaks everything. :-(

I just checked my Plex install and I have the same problem with the API key.

same here, no API key, get most vids but no premium/subscriber stuff. go get plex API key and enter it, get ZERO videos. tried adding key and restarting/resetting channel thru plex web interface but same results. bummer....

Count me in with the same API key problem

Having the same problem here. Needs to watch mario party party 3

I can't get any premium content through the Plex Channel. If I remove the key I can access all the free content but as soon as I enter my API Key the channel goes blank.

Weird. I'm looking at it right now and everything's showing up, premium stuff, non-premium stuff, and so on. I'll mention it to someone.

I'm glad I searched for this thread. I thought the channel was broken completely because I couldn't see any videos. But after reading this I removed the API key and at least I can see 'normal' content now. It's a hell of a lot better than nothing!

Make sure you are using an API key that was generated at the Giant Bomb API page, and NOT the one, that's on your account page.

@marcitomi: That's a good hot tip. We should probably provide better verbiage around that.

This fixed it for me!

Oh... ok. Yeah. Thanks! That did it, that totally solved my problem.

My only question now is... how the FUCK was I supposed to know that before?! :)

Apparently Plex had an update today, so the Giantbomb app is not currently working (channel not responding).

I'm getting the same thing. Seems like this channel is always off and on!

Same thing here.

I've been unable to get the channel to work for several weeks.

@laner: @haze:You guys have your API keys added to the app?

@jslack: Just added it, but didn't seem to make a difference.

@laner: There could be an issue with Plex that I don't know about. I don't have a Plex media server accessible here atm.

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but is the GB Plex Channel accepting pull requests? It should be a minor change to enable sync, and it'd be a huge boon (at least for me) to have that functionality instead of having to rely on the Video Buddy app.

@ascagnel: Have to wait for the Plex guy to answer, but they do have 11 PRs closed, so it looks like they do.

@jslack: Awesome. Now if I could figure out why the heck adding allow_sync=True to the routes isn't working, I'd be golden.

PEBCAK - I have peerblock enabled on my Plex server, and it was blocking the GB media server. Peerblock had identified it as Sportsline.com. I unblocked 64.30.228.82, and all is well.

@pocky4th3win: Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I am facing the exact same thing

The plex app has stopped working for me, for premium content. I am using the API key from /api, when I remove it I can watch non-premium videos, when I have it inputted I get the error "There was a problem playing this item" on all videos, not just premium ones. I have tried reinstalling the plex channel, reinstalling plex, logging out and logging back in, etc, and I cannot find a solution. Please let me know if there is a solution I am missing?

@xq: Only started using Plex a few days ago and have exactly the same problem.

Now that the Roku app seems to have been fixed, any chance for some help with this on Plex?

I also have the same issue as above; the Giantbomb Plex channel has stopped working on my Apple TV and iPhone. Extremely annoying!!

The videos open as a black screen for a few seconds then just go back to the menu. No error message.

I have the same problem. Giant bomb Plex channel suddenly stopped working! :(

Same issue here. I have been using Kodi, but after getting the new Apple TV I installed Plex and tried the Giantbomb channel yesterday.

Is the creator of the plex channel active on the forums here? Just wanted to know if he/she was working on a fix. I know it's probably tough to find time to do a passion project, but I know I loved using the channel.

@austinmiller: I just forked it, I can make changes if the author isn't around to improve. Give me a week or so.

@jslack: Thank you! Sorry for the trouble.

@jslack: Thank you so much!

@jslack: any update on your fork? Could really do with a fix :)

Any updates on this?

With plex now free/unlocked on consoles any word on this working on plex? are there anyways to watch content on tv's without a browser?

@xq: Also experiencing this issue!

Yep, also experiencing this issue. Sad too, as I used this almost everyday

If anyone's still having issues with the Plex channel and premium content, there was a small bug in the URL service code (it was appending the API key with a '&' instead of a '?', against HTTP conventions).

I have a PR open on the bundle's Github (https://github.com/plexinc-plugins/GiantBomb.bundle/pull/16), but you can pull it directly out of my repo (referenced from the above link) if you want to test it.

These bugs are the WORST. It took two hours of searching until I noticed what had happened.

@toxiccurve: now if I could get offline syncing to work, I'd be happy with this channel, but I think that's an issue on Plex's side of things

@toxiccurve: How would I go about making the changes and updating this for myself?

Just edit the file yourself that @ascagnel has identified in his post above- his link shows the single character that you have to change.

@ascagnel Thank you so much for figuring this out- I watch almost all my GB through Plex, so this is a massive thing for me- I really appreciate it!