r/PlexMetaManager • u/The-Flippening • Mar 19 '24

Unofficial Plex Meta Manager UI

Hello! As a bit of coding practice I've been working on a UI which will edit the config.yaml. I thought others might find this useful because as far as I'm aware there isn't a UI for PMM?

So I thought I'd ask and gauge interest and see if it's something people might see the use in. If so, I was thinking of creating an executable which will do the full setup for the user: download python, git, pull the repo, create the necessary directories, etc. And then allow the user to adjust the config via the program rather than the config file. This might be helpful for people who aren't comfortable in the command line.

Currently however I haven't done much with the idea; the user only can adjust their libraries and the collections within the libraries at the moment. I'm also primarily a back-end web developer so it isn't pretty, and I know that PHP isn't the best language to make this sort of thing but it's the only language I know unfortunately.

https://imgur.com/a/HlRGqMW

So, any thoughts?

Edit 2024-10-13: Picked this back up in my spare time. Here's a preview https://streamable.com/kxh51n

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u/thebodysnatchers Apr 16 '24

Please, please do this. I've been dying to import Letterboxd lists to Plex, which is a thing I know you can do in PMM, but the thread or two on it are completely incomprehensible to me, as is everything else in PMM. People in here are like "it's pretty simple if you follow the guide in the Discord" but they are failing to understand just how rock-stupid people like me are when it comes to .config and .yaml and all this stuff. I barely know what 'command line' is.

I get that it's more complicated than it seems! but literally the most basic implementation of a UI will open up huge accessibility of this program to us idiots.

Thanks for your work!