plexhaxx / plexwink

Control your Wink lights via Plex!

PlexWink

Control your Wink lights via Plex!

I picked up a Wink starter kit last week to automate the lights in my living/tv room with Plex. I'd like to share my script in case anyone else would find it useful.

Behavior The script attaches to the Plex Notification web socket. If it receives a playing notification it checks if it's a video, the client name, and the user who owns the stream. If it matches your criteria it triggers these actions.

• Playing - Dim the lights, and then shut them off
• Paused - Dim the lights
• Stopped - turn the lights on at full brightness
• Nothing detected - turn the lights on at full brightness

Requirements

• Python 2.7.X
• Requests - pip install requests
• websocket-client - pip install websocket-client
• Code - https://github.com/vanstinator/PlexWink

The config file is pretty simple. Fill out your plex login credentials, your wink credentials, and your wink API credentials. You can get the API keys by email [email protected] and asking for a set.

PLEX_CLIENTs is the list of names of the clients to monitor. Mine are ['Living Room', 'PlexMediaPlayer']

WINK_ACTION_GROUPS is the list of Wink group names for your light bulbs. Mine are ['Entryway Hallway', 'Living Room']

Both of those parameters are case and white-space sensitive, so match exactly what each respective application has.

Roadmap

• Wink users should sympathize with this, but sometimes a bulb gets "stuck". So I'm planning to add some logic to check for that and force it to the correct state.
• Any other user requested things I don't think of.