This is an OK method, but I found that this introduced a small amount of lag and would require another application to be working at all times if I didn’t want my lighting automations to hiccup. Tautulli can be set up to watch for certain playback behaviors, filter users, and post an MQTT message to a channel that Home Assistant is watching. TautulliĪnother common method of controlling lights with Plex is using Tautulli. For example, I have an automation to make sure my lights won’t dim if I am preparing a meal in the kitchen. The issue here is that plugins are becoming deprecated with Plex, and I can’t control more complicated automations. One common method of controlling the lighting with Plex playback is using HelloHue. Before landing on using webhooks through Home Assistant, I considered a few other options to automate my lights. In my case, I’m using Hue bulbs because of their fairly open API. I also want to note that this requires a Home Assistant instance to be set up with the ability to control the lights.

Plex webhooks are only available to users to are subscribed to PlexPass. In my case, I wanted to use webhooks from Plex to dim (or brighten) my lights as quickly as possible.

This means a user could create an endpoint to be hit from an external source and start a task. Last week, the Home Assistant project launched webhooks triggers for automations.

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