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layout: page
title: "Plex Activity Monitor"
description: "How to add a Plex sensor to Home Assistant."
date: 2016-06-3 08:19
sidebar: true
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logo: plex.png
ha_category: Media Player
ha_release: 0.22
ha_iot_class: "Local Polling"
---

The `plex` sensor platform will monitor activity on a given [Plex Media Server](https://plex.tv/). It will create a sensor that shows the number of currently watching users as the state. If you click the sensor for more details it will show you who is watching what.

If your Plex server is on the same local network as Home Assistant, all you need to provide in the `configuration.yaml` is the host or IP address. If you want to access a remote Plex server, you must provide the Plex username, password, and optionally the server name of the remote Plex server. If no server name is given it will use the first server listed. If you use the username and password, all servers in that account are monitored.

If you don't know your token, see [Finding your account token / X-Plex-Token](https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/204059436).

If you want to enable the plex sensor, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml`:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: plex
```

{% configuration %}
host:
  description: The IP address of your Plex server.
  required: false
  default: localhost
  type: string
port:
  description: The port of your Plex Server.
  required: false
  default: 32400
  type: integer
name:
  description: Name of the Plex server.
  required: false
  default: Plex
  type: string
username:
  description: The username for the remote Plex server.
  required: false
  type: string
password:
  description: The password for your given account on the remote Plex server.
  required: false
  type: string
server:
  description: The name of your remote Plex server.
  required: false
  type: string
token:
  description: X-Plex-Token of your remote Plex server.
  required: false
  type: string
ssl:
  description: Use HTTPS to connect to Plex server, *NOTE* host *must not* be an IP when this option is enabled.
  required: false
  default: false
  type: boolean
{% endconfiguration %}