Grouping User & Device with specific name

[jsgiacomi]

I have PlexWatch group everything that is User = jsgiacomi and Device = Roku 2 XS then group as "Tahoe". This was a feature that was asked for in the forums and delivered in Plex Watch. Is there a way to carry it over to PlexWatchWeb?

Give a user a more friendly name. I.E. REAL_USER will now be Frank

you may also specify the platform with user+platform

$user_display = {'REAL_USER1' => 'Frank',
'jsgiacomi+Roku 2 XS' => 'Tahoe',
'REAL_USER2' => 'Rob & Carrie',
'REAL_USER2+Roku 3' => 'Family Room',
'REAL_USER2+Roku' => 'Family Room',
'REAL_USER2+iOS' => 'Rob',

[jsgiacomi]

Been putting some thought into this. I don't think we want to create a different user for the combos. What we should do is have these combos as sub-users.

USER - 1
-----SubUser - 1 (ROKU)
-----SubUser - 2 (iPad)

Then when you click to bring up the user stats page it would be broken out by SubUser with totals:

[ecleese]

I like the layout idea but I'm curious why you would need to breakdown usage stats for each platform if it's the same user. It would just be interesting to get an idea which platform the user uses most?

[jsgiacomi]

Well in my case User = jsg device = Roku XS is my vacation home and I would like to track that separately. I know I can make a new account in myplex and login with that account instead of my main account, but when junkie made this feature available I never got around to it. I know from the forums a lot of other people are in similar situations where their kids or spouse use their User account but a different device and they would like to track their kids viewing habits etc....

[ecleese]

I know what you mean. We really need the Plex devs to launch the next phase of multi-user support which will hopefully be quick user switching much like Netflix now offers along with passwords for parental control.

I like the example you gave about a vacation house or secondary house(s). I'll see what I can do to create stats based on platforms under the top level user stats.

[ecleese]

Initial support for platform stats per user is now available in the latest dev version (1.0.4.6 dev). It currently only offers number of plays but it's a start.