path_mapping.example.json

/*
This is used to tell the addon to not use the HTTP handler for certain paths.
The paths are mapped by comparing the file path of a media item with the right-hand-side and then
replaced with the corresponding left-hand-side.

e.g.
file path in Plex Server: "/library/path/on/server/data/movies/thisisfun.mkv"
       left-hand-side            right-hand-side
"smb://serverip/movies": "/library/path/on/server/data/movies",

or, if all of your libraries are based on the same folder:
"smb://serverip/data": "/library/path/on/server/data",

To find out how your Plex Server sees the paths of your media items, visit Plex Web, click the three dots on an item,
"Get Info", "View XML", then take note of the file="..." attribute of the <Part /> element.

Let's say you have a common Movie library path of "/mnt/data/movies" and you've exposed that path via SMB/Samba to the
share "Movies", you'd do the following ([:port] is optional for SMB):
- Go to the Kodi file manager and add a new source
- Add a source with "smb://serverip[:port]/Movies"
- Copy this file to "userdata/addon_data/script.plexmod/path_mapping.json"
- Fill in your servername (the name of the server in Plex) in place of your_server_name below
- Add "smb://serverip[:port]/Movies": "/mnt/data/Movies" below "// add your own mounts here" below

You can leave the examples in there, they don't matter (you can delete them if you want).

Note: For paths containing backslashes ("\"), you need to escape them here, so "\\asdf\bla" becomes "\\\\asdf\\bla".

This is not limited to SMB, though. You can add NFS, local mounts, webdav, whatever, (even http(s):// if you'd like)
as long as the current video file path starts with the right-hand-side of the mapping, and the left hand side exists
(you can disable the existence-checks in the addon settings), it will be replaced with the left-hand-side of it.
*/
{
  "your_server_name": {
    // add your own mounts here

    // standard SMB mounts in Kodi
    "smb://serverip/mountname": "/library/path/on/server",
    "smb://serverip/mountname2": "/library2/path/on/server",
    // NVIDIA SHIELD direct mount
    "/storage/SERVERNAME/this_is_a_SHIELD_mountpoint": "/library3/path/on/server",
    // Plex Server running on Windows using network shares for libraries
    "smb://serverip/share": "\\\\some_server_or_ip\\share"
  }
}