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Average Man (Richard Saville) has been continuing his resurgence into the world of Raspberry Pi. This time, he’s chosen to build a Plex server monitor out of a Raspberry Pi and a 20×4 LCD screen. He’s used the Plex API and a Python library to interrogate his Plex server and get vital pieces of information out and then displayed them on the LCD. It’s a bit of fun and you can read how he did it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Average Man (Richard Saville) has been continuing his resurgence into the world of Raspberry Pi. This time, he’s chosen to build a Plex server monitor out of a Raspberry Pi and a 20×4 LCD screen. He’s used the Plex API…<\/p>\n

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