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Does anyone here use Plex TV? I’ve been debating getting a homerun or whatever and trying it, but I’d like to hear some input. I don’t really care about DVRing most things but streaming it to my phone or PC would be pretty novel.
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So does everyone just run their instances in containers now? I’ve had mine set up in docker for a while with Watchtower for automatic updates. Couldn’t be happier with it.
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Mar 17, 2019 04:59
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odiv posted:Finally flattening and reinstalling Linux server this weekend. Going to try Debian and Docker. Any benefits of using that one vs the one by the linuxserver.io guys?
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Apr 14, 2019 17:14
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Can anyone doing Plex TV speak to using a HD Homerun over WiFi? I’ve been mulling over getting one and hooking it up to Plex, but I think I’d need to put it in our attic to maximize reception. I don’t particularly want to run wires up there, but my router is close enough that the 5gz band should work through the ceiling. Edit - I’m getting a bit of conflicting info on whether or not the Homerun has WiFi built in. If it doesn’t, has anyone used something like a RasPi as a repeater? I have a few extra lying around that could be put to use. Warbird fucked around with this message at 21:15 on May 5, 2019 |
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May 5, 2019 21:07
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So hold on, do the HDHR boxes have WiFi or not? I grabbed this and it seems to be hardwire to LAN only. Is there a different model I should get instead?
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May 6, 2019 04:34
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Thanks for clearing that up. Their choice of wording could be a bit better. Coming off of that, is the Plex Media Server going any repackaging of the HDHR stuff? I would assume so if you’re using it as a means to watch this content remotely. I also didn’t realize that cable content was an option. I assume you’d have to have a dedicated tuner with a cable card slot for that to work?
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May 6, 2019 05:16
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Good stuff. I assume streaming has been rolled out to pretty much everything by now. I’m eager to play around with this thing once it comes in.
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May 6, 2019 18:26
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Weird, mine's been red forever but it still works anyway. I find not questioning it to be the best policy.
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May 7, 2019 04:36
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I have and it works pretty well. I haven’t encountered any issues with it but ymmv.
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May 24, 2019 19:12
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Just edit your docker file to point to the new mounts and bob's your uncle. Wakka wakka!  What's the overunder on a decent dedicated plex server these days? My ancient laptop gets the job done, but chugs like crazy for 4k stuff. I'd also likely run a VM or two as well so I may have to get proper stupid.
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Jun 6, 2019 21:04
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BeastOfExmoor posted:I feel like I'm missing something really dumb and obvious here, but I can't figure it out. Currently I'm running my Plex server in Windows. I want to migrate it to a Docker container in linux. I was able to spin up a container with no issue, but when I login to the web interface with my Plex account it does not give me any option to add media to the Docker server. All I see is my Windows server that is also connected to the account. Not sure I follow you. Are you able to hit the container's web page at [Local IP]:[Port]? Can you post your Docker file?
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Jun 6, 2019 21:21
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Delthalaz posted:Is paying for Plex worth it? $75 lifetime membership is on sale right now and I'm just not sure. The mobile sync has been a godsend and worth it alone for me. Less so now that I’ve gotten unlimited mobile data, but well worth it. The TV DVR stuff is pretty near too but ymmv depending on what’s available and how much you care. No regrets from me.
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Jun 12, 2019 00:29
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Can you not set the service to run at startup? I do all my stuff in *nix, but I would assume the Windows server equivalent would have some headless “boot at start” business about it.
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Jun 12, 2019 03:48
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So if I wanted to point handbrake at my movies folder and tell it to go ham, what would be the go to settings these days? h264 mp4s?
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Jun 14, 2019 00:03
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I'm not sure. We have a pretty new Sony Android TV and most other playback would be done either on the Plex iOS app or in Chrome windows.
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Jun 14, 2019 01:19
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Atomizer posted:I use HEVC because of quality and file size, but this is going to depend on your sources (are these SD, FHD, UHD, etc.?) and your server's transcoding ability. FHD or lesser video should be easy to transcode for almost any decent modern CPU (basically anything that's not an Atom or low-end old AMD CPU) and you can use hardware encoding via QuickSync, NVENC, or whatever AMD's stuff is called. It’s a late aughts laptop so a low range i5 iirc. That’s just for the actual streaming as I’ll be pointing my desktop PC at the NAS for the actual blanket conversion; it’ll still likely take for drat ever though.
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Jun 16, 2019 14:47
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I think I have this Handbrake stuff about worked out now. Is frame rate anything to be concerned with or can I safely just have it be the same as source and call it a day?
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Jun 18, 2019 19:26
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Upon further research it appears nothing I have supports H265 to begin with, so meh. I think the new Plex iOS player might, but I can't get a straight answer from my quick google, so off to H264 we go.
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Jun 18, 2019 23:06
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Does Plex still not play nice with symlinks? I've found a number of posts on the matter from a few years ago, so I'm not sure if the issue lies with Plex or me goobering something up with the softlink.
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Aug 11, 2019 17:50
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The external USB drive that holds my plex content is dying. I’ve got a replacement on the way to use until I get my NAS setup going. What’s the best approach to moving around a TB worth of stuff? I figure I can just run a tmux job of cp and call if a day but I’d be interested to hear if there were better methods.
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Sep 29, 2019 21:28
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Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. cp is the natural option but I may make a script or something to iterate through shows or something since the drive is flakey. Wouldn’t want to look at a blank CLI for a day and a half and end up missing stuff and not knowing.
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Sep 30, 2019 03:48
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Oh good point. I’d only ever used if for remote syncing, but that should fit the bill nicely. I’ll have to make sure it doesn’t move over the lost&found folders though.
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Sep 30, 2019 23:37
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Are there any elegant solutions to auto pull in YouTube videos into Plex? I’m thinking I could rig something together with youtubeDL but I don’t see a reason to reinvent the wheel if I missed something. I fly pretty often and while YouTube premium does the trick I could likely get the same for free.
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Dec 5, 2019 00:52
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IOwnCalculus posted:That only works on premium, as far as I know. Do you have a link? I’d be down to mess with that.
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Dec 6, 2019 02:03
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Mahoning posted:Because I don’t know how to do any of that and I have no experience with Linux? I’m looking for a simple, kind of plug and play solution. Not trying to learn how to build a whole new system on an unknown OS. Friend it’s dirt simple and you can just run it in a docker container and be good to go in the same amount of time for the same amount of trouble. Toss a watchtower container on there for auto updates and it more or less takes care of itself.
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Dec 18, 2019 18:14
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Nocheez posted:Par for the course for Linux users. "It's easy! All you have to do is load 15 customizations and then you can mount your portable hard drive!" I’ll give you the portable hard drive thing, there is no excuse for it to be obtuse as it is. Thankfully these days most everything is pretty straightforward if you’re using Ubuntu or some other non crazy person distro. Y’all do y’all, use whatever you want. Like run a Ubuntu instance on a Windows box via WSL.  E - Semi related, does Plex not have a distro available for folks not wanting to deal with *nix? I know that’s popular in the Raspberry Pi world, but I’ve never thought to check for more conventional use cases. I’d imagine it would be more trouble than it’s worth. Warbird fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Dec 18, 2019 |
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Dec 18, 2019 20:34
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Plex is apparently planning to do that “search the media and we’ll find where it’s streaming and play it for you” like Roku does, but better.
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Jan 8, 2020 01:05
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Any of you folks know a method to batch handle metadata editing? I'm grabbing Youtube videos via youtube-dl and I'd love to get them tagged up so they are a bit more presentable than the output from ytdl. Most recommendations seem to be fooling around with mkv, but I'd be interested in hearing what else might be out there. Edit - does the old Youtube Agent still work these days? That'd be the easiest way to do things. Warbird fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Mar 25, 2020 |
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Mar 25, 2020 19:16
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Currently I’m just handling my watch later list which can be a bit eclectic so that’d result in a steady stream of upkeep as you’d be looking at a decent number of one offs. The YouTube agent is working well enough, but I’m vaguely irked that it isn’t reliably pulling in channel pictures.
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Mar 27, 2020 20:23
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Happened to me as well, change your source to Music in the settings.
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Apr 21, 2020 20:25
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It’s a consequence of a monolithic install I’m afraid. I’d advise you save your Jackett config into in a text file somewhere reliable and paste it in when you’re setting it back up. Probably set up a script to copy out your db and guide stuff as well. You could likely automate most of it, but that become a function of whether or not it’s worth the trouble vs just manually going it every so often. I really recommend docker setups due to this sort of thing, but there’s a knowledge investment of a afternoon or two and the assumption that you’re down for a Linux system. Note you can totally do it on Windows but there’s an added layer of potential weirdness going that way.
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Apr 26, 2020 17:48
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Yeah, if it has built in backup stuff go do that 100%. No need to go the container route if you’re using that PC for other stuff. Not sure about the user stuff but I’d assume at worst you’d just have to reshare the server or whatever.
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Apr 26, 2020 18:06
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Hahahahahahaha you goobers jinxed me. The drive I use for my docker configs just poo poo the bed. So no more sonarr settings for me. I really need to get a proper NAS setup.
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Apr 26, 2020 22:06
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If you’re feeling particularly lazy you can slap watchtower in there to do that automatically. You’ll want to set up a cron to prune old images occasionally though. https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower Wouldn’t recommend that for anything approaching production, but it does the job well for stuff like Plex and other apps that get regular updates.
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Apr 27, 2020 15:13
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redreader posted:I bought a pixel 3 new off Amazon, apparently from some third party company "wireless experts Inc" in December 2019. I have two issues: Have you tried running your phone in a docker container?
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May 3, 2020 05:31
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Nocheez posted:I don't know that answer, I just upgrade every time there's a new version because that's what we're supposed to do right? I do unattended automatic container upgrades because chaos/hail satan. Though unless there’s a feature or fix you need in a patch you can usually wait a bit in case something goes weird with a chance. Up to you though, just depends on how critical a service being available is and your willingness to poke around to resolve issues.
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May 8, 2020 18:43
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Is there anyway for Plex to work through NordVPN? Every time I have my server connected, none of my friends can see it and it's driving me nuts. It worked fine for me for some time. What OS are you using and are you using their app or OpenVPN with their stuff plugged into it?
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May 8, 2020 23:14
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Hm. I was using the OpenVPN client on my Ubuntu box. It’s entirely possible I may have misconfigured it and just didn’t notice.
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May 9, 2020 01:55
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There doesn’t appear to be a programmatic way to do much of anything with Plex unfortunately. I wish there was, but I can’t honestly blame them as we’re outlier use cases at best.
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May 26, 2020 16:51
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Is anyone else here running their server in docker? If so, have you had any success implementing Nvida encoding? I'm just starting to putter with it and would love to have someone rubber duck the process.
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Jun 28, 2020 04:39
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