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KingKapalone posted:Just started getting an error saying I can't connect securely to my server via my desktop browser. PlexKodiConnect also wouldn't update on my HTPC. If I connect insecurely it works. I haven't changed anything and don't know why this would start happening. Any ideas? This happened to me a few months ago, it was some port on my router refusing to open via UPNP. The uptime was months long and I guess the buffer didn't clear or something. A quick reboot of the router and I signed out/in to Plex again in PKC and it was fine.
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lurksion posted:Seriously? News feeds? Really? Guess the email client is next. It's just a section with links to personalized external news sources, whats the problem? Many people actually watch the news.
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Sep 27, 2017 15:36
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Yeah that sounds like its running out of cache space or something, check the free space on the Shield. Plex DBs can bloat up quickly. I have a 2015 Shield TV with PlexKodiConnect and it was pulling down actor thumbnails and other stupid poo poo I don't care about. I'm on wired gigabit so I had it just pull them on demand instead which shaved off like 4GB on my library.quote:there's a huge MicroSD inside that I've migrated everything to, including PMS What is the free space reported on the Shield? Just the internal, ignore the MicroSD for now. What kind of MicroSD card is it and how much use has it seen?
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Dec 14, 2017 17:19
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How much free space is there on the internal storage portion?
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Dec 14, 2017 17:37
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Godinster posted:I tried the Apple TV recently and I have no idea how someone could come to that conclusion. Not only is the UI really weird, the controller is the worst piece of poo poo I've ever used. I guess it could be more tolerable with a Harmony or something. Yeah I've dicked around with one at a friends and it's not something I would use as a daily driver. I guess if you're really into the Apple ecosystem its fine but I host my own content server anyway.
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Yeah it's not just you, I had issues with it as well when I had a Windows fileserver running Plex. It wasn't consistent either and if you go on their forums you find many identical issues. I moved everything to UnRAID a few weeks ago and been smooth sailing since using Plex in a docker.
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Yeah I moved to unRAID as well. I looked at FreeNAS but I just don't need that level of insanity for my bullshit media collection. The inability to expand easily was my primary reason, along with the increased costs that arise from it. The Docker collection on unRAID is really nice and I can add a second parity drive if I ever decide to care that. I got a cheap SSD on sale to act as a write cache as well. As a bonus the VM integration with KVM is pretty nice.
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Jan 8, 2018 18:27
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emocrat posted:This is a general question, not geared at particular poster. Why do people care so much about direct play? Are you all running this on systems that cant handle a single transcode stream? Is it a purity/perfect signal thing where we can't abide the notion that an imperfection may have been introduced? My server doubles as my gaming machine thanks to GPU passthru and CPU isolation. I also share my Plex library with some friends and family. Any time I can get Direct Play is a huge benefit, transcoding is really expensive even on modern hardware. As someone else mentioned too, a lot of people run like low powered NAS hardware like Synology where even a single transcode can be problematic.
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Jan 25, 2018 19:55
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Whenever people ask, they say its just a random script they run on the user database. So I really don't think there's any logic or reason to it, people who already have Plex Pass get the offers even. It is kind of funny reading all of the various methods people have on reddit, redflagdeals and other sites to "trigger" the email though 
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Ixian posted:So I picked up one of the new 65 TCL series 6 tvs a few weeks ago when they came out. Don't those TCL TVs only have 60hz panels and have forced interpolation on all the time? I was looking at the specs and they seem interesting for the price but I worry about the downsides and I kinda hate TV SoCs after several bad experiences. I do need a TV for the spare room though.
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Jun 4, 2018 00:18
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Ixian posted:...whispers...come to Emby...you'll like it.... I think I'll wait to see how the open source fork of Emby goes. I didn't realize they started introducing closed source stuff like Plex did. For now I'm just sticking with Plex, it's mature and the metadata editing has come along so /shrug. Emby always had weird, outsourced apps too but it's been awhile since I checked it out.
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Dec 12, 2018 10:52
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I don't know about any of that but in the past the apps have sucked, they had lovely nag screens/pricing and that doesn't inspire confidence in their "business model". Frankly I don't see any real reason to use it over Plex anymore now that the metadata editing has improved there, that was the only thing I ever cared about. Getting back to Plex, I actually dig the new Roku interface and so far it still runs well on an Ultra anyway.
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Dec 12, 2018 18:36
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EL BROMANCE posted:Does it still do a show background when loading an episode for you? It's one thing I always liked about the Roku (it buffers up slower than my Apple TV does) but I watched something yesterday and it was just a boring black background. Boo! I'll check this out tonight when I'm at my GFs, shes got a Roku so that's where I've been using it. I've got a Shield TV at home. One thing I noticed right away though was the better implementation for displaying collections in the Roku app. Oh and for those with a Shield, the 7.2 update is out. It includes some auto-color space switching stuff and a bunch of other updates.
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Dec 13, 2018 15:47
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I just use Kodi with the PlexKodiConnect addon. Best of both worlds.
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Apr 10, 2019 14:06
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odiv posted:Semi-related, here's a pretty good Twitter thread on some of the "choices" made for the Buffy the Vampire Slayer remaster. That poo poo goes well beyond color grading. They screwed up cropping some of the scenes and you can see the loving crew in them! That whole thing was such a debacle, they should just yank it entirely.
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Apr 23, 2019 22:31
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So a long time ago I was having a problem with my TCL TV and the built in Plex app just crashing on startup. You might remember this one Ixian. I was never able to resolve it until recently. I doubt anyone else will run into this but just in case they do or this pops up on Google searches, here is the solution. Basically there was some stupid library that Roku didn't include with specific sets/regions, if you add that channel in the link I provided it will work again. So I can finally just use the TCL TV for Plex and everything else. I long ago bought a Shield TV I'm happy with for that TV but oh well
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Aug 23, 2019 19:55
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Anyone had issues with Plex grabbing the wrong poster for movies lately? I'm not sure what changed but I've had to manually adjust posters a dozen times in the past week, its getting annoying. It's always picking fanart or something with no movie name on the poster itself. If I edit the poster and look at the other options, the correct one is usually the next option.
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Nov 29, 2019 15:28
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Bonzo posted:I believe this is due to some issues recently with TVDB? Hmm I can't seem to google up anything on this but I'll keep digging. Frustrating, always something with tvdb.
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Nov 29, 2019 16:34
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EL BROMANCE posted:The tvdb stuff shouldn’t affect movies though. Maybe change from the plex scanner to the Tmdb one? Only issue with that is if you add a duplicate movie, it’ll list it twice from my experience. If you never do that, shouldn’t be any issues. Yeah it's not duplicates. Some new movies I add it just picks some weird poster with no text on it so in my collection I have no idea what it is without clicking into it.
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Nov 29, 2019 16:40
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EL BROMANCE posted:No I mean the issue with changing scanner over is if you have, say, The Terminator in your collection and you add it again with a different scanner (I do this for a variety of reasons) then it'll see it as two separate entries. You can presumably merge them or do a full library rescan if you don't have any custom stuff going on but it's something to note. In your case, I'd just change the scanner over to TMDB and it should fix your issues. Ahhhh I didn't even think of that, thanks. I'll see about swapping over when I get home.
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So I continue to have the same problem as last week. New movies get added to the library fine but it is selecting screenshots of the movie instead of actual poster images for the poster. If I manually edit the movie I can pick a poster and everything is fine. This all started a few weeks ago and confounds me, I can't seem to google any solutions either. I have checked the library settings and The Movie DB is listed as the top provider. I'm not sure why this started or how to address it. Anyone else run into this or can suggest a solution? Google is kinda useless and turns up a bunch of people who aren't naming things correctly which is definitely not the case here.
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A few weeks ago I was grousing about my posters not updating in Plex, just with Movies. I finally tracked it down so just in case anyone else has the problem, see this thread on the Plex forums. They are also issuing a fix in the server itself at some point but no clue when that will happen. It was driving me absolutely insane, my config had not changed in years and yet posters refused to download for movies, it was just using still images taken from the file itself. If you're using unRAID dockers like me then the Plex docker lives in /mnt/cache/Plex. Anyways just a heads up post.
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Delthalaz posted:Yeah it’s up to date. It does pull them , I can go in and choose posters from my pc when i connect to the server, it just automatically pics this ugly crap first and I need to change it I ran into this last month and it was loving annoying to debug. See this post of mine and follow the directions on the Plex forums. Let me know if that addresses it. I suspect it might be the same thing.
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Ixian posted:Unraid, good as it is, is a terrible choice for the "just want something simple that works" crowd. You will be loving around with it forever. Which is fantastic for people who love to dick around with stuff, that is most of the fanbase, but I would never foist it on someone who barely understands the concept of a NAS, for example. I don't really agree with this. Once you set it up its pretty much forget it. I login to my unraid box a few times a year to make sure package updates are still happening and that's about it. Any screwing around with it is because you would want to do more with it, not because you have to. But I agree that someone who doesn't even understand what a NAS is should probably just get an external hard drive or have someone else setup their NAS for them. Synology is fine too I guess.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:How are you guys doing automatic backup on your Plex servers? I haven't been able to find a home product with an adequate amount of data storage. Actual media backup? I don't bother. Once a month I have a cronjob that spits out a directory listing of the media volumes which is then emailed to me. Most of my stuff is replaceable. If you have stuff you personally ripped then I would probably back that up with Crashplan or run my own Nextcloud server. That gets expensive though and most of my stuff I could just get again. Some people abuse the Google Drive and OneDrive free account thing but it seems like a hassle to me.
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Is there a good way to create stuff that will show up on shared users home screen areas? I have some elderly family members who can't seem to navigate the library and essentially live on the Recently Added and home pages. I want to create a curated section of stuff for them since they often remark that they can't find the show we're discussing or etc. Right now I just have a Movies and TV Shows library filled with stuff but when something disappears from the home/recently added/etc sections its like it ceases to exist for them.
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Bonzo posted:Add them to a Collection? Do those pop up on their home screens or are they in a separate section?
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Thanks that's really helpful, I'll give it a shot this weekend.
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