My First ever post on lemmy ;-)

Got a new job, so I’m thinking of treating myself to a NAS. I’ve just been using an Nvidia Shield with a USB M.2 stick for now, which has done the job, but I want to store more content offline. I’m curious how this would perform for Plex transcoding, as my goal is eventually to host my own content on it. Just for my own consumption while on holidays etc.

I do have some 4K content, but I mostly watch TV series from my collection, so I’d still like the ability to stream 4K to my TVs around the house.

I also know the IronWolf series of HDDs are considered among the best for data storage, but which drives should I be considering specifically for Plex?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DYCPV8M5

I've had remote access working on my plex server for years but yesterday it stopped working. My ISP uses CG-NAT but that hasn't been a problem until remote access stopped yesterday. To be perfectly honest I dont kbow how it's been working as from what I understand it shouldn't, but it has been. The server is running on an Intel Nuc that uses Mint. I've been using it both to listen to music and watch media without fault from friends/family homes and my phone remotely. Everything works perfectly inside the network but nothing remotely anymore. I've tried both with and without a port forwarding rule on my router. I have pihole running on the same nuc which I've tried both disabling and removing from the routers dns handling. I didn't think this was the problem but I at least wanted to rule it out. Im fast running out of ideas as i can't understand what's different from before. The only thing that's changed on my network is adding a new Switch 2, besides that everything is exactly the same. If anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it!

Hello Plex / Home Assistant community!

I used to post regularly with Plex related projects to Reddit but since leaving I figured I'd try sharing my latest project here instead

My latest project, in an effort to decouple my smarthome setup from Alexa, is to recreate the functionality provided by the Plex Alexa skill so I can play things to my various Plex clients with voice commands in Home Assistant (plus I assume like all things I enjoy Plex will eventually EOL this anyway)

I mostly made this for my own personal usage initially but decided to make it into a blueprint and share

https://github.com/mdhiggins/PlexVoiceAssistant

I have a few other Plex/*arr related projects if you check out my Github

Hope others find value in this as well but its working nicely in my home setup

We have recently experienced a security incident that may potentially involve your Plex account information. We believe the actual impact of this incident is limited; however, action is required from you to ensure your account remains secure.

So a friend(a) of mine is running a plex server. They gave me and another friend(b) access to it.

friend(b) can watch everything just fine without a subscription but everytime i want to watch something i get the alert to buy a remote pass.

I read that i could be a bug that should be resolved after a restart of the server but this didn't resolve it at all.

the thing is that i have some streams that i started which i can resume watching without a problem. I just cant start a new stream from the beginning, even if i have seen the stream before.

Does anybody else has/had similar problems or knows something about whats going on?

EDIT: Okay so I could get around it with a htpc-client. No idea why, it just works.

I'm working on integrating authentik into my homelab stack to enable SSO and improve my invite processes.

Is there a webhook based on someone accepting an invite? This would allow me to instantly connect their plex account to their account in authentik, which means I can offer them the ability to use plex to sign into my site and access all the services that I grant them access to. Otherwise I would have to poll my list of users every x minutes to sync users to authentik.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/115002267687-webhooks/

Shamelessly stolen from another forum site:

Just found out Plex has updated its Privacy Policy page and added a new page to opt-out trackings.

https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/

https://www.plex.tv/vendors-us/

Up until now all your playback data may be involuntarily sent to ad agencies and companies such as Amazon to silently influence and target your buyings. Now we can opt out everything and keep your watch habit private and treat your plex server like never existed.

EDIT: now you can also easily access privacy settings and delete all already uploaded watch history, and stop syncing watch states, rating etc. Remember to set all to private if privacy is important to you.

https://prnt.sc/hj6ZNNh31nl3 https://prnt.sc/0DGbRGLI97_G https://prnt.sc/er3dYwJnut9j

EDIT2: also double confirm "Send playback data to Plex" is unchecked.

https://www.plex.tv/about/privacy-legal/#you-have-the-right-to-limit-what-activity-data-is-sent-from-your-plex-media-server

like if I download a video on my phone, can I somehow upload that to my Plex server? or do I have to do it the regular way?

See title. Trailers for my local content all play fine. If I want to play a trailer to see if interested in stuff on plex's own streaming service, I get that error.

The movie itself will play fine. The trailers will not.

My Plex server bypasses my pihole.

This is US. Comcast business class line with static IPs.

Happens on all of my clients. Phone. Shield. Onn Android TV.

I have a Plex pass.

WTF?

I'm curious if any of you have ever used Audials. It has some interesting functionality including Audials Vision which has a video AI upscaler. I wonder if this would be effective at upscaling lower resolution videos like DVD quality 480p videos or 720p videos.

I run plex from Docker on a local linux server. I have sonarr configured but its not configured perfectly so it's downloading but not importing right now. Thats a separate issue I need to figure out.

For now, I have a large library that I would like to organize and rename. It all works, its in plex and shows up and such, but it's not consistent. I have some files that have spaces in them and others with dots (preferred). I have season folders like 01 and 1, etc.

I could set up a local share and connect filebot to that I imagine, but am hoping there's maybe a more modern solution that also doesn't require a desktop app.

I know that if I go to my own library on desktop, I can download actual files and move them around and do whatever I want with them, I thought maybe that was why I couldn't find the download to watch later option, so I went to a shared library, and the option isn't there either. you can see where the option exists on mobile

Aww

Happy Thanksgiving! As much grief as plex has given me in the last few months, this was still sweet to see.

I've had trouble streaming Plex in the bedroom, 4K content only. Lot's of buffering/stutters.

I still haven't got around to networking the bedroom to Ethernet, just WiFi.

Out of curiosity I opened VLC on the bedroom Nvidia Shield, and there's an option to access devices on the local network, including my NAS. Opened the file directly and it only buffered once, slowed for about a minute (the audio sounded like my cat playing with my turntable lol) but then it caught up in 30 sec or so and streamed flawlessly after.

Not sure why it worked better, but figured I'd post here as a hack for others in similar situations.

Now that tidal integration is dead, a good option I've used before is livexone (formerly slacker). While i loved having everything in one place, I prefer not having to buy/rip or download the huge catalogs available elsewhere. And now that music seems to be going away in plex clients in the roadmap as well, i decided to find another solution sooner.

The ui isnt the best, but is far from the worst. How I use it:

• star an artist to add them to your list of artists
• then immediately also add that artist to each custom station you want them to be a part of
• while playing your custom stations, use the dot menu to fine tune how much outside of the station can be pulled in. This, imo, is live's killer feature. Similar music is based on the whole list of artists in the station, not just a single artist.
• grow your artists and playlists by browsing related.

In addition to this, livex also has genres, curated lists, new music lists, and podcasts.

It also has apps that do not suck on android auto and android tv.

I'm already not missing plexamp + tidal, so I wanted to share.

edit - turns out rebooting it five times is what works.

when I'm using any of my Plex players, it acts like my server is turned off. when I go into settings, it says that my server is unavailable with a secure connection. I've tried restarting everything, rebooting everything, I can't watch my server.

The error is saying there’s not enough memory. But not enough memory where? Anyone else running into this? Any suggestions for resolution?

I'm an unemployed software developer with some time to make things I've wanted to exist.

I just released a web app that lets you log in with your Plex account which imports the movies available in your library, create a voting session, and invite friends to vote on movies. When a movie gets votes from all your friends in the session, it is declared the winner and the session creator will get a link to open the movie in Plex.

I was tired of endlessly scrolling through my movie library whenever it was time to pick a movie. I think this will help.

Here are some screenshots

Check it out if you like the idea. You can reply here or DM if you run into any issues or have any ideas.

Some of my ideas for the next features to add:

• Filter by watched/unwatched
• Select genres for the voting session
• Make popcorn

This royally sucks for me. I like having my own local library integrated with Tidal.

Hi All,

About a year ago I transferred all my files to a new drive. I used filzezilla which did mostly ok-ish, but I didn't notice that some of the video files were corrupted. Random files will have a green tinge to them (like someone put a green filter over the lens).

It seems random, although if it's a series it's usually the whole series.

I've been replacing them as they come up, but I was wondering if anyone had any bright ideas to expedite the process.

Thanks for any help!