Early Monday morning my internet went out. No problem, I thought, since we have a bunch of local content!
Except Plex wouldn’t load any of it. Even though the various laptops and Android TV units had already authenticated to Plex, Plex kept saying there was a problem communicating with the server. Sometimes I could see my library and bring up the details for a movie or TV show only to be told there was a communications problem – seemingly when loading the actor information. This made Plex absolutely useless without an internet connection. Switching back to Kodi/XBMC we were able to play everything we wanted to.
Why does Plex do this? Everything is (or should be) stored locally, why is it trying to go outside the network for anything? I can understand authentication, but this was well past the authentication phase.
EDIT: I’m fairly certain the “extras” shown for a given movie (eg trailers) are triggering this error, at least in the Android TV …
Hello! I’m happy to officially announce Dispatch, a new experience for your TV. To start, here are some screenshots, a demo video, as well as a website to sign up for the beta. Later down, you’ll find some more info about the app and my plans for it. Feel free to ask any other questions in the comments!
Demo video note: screen recording introduces a certain amount of stutter that is not present in the actual app
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What is it? Dispatch is a new launcher for Android TV devices (with more devices coming) that will integrate directly with your existing media services, such as Plex. Dispatch aims to provide a unique, immersive, and media focused experience on the largest screens in your home. Also note: the app will function completely fine as a standalone app. Using it as a launcher is optional.
Will there be ads? Dispatch will launch with a 7 or 14 day trial or …
Version 1.70.2 has been released for Plex for Mac, Windows, and Linux.
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as the title says. I am interested in possibly uploading to usenet in the future. Looking fo the current goto guide if there is one
I’ve been using Usenet for a very long time but never got into how the Usetnet map structure is setup. I recently have been doing some reading, including the provider wiki on this sub-reddit and other places as well. I did come across a good picture which helped get a good visualization of the map
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Usenet_Providers_and_Backbones.svg
I thought it might be useful to add it to the provider wiki here but I don’t know how recent it is but it seems to be more recent than other maps I found since when looking for a few of the main providers and some of the resellers they were all listed. I would think the link to this map could be useful to the provider wiki here. I’m probably not the first to come across this map, so maybe there is a reason it wasn’t added before?
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***Edit: It’s already in the wiki under “Tree Diagram”***
I currently have NZBGeek and NZBPlanet, but want to add another. Should I add NZB.su or NZBFinder? I’m currently leaning toward NZB.su. Thoughts?
Edit: Thanks everyone! I’ll be getting both, starting with SU. I would like to add DS also, but it only accepts BTC at the moment. My wallet only supports ETH, unfortunately.
I currently have a subscription to Frugal UseNet that I am happy with; I use NZBGet to auto-download content I want, etc.
Now I’m just curious though and want to actually “Browse” UseNet. There are actual message boards right? Can anyone suggest a good - preferably open-source - browser for UseNet that allows me to search and browse content?
It appears the provide map that is listed din the wiki has disappeared. http://un.catnip.cloud/ . I looks like the last time i was up and captured was Nov 25th. (https://web.archive.org/web/20221125104156/https://un.catnip.cloud/)
Is there a new map? Maybe the wiki is just out of date?
From the site:
Hello guys, We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site. The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in our team died due to covid complications, others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all. Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES. Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard. Inflation makes our daily expenses impossible to bare. Therefore we can no longer run this site without massive expenses that we can no longer cover out of pocket. After an unanimous vote we’ve decided that we can no longer do it. We are sorry :( Bye
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RARBG died today, it was my go to public site. What public sites do you guys recommend as a replacement?
A Good Movie to Watch is currently my favourite site for curated movies. With usually lesser known but great movies.
I made a list that is always in sync with the site. I added it as a “StevenLu Custom” list, and changed the url to one of these:
Latest 10 movies:
https://eduardofcgo.github.io/agoodmovietowatch/stevenlu-latest.json
All movies (More than 4000):
https://eduardofcgo.github.io/agoodmovietowatch/stevenlu.json
The project is here. Sometimes they add a lot of movies in a day. If you are using the latest list, make sure to decrease the update interval to 6 hours.
Just last night, Overseerr merged their PR to automatically tag user media in the respective app when the media was approved. Its been the one pain point for me with Overseerr (compared to something like Petio), so I swapped over to the develop branch to test it out.
While it works amazing for future requests, it didn’t provide Historical tagging of user requested media. I really hoped it would to help organize things, but no luck. Since it didn’t seem to be a priority by the feature request I submitted, I went ahead and wrote a script to do it for me:
You can find it here: Github Gist
Since Overseerrs API is so great, all you have to do is put in your Overseer API key and URL, and let it do the rest. Their API provides your Sonarr/Radarr instance URLs and API keys, so I was able to do the entire job with just the one key.
In the end, you’ll get:
Just last night, Overseerr merged their PR to automatically tag user media in the respective app when the media was approved. Its been the one pain point for me with Overseerr (compared to something like Petio), so I swapped over to the develop branch to test it out.
While it works amazing for future requests, it didn’t provide Historical tagging of user requested media. I really hoped it would to help organize things, but no luck. Since it didn’t seem to be a priority by the feature request I submitted, I went ahead and wrote a script to do it for me:
You can find it here: Github Gist
Since Overseerrs API is so great, all you have to do is put in your Overseer API key and URL, and let it do the rest. Their API provides your Sonarr/Radarr instance URLs and API keys, so I was able to do the entire job with just the one key.
In the end, you’ll get: