First time posted here, I am a lurker and dont usually post in reddit.
Today I got my account banned in plex “this Plex account has accepted monetary compensation in exchange for services based in part on Plex”. Which is totally untrue.
I do have a fairly large library (~10TB) … on a 10 yo Synology NAS and plex on a HP promini desktop pc with an I3, I was proud when I tested that it could manage 3 concurrent streams xD
My library was shared with friends an family and all of them got an email stating that I’ve been profiting from this, most of them sent me a message asking what did I do and if I was ok ( xD)
It is pretty infuriating that plex automatically suspends accounts without any advice, sending all contacts a notification like this. And I am sure this is automated and there is no human checking the activity of my library, as it is pretty low (maybe 10 streams a week at most, many weeks it is totally unused) and the hardware is totally unprepared to …
My plex server was offline for a week recently while I fixed some server issues caused by a storm (thankfully, it turned out to be some BIOS issues, not hardware like I’d suspected), and you’d think I had turned off the power and running water to my friends’ homes.
Within a half hour of it going out, I was already getting text messages wondering if there was an issue. Once I told them it was a server issue, they all started offering to help pay for any repairs necessary (which I turned down because I don’t want to take money) and the tech-minded ones were offering troubleshooting assistance. It turns out that about half of them solely use my Plex now and don’t have any other streaming services.
The whole thing was pretty funny, and now I know that if I ever have an emergency where I can’t call for help, I can just disconnect the power for the server and someone will come looking for me shortly.
Decided to finally setup Jellyfin on my Synology 1019+ nas as an alt/backup to my Plex setup.
First issue i ran into was having some of my media libraries setup under a main Videos folder. Jellyfin wont let you choose a sub folder, only top-level volumes/folders. so moved said folders into new volumes. update: this problem was a me only problem in how my volume permissions were set.
Second issue was trying to get 4K HDR playback with hardware decoding working. still havent gotten it working, h264 content plays fine but no luck on the h265/4k. plex makes this super easy but doesnt have as many options (def a good thing for most)
Lastly the gui just is. meh. miss having pmm overlays/collections. ugly front/home screen.
I do like that jellyfin is purely local esp with authentication but for now that’s the only advantage over plex i can see for my use case. for now it’ll be my backup solution and will only be running when plex servers have issues.
just my .02 as a plex user for …
I’m seeing some users say, “fuck plex!”
First of all, you have no idea how much Plex is already covering for your ass… For me, I’m gonna give Plex the benefit of the doubt on this one because even after 5 years of use, this is the first time I’ve even heard of them doing this. Which means this is a very special rare occurrence.
I’m not going to lie; it’s still scary.
Given that this coincides with the warning about people using cloud servers and running a streaming business off it, it means someone at HQ got a directive to tighten ship. I don’t mind them banning people making money selling their plex, but as many others have mentioned, how would they even know?
Also, just to dampen people’s fears, this action/procedure is more likely a legality/regulatory compliance thing. For example, if you own a financial firm, there are laws that say you have to report suspicious activity. So the law makes it so that you have to …
Noticed when I logged into Plex today that they had dropped a 20% off code for the Lifetime Pass for pro week. Anyways, just thought I’d share in case anyone missed it! Code is below!
“Get 20% Off a Lifetime Plex Pass and unlock a premium personal media experience… Use code: ITSPROTIME”
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Any workaround from the providers perspective?
Uzanto-Reto turned off scanning of nnrp-direct.alphanet.ch NNTP server today, as Alphanet has been shut down permanently.
Read more (in French) here: https://www.alphanet.ch/nnrp.html
RIP ALPHANET USENET 1990-2023
I currently use nzbgeek, nzbfinder and dognzb. Have been for some time now. I have no idea if they are still the best or if i should be adding others etc?
How do you guys stay on top of this? Is it just reading the forums?
I tried signing up for NGD but its saying my postcode is incorrect. I contacted support to be told i need to use a postcode with 5 digits but that is impossible because at least in NSW we use 4 digit postcodes. Has anyone actually had 4 digits work or something or is this a provider i literally can not use? Curious as im looking for a provider that supports Australia and wont cost me an arm and a leg (factoring in conversion)
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If you’re using the sonarr v4 beta via a hotio container, you will need to update your tag from v4
to nightly
to continue receiving updates
So I’ve worked out that the only way to get wrestling matches to be picked up by Sonarr is by listing the series type as “daily” due to the scene naming convention:
Plex/Jellyfin etc. however only go by TVDB so filename for this episode needs to be:
Importing as a daily filename screws up the metadata. Does anyone know the best way to do this? Can Sonarr convert from daily to standard format?
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Hi everybody,
I have been trying my hand at creating a custome script that will trigger unmanic to transcode the newly downloaded file, but I seem to be stuck.
#!/bin/bash
curl -X 'POST' \
‘http://10.10.40.3:8888/unmanic/api/v2/pending/create’
-H ‘accept: application/json’
-H ‘Content-Type: application/json’
-d ‘{
“path”: $sonarr_episodefile_path,
“library_id”: 1,
“library_name”: “Default”,
“type”: “local”,
“priority_score”: 1000
}’
exit 0
This is script I have writen. If I replace $sonarr_episodefile_path
with a hard coded file path and run the script from the terminal, then unmanic does what its supposed to do.
I have set the connection as below. Is there something I am missing, or have I done something wrong for the connection not to trigger when a file is finished? Any help would be appreciated!
I have a lot of movies downloaded in 4k but am running out of space. If I downgrade the quality profile, will it delete the 4k version and download the lower quality version? I know it does it for the other way around but I wasn’t sure if it could downgrade. Thanks!
SABnzbd and the arrs.
Provider works great, evertything works. I’m having issues with creating a profile and quality combo that does what I want. With Sonarr, I’ve used keyword Must and Must Not, as well as Preferred regex with scoring. Turning off each and testing one at a time, using both, using none. Here is the problem:
I will run across a serial that does not need to be max quality. Let’s say 720p x265. Could land in the 800mb to 1.3gb range per ep. If I use my x265 filters, it will grab the higest size 720p file at ~3gb to ~5gb in x265 release. Which I don’t want. There may be a BlueRay720p x265 file at 1.2gb. So I tap in the BlueRay720p box in the Quality Profile… and it grabs a ~6gb file. I may see a 1080p 10bit 265 file at ~5gb but I am OK with normal 1080p ~1gb.
I don’t want to hit Manual search on every single episode, but I do see the file that I want in the list of manual results. What is the best way to make the …