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.

for at least the last 5 years, every time I've added subtitles to a show or film in my Plex server, I've had to perform the Plex Dance to get the subtitles recognized. today, for the first time in 5 years, I dragged external SRT files into a folder in my Plex server, I hit "scan TV shows", and there were the external subtitles.

it's the little things.

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.

on my Android phone, it's automatically set so that skipping forward is 30 seconds, and skipping backwards is 10. because reasons, it would be great if I could skip forward by 20-second intervals. is that something I can edit?

the only way I can find is to change subtitle size and color is to go back to the Plex settings, which stops the video from playing. Google Pixel 7, Android 15, Windows media server

first a quick question, if I switch over to jellyfin, is the same thing going to happen in four or five years? I'll be all settled into a nice ecosystem and then they'll just shit all over my face and I'll have to start over?

how did they manage to break it so thoroughly so quickly? the Plex server is less than 100 feet from my bedroom, but ever since the update, the lag and buffering has been so bad (even when I turn it down to 240p, when I used to be able to watch it original quality) and they've broken the download for later feature so that I have to manually go get the files I want off my server and on to my phone for that evening, and then watch them on my phone using VLC.

they claim they made these changes based on user requests. oh yeah? prove it. I want to see exactly how many people asked you to make it so you can't download an entire show at once. I want to see exactly how many people ask you to move the subtitle settings to a completely different menu from the subtitle toggle. I want to see how many people told you they wanted to learn a whole new layout for no apparent reason without the ability to change it back.

and I don't know what you did on the back end, but I don't think anybody asked you to make it buffer 10 times more than it used to. I don't think anybody asked you to make it so that it's harder to add things to playlists. I just flat out don't believe you that anybody asked you for this stuff. you can prove me wrong pretty easily, just show us the data

because I'm 100% certain you made these changes for somebody other than your users and I want to know who and why. the fact that I can no longer share my library with my mother is pretty telling as to who you're trying to please. let them know that the only reason I learned how to torrent in the first place was because something was inaccessible to me; do they really want me out here teaching retirees how to torrent their favorite shows? because if they can't share my library, they're going to have to build their own.

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.