UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Yes. Netflix, Amazon and IP Torrents does everything we need. Plus you save on the license fee.
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Yes. Netflix, Amazon and IP Torrents does everything we need. Plus you save on the license fee.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
I can still watch all4, iplayer etc live through the apps on ps4 so I’ll still pay fee, as I will use that quite a lot.
My ideal would be able to find normal tv via iptv with a epg, and I could run it into plex and get normal dvr functionality. But the world of paying for iptv seems murky as heck.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
They got hacked, recommending changing your password and signing out of all devices.
I'm not quite sure what they'd do with my Plex account even if they got the details, but worth doing anyway.
I'm not quite sure what they'd do with my Plex account even if they got the details, but worth doing anyway.
pinkychukkles
Feed Your Head
Thanks - I found out via this article on Macrumors. Was a bit of a pain to re-add all my Plex servers, mostly the remote one but got there in the end. Also enabled 2FA while I was at it.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I missed the option to add 2FA. I'm not that worried about my Plex details, but I'd have set it if I could.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
With plex banning all hetzner VPS I’ve switched to jellyfin which is open source. Its more fiddly but I’m liking it.
I’m looking to make a plex server for at home as I’ve got a plex pass anyway. If anyone can recommend any cheap hardware I can get off eBay to do that with. I’ve not owned anything but make for so long I’m just not used to understanding PC hardware. My one prerequisite is that it needs to be able to transcode a single 4K file.
I’m looking to make a plex server for at home as I’ve got a plex pass anyway. If anyone can recommend any cheap hardware I can get off eBay to do that with. I’ve not owned anything but make for so long I’m just not used to understanding PC hardware. My one prerequisite is that it needs to be able to transcode a single 4K file.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Maybe a bit late, but I'm going to try and migrate my Plex to a machine that can transcode this weekend. I belive anything Intel 8th gen and above (with onboard GPU) can do this.
There's lots of ex corporate mini form factor PCs on eBay that can do this. I've got a Lenovo 72q. Can't fit any 3.5" drives in it, so I'm going to use the old box just for storage. Will report back.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
I’ve actually bought a NAS, a terramaster F4-223, the only thing it will really struggle to transcode is 4K but most of the 4K downloads I have my TV will play natively so no transcoding needed. Anything I watch away from home isn’t going to be 4K.
All my media is on it now, I’m a bit irritated as the cloud backup doesn’t work (yet, I will work it out), but otherwise I think it’s a great gadget. I do regret buying 4TB drives instead of 8TB, but I think in a year or so’s time I’ll buy another with 8-16tb’s and turn my current one into a nextcloud personal cloud setup.
I’ve got radarr, sonarr, lidarr, Tautulli and home assistant running on it and all my downloading is managed by a seedbox, which I may downsize as I’m paying a fair old whack for my hetzner box.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I don't really do transcoding as everything at home runs direct, this more a nice to have so I can share it with other people. I don't have Plex pass at the moment, so I'll buy a month and see if a good deal comes up for lifetime at Black Friday. My media is a mix of 4k & 1080p, not sure want to sort it or keep separate copies.
You could probably get an old micorserver cheaper then 4 bay NAS and build your own if you can be bothered.
The only thing I'm not sure about is how much of the resources I'll need from the little PC. I don't mind going bare metal and giving it everything if it needs it, but if it's overkill I might as well virtualise and keep a bit back for something else.
dervish
if you flibble when you wibble, don't wobble
I was running a SFF pc with an 8th gen intel i5 for about two years, it would happily process up to about 5 streams without breaking a sweat. Didn't have enough space to put drives in it so I got a 4 bay dock and stuck some 3TB drives in it. I've since upgraded to a i7-10th gen and got a five bay dock and filled it with 6 and 8 TB drives. I now have the whole thing running off unraid with 44TB of storage that's about half full. The new system can cope with 9 simultanous streams with 33 docker containers running and a homeassistant VM with frigate running on two cameras doing person (and dog) detection.
I started with a laptop, this is a hobby that is getting slightly out of control.
My currently running services...
I started with a laptop, this is a hobby that is getting slightly out of control.
My currently running services...
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
That's very cool. I need to get my head around docker and unraid at some point. I've actually ended up with an even older Microserver with 4 bays, so I'm going to try and play with unraid on that to give me another NAS/storage device.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Paid for plex pass for a month to do some testing. Apparently you need linux (or docker) to be able to map files with HDR to SDR. I'd have rather done it on windows tbh, but it will force me to actually learn a bit more.
Decided before I set up the mini PC, I might as well just use my gaming PC as a test, the files are on a network drive anyway.
What's everyone's preferred way of sharing with friends? Get them to set up a Plex account and then just share the content with them?
Decided before I set up the mini PC, I might as well just use my gaming PC as a test, the files are on a network drive anyway.
What's everyone's preferred way of sharing with friends? Get them to set up a Plex account and then just share the content with them?
dervish
if you flibble when you wibble, don't wobble
This is the way. I had previously set people up manually but that's so much hassle. Either ask them for their email and invite them through plex or if they have an account just add their email/username and it will appear on their instance. I have 54 users on mine now.
If you have a fairly recent intel processor (from about 7/8gen onwards) you can pass though the /dev/dri device and it will hardware transcode, makes a massive difference. Obviously if you have a decent graphics card you can use that and can do many more simultanous streams.
Highly recommend unraid. It's not free but it's totally worth it, I have set everything up manually before, which does have some advantages but for simplicity unraid is king. Also it has a very generous trial, you get 30 days to test it but it only checks when you start the array so you could in theory keep it going for free for much longer. If you run out of time and can't quite pay for it now you can ask for two fifteen day extensions to continue testing.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
How many people can connect to you at once/what's you upload. Mine between 50 to 80Mbs, so I'm curious how many I can have (obviously don't want to take up most of my upload)
I'd mostly thought about unraid for file storage rather then running docker. Would it still be worth it just for this or does just a regular linux install make more sense if there's not much storage on this device?
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
There’s an option in the settings somewhere to limit the upload speed for remote connections. I’ve not had any issues, but I only share mine with a few people so rarely more than 3 or 4 streaming at once, usually less.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I spent an hour tonight trying to mount a windows share in linux 
dervish
if you flibble when you wibble, don't wobble
Upload is 60Mb max simultanous streams was 9, but I didn't witness it so take it with a grain of salt, it does 5-6 streams comfortably. Usually at any given point in the evening from 6-10pm there is between 3 and 6 streams going. What was surprising is that there is also 5 people streaming youtube/netflix/iplayer in the house at that time and it copes with it all.
Unraid is pretty powerful, The storage is very flexible, as long as your largest drive is the parity drive it doesn't really care about what drives you have in there. It's also pretty resiliant, it occasionally crashes (the webui stops responding usually) and the worst I've had to do to get it running again was stop the array and reboot.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
I think this is problematic for 4K files more than anything else.
I would like to be able to disable remote streaming of 4K, but it doesn't offer that option..... of all the people who have access to my server though almost no-one uses it except me and my partner, and normally internally on our network.
I download media from it occasionally to take on holiday too.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
You could stick the 4K stuff into a separate library and limit who has access to that?
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I think the preferred way is to keep them in the same library and let plex choose the most appropriate copy, but I still need to experiment with this.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
I was doing that, but its a faff having separate folders with radarr/sonarr.... no one watches my plex except me anyway, so I have it all together then plex meta manager overlays the quality on the covers so I can tell them apart
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sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Who's that with? I'm on fibre, but 100 down, 20 up..... I only pay £17 though and don't have to have a stupid vm SH3.
Ranbay
The same rules apply
plusnet bro, was paying £30 a month for boradband and £40 for server, now £46 all in , and unlimited storage space lol
souljacker
innit
Wow! Where in the country do you need to be to get that? I left Plus.net because they were FTTC only in Reading.
Ranbay
The same rules apply
South Wales ! fiber to the house
souljacker
innit
Humanity has peaked.
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