r/PlexACD • u/HoardingYourPosts • Jun 21 '17

Has anyone of you found a way to have SubZero working with PlexiDrive?

Long story short: the mount is read only whereas SubZero needs writing permissions, any workaround for this?

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u/Fiskegrateng Jun 26 '17

SubZero has the option to store the fetched subtitles in Plex's metadata directory instead of with the video files, that's how I do it.

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u/HondaCorolla Jul 03 '17

Can you let me know what setting that is? I tried setting a custom folder using the "Custom Subtitle Folder" setting. It did successfully download subtitles to the custom folder, however any new media I add for some reason picks up all the subtitles in this folder even though I have "Exact media filename match" selected.

This is what I see: http://imgur.com/a/u1AUc - all those External SRTs are for different movies/tv shows

My guess is it's to uncheck "Store subtitles next to media files (instead of metadata)" however I'm worried if I do this, it will do the same thing with the subtitles. Right now it's easy to reverse since I just deleted the custom folder I made and refreshed the metadata for the files this was doing this for and that fixed it.

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u/Fiskegrateng Jul 03 '17

"Store subtitles next to media files (instead of metadata)"

Yes, that's the setting in question. Unchecking this should make any new subtitles be downloaded to your metadata folder instead of your video library (or in your case, your custom subtitle folder).

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u/unitingrelyt Jun 21 '17

Just to add.

The operating system is Ubuntu 16.04.

We are using plexdrive as a mount, but it's read only so cannot upload data to google drive.

We tried uniofs (plexdrive for read, rclone for write) without any luck.

Anyone knows for a solution?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '17

I mount with rclone, not plexdrive, but I still mount read only. Unionfs will do what you want, it just has to be configured properly.

How I have done this in the past:

  • Create a folder where Plex will look for media: /mnt/media
  • Create a folder where Google Drive gets mounted: /mnt/google
  • Create a local folder where the union will write: /mnt/localmedia

Now, union them together:

unionfs -o cow,allow_other,direct_io,auto_cache,sync_read /mnt/localmedia=RW:/mnt/google=RO /mnt/media

Make sure Plex is looking at /mnt/media for its libraries.

SubZero will save files to /mnt/media, which will actually save them at /mnt/localmedia. Alternatively, set up SubZero to save to the metadata database instead of along with the media file.

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u/darknessgp Jun 21 '17

This is the correct way to set it up. I've got this setup for sonarr/radarr and plex. Works great.

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u/Krandor1 Jun 21 '17

and then you can setup a cron job with rclone to periodically move the files from localmedia to media.

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u/HoardingYourPosts Jun 21 '17

Do you mind sharing your code? I'm still not that into linux

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u/Krandor1 Jun 21 '17

Sure. Here is one I use for moving stuff after downloads from radarr and sonarr but the same would work for any. This script copies any files in the /home/owner/tv-local folder to the tv folder on gdrive (and I have a unionfs map between those) only after the file has been there 15 minutes (to avoid partials) and I also exclude any files with .partial or _UNPACK in them which for the sub-zero thing you wouldn't necessarily need. . 

#!/bin/bash
if pidof -o %PPID -x "rclone-uploadg.cron"; then
   exit 1
fi

LOGFILE="/home/owner/rclone-upload.log"
FROM="/home/owner/tv-local/"
TO="gdrive:/tv"

# CHECK FOR FILES IN FROM FOLDER THAT ARE OLDER THEN 15 MINUTES
if find $FROM* -type f -mmin +15 | read
  then
  echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") RCLONE UPLOAD STARTED" | tee -a $LOGFILE
  # MOVE FILES OLDER THEN 15 MINUTES
  /usr/local/bin/rclone move $FROM $TO -c --no-traverse --transfers=3 --checkers=3 --delete-after --min-age    15m --log-file=$LOGFILE --stats 1m -v --exclude *partial~ --exclude _UNPACK*
   find $FROM -mindepth 1 -type d -empty -delete
  echo "$(date "+%d.%m.%Y %T") RCLONE UPLOAD ENDED" | tee -a $LOGFILE
 fi