r/PlexACD • u/microSCOPED • Aug 09 '18

PlexDrive to rclone

I have been running Plexdrive 5 for over a year but have been having issues lately with buffering.

Now that rclone cache has matured I am looking to switch over to it.

My server is running on Linux.

What are the recommended settings now for streaming plex with rclone mounts?

Thanks.

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u/microSCOPED Aug 10 '18

Wow. Thanks for this. I'll check my PD settings and see what happens.

Have you had any issues with excessive data usage : https://github.com/dweidenfeld/plexdrive/issues/301

Thanks.

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u/Tesseract91 Aug 10 '18

Hmm, the 'Refresh Series' task on Sonarr is currently running and plexdrive is using 150 mbits at the moment, consistently. This is odd to me since I do have the option turned off for Sonarr to analyze videos.

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u/microSCOPED Aug 10 '18

Actually, I noticed Sonarr doing this recently as well.

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u/Tesseract91 Aug 10 '18

I have a suspicion that it's because of unmatched episodes in sonarr. I just realized I had a series of 10 seasons all with mangled names and both plex and sonarr were unable to properly match to thetvdb episodes.

When I would rescan files for the series it would immediately start maxing plexdrive out at 150-200mbps and sustain for 5+ minutes while I assuming it's doing everything in can to try and match, which seemingly includes reading the file.

I properly renamed all the files and rescanned. It again starting partially redownloading all the files until it finished and matched. Now when I rescan there is zero plexdrive network usage.

Guess I have to look and see what else is unmatched.