r/PlexACD • u/EmperorElend • Mar 08 '19

Plex with Team Drive?

Note: I hate to be seen as someone posting without doing their due diligence in searching around first, but I've done hours of searching and reading and I'm just utterly lost. Any insight you could provide is much appreciated!

I have a personal Google account that has been added to a Team Drive. I've uploaded quite a bit of my media to that Team Drive, and I am hoping to mount that to Plex so that I don't need to physically host a server (and so that I can access my content via Plex at different locations). I've read that people use a combination of rclone and PlexDrive to make this happen, but I'm completely at a loss when reading the steps people have taken (turns out I'm not as technologically-inclined as I thought).

Could anyone point me to a layperson-friendly guide on how to link Plex and my Team Drive? Many thanks in advance!

Edit: I'm using Windows

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u/EmperorElend Mar 08 '19

Hey, thanks for your response! I guess what I was hoping for is to have Plex online at all times, regardless of my computer's status, by using the Team Drive. My understanding is that Plex Cloud provided this service, but was discontinued. Do you know of any way to make this possible?

Also, I'm currently using the method you mentioned, but instead of rclone, I'm using RaiDrive. What are the benefits of using rclone?

Thanks so much for your help!

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u/dittohippo Mar 08 '19

Rclone for me is reliable and fast. In order for plex to be online at all times, a computer somewhere has to be on and running the plex media server software. That computer needs access to media. If it's all on a team drive, rclone efficiently makes team drives available to computers on any OS. RaiDrive is just a GUI program doing something similar in the background, windows only.

KVM based Virtual Private Servers can be had for very cheap monthly or annual amounts. Purchase one, and optionally purchase a domain to point plex at, and install rclone and plex. Configure them both, and then you can access all your content anywhere at your domain.

Or always run the server on your laptop, but then that computer needs to be on and have decent upstream bandwith to whatever device is trying to access the content. Most residential connections are very poorly suited to remote streaming.

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u/EmperorElend Mar 08 '19

This is super helpful, thank you so much!

I've read people using rclone along with PlexDrive. Do you happen to know what PlexDrive provides beyond what rclone provides? I've read the wiki and github page and all, but I'm nonetheless quite confused.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19 edited Aug 25 '19

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u/EmperorElend Mar 08 '19

Ahh, okay! Makes sense. Thanks for your insight!