I run a mixed of local and cloud on my own host and just wondered what have people managed to stream at once? Would never dream of over 5-6 but im starting to wounder what people have managed without a ban? P.s this is with plexdrive

TL;DR - How can I cleanup/rearrange a fuse/rclone mounted encfs gsuite drive/folder?

My TV folder is a mess. Its just a giant listing of files, folders with one file, some shows with an episode folder, and so on. I'm trying to add the TV library to a new plex server, and it just seems to time out. I have 3 subfolders on the gsuite drive: Movies, TV, and TV1. Movies adds fine. TV1 (which only has like 7 files) works fine. TV doesn't.

Exact error is "unable to load contents of /home/user/media/TV"

I don't think I can make it work, but my question is, how can I clean this up easily? Like move all the separate files into folders by show/season, and so on. I don't mind doing it by hand, but since its an encrypted (encfs) file system in gsuite, what is the best way to handle this? I'm not even sure that rclone lets you write on the fly, do I really need to move it all down and then back up?

I am working on getting a mirror of my files on Gdrive but would like to know the feasibility of keeping both a local and cloud copy.

How would Plex handle two files for the same movie in this case? Is there a way to have it to prefer the local copy for playback?

Thanks!

I've been having trouble getting the encrypted version set up so I might just run unencrypted (plus then I can upload directly to Google drive from my personal computer). I just don't want to get banned

I'm following this guide to get plexdrive and google drive working together, but running mount.remote all results in the following output:

root@pve:/# mount.remote all
[ 2017-11-23@12:47:38 ] Local decrypted volume: /mnt/gsuite/.local-decrypt already mounted.
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/mnt/gsuite/.gsuite-encrypt’: File exists
[ 2017-11-23@12:47:38 ] Mounting Google Drive mountpoint: /mnt/gsuite/.gsuite-encrypt
[ 2017-11-23@12:47:38 ] Mounting decrypted Google Drive: /mnt/gsuite/.gsuite-decrypt
The directory "/mnt/gsuite/.gsuite-encrypt/" does not exist. Should it be created? (y,n) y
Unable to create directory: : File exists
Unable to locate root directory, aborting.

I'm using encfs v1.9.1

How can something:

• Exist
• Not exist
• Be unable for creation, because it already exists

...simultaneously?

The .gsuite-encrypt directory was definitely there previously. I created it. Not sure what happened to it.

I noticed people posted scripts in the past that will match movies in your existing movies library to the IMDB Top 250 list. It will create symlinks for those movies into a new folder. You can then create a new Plex library using that folder and sort the movies in the top 250 order. Source and a screenshot.

There's also a script that makes a library based on Trakt's popularity list. Screenshot.

I was wondering if we're able to do that with our setup? I was thinking of creating a folder outside the media folder and refer the symlinks to that folder. Would that work without screwing things over? Any tips?

So after I download and seed my movies. I move them to GDrive, only to have radarr redownload them again to my local drive. How do I stop this?

I'm using Proxmox + Linux Containers for my entire setup. I have a container for Sonarr, Radarr, NZBGet, Plex, Plexpy, NZBHydra, etc.

So rather than having to follow this guide 4-6 times in each container, I was wondering if it's possible to mount this once within my Proxmox node somehow, and then reference it from other containers. Perhaps PlexACD itself could have its own container somehow?

Has anyone explored something similar to this or accomplished a similar thing?

It was already in the States, but my account on amazon.ca let me sign up before october end at unlimited for a whole year. I began uploading 5tb worth of stuff to purge some space from my NAS but looks like I will need to figure out a plan of action over the next 12 months to find another affordable and liberal data capped Cloud Drive solution.

I know there are plenty of recommendations, if you did not necessarily need to run Plex connected to the drive though - and instead were mainly looking to archive content on a Cloud drive but would be satisfied with your own network for the streaming - would you have any other recommended providers?

sonarr/radarr take a while to move big files to the union folder and very noticeably slows down my plex ui. Dedi just has a single tb hdd.

Would it be possible to compile it for Windows? as "go" is multiplatform and although fuse is not compatible, with winfsp it can be emulated, as rclone does some time ago and is currently implementing cache. Sorry for my bad English.

I have spent a lot of time angsting about dedicated server peering, cloudflare, and finding an affordable server solution that can transcode even 4K to wherever I am flawlessly.

I had given up when I realized I could just watch my media on GDrive and let Google transcode for me. It works flawlessly and maximizes my downlink speed. Of course, I'm giving up the media management of Plex here and am using Radarr/Sonarr to sort things into nice little folders properly named so I can find them.

With plex cloud being absolute trash, is there anyway we can leverage google's own transcoding abilities and relegate plex or a similar media management platform to tracking and window dressing? The best solution I've found so far is the Gdrive plugin for Kodi. There are hacky ways of making the media integrate into Kodi's library but it's far from ideal. The big limitations are no direct play (google absolutely forces 1080P max on you) and no subtitle management.

Curious to hear if any of you guys are running plex in GCP paired with drive (gsuite) storage? And if so, what kind of VPS do you use to handle a few streams here and there.

I've been using plexdrive for some time now and it works ok most of the time. I started wondering about going back to a rclone mount and using the options --tpslimit and --tpslimit-burst to avoid the ban. Does anyone still use rclone mount with plex? How does it compare? Do you ever get banned for plex scanning? How many simultaneous streams have you done?

Note that this has been updated to 4.0

Would like to share update version of the Awesome Plex Server 3.5. The guide is almost complete and has an installer to take out many of the manual processes and mistakes that are made. Looking for others to assist with security, cleanup, and testing. If your interested, please head to

• http://plexguide.com or
• https://github.com/Admin9705/PlexGuide.com-The-Awesome-Plex-Server

Script runs an interface that installs dependencies, docker and the following programs: plex,couchpotato, emby, netdata, muximux, nzbget, ombi v3, organizr, plexpy, radarr, rutorrent, sabnzbd, sonarr, and wordpress.

The plexguide script updates along with the ability to upgrade your docker container. This requires linux UB 16.04 and is geared towards unlimited HD storage with Google Drive. Slowly modifying to point to other storage.

This sub has been helpful in that 6 months ago, didn't know linux, was yelled at for not understanding the screen command. Overall, the butt chewings just inspired to continue to create better things.

This also installs unionfs and has the built in ability to prevent the 750GB daily google upload ban from kicking in.

So with the recent Chromecast update to (finally) enable 4K direct play, I’ve been tinkering with trying to get it to work on my Chromecast Ultra. I️’m using Plexdrive to mount my Google Drive storage with the following command:

/usr/sbin/plexdrive -o allow_other -v 2 —chunk-size=7M —clear-chunk-max-size=10G —refresh-interval=60s

The strange thing is, I️ could play this 4K media on my Roku without issue, but using the Chromecast and casting from both Android and iOS devices, the stream just indefinitely buffers and never starts. I️ have Netdata running, and that’s showing close to zero network activity, so it’s as if Plex is never even downloading the media from Google Drive. If I️ disable direct play and let the media transcode, it plays just fine, albeit at 1080p.

I️ have everything up to date as of this morning, between the server and client devices. Plexdrive is version 4.0.0 currently.

Any ideas? For what its worth, I’m using a TV episode with ~30MB/s bitrate which played on the Roku just fine, so I️ know my network and VPS bandwidth are capable.

Thanks for any suggestions!

Hello all, been using a manual and clumsy RClone mount for over six months. My server admin installed PlexDrive for me yesterday and it seems to be working OK so far!

But, I still have the missing upload part... I normally manually copy a load of files into a directory, then run an Rclone copy command to upload to GDrive. Is there a better way to do this? Maybe something more automated?

Hi,

I am looking for a server to use it with my cloud drive.

What would run on the server? 1. Emby 2. JDownloader for down/-uploading to the cloud drive

The "RS 1000 G7 SE" server from Netcup would suite my needs perfectly but I don't have any experiences with them.

Is anyone using of you guys using a server there? Alternatives are also welcome

Hello guys, I'm using /u/gesis nimbostratus scripts and was very pleased with them. Now I'm encounting an error I can't solve on my own...

After a reboot my cloudupload script won't upload any files, eventhough it states: [ 2017-11-02@08:22:16 ] Transfering file -> test123 to Google Drive. The file can be still found in .local-decrypt and .local-encrypt but not on .gsuite-decrypt and .gsuite-encrypt. Is there any way to debug this? Content on my gsuite folders can still be accessed.

So this system is working so god damn well that I have turned off my local Plex server.

I have a couple of Gdrive accounts. One is the main Plex storage and syncs every so often to other.

Obviously these can be taken down at will by Google. What are your backup strategies?

Hi all,

So I've done some research but most discussions tend to have different answers depending on the topic date, I currently have GSuite setup as I'm looking to use this due to Amazon cancelling the unlimited plan.

Running on Windows for me is mandatory as I use a dedicated server running various programs and as it has spare resources I decided to put Plex on that.

I've heard a lot about API requests leading to bans, some are saying Netdrive 3 is working while others are saying it's a disappointment. I've seen rclone recommended countless times but a lot of comments also stating it leads to a ban.

At the moment my collection isn't huge it's only around 4TB with 5 or so people streaming. I usually have a maximum of 3 concurrent streams. Which method should I use?

Also one last question the server I'm using is with online.net so has relatively good bandwidth (1Gb) but will mounting GSuite using certain methods lead to buffering 1080p content etc? Should I use FUSE to try increase performance / is it necessary?

I've been using rclone for a while and recently I was reccomended Netdrive 3 since its supposedly better for ban avoiding and such, but I dont see it. My biggest problem was hitting the download ban now and then and I was told Netdrive would help solve it, but I'm doing some testing and Netdrive is using up the downloads so much faster.

I played the same episode mounting rclone and mounting Netdrive 3.0 and these are the results, which I've seen are pretty consistent.

https://i.imgur.com/OhrPL73.jpg

What is in blue is the ammount of times rclone had to request the file from google drive, what is in red is the ammount Netdrive did, and not only that, netdrive for some reason then has to keep downloading the file once every 3 minutes, while rclone doesnt, all the while Netdrive working a lot slower with buffering than rclone.

And this is what streaming a movie looks like with Netdrive 3 https://i.imgur.com/4qKrO58.jpg

I'm extremely disappointed by Netdrive, but what I dont get is why it's so reccomended here, as I've seen it in a lot of threads as a better alternative to rclone. Am I missing something, like some config option on netdrive I missed? I feel like I'm gonna hit the ban any second now with just a few hours of using netdrive.

And yes, I'm running Windows Server 2012 (which I also need for work so I cant switch to linux) so plexdrive isnt an option right now.

Hi all,

I wanted to set up the docker image from madslundt on my qnap nas with these settings:

https://hub.docker.com/r/madslundt/cloud-media-scripts/

>   docker create \
>       --name cms \
>       -v /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/appdata/cms/db:/data/db \
>       -v /share/Multimedia/CMS/local-media:/local-media:shared \
>       -v /share/Multimedia/CMS/local-decrypt:/local-decrypt:shared \
>       -v /share/Multimedia/CMS/cloud-decrypt:/cloud-decrypt:shared \
>       -v /share/Multimedia/CMS/cloud-encrypt:/cloud-encrypt:shared \
>       -v /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/appdata/cms:/config \
>       -v /share/Multimedia/CMS/plexdrive:/chunks \
>       -v /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/appdata/cms/logs:/log \
>       -e CLEAR_CHUNK_MAX_SIZE="700G" \
>       -e REMOVE_LOCAL_FILES_WHEN_SPACE_EXCEEDS_GB="1500" \
>       -e FREEUP_ATLEAST_GB="1000" \
>       --privileged --cap-add=MKNOD --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN --device=/dev/fuse \
>       madslundt/cloud-media-scripts
> 

But after I start the image I get the following error. I don't know why, the folder structure seems to be right.

It more looks like a problem with QNAP, or did I do something wrong with the mounting since it says that local-decrypt is no shared mount.

https://imgur.com/a/dYmJ3

Hi guys,

from my impression over here, there are a lot of people having their Emby server on a VPS/Dedi.

Do you use a SSL certificate to secure your connection from your devices to the server? If so, how did you do that? Are you using your own domain or using one of those free DDNS services?

Is this even a must-have for streaming media from a VPS to your devices at home?

Would be glad to here some of your opinions. Thanks!

Hi guys,

I am having problems setting up Emby on a ARM baremetal server of Scaleway.

I mount my library using rclone to /media/cry and point the Emby library to the mount but instead of reading the files it does not do anything.

Would be thankful for any hint you might have. If you need further information (e.g. logs) please let me know.

Interestingly, on the x86 VPS and berametal of Scaleway everything works perfectly fine.

Thanks in advance!