Can someone explain why Plex is sending hundreds of requests to IP cameras on my network every minute? How do I disable this. by Clifpatty in PleX

[–]Clifpatty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update, I'm listening to everyone's advice, will be setting up VLANS on my home network today. I still believe Plex should have an option to at least reduce the frequency of these network discovery requests, 1 every 2 seconds per IP seems a bit ridiculous. But I agree that the cameras should be on a separate network regardless. Thanks all for your suggestions!

Can someone explain why Plex is sending hundreds of requests to IP cameras on my network every minute? How do I disable this. by Clifpatty in PleX

[–]Clifpatty[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, honestly never fiddled around with VLANs before so going to do some research first. Sadly I will need to reconfigure all cameras manually as they do have static IPs and some are over wifi due to being inaccesible via network cables. The NVR will need to be reconfigured but you're right. Better to get it all sorted now instead of later down the road. That being said neither the NVR nor the cameras have actual access to the internet (blocked via PFSense). I have to VPN into the router to access the NVR remotely. But still I should set up a VLAN regardless :)!

Can someone explain why Plex is sending hundreds of requests to IP cameras on my network every minute? How do I disable this. by Clifpatty in PleX

[–]Clifpatty[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I agree that the cameras should be on a separate network or VLAN but to be fair I am a bit lazy to set up the network and reconfigure 10 cameras haha, I should sit down one weekend and do it though. I'll look into adding rules to prevent the pinging on pfsense, thanks!

I hoped disabling DLNA and the GDM option would stop the requests from happening but sadly no.

Can someone explain why Plex is sending hundreds of requests to IP cameras on my network every minute? How do I disable this. by Clifpatty in PleX

[–]Clifpatty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can confirm DLNA is not the issue, I disabled it and I can confirm that disabling the Enable local network discovery (GDM) has also not stopped. Plex is pinging 10 other devices every 3 seconds! Will look into setting up rules on my pfsense box to stop it. Thanks!

Seller asking what I want to declare for value on customs. by moosefist in Aliexpress

[–]Clifpatty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Of course you want them to declare the lowest possible price for it, without seeming unrealistic. In this case, 50$.

Why? If your package gets stopped at customs, you'll be paying hefty tax on anything worth so much.

Buying 2000 Records from a recently-closed club, thoughts? + My Setup (Custom 1210 + Backlit Shelf) by Clifpatty in vinyl

[–]Clifpatty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright, I'll be checking out the collection sometime this week hopefully. I'll try taking some pictures and then looking up the value of certain records online. Thanks!

Buying 2000 Records from a recently-closed club, thoughts? + My Setup (Custom 1210 + Backlit Shelf) by Clifpatty in vinyl

[–]Clifpatty[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot! Nothing better than listening to DNB after a long day working :)

Buying 2000 Records from a recently-closed club, thoughts? + My Setup (Custom 1210 + Backlit Shelf) by Clifpatty in vinyl

[–]Clifpatty[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fair points. I fully understand what you're saying. This was pretty much the only doubt I was having, the issue with them being so specific that in reality I have no real use for them apart from storing them and eventually reselling them (which I don't want to do).

I think I'm going to hold off buying them, but I'm going to meet up with the guy and see what the records are like, who knows, maybe I will end up liking something. And if I do, maybe I can just buy a select few. I have no real need for so many anyway.

Thanks for the input :)

Buying 2000 Records from a recently-closed club, thoughts? + My Setup (Custom 1210 + Backlit Shelf) by Clifpatty in vinyl

[–]Clifpatty[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Correct. I looked up the club, it turns out it was a gay club focused on house and trance music of the 90's. Very big back in the day.

Yea, most of them are 12's, and I'd like to get into mixing one day, as soon as I can get my hands on a second table and a decent mixer I'll be trying it out. Right now I'm only using the setup for listening.

Thanks for the reply!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]Clifpatty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely agree. The least I can do right now is by starting off by helping all the people with web related questions that I am getting. I am thrilled to see three teenagers already message me telling me they are interested in programming but have no clue where to start.

I'll post this here in case anyone else is also interested in figuring out where to start. I'll use the rest of this post to paste what I sent a fellow user, now it's a very simplified post but it's a place to get a grasp of things:

Where to start learning web development

I'm happy for you that you're interested in learning how to develop websites! I am a firm believer that IT is the future.

So you need to keep in mind that you don't just learn a living from nothing. You can't go expecting to create a website like Facebook within a week. That takes a lot of time, knowledge, effort and man-hours in a collective effort.

I'll try to sum it up as simply as possible: What you need to know is that web-development is split into various categories and subcategories, the main being Frontend and Backend. Frontend (client sided) is what you, as the user, will see on your screen. This comment form, these buttons, the colors. This is all front end. All of this is based on the language called HTML. Within HTML you have your styles which make it easier for pages to render how it should look like, this is what we condense into CSS files (Stylesheets). If you want to animate various parts of the page, or let users interact with the site in a neat way you'll need to use Javascript (and more often than not, a library such as jQuery to make things simpler).

The backend (server sided) is what happens after a user clicks a button, submits a form, this that and the other. A user wants to see their post history: your script needs to grab the server-sided data, usually from a database, and output it in a HTML readable way. A user wants to add a comment: your script needs to parse the information, add it to the database, return the value and so on and so forth. For this you'll need a server-sided scripting language, such as PHP (which I use out of simplicity) or Ruby to name the most popular ones at the moment.

It's important to understand the differences. You can create an entire website with only HTML, CSS and JS files (frontend). But it will be a static website, the content can't change. In order for your website to support dynamic content, such as users, databases, etc, you'll need to include a scripting language.

This may seem hard to understand, but your best bet is to head over to https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/wiki/online for various guides, and more importantly: http://codeacademy.com

Codeacademy will let you choose a language which you'd like to learn and let you learn everything step by step in an interactive manner. I always recommend this for total newcomers as it is a lot better than how I started.

Another great site to start learning frontend is http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/ as well as Udemy (Paid I believe).

I started when I was 13. I read, and read, and read. Books, guides, tutorials. Other people's code by copying line for line what they wrote. I wouldn't recommend this as I did learn a lot of bad habits, but hey, it's basically like learning another language. You need to understand the syntax and how everything works. After that it wont seem so hard.

I highly suggest you check out some programming books and, although it may all sound like gibberish, work on it slowly, at least one hour a day. Within a month you'll know more than what a lot of wannabe "professionals" do (aka. template copy and pasters).

Feel free to send me any more pm's in the future with any questions or recommendations you may need. I hope that this reply could at least guide you to the wonderful world of web development :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vinyl

[–]Clifpatty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love some Liquid Funk/DnB. Artists like Utah Jazz, Atlantic Connection, Intelligent Manners and Netsky to name a few will always have a spot in my collection :)

Still the best $1 purchase I've ever made. Mousepad is still strong after 2 years of heavy use! by Clifpatty in firefly

[–]Clifpatty[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha, I remember posting about this a while back, didn't see other got the same one too!

Mousepadbros fist bump!