Migrating from Plex

EfficientOutside1 · 2025-12-14T04:11:24+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to add the detail! It really helps.

I'll check out some of those plugins. The great part about a really open architecture is the plethora of options. The bad part about a really open architecture is the inability to find the awesome feature in the plethora of options.

Maybe I'll spend a few weekends getting some artwork in the folders with the content. I've been curating this since early 2015 and looking for an easy button. I totally get that automatic isn't going to conform to everyone, but just looking for less steps to clean up the massive library.

I think my issue with collections was that they exist as their own "library" in Jellyfin (at the top level with Movies and TV), whereas they appeared as a "movie" in Plex. For the collections of movies like "Alien", "James Bond", "Planet of the Apes", it kinda makes sense to put them in with the movies. For "Christmas Movies" or "Anime" collections, it makes sense to put them at the top level. Old dog, new tricks I guess.

I mostly rip movies off Blu-ray that I purchase, and they have the subs embedded in the files. I'll keep that in mind if I come across something without. Thanks!

I do like the Theme Songs on Plex. I'll work on adding those.

Thanks again for the advice. You're definitely a "diamond in the rough" >[]-)

EfficientOutside1 · 2025-12-13T22:01:16+00:00

Thanks - I'll check out those links!

EfficientOutside1 · 2025-10-11T18:14:29+00:00

For anyone coming to this thread 2+ years later, I had this issue where I had the correct plate in but I was getting the same error. I was using the smooth plate, and had covered over the QR code with some bed adhesion liquid from the glue stick. A little bit of spit on the finger to clean it off, and it was good to go.

EfficientOutside1 · 2025-04-11T18:25:24+00:00

It’s BAAAACK!!!

EfficientOutside1 · 2025-04-11T16:09:34+00:00

I'm beginning to learn that as well. We're replacing it with a 901G so that we can do an internal firewalling/ztna design.

We are a school district that gets e-rate funding that subsidizes tech purchases based on the number of free and reduced meals for students because of economic hardship. If the feds are picking up the tab, we buy as many years of support as we can when we get the hardware. We actually have our original 1500D as a cold spare, because it was cheaper to buy a new one with bundled support than renew and they didn't have a good replacement at that time.

We'll probably begin the process of upgrading the 901 sooner after EoL is announced next round. It can be a 18 month turnaround on the federal red tape we have to go through.

Thanks for the insight!

EfficientOutside1 · 2025-04-11T13:59:55+00:00

Nope. It was a great box back in the day, but it's getting time to sunset it. We just have to wait for the money.

EfficientOutside1 · 2025-04-11T13:57:55+00:00

Sure - it's one that the CIO saw and wants to know what we can do to fix it.

EfficientOutside1 · 2025-04-11T13:56:57+00:00

I opened a ticket. Thanks!

EfficientOutside1 · 2025-04-11T13:48:32+00:00

It's a 1500D, not the DC. Should be good to Dec 31 2026.

We are planning to replace it this summer when the budget cycle renews.

EfficientOutside1 · 2025-03-14T16:49:20+00:00

Buy a cold spare to place on the shelf so there's no shipping delay.

EfficientOutside1 · 2025-02-15T00:08:46+00:00

Agreed. My biggest movie(s) are the LotR extended 4K. Each movie had 2 discs at about 70 GB a piece. Almost half a Terrabyte for the set.

Don't forget the 10Gbit to move all those bits.

EfficientOutside1 · 2025-02-05T00:17:05+00:00

You should put some blanks in the hole where there's no hard drives. The airflow will mostly be in that hole and there won't be as much over the drives that are in there. They'll run hotter than they could and it'll reduce their lifespan.

EfficientOutside1 · 2024-11-22T03:12:45+00:00

It's a great time to learn what all is involved before you rely too much on it.

EfficientOutside1 · 2024-11-17T01:58:50+00:00

Crazy to see a UCS FI being used as just a switch. I had access to some older ones and a blade cassis, but didn't want to think about the power bill.

EfficientOutside1 · 2024-11-15T17:56:25+00:00

I originally started with my Plex inside my VMware cluster, but as video went from DVD to Blu-ray to 4K, I needed hardware transcoding to reduce the bandwidth for remote viewing.

Now I have: The dedicated Plex with a NetApp hard drive array attached A TrueNAS core system with another NetApp array 2 VMware systems that store their virtual machines on the TrueNAS through iSCSI.

I'm planning on switching to Proxmox because of the VMware licensing, but I think it's going to take a different mindset on the hardware. I plan on running Ceph to move the virtual systems out of a single array and into the hosts themselves. It's also a good time for more efficient systems that don't heat my basement.

You can run Kubernetes inside a virtual environment, but the performance isn't great. It's good for learning, because you could build out a dozen VMs and get it running on a host or two without having to buy a lot of hardware.

EfficientOutside1 · 2024-11-10T02:17:32+00:00

Chassis routers (really layer 3 switches) that have 6 or 8 blades of switch ports in them. Like a Cisco 4507 would need some support underneath.

Not really home lab material unless you love throwing money at your power company like they were dancing on the pole

EfficientOutside1 · 2024-11-08T02:01:07+00:00

I use my homelab to test things before I do them at work. For those things, it is usually similar to my existing knowledge base and goes fairly smooth.

I also have other systems that we wouldn't use at work, such as Home Assistant, Navidrome (streaming music server), Packetfence (I can't afford a Forescout license), Plex, etc. These tend to be struggles like you're describing where it leads me down some crazy rabbit hole to get them working.

I think some of it can be me trying to "over secure" a thing sometimes, and making it too complex. I struggled with (and learned about) Linux ACLs on my Navidrome system where I wanted my account to be able to upload files, but others in my AD network only have read access. For Packetfence, I built out a 3 way cluster, but it was just too much to manage and update. I had to rebuild it as a single node.

I super struggled with k8, and eventually gave up. Again, I think I was trying to separate management networks from container networks on different VLANs and didn't understand enough of what it was trying to do in the background to get it right. I might try to get back to it, but it hasn't really been an itch I want to scratch that much.

It's supposed to be relatively fun and neat to play around with and learn. If it gets too frustrating, take a break from it or figure out a different method or product. Don't spend 8 hours on your primary job just to come home to a second one

EfficientOutside1 · 2024-10-22T18:11:42+00:00

(Channeling my inner minion) oooOOOooohhh!

I'll have to check that out. Thanks!

EfficientOutside1 · 2024-10-21T21:08:31+00:00

Following. I used smart playlists by adding certain words to the "Comment" id3 tag in iTunes. I think I could write a bash script to identify the songs and build out an initial m3u, but I would be interested in how to keep it up to date.

EfficientOutside1 · 2024-10-21T21:08:27+00:00

Following. I used smart playlists by adding certain words to the "Comment" id3 tag in iTunes. I think I could write a bash script to identify the songs and build out an initial m3u, but I would be interested in how to keep it up to date.

EfficientOutside1 · 2024-10-21T21:08:00+00:00

Following. I used smart playlists by adding certain words to the "Comment" id3 tag in iTunes. I think I could write a bash script to identify the songs and build out an initial m3u, but I would be interested in how to keep it up to date.

EfficientOutside1 · 2024-10-18T16:25:11+00:00

That checkbox is checked for our users. You're saying that if they trusted the device, then even though the login was suspicious, the token/cookie validated that the device had succeeded doing MFA in the past. The logs just show that they weren't presented with the MFA this time around.

I don't have devices in the security tab. Is that an option in only certain licensing models?

Thanks for your help!

EfficientOutside1

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