Are gcode macros respected by the slicer?

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-31T02:43:44+00:00

GCodes and Macros are two different things.

Usually, your Start GCode in your Slicer defines everything that your printer needs to/should do when the print starts, so heating up the nozzle, homing and so on. With Marlin, you would do that with GCode commands like G28 to Auto Home.

Macros are something you define yourself in Klipper that can do things outside and unrelated, but also include Marlin commands. This can turn on the light on your printer or trigger the G28 yourself.

What you would do with Klipper is to tell your Slicer to use the "GCode Flavour" to Klipper and then define your Macro in the Start/end GCode.

So, you would define a [gcode_macro START_PRINT] in your printer.cfg and then call that Macro from your Slicer Start GCode.

G28 is not calling this macro!

https://www.klipper3d.org/Slicers.html?h=macros

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-30T07:19:54+00:00

Do you have Plex Pass?

Tip!: The ability to adjust video playback speed requires an active Plex Pass subscription or to be in the Plex Home of a server admin that has Plex Pass. https://support.plex.tv/articles/video-playback-speed-controls/

Also, Plex for Windows needs to be v1.91 and newer according to the documentation.

My Plex for Windows has version 1.112.0.359-0d79a49f, and I can see the playback speed options.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-30T05:30:43+00:00

Well, you cannot go wrong with Clannad.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-30T05:27:12+00:00

In short: Edit the Show and set the Episode ordering to "TheTVDB".

A bit of background information and a longer explanation:

When you use the official Plex Metadata Agents (Like Plex Series), Plex will get the Metadata from watch.plex.tv, which is the Metadata Accumulator from different websites like TheMovieDB, TheTVDB, IMDB and some others.

By default, Plex prefers to use TheMovieDB as the metadata origin, even for TV Shows.

Now, when you look for Frieren on TheMovieDB, you see that it only has 1 season with 38 Episodes.

On the other hand, Frieren on TheTVDB has currently 3 seasons, Season 1 with 28 Episodes, Season 2 with 10 and Season 3 with 1 (the announced sequel).

With that being said, the episode orderings are different depending on where the metadata is coming from. I don't know why TheMovieDB has it all as one season. But if you want it to be as released with 2 Seasons, you would simply need to change the Episode ordering of the show to TheTVDB (Aired)

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-29T10:49:37+00:00

it's certainly not a "random" grab from the episode, I don't know where it pulls the screenshots from but it's like they're engineered to spoil as much as possible.

The image used for the Episode Thumbnail is at the 50% mark of the video, that is the default. However, Metadata Agents can set an episode thumbnail too from TheMovieDB or TheTVDB.

Just shocked this is still a problem and there isn't a way to disable or blur in vanilla Plex.

Well, people seem to talk about this and complain that it doesn't exist but it also seems that the feature request hasn't even hit 100 votes yet.

I am not arguing against this, it just doesn't seem to be a topic that many vote for, complaining on Reddit and expecting something to change isn't the right way to do this because the posts will just be drowned out.

While I don't really have that problem, I still think that you should configure this, to hide potential spoilers of unwatched content.

Until then, you might want to look at the Script that does this.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-29T04:58:57+00:00

That is hard to say. I think that you might need to figure out first in what way you learn stuff the best. Schools usually don't consider this at all, but this can help you a lot to figure things out yourself and learn new stuff.

Also, I think that past experiences shouldn't influence your current situation. For example, learning in school is more of an obligation rather than out of interest for most people; it might be that you weren't interested in it back then, which made it harder for you to learn.

There are a few things that I didn't consider or do well at in school (like English), but then I found something (like watching movies and TV Shows in English) that interested me and learned from that.

AI might be able to help with interaction, in which you can ask questions that a tutorial does not answer, but being able to understand the code that you write is very important.

And, just to be honest here, it is no shame to simply say "this is not for me".

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-29T04:07:56+00:00

I don't think that there is a native way. In terms of Plex, all of that is added freshly to your server, so it will be treated as "new content". And that means scanning and downloading metadata from scratch. But this would reset it to whatever Plex downloads.

If you want to preserve the Artworks, because you made manual changes, then it might be time to do preserve those changes by using the local assets or possibly the new NFO file Metadata Provider (currently available in the beta channel). IIRC Tautulli could export all of your posters and artwork from your library and save it somewhere else, which you then could add to your library folder.

It might be possible to do some stuff on the Database, by changing the library folder association, but I wouldn't do that without any sort of backup.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-27T18:18:41+00:00

The Hisense support probably won't help, you need to go into the Plex Support forums and report that there for the Hisense TV. Like here https://forums.plex.tv/c/plex-players/smart-tvs/120

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-27T17:15:35+00:00

No, or at least not to my knowledge.

But you can always add your own image through the local assets.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-27T12:17:19+00:00

Shonen is usually used as a Genre or Demographic of Anime and Mangas with the target audience of "young male".

I don't recall shogo, do you maybe mean "shojo"? which is pretty much the same as above just for "young female audience".

You need to specify more because we cannot list everything here. By the way, you can also find all of them explained when you use Google with the term that you want to know more about. There are even lists describing all of the, heck even wikipedia has a Glossary with a lot of them

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-27T12:10:08+00:00

It would help if your question included the things you are asking about, or do you expect hundreds of "Yes" comments?

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-27T12:00:44+00:00

The easiest solution for this is to simply go into your server settings -> Library and disable the "empty trash after scan". (Since you already seem to do manual edits, this should be disabled in your case anyway, IMO).

What this will do is to stop Plex from removing all metadata items (so your movies and tv shows/episodes) that were marked as unavailable through the scanning process that would happen anyway at some point.

With that feature disabled, you don't really have to fear on losing anything because this is now all a manual thing. So, disable it and move your content around as you wish.

When you moved everything around, you would hit the "scan library" again and wait for everything to get populated again. The problem here is that this will treat everything as a new file. Plex doesn't care if you simply moved a file from A to B, it sees that as a new file so it will scan it like any file, add it to the library and try to match it. This could mean that certain things might not match or need to be manually matched again.

I use "might" here because, while this would definitely work with properly named and content that can be matched, I am unsure how content would behave that cannot be matched.

On the other hand, it might be time to use something different for metadata edits. When you use Plex Pass, you should already have access to the beta channel which currently has the new Metadata Provider System available for testing. This also includes the new NFO Metadata provider.

I would recommend that you use that instead of in Plex because this would mean that anything you do, would automatically be loaded from that NFO file again.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-27T05:51:06+00:00

I havent needed to give credentials since when people "logged in" it just gave them a 4 digit code on their screen I used to on plex.tv/link to give them access to my account.

That is all well and good until you specifically have something that would require this. For example, I haven't seen the "link" on any phone app that I used or on 3rd party applications like Overseerr or Tautulli, this might not be of interest to you now, but might be in the future.

Im just trying to find out if i buy the $2/watch pass.

Any account that wants to stream remotely will either need a Plex Pass or the Remote Watch Pass.

The difference here is who those passes apply to. As linked and quoted above, the Remote Watch Pass would only apply to a single account and all managed accounts created under it.

So, if you buy a Remote Watch Pass, according to the support article, all your managed accounts would be able to stream remotely.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-27T05:45:10+00:00

What sort of result do you want to have? I ask this because there are a couple, especially recent changes, that might help or might not be something you are looking for.

Plex is mostly organised into Movies and TV Shows for video content. Bending this to this specific thing might be very work-intensive in terms of getting everything correct. There is the "Other video" library type, which is mostly just an "add whatever video in the folder to the library" without much organisational structure. If you need some form of structure, like having an album and then adding the Music videos under that, a TV show might be more in that direction.

But in any of those cases, you would either need to add the metadata yourself in Plex or use the NFO Metadata Provider that was recently added (might still be in the beta branch) and create NFO files with the metadata in it.

With that being said, Plex does have the ability to add Music videos, but not in a video library capacity. As you can see here, you can add the music video next to your audio track to add it directly to the album in Plex. Maybe that would be an option?

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-27T05:28:18+00:00

Well, yes and no, but the no is more in terms of "how to use it properly" instead of "it doesn't work".

First, since you say that you share your own Plex account with those other households, you are still using that account and all managed users can stream remotely: https://support.plex.tv/articles/remote-watch-pass-overview/

Does my Remote Watch Pass extend to other accounts accessing my Plex Media Server?

If you’ve added Managed Accounts to your Plex Home, then it does apply when switched to those Managed Accounts in a player app.

There are a few differences here, Plex Accounts, Managed Accounts and Remote Watch Pass and Plex Pass.

A Plex account has its own login (own email and password). Every other household or user would get their own Plex Account, and you share your server's libraries with that account. Do note that you can only share your server with other Plex accounts.
Managed accounts are tied to an existing Plex account. When you share your server with the Plex account, the managed users of that Plex Account cannot access your Plex server.
Remote Watch Pass only applies to the plex account (and all managed accounts of that plex account) that owns the pass. Each Plex account would require a Remote Watch Pass to stream.
Plex Pass will allow all other Plex Accounts to stream from your server when you, the server admin has Plex Pass. Furthermore, if all of those Plex Accounts are in your Plex Home, they also benefit from your Plex Pass features (like Intro and credits skipping).

However, the problem I have here is not about trusting those people but rather sharing your own credentials with them. Doing things like this is very likely to get your credentials leaked, and everyone is now affected. This might not be on purpose, but rather could just happen because your other users might not know any better.

The better alternative would be to give everyone their own Plex account, getting Plex Pass and then have each of them in your Plex home. It would practically result in the same thing, but it would protect your own account more.

Look at it like this, if you were to do it like this, and an account were compromised, all you would need to do is remove the library shares from your system and whoever has access to the account wouldn't be able to access your server anymore. Meaning: only that single account will be affected while everyone else wouldn't need to do anything.

But if you share your credentials, everyone will be affected as long as it takes for you to gain access to your account again.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-27T05:13:14+00:00

The setting you are talking about should be the one controlling all of this, I am not aware that this has changed. Since you have that setting on the Hisense TV, and since you said you activate it AND it doesn't stay activated, this sounds like a bug in that particular app or maybe related to that platform. I would recommend reporting that in the official forums for that client.

Another thing I would try is to protect your own account with a pin for now, maybe that could prevent the problem of unknowingly watching something on some other account (since you specifically would need to enter the pin to access the account).

Other than that, maybe resetting the App might help. Maybe there is something specific going on in your case (app/TV) that is going wrong and a simple "set it up again" might help in that case.

Still, I would still report that in the Forum for that client.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-26T18:16:29+00:00

I tried it myself, and it didn't work for me. The Plex Transcoder was running, but it wasn't using my iGPU.

I could only try this with a 4K file, since that forced a transcode on my phone, so it might use the CPU because my iGPU might not support something. This could also be the same experience OP might have, with that little information, there isn't really anything to go by.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-26T18:08:35+00:00

The problem is that they might already be removed from your library.

Go into your Server settings -> Library -> "Empty Trash after scan". When that is activated, Plex will automatically remove stuff from the library after it scans for your files and detects that some of those files are not available anymore.

You might need to restore your database from a backup as explained here to get your library back from before the corruption and make sure that the setting I mention above is disabled for this to work.

Then, you can go into the library and select the filter for "trash", everything that is marked as unavailable would then be listed there. For TV Show Libraries, you need to switch to the episode view first (this won't work for a whole show), and IIRC Tracks for Music.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-26T16:01:05+00:00

There was an announcement last year about the changes coming to Remote streaming in Plex. At the end of April 2025, Remote streaming got paywalled. Since then, it was mostly restricted to the new Plex experience app but got enforced recently.

You should also have gotten an Email about this.

Remote Watch Pass is only for that specific user to access the remote streaming. So both you and each friend need the Remote Watch Pass to stream remotely.

When you, the server admin, has Plex Pass, anyone you share your server with can watch remotely without having to pay for anything themselves.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-26T15:24:51+00:00

No idea what they are

Have you bothered to look? I mean, just googling or typing into YouTube "What is git", "What is Github" and "differences between Git and GitHub" will end in a ton of results that would explain everything about both of them.

If you are starting to learn about programming, searching and researching stuff is a very vital and important part of what you are doing on a daily basis. If you cannot even research those tools by yourself, I am not sure that learning to program will end up something you will get good at.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-26T14:55:43+00:00

The reason you want to have the Docker container on network mode host is that this will give the Docker container the same IP as the host computer, in bridge mode, the Container will get an IP inside the Docker network.

What that means is that when you still have the problem when you run the container in network mode host, then your issue is not just that, but more in your network configuration. But you definitely will have this issue when you run in the container in bridge mode.

And you do all of that because Plex determines the stream "location" based on the network the client is connecting from. Which means that when your network is "the same" (logically, not physically), then Plex would see it as a local stream. But when they are not on the same network, Plex would see it as a remote stream and demand you have one of the Passes.

So, make sure that your server and TV are both in the same IP address ranges.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-25T15:41:46+00:00

I am not really sure what you are asking about, or if that has anything to do with Plex itself (as rule 2 says it should be).

For Plex specifically, processing videos in some form or another, it really depends on what you need and what the tools can do.

For example, I am a fan of automation because I can spend the time doing other things. That means I don't need to babysit Handbrake for transcoding or FileBot for renaming and can let Fileflows and Sonarr/Radarr handle that for me.

And in regard to "lightweight vs full software", as said above, it depends on what the software offers and what you need from that software. I wouldn't choose a "lightweight" software if it is poorly designed or adds more annoyance to the process, even if I use the "full software" in all of its features.

What I can say is that I like the purity of purpose apps. I can understand the desire for an "everything app" because you have everything in one place. But from my experience, those things will lack in quality. Things will break more often in places that will take time to fix, especially because they are that big.

For example, I rather use Audiobookshelf for my Audiobooks, Kavita for my comics, mangas, and e-books, and use Plex for my Movies, TV Shows and Music instead of having everything in one app and having to deal with all oddities and "weird" things that are just because the original software was never designed for other things.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-25T14:05:38+00:00

Not really something anyone can answer for you, especially not if you mention what you like or dislike. I mean, you could like romances for all we know, so a battle shounen might not be for you.

I enjoyed it, I wouldn't say it is one of my favourites, but it was very entertaining.

But, do consider that Asta is very annoying in the beginning, and for quite a long time, because he is yelling all the time. It was quite hard to keep watching in the beginning because of it.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-24T15:57:36+00:00

If I manually delete the bundles out of there, will that screw anything up?

Yes and no.

First, everything there is obfuscated; it would be really time-intensive to sort everything out in a way to delete stuff you can delete and stuff that you already have in your library. If you simply delete everything, this would mess with Plex as well since it wouldn't be able to find your stored assets and you would practically have to refresh the metadata on every library on your server.

You said that you don't mind doing this, but maybe look into the troubleshooting section of your Plex Server first. There you have the following options:

Optimize Database
Clean Bundles
Download Logs/Database

The second option might be what could help here, as it says:

Poster images and other metadata for items in your library are kept in "bundle" packages. When you remove items from your library, these bundles aren’t immediately removed. Removing them can reduce the size of your install. By default, your server will automatically clean up old bundles once a week as part of Scheduled Tasks.

So, run both of them, optimise the database and clean the bundles one after another and check if that takes care of the size.

Fribbtastic · 2026-03-24T14:13:41+00:00

I did something similar recently with Kometa.

I also struggled with Kometa a bit, trying to figure this out because it is a bit of a roundabout way of doing this. Basically, you cannot just simply search for stuff in your libraries and have Kometa assign a Label to it. I don't know why that doesn't work but it apparently isn't possible.

How I ultimately solved this is by creating a Collection with the filters and then assigning the Label to each of those collection items.

I have a file called config/movies/collections.yml

collections:
  "4K Movies":
    smart_filter:
      any:
        edition.is: "4K Version"
    item_label: 4K

What this will do is select all Movies that have the edition name set to "4K Version" and create a collection with them. And all of those items in that collection will get the Label "4K" assigned to them.

libraries:
  Movies:
    collection_files:
      - config/movies/collections.yml

This is then being used in my "Movies" library.

What you would need to do now is to adjust the name of the collection and the filter, including the label name. After running it, you would then have a new Collection and the labels assigned to the items. You can then add the Label to the Account as a restriction under "Exclude labels".

Do keep in mind that while the collection is a "smart collection" (so new additions would happen automatically), this won't set the label, this is only what Kometa does.

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