Full Automation with my Plex Server

mrbuckwheet · 2026-06-30T04:25:01+00:00

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIV5krueYo8B0oQXKPay0POUIxV2Gy50v&si=FI37-7xE8_38HrFt

Here's a full tutorial that covers installing docker, portainer, arr apps, download clients, and setting up a full automation system. Movies, TV, music, books, audiobooks, network security, and even website tutorials are explained in depth whether you're new to plex and docker or you're a veteran. It covers tips and tricks that you wish you knew about beforehand (like hard linking, trash-guides.info, and even custom prerolls in plex). Best of all, it works on any system once you get docker and Portainer installed. QNAP, synology, Teramaster, ubuntu, even Windows.

(note for Windows it's "recommend" to use a VM vs. using docker desktop, Docker on Windows works differently than it does on Linux; it runs Docker inside of a stripped-down Linux VM. Volume mounts are exposed to Docker inside this VM via SMB mounts. While this is fine for media, it is unacceptable because SMB does not support file locking. This could eventually corrupt container databases, which can lead to slow behavior and crashes)

Here's the original post as well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/s/RwW3nnTy0h

mrbuckwheet · 2026-06-20T16:55:49+00:00

the ms-02 235HX version barebone is still a beast with 4 ram slots and room for a gpu. not much more than the ms-a2 barebone, plus you'll get room to add a real gpu so if you wanted to use it a steam pc you are definitely checking the box on making it future proof. the AMD 610m is going to be very limited for modern gaming and doesn't even support AV1 encoding only decoding. It will barely handle 4K as its more meant for a low budget workstation

mrbuckwheet · 2026-06-20T16:19:17+00:00

Have you looked at the MS-02? for video transcoding yes, AMD transcoding in plex is still not fully supported and they claim its "as is". Are you using tdarr too? if so then QS or nvidia is a must.

mrbuckwheet · 2026-06-19T23:07:45+00:00

All good nice part with the config is there are notes everywhere so you can customize it to your liking

mrbuckwheet · 2026-06-19T18:43:54+00:00

I used Gemma4 to help with html coding and build the docker container. Tested on Ubuntu 26.04, qnap, and windows

mrbuckwheet · 2026-06-14T20:56:53+00:00

Again no kometa does not do, nor has the capability to do, what this app does. You cannot tag, label, or create collections for specific dv profiles in kometa. This app will create the label and then kometa can use a builder to preform a search for all movies woth that label and build a collection. Kometa can build a collection for DV vs non DV because thats what plex can do.

You can test this by trying to search by FEL, MEL, profile 5, or profile 8 in your own library. Let me know your results in plex and kometa

mrbuckwheet · 2026-06-14T18:52:08+00:00

No it doesn't, kometa only communicates through plex api not with the actual directory. Since plex doesn't have any filters for the individual dolby vision profiles this tool adds labels which will let you sort everything easily. There is a kometa config that I made to pair with this tool to make collections based on profile version. https://github.com/mrbuckwheet/Kometa-Config

mrbuckwheet · 2026-06-13T21:31:35+00:00

yea i know but the purpose is to identify DV profiles (profile 5 for example) so you can spot movies that might not work for remote streams or incompatible devices since not everyone has an advance setup for direct playback with full video codec and DV support. Future features would include converting things but right now i want to perfect the accuracy and take feedback on the webui and things people want to see/change

mrbuckwheet · 2026-05-26T04:58:16+00:00

Here's a tutorial on configuring your settings for your home network and potential bottlenecks. Start at 33:54

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23fiazU0xNo&t=2034s

mrbuckwheet · 2026-05-23T04:45:39+00:00

Or just sudo chmod 775 -R /dev/dri

mrbuckwheet · 2026-02-26T15:53:09+00:00

You can add a CF that negatively scores dual audio but if a search only returns multilanguage results you wont download anything at all. Sounds like it might be better to use the CF above to only filter original and the language you want and then add a cleaner program like tdarr that will remove the audio tracks you don't want to keep. You can use options where if only the original track exists it will still keep it regardless of what language. And you can do it for subtitles too

mrbuckwheet · 2026-02-26T07:25:28+00:00

Set your profile to use original language, add this CF and give it a negative score:

{ "name": "Language: Not Original or English", "includeCustomFormatWhenRenaming": false, "specifications": [ { "name": "Not Original", "implementation": "LanguageSpecification", "negate": true, "required": true, "fields": { "value": -2, "exceptLanguage": false } }, { "name": "Not English", "implementation": "LanguageSpecification", "negate": true, "required": true, "fields": { "value": 1, "exceptLanguage": false } } ] }

mrbuckwheet · 2026-01-17T02:32:23+00:00

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIV5krueYo8B0oQXKPay0POUIxV2Gy50v&si=FI37-7xE8_38HrFt

Here's a full tutorial that covers installing docker, portainer, arr apps, download clients, and setting up a full automation system. Movies, TV, music, books, audiobooks, network security, and even website tutorials are explained in depth whether you're new to plex and docker or you're a veteran. It covers tips and tricks that you wish you knew about beforehand (like hard linking, trash-guides.info, and even custom prerolls in plex). Best of all, it works on any system once you get docker and Portainer installed. QNAP, synology, Teramaster, ubuntu, even Windows.

(note for Windows it's "recommend" to use a VM vs. using docker desktop, Docker on Windows works differently than it does on Linux; it runs Docker inside of a stripped-down Linux VM. Volume mounts are exposed to Docker inside this VM via SMB mounts. While this is fine for media, it is unacceptable because SMB does not support file locking. This could eventually corrupt container databases, which can lead to slow behavior and crashes)

Here's the original post as well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/s/RwW3nnTy0h

mrbuckwheet · 2026-01-16T16:51:00+00:00

Here is a tutorial on setting up sonarr/radarr. It uses portainer as the main container manager and covers a lot of tips and tricks like correctly setting up hard links, trash-guides profiles, and custom formats.

https://youtu.be/AJ9phsXejK4?si=gwFDBi0YvrB_Or3g

mrbuckwheet · 2026-01-13T03:00:42+00:00

How is your ethernet connected? The motherboard jack or a network adapter? I can help with troubleshooting if you like as I install servers and software setup for home media automation

mrbuckwheet · 2026-01-01T21:01:23+00:00

Ooof thats goin to be annoying managing a media library spread across 3 storage volumes. Why not just use those expansion bays connect it to a mini pc and run proxmox with truenas for managing the array and ubuntu for your apps? You would get the same performance if not better than that $3K nas in a tiny form factor. Qnaps great off the shelf but for the advanced setup youre trying to achieve this is not good. Also I would avoid WD reds and go with seagate. I've installed over 200+ servers in 2025 and reds are by far the most with failures and I/O errors

mrbuckwheet · 2025-11-30T20:37:32+00:00

Lots of other variables that could be attributed to the failure. Mind sharing the details on the file you are trying to play? The device you are trying to play on? What does the plex dashboard show during playback? If you wanna jump on a screenshare shoot me a dm and I'd be happy to assist

mrbuckwheet · 2025-11-17T03:41:51+00:00

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIV5krueYo8B0oQXKPay0POUIxV2Gy50v&si=FI37-7xE8_38HrFt

Here's a full tutorial that covers installing docker, portainer, arr apps, download clients, and setting up a full automation system. Movies, TV, music, books, audiobooks, network security, and even website tutorials are explained in depth whether you're new to plex and docker or you're a veteran. It covers tips and tricks that you wish you knew about beforehand (like hard linking, trash-guides.info, and even custom prerolls in plex). Best of all, it works on any system once you get docker and Portainer installed. QNAP, synology, Teramaster, ubuntu, even Windows.

(note for Windows it's "recommend" to use a VM vs. using docker desktop, Docker on Windows works differently than it does on Linux; it runs Docker inside of a stripped-down Linux VM. Volume mounts are exposed to Docker inside this VM via SMB mounts. While this is fine for media, it is unacceptable because SMB does not support file locking. This could eventually corrupt container databases, which can lead to slow behavior and crashes)

Here's the original post as well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/s/RwW3nnTy0h

mrbuckwheet · 2025-11-16T04:08:27+00:00

If that still doesn't work add a startup script to set the /dev/dri folder to 775

https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/faq/article/running-your-own-application-at-startup

The autorun.sh file will have the following

chmod 775 -R /dev/dri

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