Cloudbox VS Tautulli

https://docs.saltbox.dev or https://cloudbox.works

I have just got my first seedbox and im trying to get it setup, first thing i would like to do is get plex working with my existing libraries stored on Google Drive. I have followed all the guides ( How to mount Google Drive for Plex usage | RapidSeedbox: Help Center & Google Drive API Client ID and Client Secret · Cloudbox/Cloudbox Wiki · GitHub )

2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --config=config/config.json 2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --logfile=autoscan.log 2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --loglevel=INFO 2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --queuefile=queue.db 2023-03-06 08:29:39,951 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --cachefile=cache.db 2023-03-06 08:29:39,970 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --config=config/config.json 2023-03-06 08:29:39,970 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --logfile=autoscan.log 2023-03-06 08:29:39,970 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --loglevel=INFO 2023-03-06 08:29:39,971 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --queuefile=queue.db 2023-03-06 08:29:39,971 - INFO - CONFIG [140352731267072]: Using default setting --cachefile=cache.db ___ __ / | __ __/ /_____ ______________ _____ / /| |/ / / / __/ __ \/ ___/ ___/ __ `/ __ \ / ___ / /_/ / /_/ /_/ (__ ) /__/ /_/ / / / / /_/ |_\__,_/\__/\____/____/\___/\__,_/_/ /_/ 2023-03-06 08:29:40,097 - INFO - AUTOSCAN [140352731267072]: ######################################################################### # Title: Plex Autoscan # # Author: l3uddz # # URL: https://github.com/l3uddz/plex_autoscan # # -- # # Part of the Cloudbox project: https://cloudbox.works # ######################################################################### # GNU General Public License v3.0 # ######################################################################### 2023-03-06 08:29:40,102 - INFO - PLEX [140352731267072]: Requesting section info from Plex... 2023-03-06 08:29:40,119 - ERROR - PLEX [140352731267072]: Issue encountered when attempting to list detailed sections info. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 703, in urlopen httplib_response = self._make_request( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 449, in _make_request six.raise_from(e, None) File "", line 3, in raise_from File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 444, in _make_request httplib_response = conn.getresponse() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1374, in getresponse response.begin() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 318, in begin version, status, reason = self._read_status() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 287, in _read_status raise RemoteDisconnected("Remote end closed connection without" http.client.RemoteDisconnected: Remote end closed connection without response During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 489, in send resp = conn.urlopen( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 787, in urlopen retries = retries.increment( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 550, in increment raise six.reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/packages/six.py", line 769, in reraise raise value.with_traceback(tb) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 703, in urlopen httplib_response = self._make_request( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 449, in _make_request six.raise_from(e, None) File "", line 3, in raise_from File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 444, in _make_request httplib_response = conn.getresponse() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1374, in getresponse response.begin() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 318, in begin version, status, reason = self._read_status() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 287, in _read_status raise RemoteDisconnected("Remote end closed connection without" urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response')) During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/autoscan/plex.py", line 25, in show_detailed_sections_info resp = requests.get('%s/library/sections/all?X-Plex-Token=%s' % ( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 73, in get return request("get", url, params=params, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/requests/api.py", line 59, in request return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 587, in request resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 701, in send r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 547, in send raise ConnectionError(err, request=request) requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))

Plex + https://cloudbox.works/ on a server in a friendly country. Fully automatic once you set it up.

Swizzin, Cloudbox or /r/plexshares are the easiest ways.

If you're willing to put in the work, I recommend taking a look at Cloudbox.

Biggest established tooling projects are Cloudbox (Docker), and Swizzin' (not Docker).

See also Cloudbox, and Swizzin'. The latter is a more complete, alibeit not Dockery, soln.

You'd probably prefer to look at something like Cloudbox then, which is a kind of Dockerized version of the same thing. Also pretty popular.

With Tautulli you have a better monitoring system than what Plex offers. Streaming history split by user, you can add notifications to a lot of services like Slack, email and so on. You can even create newsletters being sent out to users based on what was added to your server.

> How hard is this to configure?

Not at all. Just ensure that you have WoL enabled on the host machine and than proceed to send a magic packet. You could even do this with Home Assistant [1] if you are into that. I did this with a script that used tcpdump to monitor for incoming traffic [2] for Plex with an additional (dummy) Plex server on the Pi. I also remember faintly that I had to add 1 library and 1 video file to make this work though.

Powering down - or sleep - is a bit harder. I built a 'Sleep on LAN' app [3] for myself years ago that could power down (or sleep) a system on demand using a REST API. I used this and Tautulli [3] with Home Assistant that would check if there were any active streams and if there wasn't any activity for a specified amount of time I would send a SoL request to my service.

As you can see it isn't super hard or complicated, but a bit cumbersome to find all the moving bits and make it work. But when it does, it's IMHO fantastic.

1. https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/wake_on_lan/

2. https://gist.github.com/alex3305/8cc73ddd2c8ca6328f20235480a...

2. https://github.com/alex3305/sleep-on-lan

3. https://tautulli.com/

In that case then I don't think there will be an easy way to transfer the metadata unfortunately (outside of some user-created script). One option that would at least help with the manual re-entry would be to use Tautulli's export feature or WebTools-NG's ExportTools to create a spreadsheet that has all the information in one place, and should be easier to copy/paste.

Also, take a look at Tautulli, tautulli.com. Its dashboard has more info than Plex. It shows transcode speed (1.0 = real time) and if subtitles are burning/transcoding/etc.

Tautulli for monitoring and notifications, plus some scripts for "maintenance," such as killing 4K transcodes and stopping remote streams after they've been paused for X minutes. These are from the JBOPS repository.

Tautulli. There's a feature where you can trigger notifications from events on your server, not just when it's down. I'm not sure there's a function to get your server to auto restart though.

Looks like Tautulli's mobile companion app.

The data Tautulli exports is great if you want to throw it in Excel to analyze your library, or as a backup of all the content you have on your server, but isn't really meant to be imported at a later date (the exporter guide. You should instead follow the Move an Install to Another System guide to move your server data to a new machine.

I enjoy https://tautulli.com/ for looking at my server's stats