Tautulli VS Plex-scripts

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

Quick command-line script: https://github.com/Casvt/Plex-scripts/blob/main/changing_settings/intro_marker_editor.py

If you want to use the built in Plex auto delete for TV shows check out this script https://github.com/Casvt/Plex-scripts/blob/main/changing_settings/plex_auto_delete.py. It changes the built in Plex setting for TV shows to auto remove watched episodes up to 1 week after it's marked as watched. The script itself doesn't delete anything it's all handled by Plex which is nice.

Update: Found these:https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/pbwf41/comment/hag32ge/?utm_medium=web2x&utm_source=share&context=3 which resulted in https://github.com/Casvt/Plex-scripts/blob/main/playlist_collection/sub_folder_playlists.py

A resident Python person was doing script requests, and I had them create a script that does exactly this: https://github.com/Casvt/Plex-scripts/blob/main/playlist_collection/rolling_tv_channel.py

If you wanna go for the first method, add a custom skip to check resolution of the file grabbed and add a “4k” tag. Then on your Radarr 1080p instance only import items with the 4k tag and download compressed 1080p. You can use https://github.com/Casvt/Plex-scripts/blob/main/sonarr/root_folder_tagger.py as a starting point for the script. Let me know if you prefer this method and can or can’t figure out the scripting, I’d like something similar myself.

This script is confirmed tested and working. Feel free to use this code for your own purposes. I will be running this code periodically on my home server along with some of my other neat little plex scripts like Plex Auto Delete. Thanks to all who helped! If you use this script and run into any bugs feel free to leave a comment. Cheers!

This is code that I've been wanting to write for some time now but I kept putting it off. The reason I needed this code is because Plex sets subtitles to English Forced by default. I prefer to have regular non forced subtitles. ChatGPT wrote this code for me in Python using PlexApi that I'm gonna try out later when I'm home on my computer. If anything needs to be changed I can go back to my chat and tell it to modify the code again. My plan is to add this code to run alongside my other python scripts that I use with Plex in windows (like Plex Auto Delete). Just imagine what else AI can do for us! If this script is something you might be into feel free to modify and try it out yourself!

There are tools to import markers such as IntroEditorForPlex or some scripts such as intro_marker_editor.