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Varken
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Plexporters, Energize: How we monitor Plex with Grafana
If this could replace the semi-stale project called Varken, I’d be soo happy https://github.com/Boerderij/Varken
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Grafana Dashboard for my current instance of Home Prod
The Dashboard consists of: Varken for aggregating data from the Plex ecosystem into InfluxDB using Grafana for a frontend. OPNsense capturing with the help of Telegraf plugin. Adguard Home monitoring utilizing a custom exporter named Adguard_Exporter for prometheus. UniFi agregating with UnPoller. For TrueNAS Scale, I installed the community catalog for installing Kube Apps, this allowed me to installed Prometheus and use the node-exporter provided on this dashboard. Proxmox metrics server provided here.
- Sonarr data into Grafana?
- Got inspired by the recent dashboard posts so I redesigned my server's dashboard hub. Hope you like it!
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Plex Grafana Dashboard
Not to take away from your dashboard, but varken is worth a look. It's a little outdated but still works great.
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Made myself a Plex Dashboard!
I used Varken as well, but since I have a unifi setup I used UnPoller to get stats from my network, also set up snmp and ping tests using telegraf. I'm still tweaking things myself but love what you have already done :)
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Made this little monitor for my plex/unraid dashboard.
You can also use Varken to put it into Grafana
- At the beach, but Plex is down and I’ll be toast if it’s not up when we get home later
Tautulli
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I'm fine with the basics of Plex - now what can I do to really use plex to it's full potential?
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.
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My Overkill Home Network – Complete Details 2023
> 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...
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Can I copy the metadata from one show to another?
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.
- Finding episodes with Multiple Languages
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Best programs to use alongside Plex?
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.
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Plex health check
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.
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/r/Plex's Moronic Mondays' No Stupid Questions Thread - 2023-04-24
Unless someone has already created what you're looking for (JBOPS/reporting is a good initial place to look), you'll probably have to write something yourself that makes calls to Tautulli's API.
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How to make a list of things in my library?
With Plex specifically, there are a few ways. The easiest options would be to use either Tautulli's export tool or WebTools-NG's ExportTools module.
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Why does the low bitrate buffer, but not the higher bitrate?
Look into tautulli, it is a companion app for plex to get better stats. It can tell you what/how/when your friend was streaming because it keeps a better history than plex. https://tautulli.com/
What OS are you running plex on? here's the bare metal installer for windows and mac https://github.com/Tautulli/Tautulli/releases/tag/v2.12.2. If you're running inside docker, linuxserver's docker is pretty good.
What are some alternatives?
discord-rich-presence-plex - Displays your Plex status on Discord using Rich Presence
Ombi - Want a Movie or TV Show on Plex/Emby/Jellyfin? Use Ombi!
overseerr - Request management and media discovery tool for the Plex ecosystem
Plex-scripts - Plex, the arr's and tautulli scripts coming from user requests
Plex-Trakt-Scrobbler - Add what you are watching on Plex to trakt.tv
Tdarr - Tdarr - Distributed transcode automation using FFmpeg/HandBrake + Audio/Video library analytics + video health checking (Windows, macOS, Linux & Docker)
Plex-Meta-Manager - Python script to update metadata information for items in plex as well as automatically build collections and playlists. The Wiki Documentation is linked below.
Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System
JBOPS - Just a Bunch Of Plex Scripts
plex-playlist-importer - A simple Mac/iOS/iPad app to create playlists from m3u directly to Plex Server
Sonarr - Smart PVR for newsgroup and bittorrent users.
ExportTools.bundle - Export tools for Plex