autoscan VS plex_autoscan

Use Cloudbox/autoscan instead. Plex Autoscan is not maintained anymore, you can see the repository is archived.

If you use *arr to manage your downloads try setting up the "Connect" section of it with Plex and only scanning when you import/add new media to save on the periodic scans for no reason, or perhaps check out https://github.com/cloudbox/autoscan as I've heard good things about this as well.

You should now use this instead: https://github.com/Cloudbox/autoscan

This tool is designed to let sonarr/radarr directly communicate with tdarr, much like autoscan is able to communicate between sonarr/radarr and plex/emby/jellyfin.

The solution to have plex refresh the metadata after a bazarr subtitle add is to use autoscan. NOT plex_autoscan, but autoscan. This is the newer version. You also need autoscan-adapter, the critical piece of the puzzle. Autoscan by itself lets bazarr/sonarr/etc notify plex to update libraries. The autoscan-adapter helps autoscan be able to actually refresh plex metadata so the new subtitles from bazarr can be found. This is all actually very easy to implement using docker-compose. Refer to the docker-compose setup in the autoscan-adapter github.

I recommand using Autoscan. If you're using the *arr stack to download your medias, it can then automatically trigger a scan. The *arr stack can do this without autoscan for jellyfin, but the advantage of autoscan is that you can plug it to any of your other means of downloading medias by just calling its webhook

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. 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If possible try to change the name after re encoding, and trigger a partial scan. https://github.com/l3uddz/plex_autoscan

If you use sonarr/radarr you can add a post processing script to have plex scan only the updated file - https://github.com/l3uddz/plex_autoscan

For those that are using the plex_autoscan python script from Github, the --scan and --refresh commands that are called from the script are deprecated and due to be removed soon.

For those that are using the plex_autoscan python script from Github, I modified mine to use the webhook instead of calling the exe directly. Everything else about the script still works as advertised.