Plex - How many people stream from your server

[tm458]

sorry to ask a daft question but can someone ELI5 what an indexer is and what it does?

I'm poking around on google but i still don't understand. Is it something that gets information on newly released movies/shows or what?

 

[killerbyte]

sorry to ask a daft question but can someone ELI5 what an indexer is and what it does?

I'm poking around on google but i still don't understand. Is it something that gets information on newly released movies/shows or what?

With Torrents you download a torrent file and it then connects to the torrent network and downloads the files from everyone currently sharing it.
A Tracker hosts NZB files which are like your torrent file, but unlike torrents, NZBs are not P2P downloads. They are server 2 client downloads.
You get free trackers and paid for trackers. You get free servers and paid for servers. Free servers usually have a short cache while paid servers have a cache that lasts years.

Does that make sense?

I use Drunken Slug as my NZB tracker (this would be like rarbg when using torrents), I then download the NZB (whether manually or through an automated process like Sonarr), then then I connect my NZB client (NZBget) to the paid server I use (in this case News Daemon). The file I wanted is then downloaded at my full line speed, and is not limited by peers/seeds upload speed.

 

[tm458]

Does that make sense?

Yeah, makes sense now. Thanks for the explanation

 

[Hemps]

https://www.reddit.com/r/plexshares/comments/yqwh8g

Appboxes look interesting, host a plex server and share cost amongst friends.

 

[rvZA]

Double NAT, you have to ask your ISP to give you a public facing IP.

Thanks, I eventually got to calling my ISP.

They basically assigned a static IP. It now seems to work. The guy wasn't sure when I spoke about a 'public facing IP'. The double NAT error is gone and I can access my server while away from home again.

I hope this is the fix and that the error won't appear again.

 

[JOEY_8]

I’ve never used rclone before and just set it up with OneDrive on my Oracle VPS.

The issue I’m having is that I can’t see the mounted drive within Plex, Sonarr etc.

I can see it within the Ubuntu File Manager, and I can copy files etc with no problem. It’s just Plex etc which aren’t showing it as an option.

What could I have done wrong or should I try? I’m a newb with this

 

[tm458]

I’ve never used rclone before and just set it up with OneDrive on my Oracle VPS.

The issue I’m having is that I can’t see the mounted drive within Plex, Sonarr etc.

I can see it within the Ubuntu File Manager, and I can copy files etc with no problem. It’s just Plex etc which aren’t showing it as an option.

What could I have done wrong or should I try? I’m a newb with this

did you include the "--allow-other" flag when you were mounting the drive?

 

[JOEY_8]

did you include the "--allow-other" flag when you were mounting the drive?

I was following a tutorial but don’t recall adding that. I just edited the chunk size lol.

I’ll try removing it and adding it again. Fingers crossed

 

[abudabi]

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Seems this account stores onedrive data in Amsterdam. For me at least... and I think that's why I'm battling to stream anything more than 20mbps.

Same for everyone else? I've played around with --buffer-size and --vfs-read-ahead (and --onedrive-chunk-size) but nothing seems to unlock the full potential. Any hints?

 

[cavedog]

I was following a tutorial but don’t recall adding that. I just edited the chunk size lol.

I’ll try removing it and adding it again. Fingers crossed

Make sure to add these

--dir-cache-time 30s --allow-other --onedrive-chunk-size 150M

 

[cavedog]

Seems this account stores onedrive data in Amsterdam. For me at least... and I think that's why I'm battling to stream anything more than 20mbps.

Same for everyone else? I've played around with --buffer-size and --vfs-read-ahead (and --onedrive-chunk-size) but nothing seems to unlock the full potential. Any hints?

Not for me. Everything comes from JHB at 13.107.138.9

This is on Afrihost

 

[abudabi]

Yeah the traffic is delivered to you from your plex server... but if you check the plex server it in turn pulls it from amsterdam. But I've just done a test and the link between the plex server and amsterdam is good for 4/500mbit..... so it's not that.

I then tried to do a winscp xfer from plex to home and that was very erratic. Also dipping as low as 10 mbit.

now 20 mins later playing the file again and doing the exact same steps all is fine.

Lol... must have been a glitch in the matrix.

Thanks for trying to asisst @cavedog

 

[abudabi]

I’ve never used rclone before and just set it up with OneDrive on my Oracle VPS.

The issue I’m having is that I can’t see the mounted drive within Plex, Sonarr etc.

I can see it within the Ubuntu File Manager, and I can copy files etc with no problem. It’s just Plex etc which aren’t showing it as an option.

What could I have done wrong or should I try? I’m a newb with this

did you ensure all the apps belong to the same group? If you're starting rclone as a service without explicitly specifying a user and group it'll use root by default which could cause issues like this.

 

[cavedog]

Yeah the traffic is delivered to you from your plex server... but if you check the plex server it in turn pulls it from amsterdam. But I've just done a test and the link between the plex server and amsterdam is good for 4/500mbit..... so it's not that.

I then tried to do a winscp xfer from plex to home and that was very erratic. Also dipping as low as 10 mbit.

now 20 mins later playing the file again and doing the exact same steps all is fine.

Lol... must have been a glitch in the matrix.

Thanks for trying to asisst @cavedog

This test was done directly from the onedrive mount on my local machine not from plex.

13.107.138.9 is Microsoft not my plex server.

Are you using Oracle vps in JHB? I need to test that maybe Oracle doesn't peer with Microsoft although that would be odd because they can still get the traffic locally via their transit Liquid Telecoms

 

[abudabi]

This test was done directly from the onedrive mount on my local machine not from plex.

13.107.138.9 is Microsoft not my plex server.

Are you using Oracle vps in JHB? I need to test that maybe Oracle doesn't peer with Microsoft although that would be odd because they can still get the traffic locally via their transit Liquid Telecoms

Ah.. gotcha. Yip using SA Central (JHB) oracle VPS.

I seem to recall only being able to choose US/EU/Asia locations for the dev setup... will dbl check in the morning.

 

[cavedog]

Ah.. gotcha. Yip using SA Central (JHB) oracle VPS.

I seem to recall only being able to choose US/EU/Asia locations for the dev setup... will dbl check in the morning.

I don't think that should play a role hey. It ahould still be funneled through Microsoft's extensive network. I will do some tests on my JHB instance to see what's up.

 

[abudabi]

I don't think that should play a role hey. It ahould still be funneled through Microsoft's extensive network. I will do some tests on my JHB instance to see what's up.

OK I think I got it figured out.. When signing up you have 2 options: Instant and configurable sandbox

Instant choices


Configurable choices


I know I went with instant.. so that's probably why my data is sitting elsewhere.

 

[abudabi]

But anyway.... that's not an issue. There's more than enough fat pipes between the two. Tried again this morning and it works fine. Just wish the plex client would have better buffer options. It starts off with a bang and builds a healthy buffer of a minute or so, then slowly but surely that gets eaten up till eventually there's probably only 10-15 seconds. Looks to be by design.

 

[Spontaneous spinach]

@cavedog can i use alldebrid?

 

[Messugga]

I miss me Plex server... So much.