Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but figured I'd start here:

I have a Plex server that servers out 20-ish users.  Not all of them pay that much attention to my Plex server; for some, it is just a tool to use when Netflix fails.  Others use it once a day.  I was seeking a way to notify users of what new content was added to my Plex server, without them having to go log on and check themselves.  So I wrote the following script to email out all my users this summary.

What does it report?

This script pulls all new TV episodes, full seasons, and movies that have been added to a Plex server in the last week, and puts it into a (hopefully pretty) HTML email body.

Who does it send it to?

Anyone you are sharing your server with.

What do I need to run it?

Ruby, some gems, your Plex API key, and you need to be using themoviedb.org for your Movies agent, and thetvdb.org for your TV Show agent.  See the github page below for more details.

Why didn't you include <insert feature here>?

I wrote this script for myself originally, so some things were tailored for my setup (such as what agents the Plex server uses).  Now that I am putting it here, I am completely open to new ideas and features, and will try to get to them in a timely matter.

What about Windows/Mac support?

Since this is written in Ruby, there is no reason why this couldn't work with either OS, though ATM that remains untested.

Sample Images:

Anyways, any questions, comments, or concerns would be appreciated!  

https://github.com/bstascavage/plexReport

I have a show that my server can't seem to locate. I have 5 seasons, each with 10 episodes. Only 4 of the episodes from the first 3 seasons can be found. Plex doesn't even show them, they're just not there. The file types are the same as the ones that Plex see's. Permissions are all the same. But on top of that, in the Channel with my show, the orange bubble on the shows cover has a 50 on it. So It knows there are more files. I'm confused.

Also I have dozens of shows that I stream to my Xbox, but every once in awhile I'll find an episode or show is unavailable. I've attached a log. Hopefully it has something useful. Thank you everyone!

I have a mixture of single episode files and season folders in one library directory. I have just discovered that there are a number of folders whose contents show up in "By Folders" but the files contained are not showing up as episodes in "All". If I move one of the files out of the folder into the outer directory, that file is picked up fine. So I suspect the problem is in the folder name.

I can't see anything in common with these problem folders but here is an example. The folder is named

Give.Out.Girls.S01.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-NTb

with a file named

Give.Out.Girls.S01E03.Hungry.and.Homeless.720p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264-NTb.mkv

These are very typical name formats that usually work. Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be?

Hi there,

I have my own domain, let's call it mydomain.com which is pointing to my home dynamic IP address (the router takes care of updating the domain with the correct IP) and I've also opened port 32400 on my router for the machine where Plex Media Server (PMS) is running.

Outside of my local network, I can simply access http://www.mydomain.com:32400/web and open my PMS page. This works (and https also works, albeit the certificate is not valid).

So, what exactly is the point of the Custom server access URLs option?

I don't really understand it...

Hallo,
I have installed plexmediaserver 0.9.12.13.1464-4ccd2ca-debian on Debian (3.18.0-kali3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.18.6-1~kali2 (2015-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux). I works fine, but if I reboot the machine plexmediaserver is not available and not running. service plexemediaserver start give me an error. I can only solve problem by removing plexmediaserver (sudo apt-get remove plexmediaserver) and install it again (sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver). This is just a little bit complicated to do this after each reboot.

How can the problem be solved permanently?

regards
Helmut

So the latest patch gcame out and as I have not been haviong any problems wiht plex in the past I thought it would be no rpblems but after updating the server just seemed to lose connection and so i tried restarting the process which didn't help either. Doing apt-get remove --purge does not help either.

When i enter localIP:32400 I get "no data received"

Here is the media server log:
http://pastebin.com/MJ0hJBL8

I am running Ubuntu 1404 Server LTS

I've had Plex running on my local PC for the past 2 years but finally decided to try and get a remote dedicated server. I've read a bit about this and wanted to give it a shot. I've never really used Linux but found directions. Here is where I'm at

Running: Ubuntu Desktop 12.04
Installed: Plex-Media-Server-0.9.1213.1464-4ccd2ca-en-US

So far so good. When I login via ServerIP:32400/web , I do not have a Server Option at the top right.

I check to make sure the service is running with the following command

sudo service plexmediaserver start
start: Job is already running: plexmediaserver

I'm not sure where to go from here. What could be causing me not to see the Server option? How do I go about fixing it?

Thanks in advance.

hey guys,

I've tried out syncing for the first time to my Nexus 7, and realized that while streaming with the block based encoding uses all my server's CPU cores, when using sync, it's single threaded. Even though I'm syncing 10 episodes of the show, it goes sequentially, single threaded. Is this intentional, or just left like this for ease of implementation? Would make sense to at least start multiple encodes in parallel IMHO, as even with server grade Xeons the single thread performance is nowhere comparable with using all cores, let alone all sockets+all cores.

Cheers,

Peter

These are the folders inside tv directory. First one is detected second one isn't.
Supernatural (2005)
Supernatural (1977)

There can't be permission issue files on ntfs drive.

Hello,

I currently have PMS running on a CentOS 7 VM in ESXi. I would like to move the application support directory to my Windows server. I have the network drive mounted to /mnt/winand my fstab entry looks like this:

//192.168.1.10/d$ /mnt/win cifs user,uid=plex,rw,suid,username=*****,password=************ 0 0

I changed the default location in /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service to look like this:

Environment="PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/mnt/win/Application\ Data/Plex\ Media\ Server"

After changing the default application support dir, PMS will not start, giving me this systemctl status:

[root@media system]# systemctl status plexmediaserver.service -l 
plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Wed 2015-10-28 16:09:51 CET; 19min ago
  Process: 24184 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" || /bin/mkdir -p "${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}" (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 23568 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Oct 28 16:09:48 media systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.
Oct 28 16:09:48 media systemd[1]: Unit plexmediaserver.service entered failed state.
Oct 28 16:09:51 media systemd[1]: Stopping Plex Media Server for Linux...
Oct 28 16:09:51 media systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server for Linux...
Oct 28 16:09:51 media systemd[1]: plexmediaserver.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Oct 28 16:09:51 media systemd[1]: Failed to start Plex Media Server for Linux.
Oct 28 16:09:51 media systemd[1]: Unit plexmediaserver.service entered failed state.

I'm pretty sure it's some kind of permissions issue, but I can't figure it out. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi all,
Could you help me with the next problem, please? :
I have
- One Multimedia LaCie HD, NTFS, connected to my router Triwave Telnet (Movistar)
- Two PC's wiht Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 15.10. Same problem in both....
I can access the HD perfectly from both PCs (from nautilus)
BUT
I can not access to the Lacie network drive from Plex when I try to add the multimedia content because Plex does not show my LaCie network drive.
Regards,

I am using Plex Media Server 0.9.12.13 on the Raspberry Pi 2. I recently upgraded the Plex server. I am able to play 1 video and then I can't play any more videos. Other programs continue to respond and I have tried with multiple clients- web, chromecast, android app. I have tried completely removing the Plex installation and reinstalling. Each time, I stop the first video, the Plex server becomes unresponsive. The problem persists after I restart the Plex service and still doesn't work after I restart the server. The only way to get it back up again is to wait for a few hours. I have tried a number of things including reinstall Plex multiple times- each time removing the plexmediaserver directories under /var/lib and /usr/lib and deleting the plex user, downgrade to 0.9.12.4 (I performed Method 3- Build the PLEX media server package on the HTPC guides to do this), reinstall libc6. I do have the transcoding temp directory pointing to an external flash drive and reconfigure it each time.

Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x73480400] DEBUG - Completed: [10.0.0.120:64307] GET /:/timeline?ratingKey=39&key=%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F39&state=stopped&playQueueItemID=3&time=33556&duration=7220096 (5 live) GZIP 12ms 158 bytes 200 (pipelined: 48)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6b4ff400] DEBUG - Request: [10.0.0.120:64307] GET /video/:/transcode/universal/stop?session=175gzzxob027qfr (4 live) GZIP
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6bcff400] DEBUG - Found session GUID of 175gzzxob027qfr in session start.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6bcff400] DEBUG - Killing job.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6bcff400] DEBUG - Signalling job ID 22679 with 9
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x73480400] DEBUG - Completed: [10.0.0.120:64307] GET /video/:/transcode/universal/stop?session=175gzzxob027qfr (4 live) GZIP 4ms 158 bytes 200 (pipelined: 49)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6bcff400] DEBUG - Job was already killed, not killing again.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6bcff400] DEBUG - Stopping transcode session 175gzzxob027qfr
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6e8ff400] DEBUG - Universal transcode session finished reading output.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6e8ff400] DEBUG - Finished universal transcode output thread
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6e8ff400] DEBUG - Notifying stream that data is complete.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6bcff400] DEBUG - Cleaning directory for session 175gzzxob027qfr (/mnt/usbstorage2/plextranscoder_temp/plex-transcode-175gzzxob027qfr-c35010cf-1587-4e23-a788-29a52ea09be7)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x72c80400] ERROR - handle_stream_read error 32 Broken pipe
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x72c80400] DEBUG - Removed transcode output stream 0x6df71c60, active count 1 => 0
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6a4e5400] DEBUG - [TranscodeOutputStream] Input processing thread exited after writing 61267158 bytes, m_closed=1, m_endOfFileReached=0, session->isStopped()=1
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6bcff400] DEBUG - Cleaning old transcode directories.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:42 [0x6bcff400] DEBUG - Cleaning old transcode directory: /mnt/usbstorage2/plextranscoder_temp/plex-transcode-3l5d5x3ahcdz33di-ed1587d5-c9b8-46d4-a49b-151fd87b5fdb
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - Request: [10.0.0.120:64307] POST /playQueues?type=video&uri=library%3A%2F%2F49d567ad-1aaf-42aa-ba94-9924e70f4f70%2Fitem%2F%252Flibrary%252Fmetadata%252F88&shuffle=0&repeat=0 (3 live) GZIP
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - PlayQueue: 0 generated IDs compressed down to a 2 byte blob.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - PlayQueue: Start index: 0 End index: 0 Count: 1
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - PlayQueue: 1 generated IDs compressed down to a 24 byte blob.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - PlayQueue: Added 1 items in 0.0 sec.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - We're going to try to auto-select an audio stream for account 1.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - Selecting best audio stream for part ID 88 (autoselect: 0 language: en)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - Audio Stream: 600, Subtitle Stream: -1
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - It took 0.0 sec to serialize a list with 1 elements.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x73480400] DEBUG - Completed: [10.0.0.120:64307] POST /playQueues?type=video&uri=library%3A%2F%2F49d567ad-1aaf-42aa-ba94-9924e70f4f70%2Fitem%2F%252Flibrary%252Fmetadata%252F88&shuffle=0&repeat=0 (3 live) GZIP 89ms 2858 bytes 200 (pipelined: 50)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6b4ff400] DEBUG - Request: [10.0.0.120:64307] GET /photo/:/transcode?url=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A32400%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F88%2Fart%2F1445907820&width=1280&height=720 (3 live) GZIP
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6b4ff400] DEBUG - Photo transcoder: Request for url [http://127.0.0.1:32400/library/metadata/88/art/1445907820] (is local: 1 upscaled: 0)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6ccff400] DEBUG - Request: [10.0.0.120:64355] GET /photo/:/transcode?url=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A32400%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F88%2Fthumb%2F1445907820&width=100&height=150&minSize=1 (4 live) GZIP
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6ccff400] DEBUG - Photo transcoder: Request for url [http://127.0.0.1:32400/library/metadata/88/thumb/1445907820] (is local: 1 upscaled: 0)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6ccff400] DEBUG - The cache file did not exist, but the original did [/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Cache/PhotoTranscoder/f9/f961347079829dd50470d162911243807890948e.jpg].
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6b4ff400] DEBUG - Computed media url for item 88: http://127.0.0.1:54409/system/agents/media/get?guid=com.plexapp.agents.imdb://tt1454029?lang=en&amp;mediaType=1&amp;url=metadata://art/com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb_88780e5387dba89217bffd8c21e1f255fad84dd5
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6b4ff400] DEBUG - HTTP requesting GET http://127.0.0.1:54409/system/agents/media/get?guid=com.plexapp.agents.imdb://tt1454029?lang=en&amp;mediaType=1&amp;url=metadata://art/com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb_88780e5387dba89217bffd8c21e1f255fad84dd5
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6ccff400] DEBUG - Created thumbnail of size 94x139, has pixels: 1
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x72c80400] DEBUG - Completed: [10.0.0.120:64355] GET /photo/:/transcode?url=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A32400%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F88%2Fthumb%2F1445907820&width=100&height=150&minSize=1 (4 live) GZIP 46ms 5437 bytes 200
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - Request: [10.0.0.120:64355] GET /library/metadata/88?checkFiles=1 (4 live) GZIP
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6b4ff400] DEBUG - Calculated media file path for item 88: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata/Movies/3/33c1d7041c699f07c5bf64d4a57bb0c0e730510.bundle/Contents/_combined/art/com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb_88780e5387dba89217bffd8c21e1f255fad84dd5
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6b4ff400] DEBUG - Calling back into ourselves for photo to transcode, optimizing the process (status: -1)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6b4ff400] DEBUG - Photo cache obtained 275975 bytes from http://127.0.0.1:32400/library/metadata/88/art/1445907820
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6b4ff400] DEBUG - Saving original media file to /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Cache/PhotoTranscoder/14/14f4896762f8baededd73f577952644d6738dba8.jpg
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - We're going to try to auto-select an audio stream for account 1.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - Selecting best audio stream for part ID 88 (autoselect: 0 language: en)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - Audio Stream: 600, Subtitle Stream: -1
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - It took 0.0 sec to serialize a list with 1 elements.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x72c80400] DEBUG - Completed: [10.0.0.120:64355] GET /library/metadata/88?checkFiles=1 (4 live) GZIP 119ms 2766 bytes 200 (pipelined: 2)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - Request: [10.0.0.120:64355] GET /video/:/transcode/universal/start?path=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A32400%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F88&mediaIndex=0&partIndex=0&protocol=http&offset=0&fastSeek=1&directPlay=0&directStream=1&subtitleSize=100&audioBoost=200&session=dyq95sscov67p66r&subtitles=burn&copyts=1&Accept-Language=en&X-Plex-Chunked=1&X-Plex-Product=Plex+Web&X-Plex-Version=2.4.23&X-Plex-Client-Identifier=gdjajbjri4tpgb9&X-Plex-Platform=Chrome&X-Plex-Platform-Version=46.0&X-Plex-Device=Windows&X-Plex-Device-Name=Plex+Web+(Chrome) (4 live)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - Found session GUID of dyq95sscov67p66r in session start.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - Using profile Web
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - Downloading document http://127.0.0.1:32400/library/metadata/88
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - HTTP requesting GET http://127.0.0.1:32400/library/metadata/88
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6e8ff400] DEBUG - Request: [127.0.0.1:36189] GET /library/metadata/88 (5 live)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6e8ff400] DEBUG - We're going to try to auto-select an audio stream for account 1.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6e8ff400] DEBUG - Selecting best audio stream for part ID 88 (autoselect: 0 language: en)
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6e8ff400] DEBUG - Audio Stream: 600, Subtitle Stream: -1
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x6e8ff400] DEBUG - It took 0.0 sec to serialize a list with 1 elements.
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x72c80400] DEBUG - Completed: [127.0.0.1:36189] GET /library/metadata/88 (5 live) 112ms 6002 bytes 200
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - MDE: analyzing media item 88
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - MDE: The Help (2011): Direct Play is disabled
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - MDE: The Help (2011): no direct play video profile exists for mkv/h264
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - MDE: The Help (2011): no direct play video profile exists for mkv/h264/ac3
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - MDE: The Help (2011): no direct play video profile exists for mkv/h264/dca
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:47 [0x698ff400] DEBUG - MDE: The Help (2011): selected media 0 / 88
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:49 [0x6b4ff400] DEBUG - Created thumbnail of size 1280x720, has pixels: 1
Oct 29, 2015 02:45:49 [0x73480400] DEBUG - Completed: [10.0.0.120:64307] GET /photo/:/transcode?url=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A32400%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F88%2Fart%2F1445907820&width=1280&height=720 (5 live) GZIP 2056ms 132952 bytes 200 (pipelined: 51)
Oct 29, 2015 02:53:03 [0x6b4ff400] DEBUG - Sync: uploadStatus

I have a fairly vanilla setup, with PMS Version 0.9.12.17 64-bit and a few players. What I've noticed is that neither PleXBMC nor FindUnmatched work when I add my wife's plex.tv user as an additional user in Plex Home. Suddenly calls to /clients return 401 Unauthorized. At first I didn't make the connection between adding her and things not working, but as soon as I removed her account from plex home everything is working again.

Has anyone else seen this issue?

I'd love to be able to filter movies and tv shows by the languages of the audio and subtitle tracks available.

This would be especially nice for my little siblings who don't understand a word of english, so they could just browse the movies they can understand. 

Hey,

i followed this how to but I do not have this section:

"validateTranscoder:function(e,t)"

when i try to stream to an IOS device everything works fine..

within a browser i can just play mkv files.. how to get avi files working?

i user rp2 with raspbian jessie..

thanks

hello

any recommendations for a powerful server machine to handle 500 tv's? i work in a big hotel and still expanding my network backbone is 10g stackable more than enough to carry all video traffic but im worried about the plex server hardware.

thanks

Oct 28 release (and previous) are named plexmediaserver-0.9.12.17
Oct 29 release is Plex-Media-Server-0.9.1218 (and no there is no decimal between 12 and 18.

Is this an authentic release. Why the differentiation?

Hello,
I am running Plex Media Server on unRaid 6 through the docker engine. (container created by needo running the latest version of plex)

I have recently came across an issue where ALL my media loses its posters (but keeps metadata)

EDIT: But the strange thing is, it remembers the poster I had select if not the default.

When ever I do a full library "refresh all" the posters start populating again, but after less than 24hrs they are once again gone.

I am not sure how much more information I need to give you guys, but please do ask.

Thanks,
xisplo

Awhile ago I enabled the ability to have cached items stored on the server. (I'm running a Ubuntu server) I would like to know how I can delete the cached items on the server from the command line. All the items are slowing down and taking up way to much data on the main hard drive. All of the plex content is stored on other hard drivers. The main drive only has the core plex server installed and that's all I want on there. I have to delete from the command line and I was wondering if there's a folder that I can delete or if there's a setting in plex on the web to delete all the cached items. Any help is greatly appreciated!

How do I compile Plex Home Theater for Ubuntu 15.10?