Hi all.
I've been using rasplex with 6-8 months now. I started off with a B+ and I've a 2 now. I've a 8gb class 10 card as suggested but when I look at the partition created by the windows gui installer (0.6.0) the drive is split to 256mb, 32mb and then 7.XXgb of blank space. Why is an 8gb card needed? Also why is only 256mb used? To me this seems like it will be very limiting in terms of caching, which to be fair I do notice from time to time.
Second question, I recently bought a plex pass for a year as my brother in law is using my server and I wanted to keep the watched programs seperate. I've a pin on my account but its not needed so I can remove it. My question on this is, can I auto logon in some way on a specific device? ie I've a Samsung 48 smart tv and the Pi2. Both of these will only ever be used by me and my wife. My brother in law will only ever be using his account at his house.
I've been using rasplex with 6-8 months now. I started off with a B+ and I've a 2 now. I've a 8gb class 10 card as suggested but when I look at the partition created by the windows gui installer (0.6.0) the drive is split to 256mb, 32mb and then 7.XXgb of blank space. Why is an 8gb card needed? Also why is only 256mb used? To me this seems like it will be very limiting in terms of caching, which to be fair I do notice from time to time.
RasPlex resizes the /storage partition when it boots the first time, otherwise people with different sized cards would have issues.
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2 3.4G 245.0M 3.1G 7% /storage
That is the storage partition on my 4Gig card.
Most people use a Class 10 4Gb SD Card, as you’ve discovered you don’t need anything larger.
If you run pre-caching, the files are stored on the SD card to speed up navigation, pre-caching is recommended for all users.
Most people use a Class 10 4Gb SD Card, as you've discovered you don't need anything larger.
If you run pre-caching, the files are stored on the SD card to speed up navigation, pre-caching is recommended for all users.
Does Pre-Caching "auto update" at any interval as your library grows? If not, is it just recommended to do it on and off as you see your categories slow down? Also if not, maybe add this as a feature request, could see it being handy during the fall season of TV shows as peoples servers grow :)
Also, does it have anything to do with the caching option under Plex settings or is that something different? Out of the gate I think that setting is set to 5%, didn't know if this was all together different.
Does Pre-Caching "auto update" at any interval as your library grows? If not, is it just recommended to do it on and off as you see your categories slow down? Also if not, maybe add this as a feature request, could see it being handy during the fall season of TV shows as peoples servers grow :)
Also, does it have anything to do with the caching option under Plex settings or is that something different? Out of the gate I think that setting is set to 5%, didn't know if this was all together different.
Pre-caching is only recommended to be undertaken once on a newly flashed card and is particularly for users with very large libraries.
In normal use any information for newly added content will be fetched when navigating libraries (if you don't undertake pre-caching this happens anyway but on first entry to a library on a newly flashed card it will do this anyway but initial navigation will be slower as it fetches the content).
It was initial put in before the RPi2 was around and was immensely beneficial, with the improved speed of the RPi2 it's debatable whether it is needed but it's there for backwards compatibility for the RPi1.
You can run it anytime you want.
The cache setting under Network settings is entirely different, again this is for backwards compatibility with RPi1, increasing the cache size could help improve playback in certain situations, 25% used to be recommended.
