@per_PLEX_ed said:
With Amazon disabling both Rclone and acd_cli (and pretty permanently it seems), I have gone ahead and updated the tutorial to include just one cloud service (Gsuite).
On the bright side, it’s now much easier to setup a VPS Here it is for the ones who don’t see my signature: Tech Perplexed
It’s worth having a look at Plexdrive as an alternative for mounting. It’s a little more fiddly than rclone but I’ve had great results.
This is coming from someone who had to follow your guide to setup my VPS
Besides being more fiddly, what are the advantages of plexdrive over rclone?
@cayars said:
People are switching because it’s more efficient and helps to reduce the Google Ban when scanning and stuff.
Is this just related to having your own client id with google or does plexdrive handle scanning files differently than rclone? Just out of curiousity…
Plexdrive caches a bunch of the file header info from your mounted cloud drive. When plex does a library scan, it will hit this cache first and then go to the actual cloud drive if it needs more data. The end result is less hits on your cloud drive and lower chance of a temp ban.
Thanks guys I have spent the last few days toying with Plexdrive… for a rookie like me it takes a full day to figure out every tiny detail, haha… but I’m making progress
Since switching to PlexDrive, food has tasted a little better, life has been a bit more livable, my boss gave me a raise, and I’ve noticed more people smiling at me on the street.
In all seriousness, though, PlexDrive has made a world of difference to my VPS configuration. Rescanning for new videos takes under 30 seconds and movies and TV shows start about as fast as they did with my home Plex server. If your Google data is encrypted with Rclone, you’ll need to re-mount the PlexDrive using rclone’s “local” configuration (no need to double buffer or really play too much with the rclone settings… let PlexDrive handle the caching/buffering).
Hi Kelinger, do you use Union on your VPS? From what i’ve read PlexDrive is currently ReadOnly. I’m assuming most people are also using their VPS to download and then upload to GoogleDrive.
Does anyone know of a good tutorial for setting up a VPS with Plex, PlexDrive, Sonarr etc?
@per_PLEX_ed said:
With Amazon disabling both Rclone and acd_cli (and pretty permanently it seems), I have gone ahead and updated the tutorial to include just one cloud service (Gsuite).
On the bright side, it’s now much easier to setup a VPS Here it is for the ones who don’t see my signature: Tech Perplexed
It’s worth having a look at Plexdrive as an alternative for mounting. It’s a little more fiddly than rclone but I’ve had great results.
This is coming from someone who had to follow your guide to setup my VPS
I’m currently using rclone and G drive as per the techperplex guide. Would you mind sharing how you moved from one to the other? Very new to linux and dont want to break my setup trying to figure out plexdrive.
@per_PLEX_ed said:
With Amazon disabling both Rclone and acd_cli (and pretty permanently it seems), I have gone ahead and updated the tutorial to include just one cloud service (Gsuite).
On the bright side, it’s now much easier to setup a VPS Here it is for the ones who don’t see my signature: Tech Perplexed
It’s worth having a look at Plexdrive as an alternative for mounting. It’s a little more fiddly than rclone but I’ve had great results.
This is coming from someone who had to follow your guide to setup my VPS
I’m currently using rclone and G drive as per the techperplex guide. Would you mind sharing how you moved from one to the other? Very new to linux and dont want to break my setup trying to figure out plexdrive.
To be honest, it was a lot of trial and error. It’s not as simple as setting up rclone.
I’ll see if I can work backwards and give some idea of what I did.
My mount setting for Plexdrive is sudo plexdrive -o allow_other -v3 /mnt/plexdrive
I wouldn’t take that as perfect though, that’s just me getting it going. I’ve yet to refine it.
So, my VPS has a root partition which is significantly smaller than the /home partition. In those cases, it can be beneficial to use the temp flag to point to a folder on /home. Otherwise it will use the default /tmp folder, which lives in root.
I had a similar problem with my Plex database filling up my root drive, until I redirected it to a folder on /home.
@jasanson said:
Hi Kelinger, do you use Union on your VPS? From what i’ve read PlexDrive is currently ReadOnly. I’m assuming most people are also using their VPS to download and then upload to GoogleDrive.
Does anyone know of a good tutorial for setting up a VPS with Plex, PlexDrive, Sonarr etc?
No, actually. I’m just using PlexDrive in read-only mode to stream. I have another instance than handles my preparation and upload and it uses extensive BASH scripts that I wrote.
As far as an “all in one” document goes, I haven’t seen one but I’ve seen some that are close. The guide that @per_PLEX_ed wrote covers a lot of the Plex/Rclone setup. There are also turnkey scripts that install and setup Plex, CouchPotato, Sonarr, various Torrent clients, etc. Checkout Quickbox.IO as an example. That script doesn’t actually setup the Rclone/PlexDrive mounts but it does everything else.
@jasanson said:
Hi Kelinger, do you use Union on your VPS? From what i’ve read PlexDrive is currently ReadOnly. I’m assuming most people are also using their VPS to download and then upload to GoogleDrive.
Does anyone know of a good tutorial for setting up a VPS with Plex, PlexDrive, Sonarr etc?
No, actually. I’m just using PlexDrive in read-only mode to stream. I have another instance than handles my preparation and upload and it uses extensive BASH scripts that I wrote.
As far as an “all in one” document goes, I haven’t seen one but I’ve seen some that are close. The guide that @per_PLEX_ed wrote covers a lot of the Plex/Rclone setup. There are also turnkey scripts that install and setup Plex, CouchPotato, Sonarr, various Torrent clients, etc. Checkout Quickbox.IO as an example. That script doesn’t actually setup the Rclone/PlexDrive mounts but it does everything else.
It is for ACD and Rclone and there are a number of things I had to change to make it work but it has a lot of the basics. Thats basically my starting point so I have to figure out whether I should try and change that over to PlexDrive and Google Drive or start fresh.
Here it is for the ones who don’t see my signature: Tech Perplexed
I have spent the last few days toying with Plexdrive… for a rookie like me it takes a full day to figure out every tiny detail, haha… but I’m making progress 
