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@danjames92 said:

@per_PLEX_ed said:
By popular demand, the tutorial now contains Plexdrive. I tested it from scratch and it should be without a hitch on Ubuntu 16.04 or higher.

Encrypted storage on the agenda next? :wink:

Getting it working with RW system for Sonarr / Radarr is a real pain.

I’m still using Rclone in parallel with PlexDrive for that exact reason. Couchpotato and Sonarr use the Rclone mapped path and Plex uses the PlexDrive path. They both point to the same place on Google. This still results in the occasional ban because Sonarr will read the files too quickly if I’m importing a whole show or season at once. I can’t wait for PlexDrive to add write capabilities! (Or Rclone to add caching!)

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@danjames92 said:

@per_PLEX_ed said:
By popular demand, the tutorial now contains Plexdrive. I tested it from scratch and it should be without a hitch on Ubuntu 16.04 or higher.

Encrypted storage on the agenda next? :wink:

Haha :smiley: For now I’m sorta “tutorialed out” but as I said before, never say never. I didn’t plan to add Plexdrive to the tutorial either and here we are :stuck_out_tongue:

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@djsecrist said:

@danjames92 said:

@per_PLEX_ed said:
By popular demand, the tutorial now contains Plexdrive. I tested it from scratch and it should be without a hitch on Ubuntu 16.04 or higher.

Encrypted storage on the agenda next? :wink:

Getting it working with RW system for Sonarr / Radarr is a real pain.

I’m still using Rclone in parallel with PlexDrive for that exact reason. Couchpotato and Sonarr use the Rclone mapped path and Plex uses the PlexDrive path. They both point to the same place on Google. This still results in the occasional ban because Sonarr will read the files too quickly if I’m importing a whole show or season at once. I can’t wait for PlexDrive to add write capabilities! (Or Rclone to add caching!)

Would be interested to see how you’re doing it. PM if you like. My setup is extremely complicated and I’m sure it could be better. Not even sure I understand half of it myself as a friend set it up for me.

Struggling to get radarr to replace movies atm but sonarr seems to be OK.

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@djsecrist said:

@danjames92 said:

@per_PLEX_ed said:
By popular demand, the tutorial now contains Plexdrive. I tested it from scratch and it should be without a hitch on Ubuntu 16.04 or higher.

Encrypted storage on the agenda next? :wink:

Getting it working with RW system for Sonarr / Radarr is a real pain.

I’m still using Rclone in parallel with PlexDrive for that exact reason. Couchpotato and Sonarr use the Rclone mapped path and Plex uses the PlexDrive path. They both point to the same place on Google. This still results in the occasional ban because Sonarr will read the files too quickly if I’m importing a whole show or season at once. I can’t wait for PlexDrive to add write capabilities! (Or Rclone to add caching!)

If you used UnionFS-fuse you could avoid being banned as you wouldn’t have to mount gdrive with rclone.

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@danjames92 said:
Encrypted storage on the agenda next? :wink:

If everyone encrypts their media files this will go the way of Amazon Drive real quick. Don’t encrypt, Google will save space (and a lot of money), everyone will be happy because Google won’t remove unlimited.

Encrypt your documents and personal videos/pictures. Don’t encrypt your tv shows and movies.

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@timstephens24 said:

@danjames92 said:
Encrypted storage on the agenda next? :wink:

If everyone encrypts their media files this will go the way of Amazon Drive real quick. Don’t encrypt, Google will save space (and a lot of money), everyone will be happy because Google won’t remove unlimited.

Encrypt your documents and personal videos/pictures. Don’t encrypt your tv shows and movies.

I’ll do what I please thank you very much.

It’s going away either way. Only a matter of when.

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Just mine instructions, what I saved:

install mangodb first
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/

THEN<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

mkdir ~/.plexdrive
cd ~/.plexdrive
nano config.json

{
“clientId”: “YOUR CLIENT ID”,
“clientSecret”: “YOUR SECRET ID”
}

---------------- PAUSE

wget https://github.com/dweidenfeld/plexdrive/releases/download/4.1.0-beta-1498656614/plexdrive-linux-amd64
mv plexdrive-linux-amd64 plexdrive

sudo mv plexdrive /usr/local/bin/

cd /usr/local/bin/

sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/plexdrive

sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/plexdrive

cd ~
cd …
cd …
sudo mkdir /plex

sudo plexdrive --uid=1002 --gid=1002 -o allow_other -v 2 --refresh-interval=1m /plex

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Just a heads up, if you haven’t already installed plexdrive it’s possibly worth waiting for the next realase which appears to remove Mongodb and use boltdb instead.

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Ooofff, see that is why I was reluctant to update my tutorial. I wish he made up his mind what to use…

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@per_PLEX_ed said:
Ooofff, see that is why I was reluctant to update my tutorial. I wish he made up his mind what to use…

Great job on the tutorial, very easy to understand and like how its explained in detail. I hope it stays updated for future updates. =)

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Thank you Kraevin! And I just noticed… congrats on your ninja status! o:)

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Thanks @per_PLEX_ed =)

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@Christophorus said:
Just a heads up, if you haven’t already installed plexdrive it’s possibly worth waiting for the next realase which appears to remove Mongodb and use boltdb instead.

At least the people on the plexdrive slack channel are nice and helpful. They helped me upgrade to 4.0.0 from 3 very quickly. I’m sure they can do the same with 4.x

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Version 5.0 with boltdb, so far, has been very stable and looks promising

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@hthighway said:
Version 5.0 with boltdb, so far, has been very stable and looks promising

Even more stable than 4.0.0? I don’t think I’ve had a single problem with 4.0.0.

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@danjames92 said:

@hthighway said:
Version 5.0 with boltdb, so far, has been very stable and looks promising

Even more stable than 4.0.0? I don’t think I’ve had a single problem with 4.0.0.

4.0.0 is good, but I ran into issues when there were multiple concurrent streams playing. 5.0 seems to handle that better

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I will also jump on the VPS wagon, just ordered one and hope to be able to set it up soon. Already looking forward to it :slight_smile:
Hope that I won’t have too many questions to you guys :wink:

Edit:
Gotta say a huge thank you for the guide, went butter smooth on my ubuntu 16.04 VPS. The only hiccup I had was in the starting script of plexdrive the option “–clear-chunk-max-size” is obviously not available anymore and led to a failure of the script. I just deleted, dunno if now my VPS will explode due to that :wink:

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Can someone point me in the right direction regarding a script (and then setting up that script) to move Sonnarr or Radarr downloaded content from the completed folder on the VPS to Google Drive.

I have a UnionFS mount setup just need a little help on what to do next.

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@Coxeroni said:
I will also jump on the VPS wagon, just ordered one and hope to be able to set it up soon. Already looking forward to it :slight_smile:
Hope that I won’t have too many questions to you guys :wink:

Edit:
Gotta say a huge thank you for the guide, went butter smooth on my ubuntu 16.04 VPS. The only hiccup I had was in the starting script of plexdrive the option “–clear-chunk-max-size” is obviously not available anymore and led to a failure of the script. I just deleted, dunno if now my VPS will explode due to that :wink:

It does work…

–clear-chunk-max-size=50G for example works fine for me.

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@danjames92 said:

@Coxeroni said:
I will also jump on the VPS wagon, just ordered one and hope to be able to set it up soon. Already looking forward to it :slight_smile:
Hope that I won’t have too many questions to you guys :wink:

Edit:
Gotta say a huge thank you for the guide, went butter smooth on my ubuntu 16.04 VPS. The only hiccup I had was in the starting script of plexdrive the option “–clear-chunk-max-size” is obviously not available anymore and led to a failure of the script. I just deleted, dunno if now my VPS will explode due to that :wink:

It does work…

–clear-chunk-max-size=50G for example works fine for me.

Strange, gave me an error… If I run ‘plexdrive --help’ it also does not appear as valid option.