Shared mariadb database for multiple plex servers + wake on lan

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Hello,

1/ shared maria db database
I initially installed plex server on my synology nas (ds918+),
the native plex server synology app (and also tested docker plex).

One server is great for multiple Apple TVs at home + ocasional streaming to mobile devices.

Then i shared the server to a friend,
and transcoding make the server unusable when home + remote simultaneous usage.
I suppose some file formats are too heavy to transcode and the server is overloaded.
(and i have docker containers, home assistant OS vm, and other stuff on the same nas)

Because of that situation,
i installed second server on windows 11 pc with recent Nvidia card.
Transcoding problems solved.

So now i have two separate servers, and all my media are indexed twice.
This is great to have multiple servers, one for home usage other for external sharing.

This situation is not optimal, because now i have multiple separate plex databases.
Every time i need to correct media mis-matching on two servers,
sync/scan libraries on two servers, all data is duplicated, etc …

Ideally it would be great, the possibility to install many servers for CPU/GPU load balance.
But it would be greater to setup shared database for all servers.
So data would not be duplicated and maintenance and media matching would happen once.

Please implement possibility to load all data for all servers into one mariadb database.
And possibility to share one Plex Media Server folder for all servers so media covers and other stuff will not be duplicated.

One main server would do all the maintenance and scanning,
the others would just access shared data.

2/ wake on lan
PC is consuming many watts, much more than a synology nas,
so the friend switch on the pc via wake on lan app than watch a movie and the pc goes to sleep two hours later automatically.

Il would be nice to have wake on lan + sleep function in the mobile plex apps,
so the friend would wake up the pc than put it to sleep directly form plex mobile app.

Best regards :slight_smile:

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Never going to happen. The root issue is curating the media properly.
(Most just download something and throw it at PMS expecting it to play perfectly).

Curating the media correctly, understanding what causes transcoding, is vital to playback of high bitrate / HEVC HDR content on Synology NAS systens. Once subtitle burning is eliminated (avoided), any J3455 or above CPU will work well.

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Ok but i have massive libraries, difficult to know wich media are a burden.

So other suggestion : have a track of load generated by each media somewhere,
so i could easily find all media that cause heavy load.
Ideally directly from the plex interface.

Perhaps store a performance/load score for each media with existing metadata.

Best regards :slight_smile:

PS :
Having a Plex swarm with multiple connected instances and shared database
would be great too for mass media transcoding, but i understand it’s an enormous re-work for a small public who would use it.

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