I knew the day would come. I’m still running PMS version 1.14.1.5488 from December 2018. I’ve had absolutely zero reason to upgrade, I don’t need any of the new features or DVR functionality, and it seems like 1.15+ has been plagued with issues. My 1.14 server has been rock solid running on FreeNAS. But then I got an email from Plex a couple weeks ago saying that:
“Starting January 31st, Plex Media Server version 1.18.2 or higher will be required to continue fetching TV show posters and episode thumbnails from TheTVDB.”
I’m now faced with a dilemma, stay on something solid and lose TheTVDB artwork or upgrade.
So my question is: has anyone else upgraded from 1.14 to 1.18 train directly? Will this be an issue? Or should I first upgrade to the intermediate versions?
With software you always eventually have to update it. Eventually fetching TV show posters and episode thumbnails are not going to be the only thing that breaks. You almost always shoot yourself in the foot in the long run by holding back updates. If you have a bug with an update rollback 1 version then when the next update rolls out try that don’t just stop all updates. This is the nature of software, you are basically complaining that water is wet.
For what it is worth I am on 1.18.2.2058 and aside from PMS not auto-detecting new media and having to manually scan I do not have any issues.
Also to be fair I have had that issue for quite some time and can’t remember how far back… since I set it up I believe.
Running FreeNAS 11.3 u1 (been on this server for little over a year, started on Freenas 11.2 u?)
I’ve been regularly staying up to date on releases. Never had any issues.
However I had a bad feeling as i performed the recent one. (running on win10)
There have been a few reported issues.
I personally suffered consistant freezing within ~5mins on any video i played.
Never got my DS1019 to work remotely with 1.18 - one user couldn’t see server, other got the “No Soup for You” message. Couldn’t delete shared users either. Downgraded to 1.16, works fine. Something broke in 1.18, big time.
Because they did seem to work for me, at least back when I was using 1.16. I’d be uploading several movies to the directory outside the jail and some of them would appear in the library before I’d finished my uploads. And I mean like 10-20 minutes after I’d uploaded them, not long enough for a regular interval scan to have run (mine’s set to every 6 hours).
Something else triggered the scan. Automatic would mean a file system “wacther”, they would be added almost instantly, not 15mins later. I replied in another post why this is not possible (and again never was in FreeBSD) Plex library not detecting new movie automatically - FreeBSD 12.1
Ok, to update my post above, I had some issues with 1.18 and then managed to have them with 1.14 as well though it took longer to surface, figured it out with @sa2000 that it seems as though in my migration from Mac PMS to Synology DS1019 PMS, the security token was screwed up. Once the migration (or update, perhaps in your case) is complete, sign out from Plex account on your sever to allow it to be “unclaimed”, then sign back in. That’s what fixed it on my end, no issues so far with the latest 1.18. Spent all weekend dinking around with this and that’s what we’ve figured out.
Update:
TL;DR: I went ahead and updated from 1.14.1.5488 directly to 1.18.8.2527 and everything is running fine. Note that I’m running FreeNAS 11.2-U7
I use PMS_Updater.sh in my Plex jail. I quickly noticed that PMS_Updater.sh has been, uh um, updated. So I grabbed the latest version from GitHub. But then fetching the latest Plex version failed. I had to manually download the latest Plex tar file and use “-l” option to update manually.
I had to reboot all my clients and re-login as admin before any of the other Plex users could work. Not surprising, but just an FYI for anyone else trying this. You have to re-login as admin on your clients.
Everything is up and running fine now and PMS_Updater.sh seems to be working too.
