Tautulli - Monitor your Plex Media Server

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@SwiftPanda16 any idea how to solve my issue with tautulli?

The issue is all in your browser. It has nothing to do with the Tautulli install or python. Check your browser console (F12) for errors.

This worked great, I only brought over my plexpy.db and reconfigured it from scratch. Thank you!

I was wondering though, I see to put the plex logs into tautulli is optional, but I’m curious what benefits are there to having tautulli being able to see the plex logs?

@SwiftPanda16 https://imgur.com/a/oJzEDjz

ublock origin is disabled on this adress.
no other extentions.
no errors in my console

Update

I solved my issue and Tautulli works 100% again!
The issue was not with my browser, it never was!
The issue was that All of my CSS files were being served with the wrong MIME type, which is causing them to be ignored. Found by Arcanemagus in Discord yesterday.
But there was no proxy software that was causing it.
The cause was Xampp, which is a web server solution, the wierd part is that i only used php, mysql & filezilla services in xampp, i never used Apache.
I installed xampp around 2015, and not used that much since then.
If i had known that Xampp ( probably Apache ) would collide with Tautulli ( probably CherryPy ) i would have removed xampp at once.
The really wierd part is why xampp would start causing problems with tautulli after a server restart.
And why this time? It’s not like i haven’t restarted before…
Anyways i’m glad i got my s…t working again ^^

Is there any way to get the status of library scans or be able to monitor that a scan is currently in progress?

Thanks again for a great Plex addon!

Hey,

I currently use Custom Scripts to build a once a day playlist of Kids TV by using a slightly modified version of https://github.com/blacktwin/JBOPS/blob/master/fun/aired_today_playlist.py

In order to automate it I have tied it to a notification so that it executes every time some new media is added to my server.

Is there a way I can limit its execution to once per day (i.e. run daily at 00:01)?

Thanks

Harroguk

Not within Tautulli, no. It might be nice if the Tautulli newsletter agents allowed running scripts rather than straight to file or email. Currently they do not.
You need to configure a windows scheduler task or Linux cron job to run the python script daily. If you don’t know how, that’s not really a discussion for here or the jbops thread, however, it’s much more related to the jbops thread than here.

Thanks for the heads up. Configuring Task Scheduler isnt an issue. I was just trying to keep everything together in Tautulli.

Thanks

Harroguk

@harroguk - Understood.
Go see if there’s any scheduled task feature request at the Tautulli feathub page. If not, make the request and link from here. I’ll vote for it.
I don’t think it would be that difficult for Jonnywong16 or his team to add. Tautulli has so many other scheduled tasks included, seems natural to add ā€œrun notification or script at ā€˜x’ timeā€

I know the Wiki deals with deleting duplicated libraries, but is there a way (even if I have to manually dig in the db) to merge the contents of duplicated libraries? Or is that what the remove duplicate libraries function does?

I haven’t actually checked the db (don’t have remote access to my setup from work), but thinking about it I’d have to first figure out which ā€œMoviesā€ etc. entry is the active one and then somehow migrate the dataset from the older one in?

If you click on both are they the same section_id in the URL? Just use the delete duplicates.

Like @snorbaard , I have duplicates. Every year, I add a Christmas movies library and share with all my users.
Because I don’t want to see it in my ā€œownā€ admin access library listing through out the year, I delete the library in Plex after the Holidays.
Right now, I have two Christmas library listings in Tautulli.
Different section_ids - Is there a way to have Tautulli merge them into one?
After next Christmas, I’d perform the same action. I like to track the seasonal libraries I do.

Not without manually modifying the database.

Tautulli tries to track the most accurate Plex data (what is actually happening on the server). It’s job is not to make ā€œperfectā€ data. For all intents and purposes, those are two different libraries. By modifying the ID, I would consider that as ā€œfalse dataā€.

What you think about an option to monitor the VideoPreview“s Process? I wood like to see is the Process working, 10 of 20 Movies done etc.

I have been using Tautulli for a month or so now and I’ve seen it update itself a couple of times and seen problems go away as they have been addresses. Within about the last few weeks it seems like my computer is running slower. Python seems to be taking 25% of the CPU according to the task manager. I’m running Plex and Tautulli on a 4 core i5 processor which implies that Tautulli is a single threaded application constantly running. Is this normal? Could it be trying to scan my library? I have about 20k TV episodes and maybe 4k movies or about 20Gb of disk space. Is this just too much for it? Today I added about 130 new items. Would it rescan for each item? If it needs that many CPU cycles I may have to stop using it. Can you give me some ideas for finding the trouble?

Logs are usually a good place to look when trying to troubleshoot any software.

The Tautulli log is the only interesting one. There are about a 1000 lines generated since last night when I reset the system and at that time the CPU utilization was low. I see in the logs where it schedules scans that about 800 lines of info for the 130+ files I added. I don’t see any indication that it is running something over and over again, but I don’t really know what I’m looking for. The last 400 log entries are when it scanned the new stuff and sent me an email for each item. Nothing after all of the ā€œprepping email notificationā€ and ā€œemail notification sentā€ messages. What should I be looking for?

I have no idea. Post them so I can take a look.

Not sure I did this correctly…

The other logs were empty except for notifications where you can see it send out each of the new file email notifications. Also the login logs and you can see my logins. Nothing interesting there. Thank you very much!

Not correct the first try. This time for sure.