I just noticed that plex showed that at 2am this morning “the butler” checked various items. I had to reset the modem and when I updated plex the message was gone. Anyone know anything about a “butler” associated with Plex?

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201553286-Scheduled-Tasks

Lol…in all the time I’ve been running Plex I never noticed and when I did a search on the term and plex nothing came back. Thanks for clarifying.

The Butler?

garypower December 9, 2016, 11:16pm 2

“the butler” is the name for the scheduled tasks.

Run the scheduled task (butler) manually

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