Similar issue here - Thecus N5550. Last successful upgrade was PlexMediaServer_1.14.0.5470-9d51fdfaa_x64. Tried to “upgrade” to 1.14.1.5488 and .mod install stayed on Installing app for over 2 hours. Did what I shouldn’t have done and rebooted the NAS. Plex is no longer in the list of installed apps. Tried to install 1.14.1.5488 again and same issue with stalling for an exceptionally long time. I’ve now tried to reinstall 1.14.0.5470 and Thecus gives the message that I can’t install it because it’s an older version than the one already installed (1.14.1.5488), but which I can’t do anything about because it’s not in the list of apps in Thecus. So, I assume my server is completely FUBAR and all watch history will be gone once I have a viable .mod to install. Thanks, Plex.
This on top of the the unacceptable buffering of Live TV, which then craps up the DVR recordings, make Plex a 2nd rate piece of software to Emby - where I have no buffering issues! I’ve been trying to avoid leaving Plex since I have the lifetime pass but pretty sure I need to cut my losses.
trumpy81 - the buffering is clearly a Plex issue since there is no buffering issue on Emby, as I stated in my first post. Thank You for restating what I already wrote in that Plex records whatever is delivered to it - that’s exactly why I said your advice of re-encoding wouldn’t do any good. Garbage in, garbage out. My set up is the issue? Same tuner, same network, same hardware all around with Plex and Emby. You should pay attention to what’s written before offering advice. The fact you’ve taken offense at my response is a clear indication the advise was poor. As for me not being able to “figure out” Infuse - you very clearly and definitively stated Infuse has live TV functionality, specifically with AppleTV, and that the combination is a solution. So you should be able to give some direction on how to do that, or you are simply parroting something you read, or thought you read. As of September 2018 there are several posts in Firecore’s own forum where their people agree live tv and dvr would be a great feature for them, and they offer workarounds using other apps, software and hardware (sound familiar?).
One more thing on the buffering - there are numerous users with this issue, it appears more that have an issue than don’t. And numerous “solutions” of “get better hardware”. Again, Emby has it figured out so why does anyone suggest anything other than figuring out the bottleneck in Plex.
To everyone else reading this thread - sorry to hijack it. I’m done.
I’ve done a lot of looking but can’t this information…which Plex file(s) do I need to delete to allow a rollback install?
Or maybe easier to say, which do I NOT want to delete? everything in raid0/data/module/Plex/Plex_Media_Server needs to stay? Everything else can go? trumpy81 this may be what you’ve stated but I want to be sure
From my original post: 1.14.1.5488 was a Charlie Foxtrot for me and so many others. Trying to rollback to the last working version I get the message that a newer version of Plex is already installed so no joy with a rollback. I can’t uninstall 1.1.14.5488 because it’s not showing in the Application Server section of the NAS dashboard.
I’m unable to watch recorded live TV because the signal is being buffered, frequently and intermittently, by Plex so the recordings are crap. No amount of re-encoding will fix that. As for using Infuse to watch live TV - I’ve never seen such a feature and don’t see it after looking through the app. At least not in Infuse Pro 4. There’s Pro 5 but I’m not paying again for something that I use maybe once YEAR, especially when I have Plex, and paid for it, that is supposed to do what you’re thinking I should get elsewhere. Plus I’ve already said Emby streams without issue, and does everything else Plex does. Most of your advice is similar to “reinstall Windows to fix all that’s wrong with your PC” instead of someone actually fixing the problem.
trumpy81 - please quit moving my post(s) concerning the 1.14.1.5488 errors to the thread you created for my issues with Live TV buffering. I’ve again pasted below the comments relative to this thread:
From Dec 21
Similar issue here - Thecus N5550. Last successful upgrade was PlexMediaServer_1.14.0.5470-9d51fdfaa_x64. Tried to “upgrade” to 1.14.1.5488 and .mod install stayed on Installing app for over 2 hours. Did what I shouldn’t have done and rebooted the NAS. Plex is no longer in the list of installed apps. Tried to install 1.14.1.5488 again and same issue with stalling for an exceptionally long time. I’ve now tried to reinstall 1.14.0.5470 and Thecus gives the message that I can’t install it because it’s an older version than the one already installed (1.14.1.5488), but which I can’t do anything about because it’s not in the list of apps in Thecus. So, I assume my server is completely FUBAR and all watch history will be gone once I have a viable .mod to install. Thanks, Plex.
This on top of the the unacceptable buffering of Live TV, which then craps up the DVR recordings, make Plex a 2nd rate piece of software to Emby - where I have no buffering issues! I’ve been trying to avoid leaving Plex since I have the lifetime pass but pretty sure I need to cut my losses.
Oh, so they make more sense to be in topic titled Thecus NAS - Live TV as you had the new one originally named even though the comments at issue are specific to the mess Plex created with 1.14.1.5488, which is much closer to the title of the topic under which I originally posted them. That thread was tagged for server-synology, so it was a simple matter of adding the server-thecus tag to it since any topic can have more than one tag. Or if it was not THAT simple, then moving them to an identically named thread tagged server-thecus. Butr you chose to move them to a completely incorrect thread subject and tag of livetv-dvr, which is extremely poor categorization of the information. And then because I assume you were hurt you couldn’t bother to comment, message or otherwise say why you kept moving them.
So, I’ve done the most correct thing and created a new topic/thread that starts with just my comments, although clearly not just my issue.
And since it was again a suggestion from you (trumpy81) to SSH and delete Plex with the exception of certain files in the Plex Media Server location - do you actually know how to do that, i.e. which files to delete? Or was that suggestion similar to the one suggesting use of Infuse for live tv…you’ve seen the action(s) referenced but don’t know how to do?
