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re: PLEX Servers
Posted on 1/17/26 at 12:08 pm to GeneralLeeAwesome
Posted on 1/17/26 at 12:08 pm to GeneralLeeAwesome
Oh man selfhosting (if you're into such things) is good stuff. I often call it my digital ant farm. Half of the fun is setting it up and tinkering with it. The benefit of this hobby is that you get functional and useful services as an output. Look into proxmox. In layman's terms its a way to split your hardware into multiple servers so you can do multiple different things. In technical terms it's a free and open source hypervisor you can spin up VMs and containers and also easily join multiple computers together so you can move those VMs around. My "main" box is basically an old desktop computer, but its probably at least 8yo. The other two nodes in my cluster are little tiny micro pcs I basically saved from a trash bin. If you're careful with your resource allocation you can do a lot with old hardware.
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Posted on 1/17/26 at 5:35 pm to CAD703X
Thanks
Posted on 1/17/26 at 7:18 pm to GeneralLeeAwesome
If anyone wants to share...
username: YorkTiger
username: YorkTiger
Posted on 1/17/26 at 7:23 pm to GeneralLeeAwesome
Truenas is also a good option with a GUI to help you get started faster.
I run proxmox now but learned the ropes in truenas, which was formally freenas.
I run home assistant in a dedicated raspberry pi but you could easily run it on your hypervisor along with everything else.
What are you thinking for NVR software? Blue Iris and frigate are both solid options
I run proxmox now but learned the ropes in truenas, which was formally freenas.
I run home assistant in a dedicated raspberry pi but you could easily run it on your hypervisor along with everything else.
What are you thinking for NVR software? Blue Iris and frigate are both solid options
Posted on 1/17/26 at 9:41 pm to Vrai
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Truenas is also a good option with a GUI to help you get started faster.
Definitely the most beginner friendly option, especially since it's a zfs solution at its core with some containerization benefits
Posted on 1/18/26 at 11:36 am to Vrai
No, clue at this point. I've been using Google Gemini to guide me along so far
Posted on 1/18/26 at 11:38 am to Vrai
What my goal is with the cameras is that I want them on a LAN and then a way for me to to remote in and see them away from home. I'm thinking that's the most secure option but not completely secure
Posted on 1/19/26 at 5:33 am to MSTiger33
I sent you a share if you want to accept it.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 5:34 am to The Godfather
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The Godfather
What's your plex username? I would like to add you.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:07 am to beauchristopher
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What's your plex username? I would like to add you.
Roncg1
Appreciate it! and thanks to CAD and all the others for all the tips, cant wait to try to get it working again.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 11:24 am to beauchristopher
Hi Beau - if you're still offering, I'll take a share please. My username is JustinTI. Would mainly use as a backup as I have pretty substantial setup myself, which I'd be happy to share if you need a backup as well.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 11:44 am to beauchristopher
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beauchristopher
Until the next episode of Landman I have watched all of Cad's media I'm interested in.
Hook me up, please.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 12:06 pm to junkfunky
its up now.Posted on 1/19/26 at 12:09 pm to GeneralLeeAwesome
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GeneralLeeAwesome
Posted on 1/19/26 at 12:55 pm to CAD703X
Do you use sonarr to automatically grab new releases?
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:31 pm to beauchristopher
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What's your plex username? I would like to add you.
Got it, thanks!
I suddenly feel extremely inferior
Posted on 1/20/26 at 8:11 am to bluebarracuda
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Do you use sonarr to automatically grab new releases?
I use autoBRR with IPT in my setup. It doesn't do as much as sonarr or radarr but I'm not out just grabbing anything and everything. I only have a handful of watch filters.
Posted on 1/20/26 at 11:21 am to The Godfather
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Got it, thanks!
Posted on 1/20/26 at 3:11 pm to notsince98
I was of same mindset using sonarr/radarr and just being mindful to check and get latest episodes each week. Ive since moved my media stack and plex to docker and have added overseerr. It really is handsoff for most part, and has saved me time with going this route.
Posted on 1/27/26 at 10:48 am to BabySam
You guys are light-years beyond me. I just download torrents and put it on my server for plex to grab
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