In this guide, I’ll show you how to create an automation that sends a notification whenever one of your Plex users start watching something. This automation was found in this community forum post. This is handy for a lot of reasons. Sometimes it’s neat to just see who is actually utilizing your Plex server. Other…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to copy (upload) files to Google Drive using a simple Powershell script. This is a great way to automate the process of moving items to the cloud for backup and retention purposes. On my home server, I have a storage array specifically for backups (R:\) I…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup and install Plex-Automatic-Preroll-Gui to automate the prerolls that play before you start a Plex movie. If this sounds familiar, it’s because I wrote a step-by-step guide on how to do this last year. However, the developer JUST released a new version which now includes…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to automatically start Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, NZBGet, or any other application automatically after your server reboots. This guide will be for anyone running these services on Windows 10, Windows 11, or Windows Server 2019. If you are running into an issue with Sonarr not starting with…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to install ErsatzTV on a Windows Server 2019 server. ErsatzTV is similar to DizqueTV; it’s an application that lets you create TV channels from your locally stored content. I’ve also written a guide on How To Install DizqueTV if you’d like to set that up instead….
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to install dizqueTV on Windows Server 2019. DizqueTV is an awesome application that lets you create pseudo “TV channels” from your locally stored Plex media. There are installers for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Docker, and raspberry pi, so anyone can set this up! I have Plex installed…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to run a batch file during a certain time window. This also works for .CMD files, Powershell files, or really any other program you want to run. I am purposely not using Task Scheduler for this. Here’s my use case: I have Blue Iris+Deepstack installed on…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to send motion alerts (analyzed by Deepstack) from your Blue Iris NVR to Telegram (Option 1). I will also show you how to attach a Deepstack-analyzed photo of your tracked object and send it to Telegram (Option 2). One of the biggest advantages of using a…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup a Telegram notification bot. Telegram is a fantastic open-source cloud-hosted instant messaging software. It’s used by tens of millions of people all over the world and has integrations for many popular sites and services. I primarily use Telegram for notifications. To monitor my self-hosted…
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to add another camera to Blue Iris. Rather than manually configuring each security camera, Blue Iris has a handy “Copy from another camera” feature, which will copy the existing settings of one camera and apply it to a 2nd one. This is a super easy to…