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Simple Home Assistant Notification when Plex is Playing

by Danny March 16, 2022
by Danny March 16, 2022

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn 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…

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How To Copy Files to Google Drive using Powershell

by Danny January 19, 2022
by Danny January 19, 2022

READING TIME: 5 MINUTESIn 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…

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How To Setup Plex-Automatic-Pre-roll-Gui in Windows

by Danny December 21, 2021
by Danny December 21, 2021

READING TIME: 6 MINUTESIn 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…

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How To Automatically Start Sonarr & Radarr After Reboot (Windows)

by Danny October 3, 2021
by Danny October 3, 2021

READING TIME: 9 MINUTESIn 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…

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How To Install ErsatzTV to create IPTV Channels in Plex

by Danny October 2, 2021
by Danny October 2, 2021

READING TIME: 10 MINUTESIn 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…

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How To Install DizqueTV to create IPTV Channels in Plex

by Danny September 28, 2021
by Danny September 28, 2021

READING TIME: 14 MINUTESIn 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…

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Run Batch File During Certain Time Window

by Danny August 21, 2021
by Danny August 21, 2021

READING TIME: 3 MINUTESIn 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…

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How To Send Blue Iris Images to Telegram

by Danny August 18, 2021
by Danny August 18, 2021

READING TIME: 9 MINUTESIn 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…

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How To Setup a Telegram Bot

by Danny August 18, 2021
by Danny August 18, 2021

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn 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…

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How To Add Additional Cameras to Blue Iris (by copying existing cameras)

by Danny August 18, 2021
by Danny August 18, 2021

READING TIME: 4 MINUTESIn 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…

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