In this guide, I’m going to show to how to setup and configure Blue Iris on a Windows Server 2019 computer. Blue Iris is a local NVR security camera software. With one of the latest updates in early 2021, you can optionally turn on object detection using Deepstack integration. Blue Iris is extremely powerful and…
As any good Plex server owner will tell you, one of the most important things you can do is backup your Plex metadata. Ideally, you should be following the 3-2-1 backup rule, where you keep 3 copies of your data, on two different mediums, with one of those being offline/offsite. In the event you Plex…
Did you know you can add a custom image as the background to your self-hosted Homer dashboard? It’s pretty simple and easy to do (you can actually see an example of this on the Homer github page), but just in case you missed this like I did – I’m going to show you how to…
A few months ago on Reddit I came across another promising “content request & discovery” platform for my Plex users: Conreq. Conreq is similar to Ombi, Petio, and Overseerr. It’s an application that allow your Plex users to search for media for and request new TV shows and Movies to download to your media server….
In this guide, I’m going to show you how to setup Plex Assistant, which is a project that integrates with Google Assistant. This allows you to say things “Hey Google, tell Plex to play Game of Thrones on Living Room Chromecast”. There are two installation methods available for Plex Assistant. One of the methods is…
Have you ever wanted to randomize your Plex movie pre-rolls? How about schedule Thanksgiving prerolls in November, but Christmas prerolls in December? What about change prerolls every single day? With this awesome Plex-Automated-Preroll script, you can! The only things you need to get started are: Plex server Python 3.7 PlexAPI A few required Python packages…
One of the things I love about Sonarr is that everything just works. You add a TV show, it automatically downloads the latest season or episode, places it into the correct folder, and Plex picks it up and displays it in your library. Boom. Within just a couple minutes, the episode you requested can now…
Before I get started with this guide, I wanted to preface this by saying: PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS WITHOUT ASKING PERMISSION. Your friends are willingly sharing their library with you. Whenever you download their media, you are consuming their bandwidth. Please be courteous and ask ask permission first. With that disclaimer out of the…
If you’re racking your brain trying to figure out how to access Tautulli remotely, you’re in luck! This guide will walk through the step by step exactly what you need to do to access Tautulli from another computer in your house in 2021. It’s pretty simple to do. Once you make this small change, you…
If you’re reading this article, there’s a good chance you have software like Plex, Sonarr, Tautulli, or Jackett running on your home PC. There’s nothing wrong with having lots of services running. In fact, most of you probably do (me included!). However, the problem is that each one of those apps have their own IP…