DanielCoffey

Sorted - the Advanced View - Force Update did the trick. No idea why the Basic View - Check for Updates did not though.

I have tried stopping/restarting the docker from Dashboard - Apps and also Docker - Check for Updates and it refuses to update me to 1.0. It just says "Using version: 0.9.16.6.1993-5089475 from Public latest". PMS itself of course says there is an update available. What do I check next, please? EDIT : Oh, hang on a moment - I just spotted the Advanced View button and that revealed the Force Update option. Let me see how that goes... brb.

Is the Plex 1.0 restricted to Plex Pass members or is it available for non-members? I have stopped/restarted the Docker and am still on 0.9.16.6. Log below... ------------------------------------- _ _ _ | |___| (_) ___ | / __| | |/ _ \ | \__ \ | | (_) | |_|___/ |_|\___/ |_| Brought to you by linuxserver.io We do accept donations at: https://www.linuxserver.io/donations ------------------------------------- GID/UID ------------------------------------- User uid: 99 User gid: 100 ------------------------------------- Using version: 0.9.16.6.1993-5089475 from Public latest No need to update! ‘/defaults/plexmediaserver’ -> ‘/etc/default/plexmediaserver’ Starting Plex Media Server. Starting Avahi daemon Starting dbus-daemon 6 3000 /config/Library/Application Support unlimited Jun 25 14:24:30 Tower syslog-ng[43]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.5.3'

Perfect - I confirm that 2016.06.20 works as expected. Cheers!

ISSUE : Dynamix S3 Sleep (2016.06.19) not Sleeping when invoked from Array Operation tab. UNRAID : 6.1.9 Plus I checked my plugins for updates today and saw that the WebGUI, S3 Sleep and System Temperature were all wanting to be updated. After an update, I left the server running and we watched a movie. After we were done, I came back to the WebGUI - Main - Array Operation tab and clicked the Sleep button. The label for the button changed to "Sleeping..." but the server did not enter the sleep state. Fans were still running and the WebGUi still responded The previous version of the plugin certainly worked as I have got used to the fans stopping and hearing the click of the PSU turning off. I stopped, rebooted and restarted the server but there was no change in the behaviour of the sleep button. My system spec in my forum sig is correct.

It is looking like I need to get my dual-boot issues sorted. At the moment I have been advised to look at disabling BIOS FastBoot and Win10 Fast Start to see what Win10 is doing on Shut Down.

Thanks for the thoughts. I have poked the Linux Mint hardware forum with my dual-boot issues but that sub-forum is a bit on the quiet side at the moment. In the mean time I will wait and see what the good folks here think about my use case for Virtualization. Since I wanted to get a new machine within the next half year or so I figured I should start thinking ahead about the important choices (such as VT-d support).

I have been reading Jon's blog about gaming on your NAS and I have been wondering if Virtualization is appropriate for my specific usage so I thought I would ask. I currently have a small NAS with unRAID 6.1.9 Plus running a single PLEX docker serving an Apple TV 4. I also have a PC which is set to dual-boot to Win10 for Steam games that are Windows-based and for Photoshop CS6. The same PC is used in Linux Mint 17.3 for all household tasks such as browsing, finance, online shopping and any of my Steam games that are available for Linux. I am having issues when dual-booting from Win10 back to Linux in that USB devices are not initialised correctly most of the time, requiring a PSU reset and cold reboot which is a pain when you have to swap over several times a day. I am aware that the current hardware is not suitable for Virtualization as I have an i7 4770K which does not support VT-d but in the next few months or so I will be planning a new build and wondered if I could combine both PCs into one device. It would have one CPU (with iGPU), one gaming GPU, one monitor, one keyboard, mouse and tablet. There would be my 6 current unRAID drives plus a few SSDs outside the array. I would not be expecting the Win10 VM and Linux VM to be active at the same time (one would sleep while I used the other). Do you think Virtualization is appropriate or should I be looking to sort out my dual-boot issues?

And I have found the reason why my SD DVDs at 576p were being transcoded... PMS - Media Info shows "Anamorphic 1" which means the pixels are not "square" so the movie needs transcoding. Apparently we can let PLEX do this or use Handbrake to correct it once. It is only likely to be an issue on DVDs, not BDs. Previous discussion : https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/130104/stop-pms-transcoding-anamorphic-mkv-files-dvd-rips-from-720x576-to-719x404

Thanks for that link - it is to the page of settings that Plex uses when you do need it to transcode. I am a little further forward now thanks to some searching in the bowels of reddit. === There is an easy way to see if Plex is transcoding a movie or not. 1. Begin playback on your PHT device. 2. Open the PMS web page and click the "Now Playing" pulse icon on the top right. 3. Click on the "I" Info icon (or press "I" apparently). You will see information on the video and audio streams along with which streams are Direct and which are Transcoding. When I streamed a BD 1080p movie, I saw "Transcoding... Video transcode (h264), Audio transcode (ac3)". This was when my unRAID CPU was reporting 100% load initial buffering and 40% upkeep buffering. I checked the PHT settings in the Apple TV PLEX app and under Play - Settings - Quality I saw "8Mb, 1080p" was selected by default. This meant that PMS was being asked by PHT to transcode the original video stream down from Original to 8Mb hence the high CPU load. I looked at the PHT - Settings - Local Video Quality and changed it to "Original 1080p" and resumed the playback. Instantly the CPU load dropped right down. Checking the PMS - Now Playing - Info page I saw "Transcoding... Video DirectStream Audio transcode (ac3)". The unRAID CPU was now reporting 40% load initial buffering and 15% upkeep buffering which is a lot more acceptable. The reason the audio was still being transcoded was that the source was 5.1 and my playback television was 2.0 so some simple audio transcode was required. === Now an oddity... I then tried playing a SD 576p DVD and saw a high unRAID CPU load again so I looked into it. The source was Video 576p H264, the audio was AAC Stereo. PMS - Now Playing - Info reported "Transcoding... Video transcode (h264), Audio DirectStream" and the unRAID CPU load was 85% load initial buffering and 30% upkeep buffering. What was going in here was that PMS was offering 576p but PHT was demanding "Original, 1080p" so PMS was having to upsample the video stream from 576p to 1080p. The audio was going straight through as AAC 2.0. The PLEX Apple TV app currently does not seem to make a distinction between SD and HD source and applies "Original, 1080p" to both SD and HD content even though my television would be happy to do the work. This is not a big issue for me as the large majority of my library is BD 1080p content with only about 20% being still DVD 576p. I can live with it but will continue to look into it.

Hmm... I seem to tick the boxes on codec types for both audio and video. Is the 40% CPU load just network and IO overhead then or is some sort of transcoding going on anyway? Does PLEX report if it has had to transcode to a log at all?

I posted this question to the PLEX forums earlier today but they don't get as many eyeballs as threads here so I thought I would see if someone has the answer. I am wondering what is the preferred container and codec for my BD movies that I will be playing on an Apple TV 4 with the intention of reducing transcoding on the fly. On unRAID 6.1.9 I am seeing a single stream CPU load of about 40% on an i3-4160 3.6GHz once initial buffering is over and I was wondering if this was normal. The situation at the moment is that I have the unRAID LimeTech Docker version of Plex (non-PlexPass) running on my NAS (Intel i3-4160 3.6GHz, 16Gb 1600 RAM, WD Caviar Red drives) on a wired ethernet (cat6) connection to a new Apple TV 4 running the current Plex App. When I watch the unRAID CPU load when I play a movie it pegs at 100% for about 20s while buffering then jumps between 0% and 40% as chunks are buffered over the LAN. The original movies are of course MKV files taken from my BDs with a variety of audio types but they have all been passed through ffmpeg to convert to MP4 with AAC audio on the following settings... ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c:v copy -c:a libfdk_aac -b:a 128k output.mp4 When I look at one of the movies in VLC I see the following... Stream 0 : Video, Codec H264 MPEG-4 AVC (part10)(avc1), Resolution 1920x1080, Frame rate 24, Decoded format Planar 4:2:0 YUV Stream 1 : Audio, Codec MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a), Channels 3F2R/LFE, Sample rate 48000 Hz Stream 2 : Subtitle, Codec tx3g, Language English Should I be converting them to something else or is the CPU load normal given they are not compressed?

Add the following to the end of your /config/go file, reboot and check the Dynamix plugins again. # modprobe for sensors modprobe coretemp modprobe it87 force_id=0x8728 This will allow you to monitor the motherboard and cpu temps as well as the two fan speed channels. I have the following in my /config/sensors.conf chip "acpitz-virtual-0" label temp1 "MB Temp" label temp2 "CPU Temp" I have not created labels for the fans yet but it8728 - pwm1 is CPUFAN and it8728 - pwm2 is SYSFAN.

A quick search for Gigabyte Z97 bios wake on lan throws this bios setting up (I have the H97 and its bios is different)... "Under Advanced, enable the network Stack and the set Ipv4/Ipv6 PXE Support as desired. <--- this is your wake on.."

Does ethtool report Wake-On: g?

I have no idea what that problem is. Can you explain?

Yes I did get it working - but only on the Intel NIC. I am on Linux Mint now rather than Windows but I have a desktop icon that uses the powerwake app with the MAC address of the Intel NIC and it wakes when I poke it. I hear the PSU click, the fans go to max (as they should) then the Dynamix fan script drops them back to low as specified in the Fan Control plugin. Note that I had to add the following lines to the go file in the /config folder because the specific it87 implementation on the GA-H97N board is not in the unRAID kernel yet... # modprobe for sensors modprobe coretemp modprobe it87 force_id=0x8728 Dymanix will correctly sleep the server according to the settings you specify. I have not yet worked how to handle the monthly parity check or the early morning Mover job in conjunction with the Sleep plugin so I do them by hand when I remember.

I quite understand. Since making this request I have actually switched from Windows to Linux Mint so I have already come across how stable Linux distros will wait for certain newer features to appear in the kernel family they are using. It is good to know that this may simply resolve itself in the future so I will keep looking at the uNRAID changelog for kernel updates. I can then see what happens if I remove my modprobe edit and reboot.

The best place for that might be Feature Requests, plotrasd. I put in a request for the it87 drivers for my mainboard in there.

An update... by default the GA-H97N-WIFI board enables both the Atheros and Intel NICs. Because the BIOS is badly labelled, it is hard to work out which is which but by disabling the Atheros NIC, unRAID automatically selects the Intel one. The result of ethtool eth0 is now... ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: No Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: No Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on MDI-X: on (auto) Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000007 (7) drv probe link Link detected: yes So it looks like I am now making progress towards having the NAS sleep but wake on LAN when wanted.

I am trying to find out if the Gigabyte H97N-WIFI mITX board supports WOL properly. I can use the Dynamix S3 Sleep plugin to successfully put the NAs to sleep but I can't get it to wake up again without pressing the power button. I am running unRAID 6.0.1 at the moment. The only BIOS setting to do with WOL on the current H97N BIOS is the Wake On Lan one which I confirmed was enabled. ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on MDI-X: Unknown Current message level: 0x000060e4 (24804) link ifup rx_err tx_err hw wol Link detected: yes Any thoughts on what I should check next?

Does it require Perl to be installed?

A quick question about System AutoFan... how many fans need to exceed the Low Temp before the PWM channel is switched on? I have picked my SYS_FAN channel which has the following settings - Min PWM Value 50, Low Temp 25, High Temp 35, Refresh 1 min. While watching a movie my drive temps are *, 27C, *, *, * (Array of 5 devices 27C) and the fans are off. EDIT : I spun the drives down and up and the display updated to 25C, 29C, 23C, 23C, 28C (Array of 5 devices 25.6C)

Here's the link for the sensors-detect... http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Devices

I can confirm that for the Gigabyte H97N-WIFI board, adding the following line to the go script forces the System Temp and Fan Control scripts to detect a portion of the generic it87 driver that recognises the IT8620E chip in the board... modprobe it87 force_id=0x8728 In my case it picked up three PWM channels but of course only two have headers on the board. it8728-pwm1 is CPU_FAN and I suspect that it8728-pwm2 will be SYS_FAN.