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Its Alive!

Its 6 AM, and I got about three hours sleep since I’m sick as a dog so what do I decide to do? Well automate the TV show downloading as you may have noticed last night Game of Thrones was available on the Plex before midnight. Any missing episodes in the entire TV Shows library will hopefully be filled in by the end of this week. Please do bear with me as the server may be a bit slow for a while. If I get enough complaints I’ll dumb down the synchronization and let the streams flow. As of now I am utilizing roughly 65% of my download bandwidth with the upload being fully intact with the exception of more frequent writes to the Plex Database which will be causing spikes in the latency and therefore performance of the playback. However the good news remains that the TV shows are filling up and the new episodes are constantly monitored for release and subsequent download and Plex cataloguing for your enjoyment. I hope you all had a great weekend and enjoy the server. Coming up this week will be a sneak peek at the hardware and software I use to make all… Read More »Its Alive!

Automated Episode Downloading

I’ve been a bit busy but I’ve managed to keep the server up to date. Recently it occurred to me that I could likely automate the entire process from searching to downloading and cataloguing episodes of running TV series which take the most of my time and vigilance to keep up to date. The work on implementing this system has been going very well however you may notice some slow downs with streaming as this process is putting a lot of strain on the system while it catalogues and index what I already have and what I wish to follow. Also coming soon I will give you an in depth look and a behind the scenes of how things work and what system I’m using as well as how I manage to run a media server on a residential service and use the system that runs all of this. LightSpeed

Fixed Corrupt Arrow Episode

It was brought to my attention that Season 2 Episode 14 of Arrow was corrupt. The issue has since been rectified and is viewable for all without a hitch.   Enjoy the awesome series!