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Hello everyone, Recently I have been noticing some issues with our CouchPotato installation and rather than try and resurrect it I decided to install and configure Radarr the Movie fork/version of Sonarr. It’s taken some decent work to configure just right because it’s so versatile but I believe I’ve got everything sorted out and it is beautiful. I’ve already been able to find more than I’ve ever been able to and in quality worthy of Plex. The integration of the various newznab services is very efficient and the configuration enables for deep fine tuning. Using this new software we are able to easily set profiles to match the media to and cut off points as to where the file will no longer be monitored for newer/better versions. Radarr also integrates (beta) with requests and has been tested somewhat to ensure functionality. Not that Radarr is still in development so glitches may occur however so far so good and I’m very impressed. Please be sure as usual to report any issues. Enjoy! The LightSpeed Team

Hey everyone, Recently I discovered that some critical settings in CouchPotato had been reset for some reason. These settings included the location of stored media and the details to access the various indexers to search for media. As a result, movies submitted lets say via requests would not find any results as it did not have the information to search for them in the first place. Then it didn’t know where to put it, finally it wasn’t renaming/moving them. This has all been fixed and everything is now catching up with requests and pending acquisitions. Secondly, as part of my weekly maintenance I have fine tuned some settings relating to how requests index what we already have and if it’s been located and downloaded already so it can decide if it will accept the request, or if it’s a duplicate for example it will reject it. I believe what was causing requests to crash so often previously was the fact that every 24 hours or less for some cases, requests would query Sonarr, CouchPotato and Plex databases and compare them to the last result then update as necessary. Because of the sheer size of the databases and the amount of… Read More »Delay in Movie Processing (Fixed) and Optimization

Hello everyone, Seems we can’t catch a break. Basically what happened was the maintenance performed last night went very well and quickly however a recent change interfered with the restoration of the Plex Media Server databases. To avoid data loss such as play progress we moved the database and removed the old one. When Plex re-analyzed the media it pointed to where the codecs were on another version of Plex Media Server and when it couldn’t find them and went to download the correct ones it would fail as these codecs were no longer available for download. See the following link to Plex.tv here. So it seems that once you go past a certain point in versions you can’t really retrieve the necessary codecs and our last backed up versions of these codecs are incompatible with our current Plex version. What does this mean for you? The load balancing script we use is currently not compatible with the newer versions of Plex Media Server so we’ll be running everything off the main server rather than all three for the time being. I’m not concerned that it won’t be able to handle things but it will be doing a lot alone… Read More »Changes to Plex Media Server – Mandatory Updates

Hey everyone, It’s been a crazy ride so far but it appears that the issues plaguing the NAS have vanished as mysteriously as they appeared. Personally I don’t believe that this is the last time we will be dealing with this issue as it was never really discovered what had caused it in the first place therefore nothing was done to remedy it. Then again, maybe something we did worked after all despite our exhaustive log analysis trying to find out anything we could about the issue. For now, I’ll end this section of the post off with an optimistic thumbs up on extended use of the server again. Last but not least, some exciting news to make up for the NAS issues/downtime lately. Imagine that you wanted to watch a horror movie on Plex but not by yourself…kind of. Now up and running is PlexTogether! A third party community project that lets you synchronize your playback sessions and chat in real time as you watch media on Plex! Now there is a lot to getting it going on my end and on the user end so I’m currently accepting beta applications via the contact me page. Just include your… Read More »Is it over? | New Project BETA

Hey everyone, So we are still determining the root cause of the failure(s). Either way if they are software based or hardware based we have action plans in place. Firstly, please note that there will be an extended outage during some critical testing to ascertain if the issue is software based or not by removing all disks from the NAS that are currently mounted and disconnecting the expansion chassis SAS cable and re-initializing the NAS on a fresh 3TB disk with nothing but the QNAP OS installed. Then we wait for stability or a failure. Now this is where it gets tricky since the waiting game will mean the content needed to power the media server won’t be accessible until we see a failure or an extended period of stability. On the other hand if the issue is hardware related which would make sense given the behavior observed (random power up and down cycles with unclean shutdowns). If this is found to be the case then we have already established contact with a very helpful hardware technician who has been assisting us in troubleshooting and would be involved in the potentially eventual RMA of the entire system (drives excluded of… Read More »State of the NAS – Where We Stand