Reply to: Home Entertainment - Plex and NAS

[TheFaQQer]

Works for me on Android, so maybe it's an iOS thing.

Chose an episode of TV to watch, and synced it rather than downloading. Watched it on my phone and then checked the server and it was showing as watched. I'd hit the sync button on the phone in the meantime just to be sure.

Edit - didn't need to press the sync button, it did it automatically for me.

[TheFaQQer]

Yes, doing that now as we speak, new episodes are downloading, will see if it syncs back to the server what I have watched

BTW I have no idea how this works

[SimonMac]

Do you then hit sync on the local content afterwards?

Yes, doing that now as we speak, new episodes are downloading, will see if it syncs back to the server what I have watched

[TheFaQQer]

I usually sync unwatched episodes, so once they are watched locally I had hoped they are marked as watched on the main server

Do you then hit sync on the local content afterwards?

[SimonMac]

Do you download the files or do you tell them to sync?

There is a sync option available which might be what you're looking for.

I usually sync unwatched episodes, so once they are watched locally I had hoped they are marked as watched on the main server

[TheFaQQer]

I've bought the Plex Pass so I can sync content from the server to my iPad for when I am out of coverage, works fine however there is an issue that when I watch something locally on the iPad it does not sync as watched back on the main server. Is this usual or is something not working?

Do you download the files or do you tell them to sync?

There is a sync option available which might be what you're looking for.

[stek]

There is no keyboard on a iPad, but other than you are probably right, just for the life of me can't work out what I need to change to sync the watched status back from local to the server.

I don't think it can do it - I upload corries for mrs while she's abroad and I can even sync them down to her iPad from here (she's technically challenged!) but I don't see anything in the transcoding list while she's watching them - looks like Plex has totally disowned them at this point.

[SimonMac]

pbkac imo hth bidi

There is no keyboard on a iPad, but other than you are probably right, just for the life of me can't work out what I need to change to sync the watched status back from local to the server.

[northernladuk]

i've bought the plex pass so i can sync content from the server to my ipad for when i am out of coverage, works fine however there is an issue that when i watch something locally on the ipad it does not sync as watched back on the main server. Is this usual or is something not working?

pbkac imo hth bidi

[SimonMac]

I've bought the Plex Pass so I can sync content from the server to my iPad for when I am out of coverage, works fine however there is an issue that when I watch something locally on the iPad it does not sync as watched back on the main server. Is this usual or is something not working?

[Platypus]

Got Plex running on a few Amazon Fire sticks, My library is controlled by iTunes so everything is in either a \Movies\ or \Tv Shows\ folder, and iTunes handles everything almost perfectly (sometimes iTunes gives a show a track number so the actual files are 01 03 05 etc rather than 1,2,3, but this is easily fixed.

However something funky is happening with the TV Show "The Missing" episode 2 and 3 of season 1 are both being flagged in Plex as Episode 3, which has the ② denoting two files for that episode. If I drop in episode 2 only it still comes up as Episode 3, the file names are fixed in the file system but no matter what happens it still gets recognised as Episode 3

Have a look on line to see how plex decides which is which episode, and also file name conventions. Plex can be quite fussy.

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/art...Based-TV-Shows

[SimonMac]

Got Plex running on a few Amazon Fire sticks, My library is controlled by iTunes so everything is in either a \Movies\ or \Tv Shows\ folder, and iTunes handles everything almost perfectly (sometimes iTunes gives a show a track number so the actual files are 01 03 05 etc rather than 1,2,3, but this is easily fixed.

However something funky is happening with the TV Show "The Missing" episode 2 and 3 of season 1 are both being flagged in Plex as Episode 3, which has the ② denoting two files for that episode. If I drop in episode 2 only it still comes up as Episode 3, the file names are fixed in the file system but no matter what happens it still gets recognised as Episode 3

[SueEllen]

Thing is at bed time no matter how knackered I am I cant sleep, brain working on plan B, C all the way to Z, so I put some familar telly on on the lappy and I'm away in five mins!

Has to be classic familiar stuff, owt new or involved and the synapses are at it again....

I find BBC Four documentaries put me to sleep particularly ones about travel. Oddly I've watched most them before in the day and have been fine.

However my new best sleep thing is that Grand Tour carp on Amazon.

[stek]

There's something ironic about using modern technology to watch The Good Life.

Having said all that, I'll try it later on. Pull out the internet cable and see if it still works. You never know with these things.

Thing is at bed time no matter how knackered I am I cant sleep, brain working on plan B, C all the way to Z, so I put some familar telly on on the lappy and I'm away in five mins!

Has to be classic familiar stuff, owt new or involved and the synapses are at it again....

[stek]

If you used the http:/plex.tv/ to connect to your server then of course it needs internet. But you can always use http://local_IP to connect to your server on the LAN without internet, even from the iOS app (can't comment for android but i guessit similar). Yes, the iOS app first goes to plex.tv, but you can manually configure a LAN IP and not need internet.

Furry Muff then! I back down, just it fooking annoyed me at the time when I had other shiit to deal with, was a temporary house between two stressful moves! All we had was 3G internet provided by the AirBnb guy that lasted like 3 hours a month.....