re: more microsoft hell - windows 10 vm edition

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One has zero access to adult VOD, other can only see adult VOD, makes libraries clean.

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no pun intended right?

I hope you named that service "90s video rental store back curtain area"

I haven’t seen that PVE screen in 18 months. Gives me n the creeps.

I’m sure it’s fine. A lot of people use it but I don’t think it makes sense for me as I run 2x very different core ultra minis and at least 12 services using media or AI acceleration or both. Plus I have all NVMe storage and only 3TB live. I back up app data and that’s it.

Has anyone figured out how to make radarr hard link media on NFS shares instead of copying it? Both the qbit category storage and the media folder live on the NFS mount. Simple enough to just put a watchdog on the host but that seems wrong.

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anyone figured out how to make radarr hard link media on NFS shares instead of copying it? Both the qbit category storage and the media folder live on the NFS mount.

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I'm not sure I follow but my shares follow a movies, TV music simple configuration and qbit writes directly to them from the arrs and the media shows up in Plex a few minutes later.

i dont pull things into one place then move it/copy/whatever. it comes in to where it is served from.

eta in short:

/movies <- qbit, plex, prowlarr, radarr seerr
/tv <- qbit, plex, prowlarr, sonarr seerr
/music <-qbit, plex, prowlarr, lidarr

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raid6

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Stinky. Stick with zfs

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something like qbit to /mnt/nfs/share/downloads/raqdarr1 then once finished, radarr should hard link with possibly cleaner file name to /mnt/nfs/media/radarr1. That way qbit still seed and media server gets a clean grab. I think that's the ""standard"" workflow. whatever that means. im not really into this stuff. It works on 1x radarr that is a "local" as in docker binds to local / but it is copying instead of hard linking on the one that binds into /mnt/nfs/... the link happens on the NFS host so maybe it is an NFS issue not getting a link command or something, not sure.

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long time plex user here short time understanding how any of this crap works.

but imo, i dont care what the files are named. once upon a time i tried to fix file names then decided plex could almost always figure it out and it was just easier to make the fixes in the UX for oddballs.

that works much better for movies/tv than music. i still get a '10 cd compilation' and end up with shite everywhere and i have to 'collect' then merge everything to get it into a single title in plex and the real fun..it thinks all 10 are cd1 so i get to manually go in and find the correct cd for each track and change the CD field in the UX.

maybe lidarr could fix some of that with renaming but thats all new to me. been pretty happy over the last 2 decades letting plex do most of that for me and not giving a damn what the filenames are and don't have ot worry about qbit losing the torrent reference.

protip: its stupid easy to get ratio on IPT so set your system to delete it the second it hits 1.0 ratio. or if 2 weeks have passed, do a mass "delete torrents' in qbit. no need to seed anything from IPT after that; you won't get a 'hit and run' message that way for any torrents that haven't reached 1.0 ratio.

I'm finding it extremely hard to get ratio.. but I'm behind VPN so that probably cuts out 75% of the people I can connect with because they can't connect to me, i must connect to them. I have hit and run protection so oh well, i mainly get free stuff and if it's not free, i go small.

good point, i can probably just point everything to the qbit folder and get rid of renaming and then it wont link or copy.

yup. vip and radarr set up with "free" profile that requires custom format "free" that requires that tag. seer only requests free profile.

so i try to point everything back to /downloads and i hit another snag... some are just files not folders and radarr only allows one folder to one movie ratio... more hit and run time.

edit: ok no hit and run... leaving qbit as source of truth to extent possible... so just remove non compatibles from radarr, but i have some stranded in a /media due to a previous blunder.

I freed 350g of redundant files. Thats huge for my ssd only stack. And everything works correctly now. Time for some more 4k remux for the brand new TV. Surprised my little $30 onn 4k+ is actually handling 100+ mbps video. Or at least it seems fine. The VLC graph shows it keeping up and it looks good to me. Making me wonder what people are doing with their Apple TVs and shields and what not.

Edit again: original problem was 99% because I did a /media docker bind and a /downloads so the container saw different file systems. If I did one bind for /mnr/nfs/ instead then it probably would have worked. I don’t know what that’s 100% clear to me when sitting on the couch, but can’t figure it out while in the computer.

My ratio has gone from ~5 to ~2 over the years, but I still have about 9tb of headroom before I get to a 1 ratio

I just had another brainstorm with my huge home network project. Because we have everything from hardware to vms to smart doodads and they all demand attention:

- what am I?
- am I running properly?
- what is my version?
- am I ready for an update?
- where do I live?
- how am I protected? Backup? Redundancy?
- who depends on me?
- who gets notified if I have a problem?


So I'm going to take everything and turn it into an API

Everything gets to answer those basic questions and with that we can populate a dashboard or webpage or whatever.

This json response will be the source of truth and the only way to preserve my sanity after everything is live. Everything uses the API.

Still in development but it's going to be sweet when it's done.

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Probably already have applications built to do those (Uptime Kuma, Prometheus + Grafana, Zabbix) that can be integrated into HA dashboards. I had Claude build out a tool called Switchdex that handles a lot of this for your networking infrastructure

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i'm barely using HA anymore except to pull in the entities and send them to custom html pages.

so you tihnk that is best; here is a rough idea of the stuff
* appliances (all thermador one connect + wifi ge washer/dryer) Not my house
* tplink router, controller, 4 switches, 3 access points
* zwave+ controller, 4 zwave+ thermostats, 4 schalge locks, leak detector & valve shutoff device
* all the HA integrations, OS
* proxmox and all its nonsense, vms, tecnitium, tailscale, plex, arrs out the arse, qbit
* 10-12 reolink cameras & nvr


tons of shite i'm leaving out but there's a signiicant amount of shite to keep updated and happy