Category: How To

Add shepherd XMLTV Grabber To Ubuntu Plex Server

Now that Plex has dropped guide data support for the Live TV / DVR component of their Plex Pass feature set, it’s necessary to configured your Plex server to download XMLTV guide data by other means.  Below is my take to configure a Ubuntu Plex Media Server with the guide data script Shepherd. <code>sudo suapt-get …

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Failover Internet on ER-X -Ubiquiti (Ubnt) Edgerouter / EdgeMax

Still a new router to me, and this goes for the language it uses but I’ve striped out the configuration the wizard used to setup fail over internet below, after only a few minor changes (narrow the internal group to the ranges I use, description changes, and group name changes to suit what I’m using) …

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QNAP USB Serial Adaptor

Here’s something I’ve just worked out that is cool. The QNAP NAS’s can have a USB to serial adaptor connected to them and you can SSH into the system and access the client device through the QNAP by issuing the command screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600 This has been a huge help as my Windows system always …

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Squeezing A Automanaged Drive

So I run MythTV, and when I rebuild/transferred all my recordings to my new server I gave it an extra 0.3TB space, giving it a total of 1.3TB. Well a few months on I’m regretting my decision. So looking into deleting recordings, and then freeing the space seemed like a massive job, so instead I’ve …

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