Entropy Reduction

Personal log of yet another digital native.

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Purpose

• Integrate Tdarr with some sort of Plex auto scanning to prevent renamed media from erroring in Plex until Plex does a whole of library refresh once a day or so

References

• Tdarr Community Plugins
• Github / l3uddz / autoscan
• Github / Cloudbox / autoscan
• hotio dockerised version of Cloudbox autoscan

Actions

• Search Tdarr for plugins with keyword Plex giving candidates:
  • Tdarr_Plugin_MC93_MigzPlex_Autoscan
  • Tdarr_Plugin_MP01_MichPasCleanSubsAndAudioCodecs
  • Tdarr_Plugin_TD01_TOAD_Autoscan
  • Tdarr_Plugin_goof1_URL_Plex_Refresh
• [https://github.com/l3uddz/plex_autoscan seems to have been superceded by https://github.com/cloudbox/autoscan
• https://hotio.dev/containers/autoscan/ seems to be a dockerised version of the newer https://github.com/cloudbox/autoscan
• Attempted to get https://hotio.dev/containers/autoscan/ up and running
• See docker-compose.yml at the end of this post
• No instructions on how to get Plex Token at https://hotio.dev/containers/autoscan/
• https://github.com/l3uddz/plex_autoscan instructs to find Plex Token by going to this page
• Opened an arbitrary library item in Plex web
  • Get Info
  • View XML
• Check URL of XML opened in Chrome new tab
• Found X-Plex-Token at end of said URL
• Created /[mapped docker path]/autoscan/plex.token and placed token string inside
• Did not like running as root
• Commented out PUID, PGID, PLEX_LOGIN, PLEX_PASSWORD env variables

  Jun  1 19:55:28 INF Initialised processor anchors=[] min_age=10m0s
  Jun  1 19:55:28 WRN Webhooks running without authentication
  Jun  1 19:55:28 INF Initialised triggers bernard=0 inotify=0 lidarr=0 manual=1 radarr=0 sonarr=1
  Jun  1 19:55:28 INF Initialised targets autoscan=0 emby=0 jellyfin=0 plex=0
  Jun  1 19:55:28 INF Initialised version=" (@)"
  Jun  1 19:55:28 INF Processor started
  Jun  1 19:55:28 WRN No targets initialised, processor stopped, triggers will continue...
  Jun  1 19:55:28 INF Starting server on port 3030
  

• Runs but doesn’t seem to have found Plex
• Refer back to original l3uddz/plex_autoscan docs
• Tried using Plex credentials

  Something went wrong trying to get a token!
  

• Re-added in the plex.token file
• Restarted hotio/autoscan

  Jun  1 20:02:30 INF Initialised processor anchors=[] min_age=10m0s
  Jun  1 20:02:30 WRN Webhooks running without authentication
  Jun  1 20:02:30 INF Initialised triggers bernard=0 inotify=0 lidarr=0 manual=1 radarr=0 sonarr=1
  Jun  1 20:02:30 INF Initialised targets autoscan=0 emby=0 jellyfin=0 plex=0
  Jun  1 20:02:30 INF Initialised version=" (@)"
  Jun  1 20:02:30 INF Processor started
  Jun  1 20:02:30 INF Starting server on port 3030
  Jun  1 20:02:30 WRN No targets initialised, processor stopped, triggers will continue...
  

• Added Tdarr_Plugin_TD01_TOAD_Autoscan Plugin to Tdarr (last in stack)
• Started a transcode
• Upon completion of transcode stack, the following log appeared in the Docker container:

  Jun  1 20:05:22 INF Scan moved to processor id=cablc0nf2ncti8pqmifg method=POST path="/media/series/MasterChef Australia/Season 14" url=/triggers/manual?dir=%2Fmedia%2Fseries%2FXXXXXXXXXXX%2FSeason%2014%2F
  

• Tried playing file in Plex
• File worked, but no change in file extension, so unknown if it worked
• Checked Tdarr worker logs and found the following

  2022-06-01T20:05:24.206Z Post-processing - Trigger Plex_Autoscan.
  2022-06-01T20:05:24.208Z Y9MY6rjGt:Removing original item from database
  2022-06-01T20:05:24.268Z Y9MY6rjGt:Adding new file to database
  2022-06-01T20:05:25.306Z Y9MY6rjGt:Updating size stats
  

• Appears to have done something?
• Need a dirtier file to see if it’s working
• Logs suggest file size was updated in Plex DB
• Check file size in Plex Media Info
• Size shows 372.89MB
• This matches Tdarr, which has Old Size 326.6 MB and New Size 372.9 MB suggesting the Plex database was successfully updated!
• Remove PLEX_LOGIN and PLEX_PASSWORD from docker-compose.yml since it should be redundant with the presence of plex.token
• Queued another file through Tdarr to see if this still worked
• Plex DB was correctly updated with file size once autoscan logs showed the task was completed
• Also to find a file with wrong extension to download in Sonarr to test whether this is correctly updated in Plex

Reflections

Code

Notes

• For below to work requires presence of plex.token at mapped directory of /config/plex.token
• plex.token must contain just the string of alphanumerics after tht X-Plex-Token= part of the File Info XML on any Plex library item (see Plex help article on Finding an authentication token / X-Plex-Token)

Docker Compose

version: '3.4'

services:
  autoscan:
    container_name: autoscan
    hostname: autoscan
    image: cr.hotio.dev/hotio/autoscan
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - TZ=Australia/Perth
    ports:
      - "3030:3030"
    network_mode: "bridge"
    healthcheck:
      test: curl --silent --fail --output /dev/null --insecure http://localhost:3030 || exit 1
      interval: 10s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 3
      start_period: 120s
    volumes:
      - "~/.docker/autoscan/config:/config"
      - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro"

Tdarr Plugin Stack

Community,Tdarr_Plugin_lmg1_Reorder_Streams,,Community,Tdarr_Plugin_MC93_MigzImageRemoval,,Community,Tdarr_Plugin_x7ac_Remove_Closed_Captions,,Local,fo_XOQaFu,,Local,i-9iCPDL3,,Local,j6yeumXkA,,Community,Tdarr_Plugin_MC93_Migz5ConvertAudio,,Community,Tdarr_Plugin_c0r1_SetDefaultAudioStream,,Community,Tdarr_Plugin_MC93_Migz6OrderStreams,,Community,Tdarr_Plugin_TD01_TOAD_Autoscan,,