u/JayVig

Any suggestions on what to do with my TS-451+ and TR-004 after upgrading to the TVS-h674?

I don’t need a backup unit and the drives that were in it were much smaller than what I’ve got now. Are they worth anything if I were to resell? Or should I dump them?

Hey all,

Does anyone have recommendations for a solid place to get custom badges for the sides of the shaker? I've seen a variety of pre-made custom ones on different websites and some wild custom ones in person. Anyone have a spot they recommend to get them made? High quality is the goal, price not an issue.

Gold locked with 5 to go. It’s not looking good at this point. 2 from set 17 and 3 from set 20. Wild from partners and maybe some luck I can finish set 17

I was googling to see the set numbers of some stickers from my computer because it was faster and I saw links to popular e-commerce sites with stickers. 🤯 I couldn’t believe this was real. I mean I guess I can but I was still shocked

This town really goes to sleep at sundown? I’m only here once a year for 4 days for the car show. I always end up with a joint in a hotel parking lot before watching Netflix in the room. I was in a restaurant and by 8:45 I felt like they were waiting for us to leave to close up. Well, goodnight Carlisle, I guess.

I have 9 prerolls and if you've added some you know the one annoying part is the format in plex to pull from the list randomly. you have to include the entire path and filename for each and keep it semicolon separated. It's not too big of a deal but error prone. So I wrote a script to look at the folder and generate a list. Made it fast but you still have to copy the file, SSH in, run the script, and copy/paste the contents. I updated to have it spit out to a txt file but i still had to ssh in.

I know we don't do this often but this was half of an efficiency thing and half of a hobby project because we love our homelabs. So the final step was using the Plex API. Now I drop the file in the destination folder on the NAS, a cron job runs to pull the list, detect differences, update the txt file, and then push the updated preroll list to plex via the api. Again, it's totally overengineered for things that don't get updated often but I was in the mood to automate just because I can.

I posted it on github so feel free to clone and play with it. v1.1 will include an installer. 1.2 will have better url encoding. 1.3 will add logging and dry run. and if anyone wants i'll do a 2.0 for multiple preroll sets or other features. enjoy.

It’s almost time. Who’s going? I’ll be arriving Thursday afternoon about 2pm. I’m somewhere in section Y (near the track) with modern Challengers. I know there’s always a few people from here that go.

Is anyone doing sports collections well? I have Sportarr which works well, mostly. However it misses some games. And I'm using Plex TV Series as a scanner with a Sports agent. But they use epsiode numbers for NBA games that don't always match and matchup posters respond to the episode numbers so sometime it's impossible to find the right one.

I'd like to do it by date but sports seem to be the least matured part of this process. Sonarr/Radarr and scanners/agents are nearly flawless by comparison. any thoughts, ideas, advice on the best way to do this?

Backstory, I've been a NY Knicks fan since 1985 and for the first time ever, it's worth keeping some of this stuff. it's just messy to organize and match.

A while back I asked for advice on the best unit. I had a TS-451+ (4 2TB drives) and a TR-004 (4 4TB drives) in RAID5, mostly. the TR-004 was JBOD. Honestly, I didn't know what I was doing when I first got going. I planned the move carefully with help from this community. The results have been incredible.

I'm now on a TVS-h674 with 6 16TB Exos drives and 1 2TB NVMe with RAIDZ1. All system stuff running on the NVMe storage pool. I never had snapshots before, but do now. I had some janky containers in container station but now layered Dockhand on top. My Plex config is finally complete with Prowlarr, Sabn, Sonarr, Radarr, Sportarr, Tautulli, Seerr, Bazarr, Homarr, Kometa. Cloudflare as a reverse proxy exposes Seerr to my users. Homebridge manages my non-homekit devices (with HVAC control in progress). I put in a small CPU only LLM just for fun but it's not great quality.

I remember feeling like I was in the future when I set up my first on a decade ago but, wow, was it a basic garbage setup compared to now. Learned a ton along the way too!

The only downside to having it all done is that the fun of configuring is also over. Very appreciative of all the advice I got here on my posts and what I read on others. Now I need a new project!!

https://preview.redd.it/ohxpzzg02p2h1.png?width=1616&format=png&auto=webp&s=0aba5f8f9f08c015fc63663a0311bfb5712cdae4

Look at it all stacked up like that.

I had the 451+ with the tr-004. Just upgraded the h674. The old units are still sitting in my office. I’m gonna give away the 451 but wondering if there’s value in keeping the TR-004 to have 4 more bays. 10 bays at 16TB each? Thoughts? Keep it or dump it? Or is there a better expansion unit for the 674? I don’t need it but I bought 96TB (and 2TB NVMe). After raid and the TB to TiB conversion it’s like 70.5TB. Kinda like looking at a paycheck before and after taxes. Imagine 4 more drives though! So, any advice?

I recently posted about upgrading from an old TS-451+ & TR-004 to a TVS-674. Components finally arrived and I started the process today. Moving everything over is frustratingly slow because I was really new to all this when I first started it so I have nothing set up to do it other than straight copying. And my configs for things like Plex and my docker containers is terrible so I'm struggling to get it all set up again. If the 451 wasn't really struggling and seemed to be dying, i'd have left it alone. If I hadn't invested so much time into the Plex library, i'd have just given up. Anyone in NJ wanna get paid to do it for me?

I'm sure most of us have been in this spot to some degree along the way. I know it'll be worth it in the end but the process right how has me very frustrated. Doesn't help that I work in tech for a million hours per week and just want to be done with this stuff on a friday night.

Sorry for the rant but there are 0 people in my life that understand any of this and I knew this group would understand the pain of doing all of it.

Anyone have a recommendation for a landscaper in Morris county? Looking for a spring cleanup service. Leaves and branches and miscellaneous property cleanup.