howdy y'all and welcome back to another every corp video thank you for popping in this week
as usual it is a pleasure to have you here now if you noticed our first intro there was a little bit
different than usual we had some feedback on the last one from one particular person
that said we sounded too close to another youtuber and uh of course 99 of youtubers
probably say the same thing when they start the video so i said i would change it up for
this one and uh hopefully i've fulfilled that request by our reddit user so thanks very much
in any case let's jump into today's video guys we're going to be looking at a tool called plex
tracked sync and i'm also going to show you one other tool that's going to be really easy
to set up so today it's going to be a nice quick video and this is going to help us wrap up our
plex environment for the year so you can enjoy your christmas break with your media server at
its absolute best obviously it's not a finite list there's hundreds of tools out there that
work with media servers and plex and things like that but i reckon these two work hand in hand
especially if you followed our last video with pmm or plex meta manager as you can see we have also
worked on a document for this one so it will be up on our docs website when the video goes live
and we've improved our docs website quite a bit so if i quickly show you here you'll start seeing
these links now on the side of our docs do i need an update you can just click that button and it
will allow you to actually submit edits to our docs so if something's out of date it doesn't look
right or just maybe you found an improvement we really rely on the community to help us keep these
docs up to date because obviously we're just a few people that volunteer our time we can't always do
it and one big distinction i need to make is of course always read the official documentation
our docs are never meant to replace the official documentation of the developers and so we always
recommend that you guys do that and it's also written in our disclaimer which you'll see in
the link on each dock as well and if those need to be updated please submit an update we'd be happy
to pull it in for you just like you do on github it's like a pr basically so please always remember
to check the useful link section on which is on every single doc as well as any related videos
and the credits as well if you haven't watched our pmm video i highly recommend you do there
is some fantastic stuff that that application can do and we only covered one aspect of it
so we will come back and do the other aspects of it as well it can do many many things and so i
don't want you guys to get an underrated feeling out of it because it's very very powerful i also
want to give quick props to the developers who have worked with us and all the community members
who have worked with us on those applications especially pmm we've had some great feedback and
it's helped us improve our documentation and guides for the future so thank you very much
for being a part of our collaborative movement so if you're interested in plex tracked sync and
you're also interested in one final extra tool that's going to help you and your users see how
they went through the year something like spotify wrapped for example just before the new year hits
then this is going to be the video for you so hang around and let's get stuck into it
all right guys so here we are plex tracked sync what does it do so let's have a look on our page
what we've gotten from the official documentation so media and plex are added to tracked collection
so you can have a collection and it matches both what's in plex and what's in your tracked account
ratings are synchronized so if you rate something in plex let's say you give something five stars in
the star system it will match it on your tracked account so then you can go and say i rated this
show five stars once before and you will be able to then use tracked to find other content and all
the features that tracked offers as well here's the most important one watch status are synced
so dates are not reported from track to plex however it does do the other way around
watch status is probably the most important so if you ever blow away your plex installation
something disappears something corrupts you've lost all your watch status well doing it this way
you'll actually be able to recover it from tracked back to your plex instance in future liked lists
in tracked are downloaded and all movies and plex belonging to that list are added you can edit the
config file to choose what to sync and best of all none of the above requires a plex pass
or tracked vip membership the downside needs to be executed manually or via a cron job and cannot
use live data via web hooks that's not a big deal i mean look if you want to run this there
is a obviously a cron job you can run we've also put the container up on the ca store and unraid
because it wasn't there already and we also added plex wrapped on the unreads ca store as well for
you guys so by no means we don't maintain it it's not our container or anything like that all the
links referenced to the official container either on docker hub or wherever else their repository
lives all we did was create the template to bring it to you guys so that it's in unraid and
you don't have to mess around trying to manually set up a container so it's pretty straightforward
we've got the instructions here like i said but i'm going to go over and switch over to
unraid like we normally do and you can follow along on our docs if you like beside the video
so here we are on our wonderful osiris as usual it's looking nice and ready for us to give it
something to do so as usual the first thing we'll do is head over to the app store so we go to apps
and what i might do just to help simplify is actually go to our repository so under
psychotics is repository here you can see all of the apps that we've put out templates for on
the app store now if you have a close look we have quite a bit of stuff in there that's fine
but the two we're looking for here is plex wrapped and plex tracked sink now what's plex wrapped i'll
just give you a quick rundown and we'll get to that at the end so that it's a nice way to finish
off because it's a really easy one to run so with plex wrap it's a website-based platform and api
for collecting plex user stats within a set time frame using tortoli the data is displayed as a
stat summary sort of like spotify wrapped so yeah you need tooltooly to have this running beforehand
obviously to collect all that information and then plex wraps will put it in a nice format so anyway
back with it we'll come back to plex wrap but first we'll start with flex track sync so we've
put that up as well for you guys now if we click on that go ahead and click install mine's already
installed but go ahead and click install and here you can see the container template there's not
much to it and that's the beauty of this we've made this as simple as possible or the developer
has made this as simple as possible i should say so as you can see we've got some instructions here
just to get you going always refer to the official stuff and on our docs as well for the installation
so the template's ready to go the only thing you may or may not want to change is if you want to go
from bridge to your custom network however you normally set up your applications go ahead and
do that your app data location as well is where plex track sync will live and stores all of its
config files as you can see once we start the container up here's what you need to do
so we're going to the console and then we'll need to put this in here so go back to your docker tab
there's plex there's plaque so there's play so there's plex track sync left click it and go to
console and in the console we'll paste that command and hit enter now on your first start it's
going to ask you for your plex username or email address and it will ask for your client secret
and client id now like we said if you don't know what that is come back to our docs here which we
got from the official docs as well you'll need to create a tracked tv account so create a track tv
free account you don't have to pay anything go into this link and we need to create an api app so
once you go in here's the information you need to put into the app and then you'll be given a client
id and client secret following the installation as you go through you'll see that it will ask you
for that information so you'll put that in when it asks for it and then once it's done
it actually will save that information so if we go to the updater folder here you can see once
our first run starts and we've saved our config it will save it all in here in these json and env
files so then we've got that stuff saved so you don't have to type it every time after that
now once you run it you'll see what's happening here so right now it's going through everything
i have in plex where i'm up to in that series or episode or movie whatever the case might be and it
will then synchronize it over to track so let's go over to tracked so here we are in tracked i
have added zero of this information manually this has all come from plex track sync and as you can
see it starts to fill it out and it looks really really cool so if you have a look here watch tv
shows how much we've watched watched movies we've watched genres uh what's our most watched tv show
watch our most watched movie uh stuff you've watched recently it's all here it's all coming
from plex directly and it's actually accurate it's up to date which is really really really cool
the other thing is you can now use all the other features that tracked can offer you so if you
wanted something that's similar to content that you've watched if we click on 30 rock for example
once you click on the item then we can see the stats that we've got so we know we've actually got
100 collected of this series now obviously you can do that in sonar so that's not too big of a deal
but you can add it to watch list or you can then add it and create your lists in here and see how
much of that list you've got and since it's all automated and you just basically run the script
it's not that hard to do and that's pretty cool and that works hand in hand like i
said with plex meta manager because with plex meta manager we're also reading from track so
if we want to build lists build collections and things like that and we want it to read it from
tracked we can say well from track we know that we've watched all this content before
so by all means i don't think it's the end of the world sort of scenario um so i think with this
sort of tool it's going to make your life a little bit easier and you can have a little bit more fun
with your data from plex so then you can really think and say well i've watched all this stuff
maybe i want something else what's my all-time stats for example you know have that stuff written
out for you and it's pulled directly out of you get those stats and it's pulled directly out
of your plex instance so you know that it's all about what you've watched and helps you keep track
so big props there to the developer just so you're aware the developer here is taxal and it's plex
tracksync on github so please guys if you have some feedback if you want to help support the
dev for their work jump in here buy them a beer if they've got the option whatever the case might be
even if it's just giving them feedback really really important stuff so go in there and have
a look obviously that's the best place to get the information if we scroll down right to the bottom
you see they've got the unraid setup steps there however because of we've already put the container
template up for you on ca you don't have to do any of this part here pretty much that's the only step
and we've got that in our docs as well so thank you very much taxul for your awesome work it's a
really really cool tool much appreciated now like i said guys it's going to be a nice smooth video
nice and quick and that was so quick you guys saw that we pretty much started the container up run
the command we put in our plex and track info and the rest is history it will start synchronizing
for us from tortoli of course keep in mind that it's pulling that information from tortoli so
make sure you're putting in the correct info when it asks for your totally config and it's going to
read everything from there so if you've purged it recently or you've started fresh you know a
fresh instance or anything like that obviously don't be surprised if it doesn't synchronize
anything because it needs that information and now on to our second and final plugin now i can
assure you after this video guys we're going to be taking a break from plex i just wanted to get
this last one out here so that you guys can end your year on some nice fantastic tools and help
out some other developers who their work has sort of gone under the radar so the final thing
we've got here is plex wrapped now like i said if you've seen spotify's wrapped concept which
is recently you know just over the last week it's been coming out quite often spotify will give you
this you know really graphic interface for you to see how your year went with music what you watched
what you listened to what was your favorite artist what was your favorite playlist you know how much
time you spent doing this and that whatever the case might be flex wrap is the same and it could
be something that you just start up at the end of the year for all your users and give them the link
and let them have a look and see how the year went it's not something you always have to keep running
the other thing is you can set the date so you can say maybe you only want it to go from june
to december and show information from there perhaps you want it from the last two years you
can do that and here on github is the project now the developer's probably going to kill me because
i don't really know how to pronounce it so if you give me there mate i'm going to say ayun so ayun
firin and it's plex wrapped again we don't have this one on our docs because it is so simple to
start that we don't really need a dock for it i think you guys can manage it perfectly fine
but i'll walk you through their official page here and here's some of their features so custom time
frames custom introduction so we can change this for example caching of results friendly
dynamic display for stats with nice illustrations email and username search and an admin page with
authentication for settings and precaching of data so again here's some of those screenshots what
that looks like and also props goes to tortoli of course because it's reading from the tortoli api
and here's the instructions as you can see so we want to make sure we're pointing it at the right
place and that our directories are saving the cache files now you don't have to worry about
that because we've put up the template so all that stuff will be saved for you
and as you can see the plex wrap folder is here we've got cache config and the wrap.log so that's
mapping it all for us so we don't have to type in the authentication stuff every time we start
it but i'm going to open it up for you and just give you a look now so when we first started we
have to jump into the admin screen which will ask us for a little bit of information now from what
i can see these placeholder information here so you might see 8181 as a placeholder for example
i would actually type the port over the top and i believe there was an issue logged on github saying
that you know people assume with that there it means it's pre-filled just pre-fill it in just
fill it in anyway so the first thing you're going to see is the tortoli api key you have to put your
api key in there from tortoli if you don't know where that is sign in to tortoli go to settings
under web interface and then underneath you've got your api key if you just click this i here it will
unlock the view for the api key so you can just copy it raw then come back to wrapped and put the
api key in here next you'll need your ip address for where tortool is living and the port that
it's running on you then got the tortulli item length and the route for tortoli as well so if
you're using a root folder or anything like that you can set that it's completely optional for the
time zone obviously i've got australia melbourne if you don't know what yours is you can just click
this here click where you are so let's say europe for example and it'll give you what the time zone
formats are now this is pretty common with these time zone formats when you're setting up stuff
so it's a really useful website actually i'd probably bookmark it if i was you then check
whether it's https or if it's just local http leave and uncheck once you're ready go ahead and
click test connection if it lights up green that means everything is good if it goes red check over
the information you've put in something isn't working and it's not able to connect then once
you're done go ahead and click save it'll take you to the next screen so the totally settings here
start of the wrapped period so we've got first of january 2021 going to the first of january 2022 so
exactly one year for example is what our intro page says new year new page of stats so maybe
you want to say maybe you want to say let's see how you travel this year you can set that do you
want to get users movie stats show stats show buddy so that means you know if you've got two
people who watch something a lot at the same time it'll put them together and say you know this is
your show buddy for example uh if you have music running out of your plex through tortoli as well
get your music stats as well server wide movie stats server wide show server wide music so what
that means is basically this is the user's stuff and then this is server wide then you wanted to
log api calls you can do that cache results for later use is there as well and clearing the cache
once you've done once you're done go ahead and click finish and done so then when the user goes
ahead and puts the username in they'll pretty much get their stats so i hope you enjoyed that guys i
really hope you've been enjoying our content i'm just going to take this moment to talk to you guys
uh one on one i just want to say thank you very much for supporting us this year it's been a wild
wild ride and look we're getting closer and closer to 8 000 subscribers and i'm starting to wonder
you know how we made it this far we're really really enjoying it and we can't do it without
you so thank you very much for your support you're always going to have critics in the community but
i think it's really important that we focus on the positives and what people are enjoying from
our work and by looking at feedback from you guys it's obvious that you guys are enjoying what we're
doing and you're helping us come up with new ideas and new ways to challenge ourselves so
thank you very much for any type of support you give us if it's just a simple like on a video
if it's subscribing to our channel becoming a paid member if it's joining our discord whatever
the case might be we appreciate you and i thank you very much for that we couldn't do it without
you and as usual if you do want to join part of the conversation and help us develop further you
want to just come in for a chat maybe you just want to meet some like-minded people
feel free to join our discord we'd love to have you there the link is in the description and you
can join at any time like i said i hope you guys enjoy the changes we've made to the docs as well
we've done some really really good work here we've made it into a much more user-friendly space and i
think it will make it a lot easier for us to be able to interact with developers and community
members to make sure we've got a nice central place that you can follow all this stuff with
one very final thing guys our next cloud video is coming soon we did announce already a few
weeks ago that we were doing an xcloud video so we are still going to do that doesn't matter whether
there's other people making videos about it or not we did say we were going to do it and we're going
to do it so wait till you see our version of it and see what you think i hope you guys enjoy it
it's been a work in progress we've got about 10 people working on it and we've got some
great feedback so far and there's been a lot of changes with nexcloud recently so i think you
guys will really enjoy seeing some of the more in-depth stuff that we can give you in a more
succinct manner so thanks again for watching and we'll see you in the next ibra corp video
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