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How do I update Plex on 6.10.10 Firmware RN516?
Yes I searched the forums, today my Admin page said there was an update to 6.10.10 now the Apps upload is broken "App installation is no longer supported with App Upload or Available Apps." WTF! I'm...
Something to keep in mind is the RN516 is EOL. Not saying you can't keep using it but it is a 7 year old device.
I used to use a NAS for my plex server but noticed a huge performance jump going to a dedicated Plex server.
A half decent newer Intel processor or an AMD/GPU combination makes a big improvement in transcoding performance.
I found this plex transcoding cheat sheet worthwhile when adding a GPU.
https://www.elpamsoft.com/?p=Plex-Hardware-Transcoding
plemans wrote:
Something to keep in mind is the RN516 is EOL. Not saying you can't keep using it but it is a 7 year old device.
A half decent newer Intel processor or an AMD/GPU combination makes a big improvement in transcoding performance.
Personally I run Plex on a Win 11 PC, with the media saved on my RN526x.
Although it is more expensive to separate storage and applications, the benefit is that it is much easier to upgrade when they are kept separate. For me that outweighs the extra cost.
StephenB wrote:
Personally I run Plex on a Win 11 PC, with the media saved on my RN526x.
Although it is more expensive to separate storage and applications, the benefit is that it is much easier to upgrade when they are kept separate. For me that outweighs the extra cost.
My RN204 couldn't run plex decently. So it's just used for photo/kids data backup now. My Plex is hosted on a AMD 2700x with a 32tb raid array and an older nvidia 1060 for transcoding. Streams 4k without any issues. A bit overkill and the next upgrade will be for an intel for the quicksync capability. I guess its pretty rock solid with plex transcoding
I laugh at the millenials and younger... you fully believe you must always buy the latest and greatest things... and you wonder why you have no money? I'm sorry but until the devices just quit on their own, they will have their uses. I don't need to transcode 4k. 1080 HD/SD is fine for me. If I want perfect quality, I'll buy a BRD. There is NO way I'm buying more HDD and desktops and laptops and all the crud they force you to buy when they deliberately make older things obsolete. I also don't stream ANYTHING and you are foolish to pay for any streaming service. BUY your music then you OWN it. Nobody can take it away because of some licensing squabble with an streaming provider lol... sorry I'm just as annoyed at NETGEAR as everyone else. Guess I won't be buying any of their products also... tired of having to replace them every few years for no reason at all other than they won't make anything backward compatible. Peace out.
I'm absolutely shocked they locked out the manual upload for apps. I understand why they want to shut down the online app service, but to hamstring the manual uploads in the process is just ridiculous customer treatment.
I was already unhappy that NetGear is dropping the NAS products, and was expecting to have to go to a competitor in due time... but to then insult us with this latest firmware is just the cherry on top. NetGear is now on my bad list.Other than for updates that don't need updated dependencies from the Debian distribution, uploads would already fail unless you made changes via SSH that potentially (though, IMHO remote and an acceptable risk for a home system) open up the NAS for malicious content. So instead of it giving an error and the operator not knowing why, they did this. So, it is actually understandable, even if you don't agree it's the best way to do it. Netgear is certainly never going to make a change that allows unverified content to be loaded, as that could open them up to litigation.
What doesn't make sense to me is to also cause it to not be able to load apps via SSH, where you'd have to knowingly make and accept those changes. Even worse is that it seems to affect some already-installed apps, like Docker, though that may have been inadvertent due to insufficient testing (which Netgear has always been guilty of).
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