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Alex3111
Jan 11, 2015Aspirant
RN 314 os 6.2.2 and Plex (not updating metadata) (SOLVED)
Hello Plex guys, I just added a ReadyNAS 314 4x3TB along my already working ReadyNAS NV+ V2. The ReadyNAS NV+ V2 is running RAIDiator 5.3.11, it's an ARM v5 running Plex Server app for ARM 5.x...
Alex3111
Jan 12, 2015Aspirant
nsne wrote: There are some settings in the newer Plex versions that you might have to mess with. When upgrading from an Ultra 4 to a 314, I was seeing unexpected behavior with Plex until I made these adjustments:
In the Plex Web UI, go to Settings > Server > Agents. You'll see several options for different media. Here you should just make sure that, say, "The Movie Database" is checked and at the top of the list where applicable (sometimes only "Local Media Assets" is ticked or at the top of the list). Then run a Force Refresh under each library, not just an update. That should work.
Also: It *is* weird that you're only seeing 2.3.3 under Settings > General > Version. I'm not sure how to account for that.
Well, as I was replying to let you know that message from above, I noticed that my DNS were empty. I decided to hit up my Netgear WiFi router WDR3700 and get the DNS and hard-code them into my NAS 314, something I never did with my ReadyNAS Pro 6 at work, or my ReadyNAS NV+ v2 at home. Would you believe that did the trick!? After I entered the 2 DNS my cable company supply me my phone went crazy receiving emails from my NAS. From installation, to finishing the updates, to the failure of installing the Plex version that came directly with the NAS, to 48 emails that the NAS needed to send out. When I received them, I found that odd, so I did another FORCE REFRESH on that same folder... BOOM! As I am writing this it had almost finished updating all my Movies - Adult folder, which I will follow with a force refresh to the other folders in the hopes that it worked. I guess if I don't write after this, well, that damn DNS setting is what was holding this thing back.. kind of sucks. And I bet it all had to do with me setting this thing STATIC, as I have always set them up, rather then DHCP. Had I done it DHCP I am pretty sure it would had grabbed the DNS'... live and learn!
Thanks for posting and making me think outside the box!
ZekeVargen
Sep 13, 2015Aspirant
Great solution! Worked for me on my readynas 204! Been banging my head to the walls about this all weekend. Manually entering the DNS servers in the NAS solved the problem with PLEX not downloading covers and info.
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