can't get it to work

[marco-hofmann]

The installation went fine but when I run a manual scan, nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?

here my shell:

#plex-nfs-watchdog --scan --paths /Plex/MOVIES/ --host http://localhost:32400 --token MYTOKEN
INFO:   Found Plex configuration from cache: /root/.local/share/plex_nfs_watchdog_cache/plex_config.json
INFO:   Connected to Plex server
INFO:   Plex version: 1.41.6.9685-d301f511a
INFO:   Found 3 Plex sections:
{'MOVIES': ('Movies', '/Plex/MOVIES'),
 'Plexmusic': ('Music', '/Plexmusic'),
 'TV SHOWS': ('TV Shows', '/Plex/TV SHOWS')}
INFO:   Analyzing /Plex/MOVIES
INFO:   Requesting Plex to scan remote path /Plex/MOVIES

[LightDestory]

What do you mean "nothing happens"?

This tool aims to request specific path-scans. You are providing the root folder of a section. By doing this you should trigger a global section scan, you can keep track of such scan via Plex admin view.

[marco-hofmann]

thank you for your response.
by "nothing happens" I mean the way I unsderstand it is that it should trigger a library scan after I add a new file to the set folder which it doesn't in my case. Is there a verbose log or something where I can see what's happening on my end?

[LightDestory]

By looking at your log I can see that you are not running the tool as a background service.

You should try with:
plex-nfs-watchdog --daemon --paths /Plex/MOVIES/ --host http://localhost:32400 --token YOUR_TOKEN --interval 150 --listeners move modify create delete

The tool should start as a daemon (looking your terminal). As soon as you add new files in the folder you will see in the locked terminal the logs of what it is happening, like detection and scheduling.

You should use tmux or similar to run the tool on a persistent detchable terminal session.

[djuby]

Hi,

I was able to install it without any issues, but when I run it in daemon mode and add a new file to the library - nothing happens. Here is my command and the output I get in the terminal:

plex-nfs-watchdog --verbose --daemon --paths /plexmedia/Movies/Collection --host http://localhost:32400 --token MyPlexToken --interval 60 --listeners move modify create delete

INFO: Starting Plex NFS Watchdog v0.0.16...
INFO: Found Plex configuration from cache: /home/user/.local/share/plex_nfs_watchdog_cache/plex_config.json
INFO: Connected to Plex server (1.41.7.9823-59f304c16)
INFO: Found sections:
{5: {'locations': [PosixPath('/plexmedia/Movies/Collection')],
'root_folders': {'Collection'},
'title': 'Movies'},
6: {'locations': [PosixPath('/plexmedia/TVShows')],
'root_folders': {'TVShows'},
'title': 'TV Shows'}}
INFO: Scheduling watcher for /plexmedia/Movies/Collection
INFO: Registering inotify watcher...
INFO: Ready to operate...

Best regards!

[djuby]

Any thoughts why isn't it working? Am I doing something wrong?

Best regards,
Djuby

[LightDestory]

From the log, I can see that the watchers are set correctly.

Just to remind you, this tool must be executed on the mounting point of your storage. I can see that you are running Plex on the same machine (localhost). So I do not see any advantages to using my tool if your Plex can directly watch such folders.

If your Plex runs on ServerA with an NFS mount of ServerB's storage, my tool should be installed on ServerB, and the Plex host should be something like https://plex.serverAdomain .com