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[evane]

@BOBBYGRV

I’ve been contemplating an HDHomeRun with a Fios Cable Card run into my server so that I can access my recorded shows on the go. From what I have heard though is that WMC is the only system that can play the shows once they are downloaded, due to the copyright on certain channels. Plex won’t play them as is right now. I have the 1TB DVR through Verizon, but I hope to be able to ditch the rental box fees down the road and setup my own that can be accessed by my HTPC’s.

My thought was being able to get the Red Zone channel on the go when I want to watch it, but it might take some work to accomplish that.

Also, if you were to open the port on your router, couldn’t you just bypass Plex altogether and just draw right from the server itself?

Verizon is actually one of the very providers that does not impose copy protection flags for most channels. I can provide the list from my HDHR Prime but in general on premiums like HBO and showtime have protection. IF you record in WMC, you will have to transcode it to another format to play in Plex/XMBC. Alternatively you can run something like MythTV on Linux or MediaPortal and NextPVR on Windows and use Kodi/Xbmc as the frontend to it which will work for Fios since they do not impose flags on most channels.

In regards to streaming livetv outside of the house I am not sure if it will work. HDHR has a Android app it may work on the go.

[boardjnky4]

No VPN. Just SSL Usenet server.

[BOBBYGRV]

I changed my mind and decided to go with a different, more expensive HDD. Grabbed this: http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Enterprise-Capacity-Constellation-ST4000NM0023/dp/B00A45JFJS

Local computer store basically tacked on $10 and ordered in from Amazon, still getting it here tomorrow. Basically they told me the hybrid drives are garbage, especially for a media server. I could have gotten the 64mb version for less money, but I plan to use this live tv/dvr down the road and would rather just do it right. Sacrificed the ram for now and I’ll stick with 4gb until I need to upgrade.

I also wanted to buy local since I didn’t on the server itself and the guy on the phone gave me a lot of good info and offered to help in the future.

[BOBBYGRV]

@boardjnky4 Are you running SabNZB with SickBeard and CouchPotato from the HDD or did you install the programs on a separate drive? I’m probably going to boot FreeNAS from a thumb drive. It’s 16gb so I didn’t know if I should also load XBMC w/ the first 3 as well.

[boardjnky4]

I’m running those programs from a separate machine (running Ubuntu 14.04) and mounting my NAS to it via NFS. My NAS (D-Link DNS-320) doesn’t support add-ons.

[BOBBYGRV]

So you’re separate machine would have to be on 24/7 or at least when you want your NAS to collect data/media?

In my case, I’m going to have an all-in-one machine so that I won’t have to have anything else on, unless I want it to be for viewing purposes. I just have to figure out how I’m going to configure my bios for booting FreeNAS and the other programs.

[boardjnky4]

Yeah, it’s always on, just sitting in the closet chugging away. No reason to turn it off. Periodic reboots for kernel updates will be the extent of it.

[BOBBYGRV]

I’ve been battling with this damn server for a few days now. I’ve got the latest version of FreeNAS installed, but to get the plugins to play together nicely and have permission to the corresponding folders is seeming to be a huge hassle.

I signed up for a year of Usenet. Thanks to @JayS for the link. The year subscription gave me a year’s worth of free VPN service too. Haven’t gotten to that part yet, hoping I do soon though.

My buddy was telling me about www.elance.com Anyone here familiar with it? I might need to find someone to set this thing up remotely if I can’t figure it out.

[evane]

@BOBBYGRV

I’ve been battling with this damn server for a few days now. I’ve got the latest version of FreeNAS installed, but to get the plugins to play together nicely and have permission to the corresponding folders is seeming to be a huge hassle.

I signed up for a year of Usenet. Thanks to @JayS for the link. The year subscription gave me a year’s worth of free VPN service too. Haven’t gotten to that part yet, hoping I do soon though.

My buddy was telling me about www.elance.com Anyone here familiar with it? I might need to find someone to set this thing up remotely if I can’t figure it out.

What particular plugins are you trying to configure?

[BOBBYGRV]

CouchPotato, Plex, SABnzbd, Transmission and SickBeard. I think it’s my permissions that have been screwing me up. I’m trying to download the plugins again since I changed the permissions around.

Also, I’m seeing that they stopped working on SickBeard and moved on to SickRage. I haven’t tried a go at that yet, not sure if I should be or will have to.

[evane]

@BOBBYGRV

CouchPotato, Plex, SABnzbd, Transmission and SickBeard. I think it’s my permissions that have been screwing me up. I’m trying to download the plugins again since I changed the permissions around.

Also, I’m seeing that they stopped working on SickBeard and moved on to SickRage. I haven’t tried a go at that yet, not sure if I should be or will have to.

Sickbeard is still under active development not sure what you the impression it is not being developed.

Are you editing UNIX permissions?

[BOBBYGRV]

The main dataset that I setup, I left Unix ticked. I think the problem was I setup 2 users, one “media” and one “guest”, with the proper permission settings, but I forgot to add them to my group. Then I downloaded the Plugins and it created a jail, but didn’t actually download the plugin itself.

Whenever I have been able to get the plugin to install, it registers it’s own IP when I type in the “jls” command in shell, but when I try to actually access them through GUI, no luck.

It leads me to believe that it is tied to the permissions?

I deleted the datasets, unmounted the volume and wiped the drive. I then remounted, created my volume and added new dataset. Setup proper permissions and now I have the 1st plugin downloading again. We will see if this does it.

FWIW this is the guide I’ve been following.

Newbie Guide to FreeNAS, Plex, CouchPotato, Sickbeard , and Transmission

Still no luck. Here’s the error. Looks to be related to Python…

Environment:

Software Version: FreeNAS-9.3-Nightlies-201501310516
Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://192.168.1.21/plugins/plugin/install/0939c2601a29f5d53b4d252547bfa2b0843ba58082d09ee116f1dbe2404730f8/

Traceback:
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py” in get_response
105. response = middleware_method(request, callback, callback_args, callback_kwargs)
File “/usr/local/www/freenasUI/…/freenasUI/freeadmin/middleware.py” in process_view
157. return login_required(view_func)(request, *view_args, **view_kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/auth/decorators.py” in _wrapped_view
22. return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/www/freenasUI/…/freenasUI/plugins/views.py” in install_available
282. raise MiddlewareError(e.message)

Exception Type: UnboundLocalError at /plugins/plugin/install/0939c2601a29f5d53b4d252547bfa2b0843ba58082d09ee116f1dbe2404730f8/
Exception Value: local variable ‘e’ referenced before assignment