Amazon Fire TV - Plex

[Sugar Ape]

Gonna have to be after Christmas before I look at his now. Got a few night outs this weekend then I'm off for two weeks and in Prague for ten days then it's christmas and all that.

 

Gutted. Badly want to get started.

[Gym Beglin]

On another tangent, can you upload all your films to the realplayer cloud and then just stream it all through a chromecast?

 

Plex is wonderful though, surely it's going to cost a lot more in the future, it's too slick and too useful to be so low cost.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

realplayer? Fucking hell, remember that.

[VladimirIlyich]

realplayer? Fucking hell, remember that.

It runs alongside Netscape Navigator.

[skend04]

Just fired it up but for some reason it keeps popping up with licence error when trying to play Amazon Prime videos. Will suss it out but first impressions its a decent looking box and screams quality with the weight and build of it.

[VladimirIlyich]

Been using Plex with my Chromecast and it seems a decent idea.

[skend04]

XBMC is on using adbfire. Cooking with gas now.

[Sugar Ape]

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[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Well, Time Machine does a 'backups.backupdb' folder on that drive. It shouldn't matter, but it'll just eat away at your space. It shouldn't matter though, it's just a bit untidy. That might be my anal ways (you know all about my anal ways) taking over, though.

 

So you'll need a Films folder, a TV Shows folder, and a Torrents folder to go with it. Then set up Transmission to save the files and part files in the Torrents folder.

[Sugar Ape]

Well, Time Machine does a 'backups.backupdb' folder on that drive. It shouldn't matter, but it'll just eat away at your space. It shouldn't matter though, it's just a bit untidy. That might be my anal ways (you know all about my anal ways) taking over, though.

 

So you'll need a Films folder, a TV Shows folder, and a Torrents folder to go with it. Then set up Transmission to save the files and part files in the Torrents folder.

It's nearly backed up now ( I'm going to turn time machine off after this, I don't need it backing up daily so I'll just do it myself once a month ) then I'll start looking at Plex.

 

How long did it take you to get Plex up and running? I'm assuming I just download the media server and point it in the direction of the harddrive as to where I want it to sync media from?

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Minutes. You do need to let it run for a while on the first launch, because it goes out and gets all the names/covers/descriptions, etc. You basically instal it, set it up by pointing it to the films folder and TV shows folders, then it searches and you're done. There might be a few incorrect matches, but they're easy to fix.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Sorted it, dickbollocks?

[Sugar Ape]

Just got it downloaded on my Mac, got the first season of Gotham, Indiana Jones trilogy, some hammer horror films and Pacific rim and '71 downloaded, sorted all the names out in the suggested order and it went on Plex in a matter of seconds.

 

Haven't had a chance to install the Fire box yet but I'll do it before I go to bed and hopefully won't have any problems with it. I'm going to be downloading about 2tb of stuff in the next week or two to get this bitch filled up.

 

Thanks for your help again, I'll report back with any problems.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Easier than it sounds isn't it. Deffo worth getting it in mobile devices too.

[Sugar Ape]

I'm just waiting on the fire box to install the latest updates before I have a play round with it. Working like a dream so far on the Mac, probably won't get it on my phone as I don't watch stuff on that often but I'll get it on my tablet.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Tablet is a must.

[Sugar Ape]

Got it working like a dream on the fire tv box, I'm watching something upstairs and she's watching a movie through Plex on the Mac downstairs.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Nice!

[Sugar Ape]

Nice!

 

I've downloaded over 400gb worth of TV shows and movies since Sunday. Got about 100 movies, Complete GOT, Archer, Gotham, The Strain, Fargo, True Detective etc... and I've got every James Bond film downloading in HD whilst I'm in work.

 

Want to get a couple of TB worth of stuff before I move.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

I've downloaded over 400gb worth of TV shows and movies since Sunday. Got about 100 movies, Complete GOT, Archer, Gotham, The Strain, Fargo, True Detective etc... and I've got every James Bond film downloading in HD whilst I'm in work.

 

Want to get a couple of TB worth of stuff before I move.

Great stuff. It's all playing nicely together?

[Sugar Ape]

Great stuff. It's all playing nicely together?

 

Yeah seems to be. It takes seconds updating whatever I've downloaded and plays fine so far. Might not stream so well on the Fire box once my internet connection drops to 17mb but we'll see.

 

Have you got BT fibre optic? The new place we should be moving to is getting the cabinet enabled for fibre optic in September they think; does that mean I can get it straight away once the cabinet is enabled or will they have to install something in my house do you know?

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Yeah seems to be. It takes seconds updating whatever I've downloaded and plays fine so far. Might not stream so well on the Fire box once my internet connection drops to 17mb but we'll see.

 

Have you got BT fibre optic? The new place we should be moving to is getting the cabinet enabled for fibre optic in September they think; does that mean I can get it straight away once the cabinet is enabled or will they have to install something in my house do you know?

You shouldn't have any problems streaming across the house, as it's internal network speeds. Even if your internet is down, it still works.

 

I've got 100mb Virgin. You should be fine as soon as they update their box. It's fibre to the box as far as I know, then copper the last X amount of meters to the house.

[markcd]

The FireTV stick is down to £25 on Amazon.

 

Ordered one to investigate the obvious 3; blagged movies, porn and the unmentionable.

 

Seems like a decent option for not much cash. Has anyone tried it yet?

[Furmedge]

You can still get xbmc/kodi on the Fire TV stick so you should be grand for all three.

[redheart]

Damn I have not long since bought google chrome