SymMeta

For uploading of various metadata with Plex into GDrive/Teamdrives.

"I am not a coder. I have barely know what I am doing. Use at your own risk!"

[NEW] Changelog v1.2

• [Fix] Fixed fd to only look for files, and not symlinks, when creating array at beginning of script. (Thanks for report Soulplayer)

[OLD] Changelog v1.1

• [Fix] Corrected an error in the script with an if logic operator that would cause the whole script to not function properly.
• [Fix] Corrected a visual bug where fd-V was changed to the proper fd -V.

[OLD] Changelog v1.0

• [Added] Script will now detect any dependencies it needs and download them.
• [Added] Script will detect if dependencies need an upgrade and will upgrade them.
• [Added] Script now uses a logging library that is more efficient and provides better information.
• [Added] Script is ran through shellcheck to verify it is the most current and updated logic and bash.

To-Do List

• Add better logging to a log file.
• Add apprise notifications.
• Add error handling when files for some reason to not upload.
• Other stuff I'm probably forgetting.

What is it?

This script was create for the purposes of creating .bif files, otherwise known as Video Preview Thumbnails in Plex. I enjoy having them but did not want to have to use terabytes of storage to do so.

Enter my script!

Requirements

1. fd: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

• The script has a built-in check to download this.

2. Cloudplow: https://github.com/l3uddz/cloudplow

• The script will do a check to see if this is installed but you will need to install this yourself as there are a myriad of config settings.
• I chose cloudplow because it's already a complete rclone wrapper and I am lazy. Thanks l3uddz!!
• When utilizing cloudplow, below is an example config you can utilize.

{
    "core": {
        "dry_run": false,
        "rclone_binary_path": "/usr/bin/rclone",
        "rclone_config_path": "/home/<youruser>/.config/rclone/rclone.conf"
    },
    "hidden": {},
    "notifications": {},
    "nzbget": {
        "enabled": false,
        "url": "https://user:password@nzbget.domain.com"
    },
    "plex": {
        "enabled": false,
        "max_streams_before_throttle": 1,
        "notifications": false,
        "poll_interval": 60,
        "rclone": {
            "throttle_speeds": {
                "1": "50M",
                "2": "40M",
                "3": "30M",
                "4": "20M",
                "5": "10M"
            },
            "url": "http://localhost:7949"
        },
        "token": "",
        "url": "https://plex.domain.com"
    },
    "remotes": {
        "<yourremote>": {
            "hidden_remote": "",
            "rclone_command": "move",
            "rclone_excludes": [],
            "rclone_extras": {
                "--checkers": 16,
                "--drive-chunk-size": "128M",
                "--drive-stop-on-upload-limit": null,
                "--low-level-retries": 2,
                "--retries": 1,
                "--skip-links": null,
                "--stats": "60s",
                "--transfers": 8,
                "--user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.131 Safari/537.36",
                "--verbose": 1
            },
            "rclone_sleeps": {
                " 0/s,": {
                    "count": 2400,
                    "sleep": 25,
                    "timeout": 120
                },
                "Failed to copy: googleapi: Error 403: User rate limit exceeded": {
                    "count": 10,
                    "sleep": 25,
                    "timeout": 7200
                }
            },
            "remove_empty_dir_depth": 2,
            "sync_remote": "<yourremote>:/bif",
            "upload_folder": "/mnt/local/bif",
            "upload_remote": "<yourremote>:/bif"
        }
    },
    "syncer": {},
    "uploader": {
        "<yourremote>": {
            "check_interval": 30,
            "exclude_open_files": true,
            "max_size_gb": 1,
            "opened_excludes": [
                "/bif/"
            ],
            "service_account_path": "/your/path/here",
            "size_excludes": [
                "bif/*"
            ]
        }
    }
}

3. rclone: curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
4. yq: https://github.com/mikefarah/yq

• This is renamed to yyq as there are a couple variants out there with the same name.
• The script has a built in check to download this.

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Installation

1. cd /opt

2. git clone https://github.com/Visorask/SymMeta.git

3. nano config.yml Edit these settings as needed.

4. cd /opt/SymMeta && chmod +x symmeta

5. Enjoy!

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How to use

1. First thing is you will probably want to create a specific teamdrive or use gdrive for this.
2. You will then add that rclone remote to the config file. The script will generate this folder automatically for you, as long as it's pointed at the right rclone remote.
3. At this point you should wait a minute for rclone backend to catch up and then do cd /mnt/unionfs/ (or wherever you have your mergerfs folder) and then do ls to see if there is a folder called bif there. If there is not you need to try again.
4. Also check under cd /mnt/local and ls and see if there is a bif folder there as well.
5. Once you have the folder showing up under /mnt/unionfs then you can get started.
6. You will then enable Settings -> Library -> Generate video preview thumbnails And set it to your preference of as a scheduled task or as a scheduled task and when media is added.
7. You can then go Plex Home -> <Target Library> -> Manage Library -> Edit -> Advanced -> Enable video preview thumbnails.
8. Then Plex Home -> <Target Library> -> Manage Library -> Analyze

• This sometimes takes a while to start so don't get discouraged or frustrated. Refresh the page a couple of times and when you see the dashboard start spinning and it says Generating video preview thumbnails, you should be good to go.

9. At this point you can give it a while to create some .bif file before activating the script.
10. When you feel enough time has passed then you can cd /opt/SymMeta and run the command ./symmeta and you should be getting output.
11. At this point this should be everything you need to do.

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I will add crontab instructions soon.

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Troubleshooting

Will add more as people run into any issues.

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