Plex Client on RPi w/ Flirc IR & Composite for CRT in 2023

Recently I decided to get a Plex client going on my CRT Sony television for the full retro experience using the original remote control, which meant I had to do some research and figure out exactly how all this would work in 2023, 20 years after it wasn’t very common. You’ll need a few things to get started, below are some affiliate links to Amazon Canada, and Amazon USA to source some products should you need them....

October 19, 2023 · 7 min · 1396 words · Matt G

Setting up yt_dlp w/ Qnap & Plex for Youtube Download

I’ve been wanting to get some youtube series onto my plex server for a while for archival purposes, and, cause, fuck ads amirite? I pieced together some various scripts I found to mostly automate the process on my QNAP nas, that also houses my Plex server. Most of everything I found was for youtube-dl which doesn’t appear to work as well as the fork yt-dl so I opted to use that for this....

March 23, 2023 · 4 min · 831 words · Matt G