Open Sonarr in a browser with “:8989” and read on… Step 1 – Managing an existing media collection Starting Fresh This guide will be using the file paths from our other guide, Using Amazon Cloud Drive with Plex Media Server on Ubuntu… And Encrypting It! So, if you haven’t used that guide to set up your media directories, you’ll have to substitute your own here. With these tasks being automated by Sonarr, you’ll find yourself spending a lot less time tinkering with your PMS and more time enjoying your media collection! Let’s get started. Automatically running scripts upon media import.In this guide, we are going to focus on the following areas: Sonarr is probably one of the best tools to use in conjunction with Plex Media Server, so it’s best to take advantage of every ability it has to offer. I found this out in some buried forum about Plex and Alexa "skipping" while playing music from Plex (like on page 9 of the thread), so obviously searching for "companion player not found" didn't find it.Alright, this is probably the most requested guide of all. I can't believe their docs had erroneous stuff in there, let alone alone that nobody on the Plex forums seems to know this (at least still haven't gotten a response). So you can ignore that last bit (as long as you set the server) and then just do something like: there apparently *is* no player with the PMS on QNAP. If you do this with the QNAP, it will fail. Just say:Īsk Plex to change my player to Living Room TV" Similarly, you can tell Alexa to directly set or change the player using the name of the player and save the additional voice prompt. Say:Īlexa will give you a list of the available players and you can choose the desired entry from the list. The last step to preparing the Plex integration with the Alexa Voice Service is to set the default Plex player. There's a section on their Alexa/echo integration that tells you that you: Perhaps I should've gone with the Synology NAS instead of the QNAP (since it looks like nobody will be able to convince Amazon to support DLNA natively), as it looks like there's native apps for that NAS that'll stream to the Echo.Īpparently Plex's instructions are a bit off if using the NAS version of their PMS. May just as well pay Amazon for the $25 yearly storage to upload the songs at that point.īut thanks for the info. I guess I can give that a whirl and see if my puny TS-251+ can handle it (LOL).Īlthough means I gotta pick up an HDMI monitor for the QNAP now, so that'll be another $100. Looks like that requires HybridDesktop Station? However, the first post (?) in the link mentioned something about jriver media center. ) can do this, but right now appears that the QNAP Plex Server is nowhere near this version, and thus, is not an option. I know Plex Server ( Plex Media Server version 1.5.1 or newer is required. Is there an App that ONLY runs/installs on the QNAP that will allow you to stream that music to the Echo? No Windows PC/Server (or Linux, Raspberry Pi, etc.) required. I can do that now with the Plex App/server. Unfortunately (unless I'm reading wrong), it requires that you run this on your Windows PC. Music station seems awkward (you have to re-upload the music files even though they're already on the NAS in order to create a non-smart playlist?) But that doesn't solve the issue, unfortunately.Īre there any other apps that I can install on the QNAP that'll let me tell the Echo via Alexa to playback the music (via Echo's built-in speaker) from the QNAP? I thought I saw somewhere that other NAS (Synology?) had an app that worked with Alexa/Echo for streaming, but I cannot seem to find anything for QNAP. I saw something about IFTT, but that seems to assume that you have the actual audio device hooked up to the QNAP (ie, you can use Alexa Echo to tell the Music Station to play the music, but the output is limited to USB, BT, etc. I'm not sure if it's QNAP's job or Plex's job to update that. It seems that this is doable IF the Plex Server software was version 1.3.4.something, but it seems for QNAP it's still at like 1.1.10 or something. I want to use my Amazon Echo (via Alexa) to playback the music from the QNAP. I searched and only came across 2 forum threads, which doesn't bode well, IMO.
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