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What do you recommend to streaming with a RPI 4b? (feddit.dk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi there,

I’m a newbie here. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 model b. However, I’ve tried to run jellyseer, using Plex Debrid, and then to do the streaming to my Apple TV.

What I don’t know if I should try to use real debrid in another way, or maybe I’m not doing the right thing because I cannot stream properly.

Another concern is about the possibility to install a VPN, I’m using Proton. Should I install a Linux distro first and then, VPN, jellyseer and plex debrid?

Thanks in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not all that familiar with Debrid and you're not exactly clear on what the issue is. But I will mention that I don't think jellyseerr will work for you in this setup. Jellyseerr is meant to work with sonarr/radarr. It looks like to request content you have to add it to your watchlist in Plex instead.

As for VPN, isn't the point of Debrid to avoid torrenting and direct download only? VPN probably isn't necessary, but if you're paranoid then just make sure only the Debrid rclone is going through the VPN, you don't want Plex to go through the VPN as then you won't be able to connect to it from your LAN.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for your insights…

Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough. My problem is basically I cannot do the streaming properly. But as you pointed out, jellyseer and plexdebrid seems not to be the proper solution. I will try with Jellyfin and plexdebrid instead.

About Debrid and the VPN, the question is that in my country of residency, as many others, torrenting is not legal. But here people seem more hunted for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't need jellyfin and Plex. They both do the same thing, so just pick one.

And per the torrenting; isn't the point of using Debrid that you're NOT torrenting? You're letting the service provider do the torrenting for you and they just serve up the file to you via direct download over https. And in this case, your IP isn't exposed in the same way it is when you torrent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I already chose Jellyfin because it’s open source, for free, and very useful.

Thanks again. I really appreciate your help, specially with your comments on the Debrid tool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a Pi4B but with a m2 drive as the OS instead of the sdcard which I highly recommend due to the amount of read/write downloading files does.

A pi4 should have 0 trouble (via ethernet) doing anything you are saying.

From what I could tell your setup is internet -> pi4 -> appletv. If the pi & applet are on Wifi that would be a huge issue. The most any wifi can realistically do is 270mbps and that is when you are next to the damn thing.
As let's say you are streaming 1080p content which requires around 20-50mbps. Router to pi (20mbps) + pi to router (20mbps) + router to Apple TV 20mbps), so you'd already be pushing 60mbps at best internally all over wifi.

Temporarily add cables to everything if possible or move the pi onto a cable as a minimum. then you will cut down on the back-and-forth it needs to do over wifi so then your router can dedicate all its bandwidth to sending the data to the appletv.

If it's all on cables already then I guess it's a filesystem issue, as your not using a SSD but using a SD card. Run iostat via command line while streaming and see if there is any big "iowait" values. I'd there is then your sd card is not keeping up with the total bandwidth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What an explanation! Thank you very much!

Right now I’m formatting my RPI, and installing a new OS (DietPi). Also, I’m installing Jellyfin, Jellyseer, and PlexDebrid.

I’ll add my pi to the router as you suggested and test it again. I’ll be back with some feedback.

[–] cucumberbob 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What args have you passed to rclone? I found setting ‘—vfs-cache-mode full drastically improved streaming performance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, what?

[–] cucumberbob 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry maybe I’ve misunderstood your stack. The “typical” plex_debrid stack has the debrid mounted via WebDAV using rclone so plex/jellyfin/whatever can see the stuff on your debrid as though it was a local file, only downloading bits of each file as they’re requested.

The option I suggested lets rclone download to your disk as a cache, which I found mae the experience much smoother

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Got it!

I’m reinstalling everything, even the OS, because for some reason I cannot run the python code to setup Plex Debrid.