Help Setting up PMM | Kometa | Page 1

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:45 PM

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Hi All,
I setup PMM in docker but am having trouble getting it to finish running collections. I'll pay $50 upfront and $50 at the end to anyone who can remote in to my computer and help me troubleshoot the issue. Here are my current issues:

PMM does not automatically run each morning
PMM cannot connect to Radarr
PMM runs but then stalls at some point when it starts adding movies to collections. I tried to monitoring system performance and RAM usage tops out at 50% when PMM is running.

Please DM if you are interested. This should take less than one hour, thank you!

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wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:47 PM

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can you send a copy of config/Movies.yml

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:47 PM

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📎 Movies.yml

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Just uploaded

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:47 PM

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also you don't need --test

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:48 PM

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is --test somehwere in my config file?

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:48 PM

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Line 23 in Movies.yml is
Letterboxd 100: Animation:

replace that with

"Letterboxd 100: Animation":

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The : after 100 makes it think Animation is a value for Letterboxd 100, so you wrap it in quotation marks to make it the entire string 🙂

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you have a random space at the end of Movies.yml too, remove that

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Run Command: plex_meta_manager.py --test

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:49 PM

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done!

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:49 PM

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you have -rt or --test in your command when you are running PMM

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:50 PM

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how do I remove --test?

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:50 PM

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how do you run PMM?

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what do you type

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:50 PM

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docker run -it -v C:\Users\bryan\plex-meta-manager\config:/config:rw meisnate12/plex-meta-manager –run

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but with the dashes at the end

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twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 3:50 PM

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and how was the container created?

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:51 PM

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what are the options to create? I'm new to Docker but you can probably jog my memory

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 3:52 PM

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docker compose, docker run, some UI on your NAS, maybe something else.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:52 PM

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I think just docker run

ruby nacelle Jul 3, 2023, 3:52 PM

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First time I see that version in his meta.log

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:52 PM

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The log doesn't specify that you have enabled --run so I imagine there is some other mechanism running PMM

ruby nacelle Jul 3, 2023, 3:52 PM

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Wsl2

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:52 PM

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I'm using my Synology NAS as basically remote drives, Plex is installed on windows on my regular PC that also has Docker/PMM

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 3:52 PM

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Then you must have specified PMM_TEST when the container was created.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:53 PM

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I probably accidentally did

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 3:53 PM

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remove the container and recreate it without that.

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Radarr isn't connecting because it's actively refusing connections; probably you have the wrong URL in there:

ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:53 PM

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re Radarr:

<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fd218f920d0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused

I'm not sure how to resolve that

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:54 PM

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Radarr is working just fine with my Download Station torrent client on my Synology NAS but yeah....

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:54 PM

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I don't really know NAS but make sure the connections are on the same bridge/network so that they can communicate with each other

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:54 PM

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to remove the container, do I uninstall the image?

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 3:54 PM

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sleek grotto Radarr is working just fine with my Download Station torrent client on my Synolo...

I'm just reading the logs. When PMM tries to connect the connection is refused. PMM can't do anything about that.

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:55 PM

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Also in case anyone DM's you, please don't pay people for support, we're here to help 😛

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:55 PM

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do I need to open a port in my firewall? I tried opening all ports to local connections but that didn't work

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 3:55 PM

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sleek grotto to remove the container, do I uninstall the image?

You delete the container, not the image.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:55 PM

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I'm just desperate to get this setting up as I freakin' love Letterboxd and want to create lists from there

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 3:55 PM

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sleek grotto do I need to open a port in my firewall? I tried opening all ports to local conn...

There are insufficient details here to say for sure.

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Do you need the radarr connection? You could just forego it for the time being.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:56 PM

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Do I delete all of these?

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I was hoping to have Radarr add movies on lists that I'm missing

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:56 PM

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Let's start with getting PMM running properly 😄

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Tackle 1 issue at a time lol

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 3:57 PM

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Yes, you want to delete all those, then use a docker run command that won't leave containers laying around.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:57 PM

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This is what I get for following some random install guide!

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:57 PM

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We do have our official install guides

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 3:57 PM

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You should probably back up and use the official docker walkthrough.

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:57 PM

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https://metamanager.wiki/en/latest/home/guides/synology.html

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 3:58 PM

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I can leave the config and movies yml as is for rthe time being after I re-do the install?

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 3:58 PM

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yes

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:00 PM

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so that walkthrough if for synology, but I'm not running Plex on the synology NAS, i'm really just usinng the synology nas as remote drives at this point that I mapped to my windows PC onn which I run Plex, Docker, etc.

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*walkthrough is for

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:00 PM

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Ah my apologies

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 4:00 PM

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Then use the docker walkthrough

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:00 PM

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https://metamanager.wiki/en/latest/home/guides/docker.html

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:01 PM

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do you recommend skipping the test library setup?

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 4:01 PM

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It's up to you.

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:01 PM

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You have a working configuration file that does work against your library

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So I can see why one may skip it 🙂

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The guide is fairly granular, you've already got a somewhat working setup so some of it may seem beginner to you.

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It assumes someone is setting up for the first time and has very little understanding of how to set up

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:05 PM

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So when I replace this with my own location, "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\plex-meta-manager\config:/config:rw"

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do I leave the quotes, and also do I add the \config:rw to the end?

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when I ran pwd it showed me this: C:\Users\bryan\plex-meta-manager\config

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this is why I offered to pay since I'm a total newb!

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:09 PM

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sleek grotto So when I replace this with my own location, "C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\plex-meta-ma...

yes

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here is an example run command:

docker run --rm -it -v "/Users/mroche/plex-meta-manager/config:/config:rw" meisnate12/plex-meta-manager --run

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I expect you'll want:

docker run --rm -it -v " C:\Users\bryan\plex-meta-manager\config:/config:rw" meisnate12/plex-meta-manager --run

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 4:11 PM

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FWIW, this:

docker run --rm -it -v " C:\Users\bryan\plex-meta-manager\config:/config:rw" meisnate12/plex-meta-manager --run
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is what keeps these from collecting <#1125452307182653480 message>

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:14 PM

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I suspect I don't want to use the config:rw in that command?

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 4:16 PM

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YOu need that.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:16 PM

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this is my current director setup

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directory

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 4:16 PM

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Maybe this extra space:

" C:\Users\

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:16 PM

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oops 👀

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see, even we get it wrong 😄

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by we I do of course mean me...

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:17 PM

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it's so sensitive to details! But I get it has to be

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:17 PM

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if it helps, config:rw tells the container to mount your filepath to a location it refers to as "config"

so when in your config you say - file: config/Movies.yml, it uses the location you have mounted to config:rw

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just so you understand how that works 🙂

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:18 PM

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oh cool

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so I accidentally ran it since the walkthrough said I'd get an error so I'm waiting for it to finish since I already setup the Config file the first time

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:18 PM

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hahaha yeah if you have a config it will just run

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you can Ctrl + C (twice I think) to kill the run

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:19 PM

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so if I have almost 8,000 movies, how long do you think it will take to run?

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:20 PM

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That is an impossible question to answer really 😄

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 4:20 PM

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depends entirely on what you have it doing in the config and the infrastructure everything's running on.

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:20 PM

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There are many variables that factor into it

merry gazelleBOT Jul 3, 2023, 4:20 PM

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Donate to the project!

Plex Meta Manager would not be a success if it wasn't for all the people that spend hours and hours of their personal time to help others out with:

:one: creating/updating/maintaining the PMM code
:two: creating/updating/maintaining all of the posters
:three: creating/updating/maintaining all the yml files to create the overlays and collections
:four: creating/updating/maintaining all the wiki documentation
:five: handling all the support and installation requests
:six: moderating the discord community server for PMM

As such, if ever you have used any of the above over here, why not consider a small donation (one time or monthly) to help the cause?

Click here to help us out with a donation: https://github.com/sponsors/meisnate12

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:20 PM

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I like that answerr haha!

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:20 PM

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Some that you can't control - Plex may think "nah I'm not gonna respond to that request right now, I'm busy doing my own thing"

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If Plex is doing its own tasks, it likes to block API requests or slow them down 😄

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:24 PM

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I just donated to the cause!

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i let PMM keep running, it's already gotten farther than it ever has before

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:25 PM

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Welcome to the Sponsors club 🙂

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 4:25 PM

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FYI:

docker 
run       -- create a container and start it running
--rm      -- when the container exits, delete it
-it       -- create an interactive terminal for the run
-v "C:\Users\bryan\plex-meta-manager\config:/config:rw"  
          -- map "C:\Users\bryan\plex-meta-manager\config" into the container
          -- at '/config'
          -- and make it read/write
meisnate12/plex-meta-manager
          -- base the container on this image
--run     -- tell PMM to run immediately

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:25 PM

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The above should hopefully make it clear, but just in case, starting the container is not the same as starting a PMM run 🙂

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:26 PM

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yes I am going to go through the rest of the walkthrough again word for word

ruby nacelle Jul 3, 2023, 4:29 PM

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8000 movies. No overlays….3 default collections…. I will guess 45 minutes. 😉

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:30 PM

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yup, it's almost through the first Oscars Best Picture Winners Collection

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:32 PM

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Your first run will typically take longer than follow-up runs

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Since it doesn't need to add all the movies, it just needs to check against the list and make any change

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:34 PM

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I'll touch base with you guys in a little while then, I'll let this first run go. Then run the commands to start the container

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if this works, I'm going to be so ecstatic because I love digital hoarding and even more I love snobby film lists!

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jk I just watched The Meg for the third time I'm not a snob

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 4:36 PM

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🤣 you can review the log file whilst it's running if you need to check anything

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:36 PM

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Help Setting up PMM

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unable to find asset folderr, does that matter?

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 4:41 PM

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Not unless you were expecting to use that to set the art, which you probably weren't.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:41 PM

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got it, yes that will be step 2 my addiction to manually selecting posterrs

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which freakin' Plex keeps wiping so I'm going to experiment with Tinymediamanager

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 4:50 PM

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The asset directory in PMM will set them as well, but if Plex is wiping them by itself no external tool will be able to prevent that.

ruby nacelle Jul 3, 2023, 4:52 PM

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sleek grotto which freakin' Plex keeps wiping so I'm going to experiment with Tinymediamanage...

PMM can do this as well. No need to necessarily use tiny media manager

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 4:52 PM

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but how do you browse posters with PMM? do you have to manually save them down?

ruby nacelle Jul 3, 2023, 4:53 PM

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Find what you want, store in the folder, PMM applies the poster

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 4:53 PM

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Basically, yes. PMM does not include a folder browser.

ruby nacelle Jul 3, 2023, 4:54 PM

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Tpdb is a good source of poster art

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 5:13 PM

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thank you

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I fear PMM hung up

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it's been stuck on the same movie for awhile

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 5:14 PM

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Send the log

merry gazelleBOT Jul 3, 2023, 5:14 PM

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"send log" command detected, if you need more information on how to provide log files, type !logs

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 5:14 PM

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📎 meta.log

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 5:14 PM

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Can you check if Plex is doing any tasks such as library scans

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 5:15 PM

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looks like it is

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 5:15 PM

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Might be why

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 5:15 PM

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do I just quit it for now, finish with the install?

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 5:15 PM

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I would normally expect PMM to timeout though

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How much RAM does your system have?

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 5:16 PM

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I think I set the timeout at something long like 999 seconds because I was guessing that was the original issue

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16 GB ram and here is the usage

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wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 5:19 PM

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So a potential thought

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I'm pretty sure when you're using WSL2 it can only use 50% of the system memory

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Which means you're limited to 8GB, it could be maxing out and killing the run

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 5:19 PM

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ah!

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 5:20 PM

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You can configure the memory limit by creating a .wslconfig file in your user folder. Mine's C:\users\wme. Next add the following content to the file:

[wsl2]
memory=12GB

Now reboot WSL with the command: wsl --shutdown

You can verify the new memory setting by running free in the linux distribution you have installed.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 5:21 PM

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so add a folder called "wme" in this path? C:\Users\bryan

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and should I kill PMM right now?

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 5:23 PM

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no and probably yes

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put this in C:\Users\bryan

📎 wslconfig

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I have set it to 12GB, you can edit it to change the value if you want

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 5:28 PM

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ok I shut down PMM

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should I continue with the containner setup before trying to re-run PMM?

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and maybe restart my pc?

wise iron Jul 3, 2023, 5:28 PM

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Sure

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 5:39 PM

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sorry i'm a little confused, which commands do I run next after running PMM for the first time?

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docker
run -- create a container and start it running
--rm -- when the container exits, delete it
-it -- create an interactive terminal for the run
-v "C:\Users\bryan\plex-meta-manager\config:/config:rw"
-- map "C:\Users\bryan\plex-meta-manager\config" into the container
-- at '/config'
-- and make it read/write
meisnate12/plex-meta-manager
-- base the container on this image
--run -- tell PMM to run immediately

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I think all I did was have PMM run immediately

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I got to here in the walkthrough: Runtime and Environment Flags

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 5:41 PM

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sleek grotto sorry i'm a little confused, which commands do I run next after running PMM for ...

That was just an effort to tell you what the various pieces of the command meant.

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Just continue through the walkthrough as written.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 5:45 PM

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ah ok, and yes I"m a dumb ass with this! lol

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 6:09 PM

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ran PMM again, it's now gotten past where it left off last time just letting it run now

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 6:10 PM

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If you are going through that walkthrough you should be doing very short runs that do specific things, which are designed to help you learn how the tool works.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 6:11 PM

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whoops lol

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well I technically got to the end

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of the walkthrough

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 6:11 PM

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I mean, you can keep doing what you're doing, but I thought the goal was figuring out how to get the thing to work.

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 6:12 PM

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sleek grotto well I technically got to the end

OK, I've just been reading these status updates about how it's running for a long time and typically that doesn't happen in the walkthrough.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 6:32 PM

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I interruped the PMM run because it was adding all of the Oscar years and would take forever, but now I can't re-run it:

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I am so sorry how much work this has beenn

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📎 meta.log

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it was working just fine until I tried to modify the Oscar PMM with a template variable

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 6:35 PM

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on line 9 you have indented something with a tab rather than spaces:

| YAML Error: while scanning for the next token                                                      |
| found character '\t' that cannot start any token                                                   |
|   in "//config/config.yml", line 9, column 1                                                       |

I deleted that message as it had all your tokens in it.

The log already contains a redacted config.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 6:38 PM

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that fixed it, got it so now I understand at least it tells you in the error messages which line is wrong

ruby nacelle Jul 3, 2023, 6:39 PM

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!editor

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!editos

merry gazelleBOT Jul 3, 2023, 6:39 PM

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Recommended Text Editors

We highly recommend to use a decent editor software to manage PMM´s .yml files.

Standard text editors (such as Notepad and TextEdit) often save text in a rich-text format which can result in text formatted in a way that PMM cannot read. But not only that, they also make it very hard to visually distinguish the formatting, such as indentation.
PMM requires indents to always be multiples of 2 spaces, and not TAB stops. If you have one space too much, or too few, it is very hard to notice that with a editor like Notepad.
An editor that is more focused on editing code instead of text will automatically detect the .YML fileformat and adjust things to make it easier to work. They can also try to detect possible errors even before you actually run the .yml in PMM.

This can save a lot of time and headaches.

Visual Studio Code (Windows/Mac/Linux, Opensource & Free)
Website

**Notepad ** (Windows only, Opensource & Free)
Website

Sublime Text (Windows/Mac/Linux, Paid)
Website

For further details and a short list of highly recommended extensions, you can also take a look at our Reddit post.

ruby nacelle Jul 3, 2023, 6:39 PM

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You are gonna want to use one of these... so that you catch the tabs and spacing issues more easily. yml is very picky with spaces... it matters...

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 6:41 PM

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thank you!

ruby nacelle Jul 3, 2023, 6:43 PM

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i presonally use VSCode with rainbow addon

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 7:18 PM

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pretty sure it's going to finish running!!!!

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it's working on the Letterboxd top 250 now!

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how should I go about troubleshooting the connection to radarr now? basically I installed radarr as a windows task, is that bad?

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 7:22 PM

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Unrelated.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 7:34 PM

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so you think radarr isn't configured correctly?

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 7:51 PM

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The url/port is incorrect or something else is in the way from pmm to radarr.

ruby nacelle Jul 3, 2023, 8:19 PM

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we updated !editos was updated because the reddit post was "offline"

merry gazelleBOT Jul 3, 2023, 8:19 PM

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Recommended Text Editors

We highly recommend to use a decent editor software to manage PMM´s .yml files.

Standard text editors (such as Notepad and TextEdit) often save text in a rich-text format which can result in text formatted in a way that PMM cannot read. But not only that, they also make it very hard to visually distinguish the formatting, such as indentation.
PMM requires indents to always be multiples of 2 spaces, and not TAB stops. If you have one space too much, or too few, it is very hard to notice that with a editor like Notepad.
An editor that is more focused on editing code instead of text will automatically detect the .YML fileformat and adjust things to make it easier to work. They can also try to detect possible errors even before you actually run the .yml in PMM.

This can save a lot of time and headaches.

Visual Studio Code (Windows/Mac/Linux, Opensource & Free)
Website

**Notepad ** (Windows only, Opensource & Free)
Website

Sublime Text (Windows/Mac/Linux, Paid)
Website

For further details and a short list of highly recommended extensions, you can also take a look here.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 8:29 PM

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how do I find the correct url/port? I see the port listed as standard 7878 when I log in

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this is what I enter when I login :"http://localhost:7878/"

ruby nacelle Jul 3, 2023, 8:31 PM

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is radarr also running as a container?

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your port is likely correct... but you may have a networking situation preventing the containers from talking to each other... we would need to understand your setup a little better

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 8:33 PM

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radarr is running as a windows task

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 8:38 PM

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What url are you using in PMM for Radarr?

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And what is the networking mode for the PMM container?

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 9:27 PM

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how do you look up networking mode or is that something I need to google?

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should I publish the port to my local network? https://docs.docker.com/network/

Docker Documentation

Networking overview

How networking works from the container's point of view

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 9:45 PM

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Inside the pmm container, "localhost" refers to the PMM container, not the host system.

If you put the PMM container on the host network, you should be able to use the LAN IP of that machine.

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But it appears host network is not supported on Windows.

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The alternative would be to run PMM on the host [not docker] or run Radarr in Docker.

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 10:16 PM

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I'll just switch radarr to docker then!

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 10:18 PM

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put them on the same named docker network and you can refer to radarr as http://radarr:7878

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provided you give the radarr container the name radarr

sleek grotto Jul 3, 2023, 10:20 PM

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that would just be doing a regular docker install of radarr right? I was going to backup radarr, install and then recover my data

twilit pagoda Jul 3, 2023, 10:21 PM

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depends on what "regular docker install" means. Giving a container a name is typically something you have to choose to do whether it's a command line option or a field in a UI.

sleek grotto Jul 4, 2023, 3:18 AM

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This might work? do you know what the text would be for the "my-app" if this was to be my PMM?

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Yes, Docker programs can connect to Windows apps. Docker is a platform for running applications in containers, and Windows is an operating system. Docker programs can be run on any operating system that supports Docker, including Windows. When a Docker program is run on Windows, it is isolated from the rest of the operating system. This means that the Docker program cannot access the Windows desktop or other Windows applications by default. However, it is possible to configure Docker programs to connect to Windows apps. One way to do this is to use the -v flag when running the Docker program. The -v flag specifies a volume mount, which is a directory on the host machine that is shared with the Docker container. The host machine is the computer that is running Docker. To connect a Docker program to a Windows app, you can mount the Windows app's directory to the Docker container. For example, to connect a Docker program to the Notepad application, you would use the following command:
docker run -v C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe:/app/notepad.exe my-app
This command will run the my-app Docker program and mount the C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe directory to the /app/notepad.exe directory in the Docker container. The my-app Docker program will then be able to access the Notepad application.

ruby nacelle Jul 4, 2023, 3:24 AM

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Mounting file systems is not the same as ensuring that host to host or container to container network level communication is happening.

sleek grotto Jul 4, 2023, 3:30 AM

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oooof

ruby nacelle Jul 4, 2023, 3:39 AM

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If you have radarr and PMM both setup as containers on your system, ensure that they can “talk” to each other at the network layer.

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You should be able to console to either container and “ping” the other container.

twilit pagoda Jul 4, 2023, 1:49 PM

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sleek grotto Yes, Docker programs can connect to Windows apps. Docker is a platform for runni...

This is talking about setting things up so you could run notepad.exe inside that docker container.

sleek grotto Jul 4, 2023, 7:24 PM

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well the Radarr discord was not helpful, basically said instead of using locahost just look up IP address and enter it into the config file of PMM, is it that simple? I can't find the longer ip address of radarr however just the http://localhost:7878/

ruby nacelle Jul 4, 2023, 7:54 PM

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localhost could also be 127.0.0.1

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you may also be able to use the ip address of the host machine running docker itself

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so lets recap a little... can you tell us whether you have both radarr and pmm as containers running in docker on your windows machine?

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are they both running fine independently but cannot "speak" to each other?

sleek grotto Jul 4, 2023, 8:14 PM

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radarr is installed on windows not in docker, PMM is installed in docker as a container and they can't talk to each other

wise berry Jul 4, 2023, 8:17 PM

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you either need to install radarr in docker and put pmm and radarr on the same docker network or you need to use your PC IP in the pmm config yml for radarr

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http://<PC IP>:7878

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if you put radarr on the same docker network as pmm after installing radarr in docker then you would use http://radarr:7878

wise berry Jul 4, 2023, 8:20 PM

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wise berry http://<PC IP>:7878

you may have to use your house IP and open 7878 in your router firewall. not sure. But those are your only 3 options

twilit pagoda Jul 4, 2023, 10:33 PM

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To use the local ip of the pc (probably something like 192.168.1.10), the docker container will need to be on the host network, and a few minutes googling seems to say that’s impossible on windows.
That leaves either running Radarr in docker or forwarding port 7878 to your radarr machine (in your router) and using the external ip:7878.

ruby nacelle Jul 4, 2023, 10:40 PM

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Oh windows you scamp!

wise berry Jul 4, 2023, 10:42 PM

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https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/6736

sleek grotto Jul 8, 2023, 7:34 PM

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Trying to do a radarr install on my docker. Do I have to enter anything for the Volume and Environmental variables section when you first run the Radarr container?

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I'll go over to Servarr I guess since this is Radarr not PMM. Just wanting to make sure PMM talks to Radarr though!

twilit pagoda Jul 8, 2023, 8:16 PM

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Shouldn’t be a problem if they’re both in docker. Use a named docker network and name the containers and pmm will use http:/radarr:7878 or the like.

sleek grotto Jul 12, 2023, 4:55 PM

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@twilit pagoda I'm a little confused on the instructions here: "You can run PMM in the background, telling it to wake up and process your libraries at fixed times during the day. The default behavior in this regard is to wake up at 5AM and process the config. If you leave the -r off the commands you have been using in this walkthrough, that’s what will happen."

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what is an example command with removing the -r? I don't believe I setup PMM properly because it does not automatically run at 5 am

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For example this is what I use to run PMM: docker run --rm -it -v “C:\Users\bryan\plex-meta-manager\config:/config:rw" meisnate12/plex-meta-manager --run

twilit pagoda Jul 12, 2023, 5:01 PM

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This --run bit [or -r, those are synonymous]:

docker run --rm -it -v  “..." meisnate12/plex-meta-manager --run
                                                RIGHT HERE ^^^^^

is telling PMM "run immediately and then exit when you're done"

If you leave that off, PMM will run continuously, waiting until 5AM to wake up and process the config, then back to sleep until the next day.

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Create a container, run PMM right now, then exit and delete the container:

docker run --rm -it -v  “REMOVED_FOR_SPACE:/config:rw" meisnate12/plex-meta-manager --run

Create a container, wait until 5AM to run PMM, then go to sleep until tomorrow at 5AM. If the container exits, delete it:

docker run --rm -it -v  “REMOVED_FOR_SPACE:/config:rw" meisnate12/plex-meta-manager

Create a container, wait until 9AM to run PMM, then go to sleep until tomorrow at 9AM. If the container exits, delete it:

docker run --rm -it -v  “REMOVED_FOR_SPACE:/config:rw" meisnate12/plex-meta-manager --time 09:00

All of those will leave the container running in the terminal window, so if you close the terminal window the container will die. If you don't want that to happen, run the container in the background:

Create a container that runs in the background, wait until 9AM to run PMM, then go to sleep until tomorrow at 9AM. If the container exits, delete it:

docker run -d --rm -it -v  “REMOVED_FOR_SPACE:/config:rw" meisnate12/plex-meta-manager --time 09:00

Create a container that runs in the background, wait until 9AM to run PMM, then go to sleep until tomorrow at 9AM. DON'T delete the container on exit:

docker run -d -it -v  “REMOVED_FOR_SPACE:/config:rw" meisnate12/plex-meta-manager --time 09:00

sleek grotto Jul 12, 2023, 5:36 PM

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thank you!!!!!!!

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