Emby Scanner - tool for partially scan Emby library

[BoskiAlvaro 4]

Hi,

I created simple application to schedule Emby library scan. Of course we have in-build setting to scan our library, so maybe I will exaplain why I created separated tool for that.

In my scenario, movies and tv series are on several HDDs, most of them are full so there is really little chance, that something will be changed there. This is the reason why I decided to sleep those drives to save some energy. In-build Emby scanning mechanism scan every drives and we can't distinguish which drive or path should be scanned or excluded. It leads to spinup every drive in my server once Emby start scanning for changes in my library. Someone tell - we can select real time monitoring feature - yes, we can, but it don't work some mount ways (like SMB shares etc). Also, with enabled this feature, when we restart Emby server application again every HDDs spins up.

That's why I decided to write my own way to scan Emby library  maybe for someone will be useful, maybe not - but it's already developed so I can share it with you  

 

Main features:
- we can trigger specific library to refresh manually from dashboard
- we can set up scheduler to refresh only selected libraries periodically
- we can hide some libraries from the UI to keep app interface clean and easy to find relevant libraries
- it's created to work in docker - so run it should be quite easy for everyone  

If someone have some issue or ideas - feel free to tell me about that.

link to repo: https://github.com/BoskiAlvaro/Emby-Scanner

 

[Luke 42337]

Thanks for sharing.