Help Emby Sync Evolve

[Luke 42077]

Team,

 

As you all know, we've recently released sync features for mobile devices, external hard drives and now cloud storage.

 

We want Emby Sync to be the best around, so please provide us with your feedback, both good and bad. We want to know if it works for you, if it doesn't, and what could be done to improve it.

 

Enjoy

[robinp 2]

So far the cloud sync has been working well. The only things I'd like to see would be:

- More control over clients accessing cloud version vs. local version (It sounds like you guys are working on this already).

- With cloud sync ability to throttle uploading to the cloud.  ex. max xxx kb/s for syncing.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

I'm not a sync user but looking at it I imagine it would be handy to split the schedule options for converting and uploading.  I could run conversion when I'm working and not really using the server but could only upload at night since I work from home and need the upload bandwidth during the work day.

[thefirstofthe300 292]

I'm not a sync user but looking at it I imagine it would be handy to split the schedule options for converting and uploading. I could run conversion when I'm working and not really using the server but could only upload at night since I work from home and need the upload bandwidth during the work day.

This already happens in a way. What I would like to see is the upload task to fire the convert media task and then go straight to uploading without waiting. Currently what seems to happen is that the upload task fires ffmpeg directly and waits for it to complete before attempting to upload.

[Luke 42077]

So far the cloud sync has been working well. The only things I'd like to see would be:

- More control over clients accessing cloud version vs. local version (It sounds like you guys are working on this already).

- With cloud sync ability to throttle uploading to the cloud.  ex. max xxx kb/s for syncing.

 

can you elaborate more on the first point? thanks.

[robinp 2]

Some combination of either the ability to limit users to cloud synced files only or the ability to manually play cloud synced version.

 

For instance if you have a remote user that you don't want to be using any of your upload bandwidth but still allow them to play media that's been synced to the cloud.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

This already happens in a way. What I would like to see is the upload task to fire the convert media task and then go straight to uploading without waiting. Currently what seems to happen is that the upload task fires ffmpeg directly and waits for it to complete before attempting to upload.

If there are separate schedules for the two tasks I missed them...but since I have no use for the feature that's entirely possible.

[dragon2611 29]

The ability to prioritize sync jobs, If I create a task for say a whole TV series there may be an episode I want transcoded first (E.g the one I'm going to watch next)

 

Asynchronous transfers so that once an item is Transcoded it gets synced (Unless that's a bug), on mine I have some items that are transcoded but "ready to transfer" even though it's a local folder sync.  

 

Server to server sync or a remote transcode/sync utility - It would be really nice if I could pull content to another machine for transcoding then send the transcoded copy back to the server .  E.g in my case if I were to use my desktop (i7-4770) it should be significantly quicker than the server (J1900) at doing the transcoding.

[Mibok 158]

 It appears that Google Sync kill my internet connection, When syncing with Google Drive everything is fine until the file is ready to upload. In the exact moment that the upload starts it kills the internet in all the devices of the house, if i stop the upload service everything works again.

 

 It doesn't seems to be a problem with Emby but with google, researching about the problem i found that i'm not the only one having problems with google and sync, others have the same problem with the Google Drive Desktop Application. I only report this so if anyone else have this problem be aware that is not a problem with neither Router nor Emby.

[Deathsquirrel 745]

OneDrive, Dropbox, and Amazon plugins are surely one someon's list.

[fateddy 0]

Hi. Is there any way to sync the whole favourites movie list?

 

Thanks in advance

[fateddy 0]

Hi. Is there any way to sync the whole favourites movie list?

 

Thanks in advance

Maybe add a sync button to Favourites Movies and tv shows?

[TolkienBard 58]

OneDrive, Dropbox, and Amazon plugins are surely one someon's list.

The problem I run into with OneDrive is that the files are limited to 10GB, which is not ideal for BD movies.

[fateddy 0]

Need an option to SYNC original file to files/folders.

[thefirstofthe300 292]

Need an option to SYNC original file to files/folders.

 

Folder sync plugin?

[AgileHumor 123]

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[Kelmino 17]

I'd personally love a feature where items I wanted to sync would sync to a local computer based on User

For instance... I use my laptop as my main client.  That client uses the web client (Mac OS).  My "Next Up", and possibly even "Favorite" Movies would be able to sync to a local folder on that laptop at full quality (With an option for lower quality) so I wouldn't need to worry about transcoding when I'm ready to play them and they would be played through the client without the need for transcoding.

 

Computer 1 - Syncs Next up and Favorite movie list for user 1

Computer 2 - Syncs Next up and Favorite movie list for user 2

Computer 3 - Syncs Next up and Favorite movie list for user 1 & user 2

 

 

I'm not sure if that's even possible, and I could imagine space and or time would be an issue depending on location (But no more then google drive). Internal network wouldn't take long, but external connection could take forever.  Then there would be another issue all together where if it would try to sync and that computer was offline?

 

Hopefully that makes sense  

 

Either way, that's my dream sync scenario.

[AgileHumor 123]

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[Tharnax 49]

The problem I run into with OneDrive is that the files are limited to 10GB, which is not ideal for BD movies.

 

At least it is better then the previous 2GB limit and it would allow most TV Series to be sync'd with it.  I figure by the time EMBY can sync with OneDrive and all my TV Series are sync'd with OneDrive, they will have raised that limit further. 

[thefirstofthe300 292]

I must say that I am EXTREMELY impressed with how well the cloud syncing works. Everything that has been transcoded has been uploaded (successfully, something I am unaccustomed too). Sync jobs that use the same profile don't upload the same content twice (something I was quite surprised but pleased to see).

 

I don't know how you could have implemented this any better...

 

I haven't attempted to get it to choke though by deleting content manually from the cloud. I am thinking this is something that should be properly handled so will do some testing with it when I know that extremely large files also upload.

 

EDIT: Figures I post this and I immediately get an error.

 

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[Jen25 34]

I would like to see an option to replace the original file with the synced file. 

For example, I sync "Latest" episodes.  Rather than have them go into a generic folder I specify, I'd like them to be put back into the folder that the original came from and delete the original.

I don't care about the original file, I just want the converted file so it plays direct on all my clients.

[Spaceboy 2573]

I would second this but to keep the original file. Maybe for every file that plays and transcodes, stick a copy of that in the cloud so it doesn't have to transcode the next time