How to structure local lecture/course videos (without an official TMDB/TVDB entry) in Plex as a proper TV Show with seasons, episode titles, and custom descriptions set via the Plex API.
The example here is Jonathan Biss’s Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas — a 5-part Coursera course from the Curtis Institute of Music, stored on a Synology NAS.
The Problem # Plex’s default scrapers rely on TMDB or TVDB. Local lecture videos with no database entry either show up as a mess of unmatched files, or get incorrectly matched to something unrelated.
Runbook and design journal for migrating ~400 personal documents from a folder-based Google Drive system into Paperless-ngx on a Synology NAS. Covers taxonomy design, bulk import from Google Takeout, ML classifier setup, and ongoing intake workflow.
Problem Statement # For years my “document management” was a manually maintained folder tree on Google Drive:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 - 文书材料/ 10 - 证件材料/身份证件/ 30 - 移民文档/ 30 - Tax Filing/ 40 - Finance/ 50 - 车辆注册/ 60 - 住房买房/ 80 - Medical/ 20 - 家装住房信息/ 80 - 旅行计划/ This worked well enough for filing but poorly for retrieval. Finding “what insurance forms did I have in 2022?” meant navigating six folders and guessing what I named things. Paperless-ngx offers full-text search, OCR, and an ML classifier that learns from your own labeling — a meaningfully better system for a document archive that spans immigration paperwork, tax filings, mortgage docs, and medical records across 10+ years.
Runbook for setting up AirPrint on a Synology NAS so iOS/macOS devices can print to a USB or network printer over the local network. Uses a Docker CUPS container and Synology’s built-in avahi (mDNS) daemon for service discovery.
Architecture # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 iPhone │ mDNS discovery (_ipp._tcp) ▼ Synology avahi-daemon (eth4, port 5353) │ reads service files from /etc/avahi/services/ │ CUPS Docker container (host network, port 631) │ generates /etc/avahi/services/AirPrint-*.service │ proxies print jobs to printer ▼ Printer (e.g. socket://10.0.20.50:9100) Key design decisions:
Personal runbook for migrating a family photo library from Synology Photos to a self-hosted Immich instance. Covers bulk upload, Google Takeout import, and album reconstruction via the Synology PostgreSQL database.
Setup # Source: Synology NAS running Synology Photos (multiple users) Destination: Immich self-hosted on the same NAS Upload tool: immich-go v0.31+ Client: WSL2 on Windows, SSH access to NAS Album script: custom Python (migrate_albums.py) using Immich REST API Phase 1: Photo Uploads # Strategy # Two sources per user: