My 2.5 year old loves watching classic Pokemon. I’ll be honest, so do I. But have you tried doing that? It’s fucking insane.

  • The first half of S1 is on Netflix
  • The second half is on Amazon but you need an extra subscription to watch it.
  • The theird season (johto) is also Amazon.
  • The 4th is no where but Archive.org of all places… Which is called Johto Champions, so it really feels like the end of the season but it’s another 52 episodes!

You would think pokemon.com would have all this (they have a lot, and it’s all free) but they don’t!

Seeing S4 (is that even right?) On Archive.org is really pushing me to want to build a Plex server. Having all this content in one place would be very nice.

I do IT work by day, and I have some older 2TB platter drives from a retired camera server laying around. What’s the easiest way to get my foot in the door? Do I save up some $$ for a Synology box?

Love to get your input!

  • GeekFTW@kbin.social
    4·
    2 years ago

    Dooooo ittttt!

    Edit: Forgot to add the useful comment.

    Honestly if you’re just starting out, straight up use your existing computer, plug that HDD in, load her up and just follow the instructions or a guide to set it up. Wait to see how much you use it before spending cash.

    A recommendation however: Due to how Pokemon is and how Plex’s two available metadata sources (TVDB and TMDB) categorize and lay the show out differently, make sure when you are getting the episodes in Plex that you have the TV show matched to TMDB (TheMovieDataBase), not TVDB (TheTVDataBase). Both have the show, but TVDB lumps a lot of the later seasons/series together, whereas TMDB will keep them separate as the correct seasons.

    • CoderKat@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Anyone know well Plex handles Chromecast? I’m interested in trying it out, but basically only watch stuff on Chromecast with an Android phone as the “remote”.

      • 3laws@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 years ago

        You’re set. I’ve watched Plex on Android (including TV), Chromecast, and Linux casting to a Miracast.

      • MeowdyPardner@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        Casting from the android app works great, the only bug I notice is that using the skip forward/back button briefly sets the playhead at 0, and if you happen to tap skip again while it’s briefly at 0, it’ll skip from 0 and lose where you were. But as long as you avoid that it’s been smooth sailing.