Hi!
As I came a little to late to Bitcasa I'm on the $ 99/€ 79 plan they offer for "infinite storage". This wouldn't be the biggest problem as I'm willed to pay for a service like that a fair amount of money, but Bitcasa doesn't make much fun (to state it clear: it s*cks) in Europe. It's absolutely to slow for the media I have. Some media plays (SD, 720p low bitrate) but all the nice 1080p stuff wouldn't.
Long story made short, I'm looking for an alternative. Yesterday Google announced Google Drive for Work with unlimited storage for $ 10/€ 8 a month (given the fact that you need a minimum of 5 users, that makes $ 50/€ 40 a month, to get the unlimited storage). So it came to my mind: why not use Google Drive? They should have the most power, they wouldn't shutdown thier service (*cough* like streem, never started and game over) any time soon, ...
But then it hit me... Unlimited storage but they use to sync all the files via their Desktop-Apps, which is a no-go, as nobody would want to have x TB synced! So I googled a little bit and found two interessting projects (for linux): astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse · GitHub and dsoprea/GDriveFS · GitHub
I'm not really into this linux thing, but these things sound pretty much what's needed to get a Plex Server running on a VPS/Dedi using Google Drive (for work) as source for the media. At this point I surely would need some help from some guys that know linux and are also willed to test it out. Maybe hthighway? :)
Ok, share your thoughts on this "project" and/or help to make this work. Thanks!
Cheers,
flow
I finally managed to install dsoprea/GDriveFS · GitHub on my VPS, as this project seemed to be the most advanced and foremost newest code. What I needed to do was:
cd sudo apt-get install git sudo apt-get install mercurial hg clone https://code.google.com/p/google-api-python-client cd google-api-python-client/ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools sudo python setup.py install sudo python setup.py install_egg_info sudo apt-get install python-pip sudo pip install ez-setup sudo pip install --allow-unverified antlr-python-runtime --allow-external antlr-python-runtime gdrivefs mkdir /var/cache/gdfs gdfstool auth -u gdfstool auth -a /var/cache/gdfs/credcache "..." mkdir /media/GoogleDrive gdfs -o allow_other /var/cache/gdfs/credcache /media/GoogleDrive
The GoogleDrive get's mounted and from Plex I can browse it like a charme. Adding a new Library also works fine. Matches the media... But when I try to play a file it starts and stops immediately (< 1 sec).
So this is where I'm stuck right now. I'll update this post if anything changes...