Integration with Playon Downloader (win 10 in jail to retrieve recordings from the cloud)

[ZiggyGT]

I setup Plex to be able to retrieve the PlayOn cloud recordings without another computer involved. PlayOn has different ways to record from subscribed streaming services. I like to use the cloud version because there is no monthly fee, but a pay by download fee. Less than 15cents per episode. This is a great way to add content to my Plex server.

The way the system works is you use your cell phone to select what programs you would like to record. Their system "plays" those items and records them in the cloud. You have limited time to retrieve them before they are erased. They have a desktop tool that will downloads them to a local disk. This feature is what want to do on my TrueNAS box. To do this I followed these excellent tutrials:

1. Load Win 10 in a VM using this tutorial- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTXHU_9oNdM
2. Use Freefilesync to move the files from where the PlayON downloader insists on putting them
   1. Create a batch job - https://youtu.be/fkB47wwwIIA
   2. Scheduling a batch job - https://youtu.be/IbLbR1I7W68
3. It all seems to work and now I do not have to worry about the recordings being deleted before I download them. I also can initiate recording when I am travelling and not have to move them around to be seen on Plex. I can decommission the PC that was doing this job. I had previously moved the Plex server to a jail so this was the only job that machine was doing.
4. Next job will be reducing the resources this VM is consuming so that those resources are available for other tasks.

Note: I tried the Tiny10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jp67cmrbKw&lc=UgyyLLinzT8myVSNVC54AaABAg.9gqRy3wre3P9iHMNse3SCW
but the PlayON downloader would not call home to register so that is not a workable path. Ther are other reduce footprint Win 10 projects. I'll look at them. I really wish that the record application was available on a PC application. Right now, it is only available on iphone/Android.