Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

smudgy — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 18:35:22 GMT

Trying to figure out how to enable PMS to see a DNLA NAS file server on the same network.

Installed pms on a minimal jessie linux which was maybe a mistake as the gui environment (thunar etc) probably have tools to access the nas. OpenELEC was easy to just add the WD MyCloud NAS but Plex Media Server is not so straightforward.

SOLVED (including automount which was tricky to solve)

Added entry to fstab

sudo nano /etc/fstab

e.g. For a file server with a reserved ipaddress of 192.168.0.200 specified in router admin settings and after having created the /media/fileServer directory to mount the file server shared folder into

//192.168.0.200/Public /media/fileServer cifs username=theName, password=thePassword, x-systemd.automount 0 0

Save and exit nano

Parameter x-systemd.automount was sufficient in the end. The problem was to ensure system only tried to mount after network access secured...

Check it works

A) sudo mount - a

B) Reboot to make sure it automounts with list command

ls /media/fileServer

And make sure Plex Apps connect to PlexMediaServer

(Though I am not sure if I am not better off sticking with LocalCast for Android and LIbreELEC for the Pi. So much easier to use for me although now I know what Plex is even if I am not so impressed!)

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

olafejs — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 07:53:45 GMT

When install i have this error:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up plexmediaserver-installer (1.3.3.3148-b38628e-1~jessie) ...
Plex Media Server is not running (no process found)...
Downloading readynas package ...

curl: (35) error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line
sha256sum: readynas.deb: No such file or directory
Checksum mismatch. Downloaded file does not match this package.
dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver-installer (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of plexmediaserver:
plexmediaserver depends on plexmediaserver-installer; however:
Package plexmediaserver-installer is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
plexmediaserver-installer
plexmediaserver

WTF ?

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

Former Member — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 18:31:06 GMT

No this method does not work, I tried every thing I can think of .... It's a shame the author cannot be bothered to help, I gave in after wasted days ( not hours )

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

Former Member — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 00:14:52 GMT

I've followed this tutorial, but the PMS service seems to stop just after it starts

root@raspberrypi:~# service plexmediaserver status
● plexmediaserver.service - LSB: Plex Media Server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/plexmediaserver)
Active: active (exited) since Thu 2016-06-30 00:55:44 WEST; 18min ago
Process: 338 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/plexmediaserver start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Jun 30 00:55:43 raspberrypi su[372]: Successful su for root by root
Jun 30 00:55:43 raspberrypi su[372]: + ??? root:root
Jun 30 00:55:43 raspberrypi su[372]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened f...0)
Jun 30 00:55:43 raspberrypi su[372]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed f...ot
Jun 30 00:55:44 raspberrypi plexmediaserver[338]: Starting Plex Media Server:...
Jun 30 00:55:44 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started LSB: Plex Media Server.
Jun 30 00:57:24 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started LSB: Plex Media Server.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

Does anyone have this issue? How can it be solved?

Thanks

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

Former Member — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 13:46:35 GMT

Hmmm followed exactly the installation instructions, including first expanding the file system, and turned off my firewall, I can see that the plex server has started see attached but when I point my chrome browser at http://192.168.0.251:32400/web as advised I get .....

This site can’t be reached

192.168.0.251 refused to connect.

Search Google for 192 168 251 32400 web

Where do I go from here ?

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RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

Former Member — Thu, 26 May 2016 18:57:36 GMT

and, since I got it working nicely, I had to go buy a bigger display! It is capable of 1920x1080 resolution, so I've changed maxwid and maxhit (on my copy of this script) to 1040 and 1820 respectively.

Showing random images this way takes little computing power from the Pi (peaks at about 20%) and only when the image is first being displayed, then the processor demand drops to 0%. I am using a 4Gb flash drive plugged directly into the Pi, and have 1000's of images on it. The Pi is powered by the monitor's USB port, and I'm using wireless networking and a wireless keyboard/mouse pad combo.

The neat part, to me anyway, is that I'm still using the Rasbian system, and I have "full use" of the P!I

oh, and noticed I had not commented on in the original post, in function update...
the script has this code

function Update()
{
mag=1;

//centimg=picpath + g_ImageTable[g_iimg][0];

centimg=g_ImageTable[g_iimg][0];
newWindow2(centimg);
}

the comment I should have added ---
the current script is set to run in the directory with the files...

//centimg=picpath + g_ImageTable[g_iimg][0];

centimg=g_ImageTable[g_iimg][0];

If it is running from your desktop etc, you should change those two lines to this

centimg=picpath + g_ImageTable[g_iimg][0];

//centimg=g_ImageTable[g_iimg][0];

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

Former Member — Thu, 26 May 2016 15:29:29 GMT

I wanted to use my new Pi2 as a "random picture display", but I didn't want to install the "media center"
I was very frustrated with using python and the pygame "resources" (whatever they call it)
Ultimately, I decided to try a different approach; html with javascript!

Here's the html/javascript solution, which works perfectly!

copy everything below! and have fun!!

// this is a "random picture display" javascript
// you open it with your browser and the browser does all the work
// well, aside from your having to put the image informtion in
// I will the datadable on my windows machine, using a visual basic program that i wrote
// hope this works for you as well as it does for me!

// I'm running it on a Raspberyy Pi 2, with the standard installation (not the media install)
// the display is set to portrait orientation on the Pi in the config file
// by using sudo nano boot/config.txt
// adding the line
// display_rotate=3
// which results in a clock wise 270 degree screen rotation

// if you added instead
// display_rotate=1
// it would result in a clock wise90 degree screen rotation

<title>Awesome Images</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

</body>

<tr>

</td>
</tr>

</table>

</html>

var newimg;
var wid;
var hit;
var currentdate = 0;
var theranlink = " ";
var core = 0;
var created = 0;
var imgstrt = 0;
var imgstp = 0;
var imgcnt = 0;
var imgary = 0;
var chk = 0;
var hrat = 0;
var wrat = 0;
var intvl=15000;

// maxwid is the width of your Pi's display in pixels
// maxhit is the heigth of your Pi's display in pixels
// this is set up for a monitor rotated to a Portrait orientation
var maxwid=728;
var maxhit=1266;
// if you wanted a landscape orientation you would comment the two line above (use leading //)
// and uncomment the two lines below
//var maxwid=1266;
//var maxhit=728;

// picpath points to the "root directory" of your images
// this way you can copy this file to your desktop once filled with the picture array
var picpath="/media/pi/Transcend/pics/";

g_iimg = 0;
g_imax = 0;
g_ImageTable = new Array();

var time = new Date().getTime();

function ChangeImage(fFwd)
{
g_iimg=Math.floor((Math.random()*g_imax));
Update();
}

function Update()
{
mag=1;

//centimg=picpath + g_ImageTable[g_iimg][0];

centimg=g_ImageTable[g_iimg][0];
newWindow2(centimg);
}

function Next()
{
mag=1;
ChangeImage(true);
}

function main()
{
if(new Date().getTime() - time >= intvl){

ChangeImage();
}else{

}
}

function newWindow2(newimg)
{
wid=g_ImageTable[g_iimg][1];
hit=g_ImageTable[g_iimg][2];
wwid=(wid);
whit=(hit);
wrat=wwid/maxwid;
hrat=whit/maxhit;

chk=0;
if (hrat>1){
chk=1}
if (wrat>1){
chk=1}

irat=hrat/wrat;
if (chk=1){
if (hrat>wrat) {

SlideC.src=newimg;
SlideC.width=wwid/hrat;
slideC.height=whit/hrat;

} else {

SlideC.src=newimg;
SlideC.width=wwid/wrat;
slideC.height=whit/wrat;

}

}
}

// ********************************************************** insert data table here ***********************************************************************************
// the data table must follow this format, and the quotation marks must remain
// g_ImageTable[g_imax++] = new Array ("imge name","image width in pixels","image heigth in pixels");
// an example of the array where it is used directly iin the directoy is below
// g_ImageTable[g_imax++] = new Array ("flower.jpg","768","1024");

// if you have multiple directories under the root that you want it to access then the array is this format
// g_ImageTable[g_imax++] = new Array ("directory name/image name","image width in pixels","image heigth in pixels");
// an example of the array where it is used from a root directoy is below
// g_ImageTable[g_imax++] = new Array ("garden_pictures/flower.jpg","768","1024");

//******************************************** end of data table *************************************btw, it is unlimited in the number of images you can insert bove

// dely makes a 0 to 20 second pause
dely=Math.floor((Math.random()*20000));

// the variable dely above is added to a "standard delay" of 20 seconds
// this yields a variable refresh time of 20 to 40 seconds
intvl=20000+dely;

//do not add anything below this line
setInterval(main, intvl);

Next();

mag=1;
g_iimg=Math.floor((Math.random()*g_imax));

</script>

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

Former Member — Mon, 02 May 2016 23:33:46 GMT

Hi guys...

I cant seem to find plex.js for being able to change it to becoming transcoding my subtitles, because when i try to run them, it's given an error that the "server is not powerful enough". I don't get it. Why does not someone do a fix for the recent version of plex. That's if someone could ever gott to work.

Cheers!

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

Former Member — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 12:51:50 GMT

Hi, I have configurate the rasbian and the Plex software button I can't open the website after the installation.

I can ping the ip-adress (192.168.178.15) but it die not open the website 192.168.178.15:32400/web.

Wat do I wrong?

Sorry for my bad Englisch.

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

Former Member — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 20:04:11 GMT

Hi, i have this error when i do this : sudo apt-get install -t jessie plexmediaserver -y

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install -t jessie plexmediaserver -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
plexmediaserver
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/87.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 126390 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../plexmediaserver_0.9.16.3.1840-cece46d-1~jessie_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking plexmediaserver (0.9.16.3.1840-cece46d-1~jessie) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/plexmediaserver_0.9.16.3.1840-cece46d-1~jessie_armhf.deb (--unpack):
cannot copy extracted data for './usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plex New Transcoder' to '/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plex New Transcoder.dpkg-new': failed to write (No space left on device)
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/plexmediaserver_0.9.16.3.1840-cece46d-1~jessie_armhf.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any idea how to resolve this ?

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

bugman72 — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 19:25:15 GMT

Can this sort of setup of Plex Media Server (PMS) work in the same fashion that a Windows-based PMS install works in a WAN environment? I currently have PMS running on one of my PCs and have my mother's Roku set up so that Plex connects to the library on my PMS. I simply log into my Plex account on her Roku for her to have access. Will this work the same with PMS running on a Pi?

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

Former Member — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 20:30:15 GMT

After modifying "sudo nano /etc/fstab" and rebooting, I get an error saying

"Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in..."

I then type in "cd /mnt/library"

then I try "1s" and it says "bash: 1s: command not found"

Please help

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

spannerspencer — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 13:22:48 GMT

My smart TV has Plex, but it makes my old NAS crawl to run the server. This'd be a good way to effectively update the NAS and start using Plex again! Nice work!

RE: Raspberry Pi 2 - Plex Media Server

Matt — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 13:17:15 GMT

Awesome. I've heard really good things about Plex.. thanks for putting together all these instructions for how to get it working on a Pi [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-27bb3c36-f93d-46ae-9099-85f8e37e205b/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]