A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

2badmice — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:16:38 GMT

Still running my server after all this time and again thank you for helping me set it up. I was wondering if I should update to stretch, or will this ruin my setup?

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

phool — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 06:03:45 GMT

This tutorial looks very helpful, and since I've had a good nights sleep after suffering from jet lag the last few days, I will try this tonight! A couple of questions: my HD's are exFAT formatted, will this work or do I need to reformat them FAT32 (this will be painful as it's 10TB of drives)?

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

ahmadraza610 — Tue, 08 May 2018 08:29:05 GMT

i JUST BOUGHT A RASPBERRY PI 3 https://www.mreeco.com/product/raspberry-pi-3-price-in-pakistan/ I WANT TO BLINK LED WITH IT. ANY1 CAN HELP ME FOR BLIKING LED WITH IT. THANKS IN ADVANCE

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

punomatic — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:21:08 GMT

Long story short, my question is this: Why doesn't my Pi show up on my network?

OK. So I have had my PMS up and running for about a year on RPi 3 with Raspbian. My one discouragement is that I can't get the Pi to show up on my local network. I can ping the Pi from my other computers (Ubuntu and Mac) and I can ping the others from the Pi, but the Pi doesn't show up in my network. The interesting thing is that I have another RPi in my travel trailer running LIbreELEC and Kodi. It shows up just fine on the network.

This is not such a big deal, except when it comes to adding media to the PMS. Currently, I have to unplug the HDD from the Pi and attach it to another computer to load media. Then I reconnect the HDD to the Pi. I do have the Plex photo sync working with my iPhone. I also have checked the "Enable iTunes channel" box in Plex, but without being able to see the my Mac on the network from the Pi, I cannot specify an "iTunes library XML path."

So, what do I need to do to get Samba share working? I have spent days fiddling and reading about how to make Samba work on the Pi with Raspbian, but so far no joy. In checking the smb.conf file I found that I have the workgroup set correctly, and wins support = yes. There is a line that says: "wins server = w.x.y.z." It is commented out with a semi colon. Do I need to uncomment the line and change it to "wins server = raspberrypi"?

One more thing: I have tried at least a dozen different things in smb.conf, and all the tutorials say that when I am done I should set a password by running

$ sudo smbpasswd -a Pi (then enter my password twice)

Every time I run the command, I get the message

sudo: smbpasswd: command not found

I'm afraid that if I do get the Pi to show on the network, I will be locked out because I don't have a password registered.

If you can offer any help on any of these issues, I will be eternally grateful!

Thanks,

Tom

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

dan1jel — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 16:15:25 GMT

Hi and thank you for a great tutorial.

i think i messed up at the point where i should fixate my IP.

i type down my IP adress (192.168.1.17) and did what it said, when i rebooted my Pi I had now this IP instead 192.168.1.18, i dont think it mather because i can access my Plex on both IP adresses, but when i type " hostname -I " it shows both ip after another " 192.168.1.17 192.168.1.18 " how do i delete one of them?

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

joeykh — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 18:30:26 GMT

I have written an installer for Jessie..

https://github.com/JoeyKhd/PlexMediaServer-Installer

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

mra65 — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 19:31:03 GMT

Rather than an external hard drive, could a NAS or a RAID be used instead?

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popsyann — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 03:37:49 GMT

Hi,

First of all, thank you for this very well explained project.

I have followed the procedure and I am happy to report that it was seamless and delivered the expected result (on a freshly bought Pi 3).

However, I have noticed that my home router (which handles the creation of pinholes in the firewall) has generated a long list of open ports, all different, corresponding to the Plex Server running on the Pi3 (I have another Plex server running on an iMac, and the Port Number (32400) is unique for this machine.

How can we force the port number to a unique value ? (I have configured Plex server on Pi 3 without the possibility to be accessed from the Internet)

Help will be appreciated (Am new to Linux and Raspberry Pi3)

Regards

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

jashsmash — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 11:59:28 GMT

I've been trying to install the plexmediaserver. Everything goes fine until the install. On the install step I get an error:

dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:

files list file for package 'qdbus' is missing final newline

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

Any ideas? I assume I'd have to add a line to qdbus, but I'm not sure what/where that file is.

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

flubugo — Tue, 23 May 2017 02:27:21 GMT

Thank you so much! Was easy enough for a noob like me (got my pi two days ago) to figure it out, although I did have some issues with the pi mounting my drive but I just followed a different guide for how to do that part.

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

megabeaker — Sat, 20 May 2017 19:10:36 GMT

Great guide although I've got a little stuck towards the end. after typing

cd /mnt/library

I then type in

and get the error message "-bash: 1s: command not found" I've tried typing

cd /mnt/library/1s

but then get an error saying no such file or directory.

Anyone got any ideas what I did wrong? Everything seems correct up until that point.

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

mrrogersneighborhood — Sun, 07 May 2017 00:11:52 GMT

I apologize if this has already been asked/answered, but I was unable to filter out the unrelated questions/answers.

I see that Plex Media Server works well on the current Raspberry. However, Plex just recently incorporated its DVR functionality into PMS. Are you saying that the DVR also works on the Pi? I understand that I shouldn't attempt transcoding with it, but I only record shows via my HDHomeRun Extend, which handles the transcoding.

Thanks.

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

akefa — Tue, 02 May 2017 23:05:33 GMT

Hello all,

I've recently started researching using Plex on my RPi3. I had a quick question though. If i set up my RPi3 with the plex server at home and want to bring the RPi3 with me to my college apartment, would I need to redo these steps to set up the server since I have disconnected and powered off the RPi3?

Thanks

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

psydad321 — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 16:47:02 GMT

First off - Great guide! I got my Pi3 up and running with Plex installed in under two hours!

That being said there were a couple things I had to change to get it to work right:

1.) First thing - make sure your keyboard is configured correctly! I didn't and ended up having to redo several steps (my keyboard was set to English - Great Britain instead of English - US)

2.) If you are using a Large (>3TB) storage device you really need to install exfat (sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils) This makes it so easy to use the WD My Book (mine is 4TB).

(Caution: Make SURE your drive is actually formatted with exfat however before setting all that up - the drive might be GPT / EXT4 - Run sudo df -h and see what it is)

This would make the FSTAB entry look like this: /dev/sda1 /mnt/library exfat defaults 0 0

RE: A more powerful Plex media server using Raspberry Pi 3

kujako — Sun, 16 Apr 2017 22:25:21 GMT

Followed the steps, no issues or errors. I see the plexmediaserver service running, but I get no response from the PLEX Server URL where the Pi's IP is 192.168.100.123 I go to 192.168.100.123:32400/web and see only "this site can not be reached". I can SSH etc into the Pi, so there's no network issue.

netstat -tnlp shows ONLY ssh listening. No other ports are being used.

Checking on the service status I see....

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If I run sudo /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver stop it says it's not running, even after running sudo /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver start. So some dependency is clearly not running....

sudo /usr/sbin/start_pms returns an illegal instruction error.

Also tried changing permissions for the plex user and changing the plex server to run as the pi user, neither worked.

Update: Tried again and it seems to have worked... same steps, different results. Yay Linux?