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Plex Media Server

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you can do this manualy:

 

chown -R unraid-plex:users /mnt/disk1/plex

 

you Library is really there?

 

the next directory is "Application\ Support/"?

 

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Everything was working ok, it just took over an hour for the permissions to change. Did not realize that going on so sorry for wasting your guys time but thanks!

Can anyone tell me where the Resorces/Plex Transcoder directory is with this plugin.  I've got a test binary to try and fix some transcoding problems that I need to drop in there but can't find it anywhere.

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/usr/local/plex/Resources/

 

if you use the default settings

Yes, I use the default settings. Is there a trick to seeing /usr with a Mac?  I've tried making hidden folders visible, tried using the "Connect to server" and specifying path as 'smb:IPaddress/usr' and 'smb:IPaddress/boot/usr' and other variations but still no luck. Tried using spotlight to search the whole server for usr and it came up with nothing. Also, I am logged into server from Mac as root.

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I don't think you can do that you have to login via telnet.

copy the binary to a share and move/copy it to the right position within the telnet session.

 

Thanks for the help. I tried everything to navigate to that directory to no avail. I did finally think to try using midnight commander and telnet...right about the same time you replied. Tried it and it worked great. Thanks again.

I can not get this to install for some reason. I am getting:

 

root@Tower:/boot/config/plugins# ls
couchpotato/                               sabnzbd/
couchpotato-0.5-i468-bw.plg*               sabnzbd-0.4c-i468-bw.plg*
plex/                                      sickbeard/
plex-media-server-noarch-0.9.5.3b-ds.plg*  sickbeard-0.4a-i468-1bw.plg*
root@Tower:/boot/config/plugins# \installplg plex-media-server-noarc-0.9.5.3b-ds
.plg
installing plugin: plex-media-server-noarc-0.9.5.3b-ds

Warning: simplexml_load_file(): I/O warning : failed to load external entity "pl
ex-media-server-noarc-0.9.5.3b-ds.plg" in /usr/local/sbin/installplg on line 13
xml parse error

 

Interestingly I got the older .plg file from here to work fine.

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you have a "\" before installplg, maybe its that.

I think I messed up my copy paste when I did that. But I'll do it again to confirm.

I guess I did screw it up. I tried multiple times. How I kept putting a \ in front of it I'll never know. I first tried it by putting it in the plugins directory and rebooting the system. It didn't show up so I started trying to do it by hand. Anyhow. It looks to be running now. Now I just gotta read up on it.

This was up and running just fine until I shutdown the server to add more drives. Strangely, I don't even see the Plex icon in settings section anymore. Do I need to manually start something after a reboot?

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no not really, have rebooted a second time?

Yep- rebooted again but no go!

 

Plex dir is present on the USB as well as the cache drive. Is there a way for it force start?

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installplg /boot/config/plugins/plex....*.plg

Thanks- that did it. Going to try and reboot again to see if it sticks or goes blank again

And it disappeared after the reboot!

New beta for Plex is out with DLNA support. Would you be upgrading the script for that?

I tweaked the plugin to get it to work...I don't want to repost as this is 99.99% spidi's work.  The changes I made- and I make no guarantees this will work for anyone else were as follows:

 

1.  Follow Spidi's direction in the OP for removing the old version (I disabled the plugin, renamed the /boot/config/plugin/plex directory; removed the /usr/local/plex directory; removed the /usr/local/emhttp/plex directory)

2.  Took the PLG from Spidi's OP, edited it as follows:

Lines 40-42

<FILE Name="/boot/config/plugins/plex/PlexMediaServer-0.9.6.0.11-ba33da9-unRAID.tar.bz2">
<URL>http://plex-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/0.9.6.0/PlexMediaServer-0.9.6.0.11-ba33da9-unRAID.tar.bz2</URL>
<MD5>aa22a8ac8f04276f067b2260f3c1f6db</MD5>

Line 283

Version="0.9.6.0.11-ba"

Lines 461-462

PLEX_VERSION="v0.9.6.0.11-ba33da9" PLEX_TARFILE="PlexMediaServer-0.9.6.0.11-ba33da9-unRAID.tar.bz2"
PLEX_TARDIR="PlexMediaServer-0.9.6.0.11-ba33da9"

3.  Save the changes as a new PLG, copy it over to your /boot/config/plugins directory

4.  Run installplg <yournewPLGfilename>

 

Again, this is strictly a kang of Spidi's work, but hopefully it will get the over-eager amongus up and running until Spidi can make an official update.

 

Cheers!

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Hi,

I created a new version of my plugin.

the changes are:

1: This version only installs at /usr/local/plex. eg. in RAM.

    it will install version: v0.9.5.3.309-524cf73

 

2: there is no extra "no-UTF-8" version anymore. you can uncheck it on the settingspage if needed.

 

3: you have to use "cache only share" / no softlink support any more

 

4: to check which version is installed you can do:

   

/etc/rc.d/rc.plex version

 

5: you can update PMS with:

/etc/rc.d/rc.plex update

It will install the newest version. at the moment this is: v0.9.6.0.11-ba33da9

 

please give it a try and let me now if it works.

 

Download on first post

 

Have FUN with Plex and DLNA

Awesome job as always spidi. Will install your latest plugin today and will report here. DNLA update is huge for me. Thanks!

 

Update: New plugin is perfect. Also updated to the latest version of Plex using /etc/rc.d/rc.plex update. Will you implement an update button in the future? Thanks!

Many thanks for this, awesome job. Maybe I did something wrong, but it would not work until I deleted the old PMS from /boot/config/plugins/plex. Now it works like a charm. Will test DLNA later today.

  • Author

UPDATE

plugin redesign

and possibility to udpate to BETA 0.9.6

Hi,

I created a new version of my plugin.

the changes are:

1: This version only installs at /usr/local/plex.

 

Can you expound on what you mean by this?  I am using cache only share.  Does the plugin only support running PMS in memory and the library persistently on the cache only share?  Thanks again for our hard work!

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PMS runs only in memory, thats right. I don't see any advantage to store it on a HDD.

 

You can put the Library where ever you want. I prefer my cache drive.

 

 

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