June 5, 201214 yr Thanks for the quick reply. It's been such a long time since I installed PMS directly, I'll have to almost start from scratch to re-figure out how to do it again. If I run into any issues that I think you should know about, I'll post them here. Mike
June 5, 201214 yr Before I go and re-install from scratch, is there any way I can just modify the .CFG files from your script to get it to load over the old version? I see that it's now being packaged as a .txz, can I just change your plex_version.cfg file to point to the new file? Will it handle the .txz file format? If the rest of the interface doesn't work, I don't care, I don't mind editing the .CFG files. Getting it to load exactly the way the old version did would be great.
June 5, 201214 yr Author you only have to put the *.txz file in /boot/extra and reboot or do an installpkg /boot/extra/PlexMediaServer-*-unRAID.txz see http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/42513-0963-for-unraid/
June 5, 201214 yr I've done this.. but it's not working.. I think there is some confusion between the old and new scripts. Should I be completely removing everything having to do with the old script? I'll post more details on the other thread. Thanks! Mike
June 5, 201214 yr I did get it all working.. I deleted all the old files in the plugins folder, added a '/' to the end of my library location, rebooted, and all appears to be working.. Thanks! Mike
June 6, 201214 yr I'll be testing it as soon as i get home, I've had a bit of a nightmare with have to restart the older plugin each day, as the plex management and remote viewing stops working. I had a perfect running system, but decided to upgrade plea beta 14 to the latest release, then reloaded plea to the latest, and plea stopped working, and no longer populated the library. I have now gone back to beta 14 but am now facing this issue. I'm hoping this update will sort everything out, so fingers crossed I'll post an update once i get tested.
June 6, 201214 yr Author maybe wait until tomorrow, there should be another version with some bug fixes (unRAID related)
June 8, 201214 yr Author new version is out! *settings are editable through webinterface INFO: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/42513-0963-for-unraid/ Download:http://www.plexapp.com/linux/linux-pms-download.php
June 8, 201214 yr Just wondering: Why do i see people working with slack package now instead of the previous approach ? I have been away for a while (busy) - have there been any fixes on issues like the unstable transcoding with unraid?
June 8, 201214 yr Why are you moving away from the plg package files? Current plugin is working perfectly (as in, installation & update methods) - why change now?
June 8, 201214 yr Author Why are you moving away from the plg package files? Current plugin is working perfectly (as in, installation & update methods) - why change now? I thought about this, but at the moment I don't see any advantages with plg, because PMS has no dependencies. And for me its less effort, I post my stuff, and the plex devs are doing the rest, no, hosting nothing.... And for the user its the same, if he or she can download a plg file and put it to /boot/config/plugins/ than he can download an *.txz file and put it to /boot/extra. about my update feature, I have to discuss this with Tobias. (Plex Dev)
June 8, 201214 yr Why are you moving away from the plg package files? Current plugin is working perfectly (as in, installation & update methods) - why change now? I thought about this, but at the moment I don't see any advantages with plg, because PMS has no dependencies. And for me its less effort, I post my stuff, and the plex devs are doing the rest, no, hosting nothing.... And for the user its the same, if he or she can download a plg file and put it to /boot/config/plugins/ than he can download an *.txz file and put it to /boot/extra. about my update feature, I have to discuss this with Tobias. (Plex Dev) Fair enough - does the new package have the same gui as the plg?
June 8, 201214 yr Author yes. only difference at the moment is, that enabling via interface doens't start PMS. you have to start it manually, reboot or stop and start the array. the problem is, that the complete unRAID webinterface freezes if I start it. Haven't figured out how to do it properly. I sent you an PM a while back, but you haven't answered yet. (I use some code of yours....)
June 8, 201214 yr So having 0.9.6.1 installed via the plg plugin and swapping to this method; does it install things in the same default locations? I have /mnt/cache/data/plex but you say on the plea forums that the default location is "/usr/local/plexmediaserver"?? Will my current viewing database be saved or trashed by swapping installation methods? Also, out of interest, why do we have to manually download now, instead of the plugin picking up the fact that there is a new file on the plex site? Thanks
June 8, 201214 yr Author So having 0.9.6.1 installed via the plg plugin and swapping to this method; does it install things in the same default locations? I have /mnt/cache/data/plex but you say on the plea forums that the default location is "/usr/local/plexmediaserver"?? Will my current viewing database be saved or trashed by swapping installation methods? Thanks /usr/local/plexmediaserver is only where the binaries are, if you used this plugin before, you can point to the same Library location like before. e.g. "/mnt/cache/data/plex/Library" or something like that. it definitely won't be trashed....
June 8, 201214 yr so I ended up with two plex media server icons and setup screens?? I've deleted previous plugins and downloads. This is fun.
June 8, 201214 yr Author so I ended up with two plex media server icons and setup screens?? I've deleted previous plugins and downloads. This is fun. does it work now???
June 8, 201214 yr Not yet. I couldn't remember which plex plugin I was using, as it was v0.2... (yours or stokes) But it seems plex was installed in /usr/local/plex rather than /usr/local/plexmediaserver, so perhaps I have the other one installed; Not sure. I've deleted the plex directory and rebooted, but I clearly need to delete everything and start again. can I delete /usr/local/plexmediaserver to get rid of all of your plex, as well as tmp library too? I will leave the library alone, to home gully relink back when I get the icon issue sorted. Edit grrh auto spell check
June 8, 201214 yr You can circumvent he GUI from freezing by using a PHP script to start it. See either webserver or iTunes plugin.. I got the code from the MySQL plugin. Sorry I didn't reply back, been busy!!
June 8, 201214 yr Author all things in /usr are in RAM so if you reboot they are all gone..... delete or move all plex related plg files in /boot/config/plugins/ /boot/config/plugins/plex/ can normaly also be deleted, but you don't have to. if you put the new installation file (PlexMediaServer-0.6.3.143....-unRAID.txz) to /boot/extra you should have a clean installation after an reboot. edit the settings to your needs and start plex with: /etc/rc.d/rc.plexmediaserver start.
June 8, 201214 yr Author You can circumvent he GUI from freezing by using a PHP script to start it. See either webserver or iTunes plugin.. I got the code from the MySQL plugin. Sorry I didn't reply back, been busy!! I tried that already, but it freezes. And I really don't know why. But I think we can live with it at the moment. ;-)
June 8, 201214 yr Deleted everything, lost all icons as expected. Now only installed your plugin and I have 2 icons again.
June 8, 201214 yr Author Deleted everything, lost all icons as expected. Now only installed your plugin and I have 2 icons again. please post the output of: ls -al /usr/local and ls -al /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/ and ls -al /boot/config/plugins
June 8, 201214 yr root@Tower:~# ls -al /usr/local total 0 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 0 2012-06-08 21:32 ./ drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 2007-03-09 08:53 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 1993-11-24 17:32 bin/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2012-06-08 08:22 emhttp/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 1993-11-24 17:32 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 1994-03-16 00:05 lib/ drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 0 2012-03-19 11:10 plex/ drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 0 2012-06-08 08:50 plexmediaserver/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2012-06-08 21:29 sbin/ drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 0 2012-06-08 21:32 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2012-06-08 08:22 ../ drwxr-x--- 3 root root 0 2012-06-08 21:29 dropbox/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2012-05-09 04:28 indexer/ drwxr-x--- 3 root root 0 2012-06-08 21:32 plex/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2012-06-08 08:22 plexmediaserver/ drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 2012-02-21 21:28 snap/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 2012-05-09 04:28 webGui/ drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 4096 2012-06-08 21:29 ./ drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 2012-06-08 21:32 ../ -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15364 2012-06-08 22:10 .DS_Store* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2012-06-08 20:35 ._.DS_Store* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2012-03-01 18:38 ._Dropbox-0.1-i468-1atv.plg* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2012-04-12 14:03 ._Snap-5.0-1.plg* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2012-03-01 18:41 ._Snap-5.0-1.plg.xml* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2012-06-08 21:27 ._plex-media-server-plugin-noarch-0-1.2-ds.plg* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7970 2012-03-01 18:38 Dropbox-0.1-i468-1atv.plg* drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 2012-03-01 22:43 Notifications/ -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4868 2012-02-18 10:27 Snap-5.0-1.plg* drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2012-06-08 21:32 dropbox/ drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2012-06-08 22:04 plex/ -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15027 2012-06-08 20:23 plex-media-server-plugin-noarch-0-1.2-ds.plg* drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2012-06-08 21:29 plexmediaserver/ drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2012-04-12 13:05 snap/
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