@dentalba

 

I have mentioned this for at least 5 times in this thread......please, please, please don't use hidden directory's, use cache only shares.......

PMS don't like them (memory use is growing rapidly) and at this point there is no other way .....

 

Are you saying i can still have it on the cache drive just not in a hidden directory?

 

I could use /mnt/cache/apps/plex  just not /mnt/cache/.apps/plex

 

thanks for your help

Hi,

 

Unraid (5.0 RC5)

plex version: v0.9.6.6.200-b75ecf4

 

setting

 

/mnt/disk1/Plex/Library

/mnt/disk1/Plex/temp

 

when i add sections, they do not appear in the library section. any idea?

 

Thank you in advance.

 

can you please explain what you are trying to do?

 

 

in the plex media manager. after selecting the media folder and when i press on Add Section. usually the selected media folder appears in the Library Sections in the left panel. but it does not appear in the library section.

@saary

 

you followed this instructions? and it won't work?

than I have no clue.

@saary

 

you followed this instructions? and it won't work?

than I have no clue.

 

never mind. something was not right with my server. tried installing the PMS many times but didn't work.

i had to re-install unraid again and now PMS works as it should

 

Thank you.

Are you saying i can still have it on the cache drive just not in a hidden directory?

 

I could use /mnt/cache/apps/plex  just not /mnt/cache/.apps/plex

 

thanks for your help

That's what i'm saying ...... ("cache only" share, you have to create it under shares on the unRAID web interface)

there's an updated version now with some "minor bug fixes":

 

http://plex-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/0.9.6.7/Releases/Linux-Slackware-131-i386/PlexMediaServer-0.9.6.7.204-266f05d-unRAID.txz

 

new PMS Version is out.

Elan's Blog

 

UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS:

cd /boot/extra
removepkg PlexMediaServer-your-old-version-unRAID.txz
rm PlexMediaServer-your-old-version-unRAID.txz
wget http://plex-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/0.9.6.6/Releases/Linux-Slackware-131-i386/PlexMediaServer-0.9.6.6.200-b75ecf4-unRAID.txz
installpkg PlexMediaServer-0.9.6.6.200-b75ecf4-unRAID.txz

 

or

 

cd /boot/extra
rm PlexMediaServer-your-old-version-unRAID.txz
wget http://plex-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/0.9.6.6/Releases/Linux-Slackware-131-i386/PlexMediaServer-0.9.6.6.200-b75ecf4-unRAID.txz
(then reboot your server)

 

 

 

enjoy...

Thanks for the link! 

Thanks harry3001, haven't seen it on their blog yet?

 

spidi is ther any way you can add the information about cache drive & hidden folders to your original post on the plex forums, for future reference?

@dentalba

 

I have mentioned this for at least 5 times in this thread......please, please, please don't use hidden directory's, use cache only shares.......

PMS don't like them (memory use is growing rapidly) and at this point there is no other way .....

 

I can second this.. I experienced the daily or every other day crash until I created the "cache only" share without hidden directory.  It has been running over a week now.

 

Thanks Spidi!

 

 

Mike

Thanks harry3001, haven't seen it on their blog yet?

 

spidi is ther any way you can add the information about cache drive & hidden folders to your original post on the plex forums, for future reference?

 

done

Hi there, i like to know how you are doing with running plex and the Sleep Mode of simpleFeatures. I have the impression if plex is running, my server does not go to sleep and stays alive.

 

Whats the best way to go with that problem? My Plex dir is a Cache only Share.

my solution is to run 24/7

Not sure if I should add on to this thread, or start a new one.

 

A friend of mine just showed me his Plex setup, but he is not running Unraid.

 

I want to use Plex, and use my Unraid server as the Plex server and have a key question before I start:

 

I see a Plex add-on to Unraid, is this what I should use?  I have never installed an unraid plugin before, where do I start?

Can I download and install the Plex for Linux via Telnet directly onto my Unraid server and have it do both?  I don't know if this would work, or how to do it if this is the best way to proceed.

 

Your help is greatly appreciated, and if there is reading I should do please let me know, just don't ask me to read this 58 page long thread if possible.

 

I think you just need to follow the links in the first post of the thread to get things started.

 

I would also suggest reading the http://www.plexapp.com/help/ for more smoother sailing in getting your media setup. Especially the recommended naming guide : http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/PlexNine_PMS_Naming_Guide

Can I install Plex 0.9.6.3 onto Unraid 4.7?  Or do I have to upgrade to 5.0 RC?

Hi there, i like to know how you are doing with running plex and the Sleep Mode of simpleFeatures. I have the impression if plex is running, my server does not go to sleep and stays alive.

 

Whats the best way to go with that problem? My Plex dir is a Cache only Share.

PMS does keep on ticking away in the background. If your the only user, I would just shut it down when your finished with it. Then your server will probably go to sleep when idle.

 

I don't bother as the unRAID server is the only machine that runs 24/7 and it only costs me $5 a month to run it this way. Not really worth the bother to save ~$2 a month to setup sleep.

I only need my Unraid machine once a day, but my family does use plex and the are not firm in setting the server to sleep every time. They have an app on there phone to wake the server up. And sometimes i am away from home about a few days and the server is running all the time.

 

Thats about 40-50 Euros a year. So for me it is worth!

update seems to have fixed my album art work bug

Are you saying i can still have it on the cache drive just not in a hidden directory?

 

I could use /mnt/cache/apps/plex  just not /mnt/cache/.apps/plex

 

thanks for your help

That's what i'm saying ...... ("cache only" share, you have to create it under shares on the unRAID web interface)

 

I tried to set up a share for /mnt/cache/ but it makes it /mnt/user/cache. Do I need to change my library directory to /mnt/user/cache?

 

still quite new figuring out all this stuff.

I think you're a little confused as to what a Share is and what the Cache is.

 

When you setup a Share, it's a fake folder that unRaid makes appear as a normal folder. When you dump stuff into a Share folder, unRaid may spread the files out over many different drives, but, it sorts them all out so you can never tell when you access your stuff through that Share.

 

The Cache drive is meant to be a place where you put stuff that is waiting to be written to the Shares. Because unRaid breaks apart many files and scatters them about (the nature of Shares), copying things to the array/Share is slow. When you use a Cache drive, your files get copied directly to the single Cache drive. Later on in the evening, another program called Mover takes the stuff off the Cache drive and copies it to the Shares - where they are supposed to go.

 

unRaid is also smart enough to show you all the items in your Share AND the items on the Cache drive waiting to be written to the Share as if they were already in there.

 

Any folder, or item that is preceded with a "." Mover ignores. This essentially means you can stick stuff on the cache drive and it will just stay right there, not going anywhere.

 

You want to stick stuff on the cache drive because it's a hard drive. It's made for many reads and writes. If you start sticking stuff on your flash drive, and it's being hit with read/writes again and again, it will die faster than a hard drive.

 

Linux has a different way of addressing hard drives also. For us, unRaid puts all the "hard drives" inside /mnt. You should have folders in there called cache/, disk1/, disk2/, etc. and a user/ directory too. Essentially that /mnt folder is like the "My Computer" location on your Windows machine.

 

Hope this helps.

It should be noted for the Plex plugin you should be using "cache only" shares not folders with leading "." . Cache only shares are excluded from the mover script as well and are setup under the shares tab.

Is unraid version of Plex support channel (or app store)?

I tried to install new plugins for Plex but never can see the channel/plugin show up in the web http://ip:32400/manage link

 

tx

Hope someone could help me out a little. For some reason after upgrading to 5.0-rc6-r8168-test my PMS wont start.

Here is what happens when I try and run the start command.

 

root@Tower:/boot/config/plugins# /etc/rc.d/rc.plexmediaserver start

: invalid numbergins/plexmediaserver/exportsettings: line 13: ulimit: 10000

: invalid numbergins/plexmediaserver/exportsettings: line 14: ulimit: 4096

chown: invalid user: `unraid-plex\r:users'

chown: invalid user: `unraid-plex\r:users'

Unknown id: unraid-plex

 

I haven't changed anything. Might the upgrade to RC6 caused something???

 

 

Not sure what was happening but I just deleted the .ini file where the settings were stored. Re-installed the package, went to the GUI and changed the Install/TMP path and it started up perfectly fine.

I downloaded and installed the package using installpkg.

running unRAID 5.0-rc6-r8168-test.

 

I setup the folders:

/mnt/cache/unRAID_Apps/Plex/Library

/mnt/cache/unRAID_Apps/Plex/Temp

 

Folders were created correctly on the cache drive.

 

When I try to enable the Plex Media Server under unRAID webUI I get the following in my syslog:

 

Aug 26 13:00:05 Tower su[24387]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root
Aug 26 13:00:05 Tower su[24387]: +  root:unraid-plex
Aug 26 13:00:15 Tower pms: Starting Plex...
Aug 26 13:00:15 Tower su[24438]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root
Aug 26 13:00:15 Tower su[24438]: +  root:unraid-plex
Aug 26 13:00:17 Tower pms: Check 1: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!
Aug 26 13:00:20 Tower pms: Check 2: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!
Aug 26 13:00:23 Tower pms: Check 3: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!
Aug 26 13:00:26 Tower pms: Check 4: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!
Aug 26 13:00:29 Tower pms: Check 5: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!
Aug 26 13:00:34 Tower su[24527]: Successful su for unraid-plex by root
Aug 26 13:00:34 Tower su[24527]: +  root:unraid-plex

 

And the plex media server does not run.

Status is "stopped" under unRAID plexmediaserver webUI.

 

What is wrong?

 

Edit:

 

When I run "rc.plexmediaserver start" from command line (root user), after enabling the media server from the unRAID webUI as described above, I get:

root@Tower:/etc/rc.d# rc.plexmediaserver start
/bin/bash: cannot redirect standard input from /dev/null: Permission denied
/bin/bash: /dev/null: Permission denied

 

I don't know if it is OK or not...

 

Edit (again):

I solved it by changing the parameter RUNAS="root" in settings.ini (originally RUNAS="unraid-plex").

It seems that  /dev/null has only root rw capabilities.

 

theone: well spotted!