Jmanio so your saying that pled media server installs but when you visit the webgui page under settings it says enable =yes but it says stopped at the bottom?

 

 

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Hi ijuarez - actually I've seen 2 diff't flavors when the unraid webGui is installed.

Note that in both cases, I need to manually installpkg  Plex* first,  in order to get the selection to show in the webGui/Settings.  Once doing that:

 

1) One has the webGui showing that Plex is RUNNING (in green) - but in fact it is not.  "top"  shows no running plex processes.  In this case, the dropdown box for enabling plex will say "Yes" and I'll have to change that to No, Apply, then Yes, Apply in order to make plex seen and running

2) the 2nd flavor has the Plex page come up saying STOPPED (in red) - and in this case I simply have to set to Yes/Apply in order to get it running.

 

Over at the Plex forums, others have found and discussed this as well - so I'm not the only one to have found and been caught with this problem.  I didn't find that info on the Plex forums until after I had discussed things here.

 

As Dale indicated, I tried Dynamix - and it "mostly" works for me.  I can access the dynamix GUI w/ no issues from Chrome, yet my IE11 is giving me grief - it basically won't show properly even after clearing the cache/etc

 

-JM

OK got dynamix w/ IE11 working - need to turn off compatibility view for intranet sites.

-JM

do not want to ask a redundant question ... but is a cache required/recommended for running plex? all my slots are occupied and pretty full so i wasn't planning/wanting to add a cache at this point of time.

 

thanks for any replies.

whatever location you use for the Plex library will be kept constantly spinning because Plex is always writing logs and there is no way to turn that feature off that we've found.

 

So:

if you put the library on the array, then at least one drive + parity will always be spinning

if you put it on cache it will always be spinning ... if cache is an SSD then you won't care

The same goes if you mount a drive outside the array it will spin all the time and if it is an SSD you won't care.  You would do that if you didn't want to use a smaller SSD for cache.

 

As to being out of ports ... for $15 you can get a nice 2-port 1xPCIE onto which you can add a cache and/or non-cache drive.

 

Quick question:

 

1) I am currently using a 2 TB hard drive as my cache drive.  I just ordered a 120 GB SSD, which will be here Thursday / Friday, and I will be using this SSD as a cache drive only for Plex.

2) How do I go about moving everything from the 2TB drive to the SSD drive?  Do I just highlight everything and drag it?

 

Of course, I will make the SSD a cache drive, and thereafter, I can just drag and copy everything to it?

whatever location you use for the Plex library will be kept constantly spinning because Plex is always writing logs and there is no way to turn that feature off that we've found.

 

So:

if you put the library on the array, then at least one drive + parity will always be spinning

if you put it on cache it will always be spinning ... if cache is an SSD then you won't care

The same goes if you mount a drive outside the array it will spin all the time and if it is an SSD you won't care.  You would do that if you didn't want to use a smaller SSD for cache.

 

As to being out of ports ... for $15 you can get a nice 2-port 1xPCIE onto which you can add a cache and/or non-cache drive.

 

If you are currently using unRAID free, is it possible to have your array populated but have a drive mounted outside of the array that just has Plex files sitting on it?

 

I guess I'm asking is the 3x drive limit the array or the total amount of visible drives?

If you are currently using unRAID free, is it possible to have your array populated but have a drive mounted outside of the array that just has Plex files sitting on it?

Yes, either manually mounted at boot time or using SNAP.

I guess I'm asking is the 3x drive limit the array or the total amount of visible drives?

The limit applies to the parity protected drives only. You can mount any number of additional drives.

Thanks JonathanM for the clarification.

 

I think that will be the way to go in the interim in that case. I have just installed Snap as advised and I shall give this a try later this evening. Just pre-cleared some drives and setting up everything properly (as I kind of hashed it altogether as a test when I built it last week!)

 

One more question regarding the drive spin down, if I configure a drive outside of the array to work as an application scratch disk if you like will this be spun up constantly?

 

If I knew I wasn't going to be using Plex for an extended period of time (ie when I'm in work) If I went into settings and disabled the Plex server would that allow the drive to spin down? Because I have noticed while I have had drives outside of the array, plugged in but doing nothing they appear to be constantly spinning... is this the case do you know?

Let me start by saying I'm and a total Linux newb, not mention an unRAID newb. That being said I was able with the help of tutorials in these forums, setup unRAID, and install SAB/SB/CP with all of them functioning correctly. So my next goal was to setup Plex, but no matter what tutorial I read, it just won't start, or at least it always says not started or stopped. I've attach a syslog from the last reboot, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks in advance.

syslog-2014-06-06.txt

Update: I tried stripping everything out (plugins, etc.) and following the instructions fresh. I even set the option in disk settings to autostart, still no luck. I can't figure out what isn't loading correctly. I've attached an updated syslong. I'm running unRAID 5.0.5

syslog-2014-06-06.txt

Thanks JonathanM for the clarification.

 

I think that will be the way to go in the interim in that case. I have just installed Snap as advised and I shall give this a try later this evening. Just pre-cleared some drives and setting up everything properly (as I kind of hashed it altogether as a test when I built it last week!)

 

One more question regarding the drive spin down, if I configure a drive outside of the array to work as an application scratch disk if you like will this be spun up constantly?

 

If I knew I wasn't going to be using Plex for an extended period of time (ie when I'm in work) If I went into settings and disabled the Plex server would that allow the drive to spin down? Because I have noticed while I have had drives outside of the array, plugged in but doing nothing they appear to be constantly spinning... is this the case do you know?

PLEX always runs and keeps the disk spun up. There are settings in the PLEX dashboard settings that *should* allow you to setup Plex so it only updates its databases less frequently. (I have mine set to every 12 hours.)  That setting is IN the PLEX Manager buried in the ADVANCE settings, I think. http://tower:32400/web/index.html#!/dashboard

Update: I tried stripping everything out (plugins, etc.) and following the instructions fresh. I even set the option in disk settings to autostart, still no luck. I can't figure out what isn't loading correctly. I've attached an updated syslong. I'm running unRAID 5.0.5

You're right! something is wrong!

Jun  6 22:50:23 BlackNote pms: Check 1: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!

Jun  6 22:50:26 BlackNote pms: Check 2: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!

Jun  6 22:50:29 BlackNote pms: Check 3: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!

Jun  6 22:50:32 BlackNote pms: Check 4: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!

Jun  6 22:50:35 BlackNote pms: Check 5: Plex has NOT started yet, something is maybe wrong!

Which PLEX plugin are you using (name and version number)

and WHERE is that plugin installed on the FLASH drive?

Dale, as far as I know, I'm not using a plugin. At least not that I know of. I installed the latest version of Plex per wombat's instructions. I did previously load the unplugged plugin, but got rid of it (I think) as I couldn't get it to work either. I just checked the Flash share through windows and there doesn't appear to be a plexmediaserver folder in in /config/plugins, but it only contains a settings file, and export file. Any ideas?

I think what you want to do is grab the PLEX Media server plugin.

Mine is "PlexMediaServer-0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd-unRAID.txz".

And drop it into flash/extra folder. ( if you're doing it via telnet, then into boot/extra)

Restart

As the extras are run, a folder will be created at:  boot/config/plugins/plexmediaserver and it will be filled with the PLEX program stuff.

And it should start when you start up unRAID.

 

Look here for details:

https://forums.plex.tv/index.php/topic/66930-helpful-unraid-links/

 

Dale, I think that's what I've been doing all along. This is the name of the file I've been trying to get loaded correctly: PlexMediaServer-0.9.9.10.458-008ea34-unRAID.txz. I've tried rebooting and letting it load from my extras folder, and doing the installpkg from /boot/extra. No matter what I do, Plex shows up in the Gui under setting, but never starts. I've tried everything I can think of at this point, so I'm hoping someone else has encountered this before.

@lowkey127, I didn't keep up with the whole conversation but when I upgraded to unraid 6 my plex did the same thing as yours.

 

I think it might have been that the 32 bit version didn't work on unraid 6, and press does have a 64 bit version. After some digging I found a guy that is compiling a 64 bit version and it is awesome. He made a whole little plugin system that I have to use. It's been about a week now with no problems.

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=33341.0

 

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lowkey:

Whereever you think PLEX might be (flash, cache drive, data drives) (not where your movies and media are at) but where the PLEX system and its meta databases are stored...

Wherever those places are at, try running "reiserfsck --check"  (if its on cache or data) or chkdsk (for the flash drive) from your PC (disk utility for Mac)

 

(My theory being that PLEX is 'loading' but then when it goes to actually START, it finds that either its program or its databases are corrupted and can't actually startup successfully.)

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Check_Disk_Filesystems