

Now that you’ve completed the setup wizard, you can start exploring Plex’s options and everything it can do.Thank you so much for helping me with this! I'm sure if someone like you (that actually knows what they are doing) could look at my Pi I bet it's something super easy to fix! Click Next, then Done, you will be redirected to the Plex web dashboard. You can add as many libraries as you want. Click the button Add and then on Add Library. In the next step click Browse for media folder and add the path to the directory that will contain the Movies media files, in our case /opt/plexmediafiles/movies. Click on the button Add Library When the pop-up window appears, select movies as the library type and click Next. On the next screen enter the Plex server name, leave the box Allow me to access my media outside my home selected and click Next. Once registered, you will be redirected to the page with information on how Plex works. Also for premium features you can purchase a Plex Pass plan. Let’s proceed then, press the Google, Facebook or Email button to create a free Plex account.

To use Plex Media Server, you need to create an account. Open your browser, digit you should view login page. Now we can proceed with the server configuration.

Obviously you can choose any folder where to place the multimedia files, but remember to grant permissions. We grant permissions: sudo chown -R plex: /opt/plexmediafiles Plex Media Server works with the plex user who obviously needs to have read and write permissions for media files and directories. Process: 11470 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d "$

Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rvice enabled vendor preset: enabled)Īctive: active (running) since Sun 02:12:01 EDT 23min ago If everything went the way it was supposed to, now you should have something like this: Once installation is complete, check operation with: sudo systemctl status plexmediaserver Import the repository GPG key and add the APT repository to the system software repository list by running the following commands: curl | sudo apt-key add - echo deb public main | sudo tee /etc/apt//plexmediaserver.listĪs soon as the Plex repository is enabled, update the package list and install the latest version of the Plex Media Server: sudo apt update sudo apt install plexmediaserver Now install the dependencies needed to enable a new repository over HTTPS: sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl
