We’re assuming that you have Raspbian installed on your Raspberry Pi In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install Plex Media Server Plex is a popular streaming media server that lets you organize your video, music, and photo collections and stream them to all of your devices at any time and from anywhere. One of the Raspberry Pi’s most popular use case is to turn Raspberry Pi into a home media center. If you haven’t used the web app to claim and populate your server, you will be given the chance to claim it after your app spots it.Raspberry Pi can be used in many different projects. Open the Plex app from a client device on the same network, and Plex will detect your server for you. Step 9: Connect to your server from client devices Plex will briefly show you how things work and will then give you the option to “add library.” Go ahead: select the right type of media, navigate to your files, and select the folders you want to add. Then, open your browser and type your IP address followed by :32400/web/ Let’s start populating that server.įirst, make sure you’ve got your files attached to your Pi somehow – like through a USB external hard drive, for instance. Now we’ve showed you how to set up a Raspberry Pi Plex server – but we haven’t showed you how to put anything on it. Create a /root/.cifsuser file with the following content (including Secure the file

Note: Alternative Credential Management.Ī. Sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.2/DRIVE /mnt/localfolder -o unmount /mnt/localfolder Sudo apt-get install samba-common smbclient samba-common-bin smbclient cifs-utils Add the line: 'ip=10.0.0.6' (without quotes and using specific ip) Set IP Address (Not required if you've set it as static via DNS) Modify 'PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER=plex' to 'PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER=pi'Ĭ. Sudo nano /etc/default/plexmediaserver.prevī. Sudo apt-get install -t stretch plexmediaserver-installer # sudo apt-get install -t jessie plexmediaserver # If you need to remove the old one: sudo rm /etc/apt//pms.listĮcho deb public main | sudo tee /etc/apt//plexmediaserver.list # Note: The old repository at: was made official. Add the dev2day repository to your source listĪ. Note: if you get an error, reboot: sudo reboot Ensure the HTTPS transport service is available

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