Plex/Plex Media Server
Plex
Plex - Plex Media Server: Your Media on all of Your Devices - Plex.tv - http://plex.tv/
Plex Download - https://plex.tv/downloads
myPlex Account - https://my.plexapp.com/
Plex Media Center bridges the gap between your computer and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media.
http://www.plexapp.com/ now redirects http://plex.tv/
CentOS 6 Install
Install package:
# 64bit install wget http://downloads.plexapp.com/plex-media-server/0.9.9.16.555-50cd0c3/plexmediaserver-0.9.9.16.555-50cd0c3.x86_64.rpm yum install plexmediaserver-0.9.9.16.555-50cd0c3.x86_64.rpm
# 32bit install wget http://downloads.plexapp.com/plex-media-server/0.9.9.16.555-50cd0c3/plexmediaserver-0.9.9.16.555-50cd0c3.i386.rpm yum install plexmediaserver-0.9.9.16.555-50cd0c3.i386.rpm
Reboot server:
reboot
Enable syslog logging: [1]
sed -i 's/# export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USE_SYSLOG=true/export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USE_SYSLOG=true/g' /etc/sysconfig/PlexMediaServer
Start service:
chkconfig plexmediaserver on service plexmediaserver restart
Connect to server:
http://MYSERVER:32400/web
- Accept End User License Agreement
- Wait for Plex Server to fully start
- Sign In with Plex Account (optional)
- Name Server
- Provide announcement email
- Create Media Library (Movies)
- /movies/plex
- Install (or skip) channels
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This adds the following yum repo, which appears to be broken:
/etc/yum.repos.d/plex.repo:
[PlexRepo] name=PlexRepo baseurl=http://plex.r.worldssl.net/PlexMediaServer/fedora-repo/release/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgkey=https://plexapp.com/plex_pub_key.pub gpgcheck=1
So to update, just download the latest RPM.
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# mount movie share mkdir /movies echo "prime:/data/movies /movies nfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab mount /movies
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Apache
yum -y install apache php
ln -s /var/www/html /www
cd /www
cat > index.php << "EOF"
<?php
header('Location: http://plex:32400/web/');
EOF
chkconfig httpd on
service httpd restart
Ubuntu Install
Dependencies:
apt-get install avahi-utils
Install package:
# 64bit install wget http://downloads.plexapp.com/plex-media-server/0.9.9.16.555-50cd0c3/plexmediaserver_0.9.9.16.555-50cd0c3_amd64.deb dpkg -i plexmediaserver_0.9.9.16.555-50cd0c3_amd64.deb
Reboot server:
reboot
Enable syslog logging: [2]
echo "PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USE_SYSLOG=true" >> /etc/default/plexmediaserver
Start service:
chkconfig plexmediaserver on service plexmediaserver restart
Connect to server:
http://MYSERVER:32400/web
- Accept End User License Agreement
- Wait for Plex Server to fully start
- Sign In with Plex Account (optional)
- Name Server
- Provide announcement email
- Create Media Library (Movies)
- /movies/plex
- Install (or skip) channels
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This adds the following apt repo, ?which appears to be broken:?
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list:
deb http://plex.r.worldssl.net/PlexMediaServer/ubuntu-repo lucid main
So to update, just download the latest DEB.
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Preference File:
/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Preferences.xml
Library:
/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library
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# mount movie share mkdir /movies echo "prime:/data/movies /movies nfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab mount /movies
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Apache
yum -y install apache php
ln -s /var/www/html /www
cd /www
cat > index.php << "EOF"
<?php
header('Location: http://plex:32400/web/');
EOF
chkconfig httpd on
service httpd restart
Plex.tv Connect
WARNING: To see the "Server" options, you need to connect to the Plex server from localhost or local network.
Firewall
What network ports do I need to allow through my firewall to enable access? [3]
TCP 32400 (for access to the Plex Media Server) [required]
UDP 1900 (for access to the Plex DLNA Server)
TCP 32469 (for access to the Plex DLNA Server)
UDP 5353 (for Bonjour/Avahi if you are using these products for service discovery) [recommended for iOS clients]
Web Interface
How do I access the Plex media management interface? [4]
http://YourServerIP:32400/web
Command Line Mangement
Get sections:
curl http://plex:32400/library/sections key="1"
Refresh section:
curl http://plex:32400/library/sections/1/refresh
Maybe something more convoluted: [5]
curl http://127.0.0.1:32400/library/sections%7Cgrep "title="| awk -F = '{print $6" "$7" "$8}'| \ sed 's/ art//g'|sed 's/title//g'| sed 's/type//g'| awk -F \" '{print "Section=\""$6"\" ID="$2}'
References:
- PlexNine AdvancedInfo - Plex - http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/PlexNine_AdvancedInfo
Refresh on startup hack
/etc/init.d/plexmediaserver
# diff -u plexmediaserver.original plexmediaserver
# patch -p0 < plexmediaserver.patch
plexmediaserver.patch:
--- plexmediaserver.original 2013-12-21 09:20:54.818961489 -0700
+++ plexmediaserver 2014-01-18 16:02:28.986902515 -0700
@@ -127,9 +127,22 @@
fi
}
+refresh_movies () {
+ for i in `seq 1 10`; do
+ echo "Refreshing movies ..."
+ curl http://plex:32400/library/sections/1/refresh
+ if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+ sleep 1
+ done
+}
+
case "$1" in
start)
start
+ # refresh movies
+ refresh_movies
;;
stop)
stop
@@ -138,6 +151,8 @@
stop
sleep 1
start
+ # refresh movies
+ refresh_movies
;;
status)
check_status
Download Video
- http://plexapp.com
- select video
- Click "Info" icon
- Click "View XML" link
- Get <Part id="3486" key="/library/parts/3486/file.mkv"
- Collect Title and Year for file name
- Swap file url with current url, and append X-Plex-Token
Subtitle
save the .srt file as "[movie].eng.srt"
Script
git clone https://gist.github.com/3183688e946a2c444efc.git
See plex.py
Issues
imuxsock begins to drop messages
imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid 21238 due to rate-limiting [6]
/etc/rsyslog.conf
$SystemLogRateLimitInterval 0 #$SystemLogRateLimitBurst 50 $SystemLogUsePIDFromSystem on
Test syslog rate limiting: [7]
n=1000 i=0 while [ $i -lt $n ] do logger "This is Testmessage #$i" echo "Messages: $i" i=`expr $i + 1` done