Roel van der Heide wrote:

Gywer_Johnson wrote:

Fixed it ! :-)
It is another config file ....

Hi Gywer_Johnson,

Could you please clarify what you did to relocate the plexmediaserver files? My system disk is quickly filling with these metadata, while my large media disk would have more than enough room.

Thanks, Roel

In the Web app your_server:32400, when you edit your library (gear wheel drop down), under Add Folders, you can specify the path to your library.

Good news,thaks for that.

Gywer_Johnson wrote:

Fixed it ! :-)
It is another config file ....

Hi Gywer_Johnson,

Could you please clarify what you did to relocate the plexmediaserver files? My system disk is quickly filling with these metadata, while my large media disk would have more than enough room.

Thanks, Roel

Hi guys,

Nick has it correct. I am running plex on a windows 7 machine behind my clearOS gateway. I am using a minimal system for ClearOS, and I wanted something beefier to run my media server.

I'll try closing the firewall, but keeping the port forwarding on and see what that does.

EDIT: I've removed the firewall port openings on that port, and left the port forwarding to my win7 box on that port. I still can't connect to it from outside my LAN.

I don't want to have to install UPnP on clearOS for security reasons, but I think I might have to.

I'm confused... :laugh:

I think Nathan needs to clarify how his system is setup. It sounds like he's using ClearOS as a gateway server and that he is or was running a PLEX server on a Windows7 PC behind ClearOS. It sounds like he wants to only use ClearOS as a gateway appliance. What say ye Nathan?

@Marcel,
I don't think so. His Plex is running on a different machine so he needs to close 32400 and just leave the port forwarding.

Hi Nathan,

Open the Plex web interface. If you go to configuration --> server --> connect and then tick the "show advanced" button there you can manually specify port 32400. Also you need to open port 32400 in your firewall.

Hope it helps...

Don't confuse openng ports with port forwarding. Opening ports is for traffic destined for ClearOS whereas Port Forwarding is for traffic destined through ClearOS to the LAN behind ClearOS. They are mutually exclusive.

I have been running plex on a win7 machine for a while now....I have clearOS as a gateway on a minimal spec system so I want the media server on something a bit more beefy.

I can't get the streaming to work. When I go to the config page in my browser I keep getting the error that I am unable to reach it from outside my network.

I've added port forwarding on 32400 to my media server IP address, and I've also opened up the TCP and UDP port 34200 in the firewall, but it still won't connect.

Anybody here know what I might be missing? do I need to install UPnP? I'm a bit leery about doing that for security reasons.

Gujs,

You can manually update Plex. If you download the centOS version and you can install it with "yum local install" .It overwrite the old install.

Sure...I normally try and guinea pig the new releases but I've had no spare time lately. For those wanting to run the latest, I've uploaded the latest Plex (non-mediapass) versions to the beta repository. Give the repos a couple of hours to sync...when they do, running:

ENABLE_BETA=True yum upgrade plexmediaserver

will upgrade anyone who has installed Plex Media server via Marketplace in the past to version 0.9.9.12.504-3e7f93c.

If I get some feedback that there's no hiccups, I'll promote it to the core Plex private repo.

Ben

Hi, can we expect any update to the plex which is on clearos market?

Plex Media Server 0.9.9.9 is now available for Plex Pass members!

We've got some good bug-fixes in here, especially for Chromecast streaming from Windows servers.

FIXES:

- Improve throughput of streaming transcodes (DLNA, Chromecast).
- (Windows) Fix an issue where a second streamed transcode could make the first one hang.
- Crashes in media analysis (usually around music) which could prevent files being analyzed.
- (Roku) Fix an issue with HTTP responses.
- (Synology, unRAID) Crash on first run.
- A media analysis issue when video files have thumbnail streams.
- (Sync) Make sure we pass back item-level durations.
- Optimize the JPEGs we create.
- Fixed an issue where on some ARM platforms, server was unable to sign into plex.tv.
- Updated ReadyNAS OS 6 and Synology packages.
- A few crashes on start with bad path permissions.
- A few field-reported crashes.

Plex Media Server version 0.9.9.8 is released this week. This is a release for Plex Pass members.

NEW:
Do a better job cleaning up old transcode session files.
Add a (hidden) preference to specify x264 options which override all others.

FIXES:
A few crashes around play queues.
A reported crash around photo uploads.
Syncing a few manually selected items (in web app) didn't work.
Flinging play queues to Roku or Chromecast could cause issues.
Add a description for the "Include in global" library preference.
An issue where the server gave incorrect information about ability to sync.
When scanning photos in the web app, thumbnails failed to appear without refresh.
When ingesting a photo which had a different timestamp, don't overwrite existing file.
An issue where /servers only returned 127.0.0.1.
(OS X) Kill orphaned transcoder processes when starting up.
An issue when creating playqueues with unwatched filter could result in weird behavior.
Roku didn't like some of our HTTP replies.
Make sure we refresh file size when media is re-analyzed.
(Sync) A few minor issues fixed.

Plex Media Server version 0.9.9.7 is released yesterday! This time it's a public release.

Plex Media Server 0.9.9.7 is now available for Plex Pass members Everyone!


FIXED:
- (Synology) Fixed installation on DSM 5.0
- Fixed an issue where non-direct played Roku video took a long time to start.
- Fixed syncing RAW photos (for real).

The guys from Plex just released a new Plexpass version (0.9.9.6) of Plex Media Server. You can download it to your tmp directory and do a yum localinstall.



From the Plex site:

Plex Media Server 0.9.9.6 is now available for Plex Pass members



Brand new build of the media server for your weekend pleasure!




NEW:

- (Mac) Add a preference to control whether we show notifications.

- (API) Added /library/section/prefs?type=X for library preferences.

- Report back product so that web app can show icon for DLNA plays.

- Support for enhanced streaming when using Chrome.

- Support sharing even when connecting to plex.tv fails because of NAT.



FIXES:

- Fix a crash in the scheduled task for media analysis.

- Fix a few cases where web's Now Playing information was out of date.

- (Windows) Fix a case where spaces in the filename caused the transcoder to fail.

- Fix a crash when cleaning bundles.

- Fix a potential crash when uploading to Bitcasa.

- Fix an issue when using the new "Disc Image" scanners.

- Fix an issue syncing large RAW images.

- Increase number of database sessions, should improve performance.

- Fix a few miscellaneous field-reported crashes.

Fixed it ! :-)
It is another config file ....

Hello !

Thank you guys for porting Plex to the market, I alos installed Plex some days before and updated now via the market. No problem, everythink works fine. But:
My system partition is almost full because of more and more files located in /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Media/localhost. There seems to be some (!) cached files of my thousands pics of my kids :-)


Do you have any idea where to change the "cache" location ? There is enough room on an second hd mounted as flexshare ...

I even changed in /lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service the line
Environment=PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_HOME=/var/flexshare/shares/cache

but it won't work as expected :blush:

Do you have any other ideas ?

Best regards an (lately) a happy new year 2014 !!
Gywer T. J.

I'm glad you like Plex Tim!

Just to add that I finally got round to trying this out - Plex rocks thanks Ben!

I installed the app over my existing Plex install and nothing broke and I can now access the web config from the interface, so great work to all involved and thank you

Yes that is what i thought but i can't test at the moment. Thanks for confirming.

I see no reason why you couldn't just install the PlexPass beta version. The rpm system has version numbers in them so the ClearOS one won't overwrite it unless you stop updating the betas and the public one becomes a newer version.

Ben Chambers wrote:

Hi Marcel,

I'm a PlexPass subscriber, but of course, it wouldn't be right to keep ClearOS repos stocked with those packages designed for paying Plex users. So, the ClearOS repo will just follow along with the packages available publicly from Plex.

Me too! I aggree that we have to follow the public releases.

That said, early access is one thing, but PlexPass features only (like Device Sync) I think is tied to the subscription webservice calls back to Plex and not differentiated by what RPM you install. Can anyone confirm that? I only say this because I've never seen a download in my Plex Pass account that is any different than the public download links. Maybe I'm not going somewhere I need to...I haven't played with too many Plex features to date.

B.

As far as i know when you put your PlexPass login with a stable version you have all PlexPass features but the beta's which you can find in the forums have the new features. The public releases doesn't have those new features. Of course this beta software and has bugs. So i think it's not wise to use this with the marketplace app. In other words stick with the public releases. What i was suggesting a way to install the beta version. So power users have the latest features. I guess just installing the beta RPM from Plex.tv (new domain).

They do beta versions for Plex Pass subscribers which you can find in their forums. The public releases however are the more stable ones and will have all the same features if you put your PlexPass login in. So yeah stick with the public releases.

Hi Marcel,

I'm a PlexPass subscriber, but of course, it wouldn't be right to keep ClearOS repos stocked with those packages designed for paying Plex users. So, the ClearOS repo will just follow along with the packages available publicly from Plex.

That said, early access is one thing, but PlexPass features only (like Device Sync) I think is tied to the subscription webservice calls back to Plex and not differentiated by what RPM you install. Can anyone confirm that? I only say this because I've never seen a download in my Plex Pass account that is any different than the public download links. Maybe I'm not going somewhere I need to...I haven't played with too many Plex features to date.

B.

Ben, awesome work!

The latest version is 0.9.8.18.290 and that is a "public version". There is also a Plexpass version. If you are a Plexpass subscriber then you have access to these early builds. Also as Plexpass user you have all features enables. Have you thought how to install such a version.

I will update the first post.

Edit: Updated.

Thanks for that Ben. I went ahead and installed it through yum and it gave me the webconfig app. I'm running 0.9.7.22 and it appears to work with it. Perhaps you guys can work in an update in the repo so I can get up to the latest?

Dirk,

The Plex app from the Marketplace is just a wrapper to install Plex Media Server...well, that's not entirely true...I wrote an ACL that gives you optional control over who accesses the media server (using Pete's Network Map tool) and at what time. Adds more control than Plex's built in ACL which is done using subnets or IP ranges.

The version of Plex Media in Marketplace's repo for Plex is 0.9.8.10.215-020456b. I notice there's a more recent version from Plex (0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd) that I'll get up to our repo shortly...Basically, if you're running 0.9.8.10.215-020456b or later, plex media won't change....just the app (for Webconfig) will be installed.

In other words,

yum --enablerepo=clearos-contribs install app-plex

for users who have already installed Plex RPM will now have the Plex front-end in Webconfig.

But for new users (6.5 only), this command won't work...you'll need to install it via the Marketplace so that your registered device picks up on the free (but private) repo we provide for plexmediaserver RPM.

Make sense?

B

I see the app's available in the marketplace now, but since I followed Marcel's original post and got it working months ago, I'm not going to take any chances and write over it. That is, unless of course Ben put some nice touches on it and it would benefit me to have the config for it available in the webconfig. What say ye Ben Chambers?

Updated first post!

Agreed Dirk! I am very impressed by it and it's an awesome addon to ClearOS, at least for me

Hi Brian,

Thanks for that. Sorry it took me a while to reply to your message.

You won't believe this, but just the day before you posted, I got impatient and after some searching, found some instructions to install Plex and got it all working

When I saw your post, I recognized the steps Thank you for taking the time to post them though because others who're searching for the steps (and can't wait for the apps), will surely find it useful.

Plex is awesome and so far, it's running well. One thing I noticed is that for quite a few video files, when I pause them and start playback again, it doesn't resume, but starts playback from the beginning. I'm looking around for a solution to that.

Thanks again!
Sri

Plex is actually quite awesome. I am very impressed with it. You definitely need a server and a broadband connection that can keep up with the video streaming.

Sri,
I never even heard of plex before until about 10 mins ago. Its actually pretty simple to install just follow this simple howto (i hate waiting for apps!). Oh sorry if this howto seems lengthy you mentioned that you don't have much Linux knowledge so I tried to be as straight forward as possible!

1.) Download Putty ssh client from here

2.) Open putty and type in the IP address and SSH port of your ClearOS box if you haven't changed the port of SSH it will be 22

3.) Click open

4.) Accept the cert (click yes)

5.) Login with user: root

6.) Hit enter

7.) Type your password (you will not see this)

8.) Hit enter

9.) Type the following:

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/plex.repo

10.) Hit enter

11.) Copy and paste(right click) the following into your putty window:

[plex]
name=plex
baseurl=http://plex.r.worldssl.net/PlexMediaServer/fedora-repo/release/$basearch/
enabled=0
gpgkey=https://plexapp.com/plex_pub_key.pub
gpgcheck=1

12.) Save (ctrl+x), type yes, hit enter

13.) Now type the following and hit enter:

yum --enablerepo=plex install plexmediaserver

14.) It will ask you if you want to install the plex package hit Y

15.) Ok now plex is installed

16.) Type the following to start the plex media server and hit enter:

service plexmediaserver start

17.) Now you'll prolly want plex to start up when the ClearOS box does type this and hit enter:

chkconfig plexmediaserver on

18.) Open your browser and go to the following url (note: swap out IP_ADDRESS with the IP of your ClearOS box):

http://IP_ADDRESS:32400/web/index.html

That should get you started like I said earlier I have never used this application before but it was very simple to install at least for me. I will be playing with it a bit to see what it can do and what the limitations are.

Eagerly waiting for Plex to appear in the Marketplace. Any idea of when that might be?

I managed to get miniDLNA working (after a bit of struggle) only to realise that it doesn't support transcoding.

Then, I tried to get serviio working, but was unable to do so. Spent two days on it and even posted on the Serviio forum, to no avail.

I'm not very familiar with Linux, which hasn't helped.

I do hope that Plex will be the answer to all that trouble

Thanks!
Sri

Good news!
This will ofcourse make it more straightforward to setup and get it running instead of hacking around in the system. *Two thumbs up*

Cheers
Göran

Goran,

Sorry for the confusion...the documentation is ahead of the release of the package. I'm just waiting on Pete to release the Network Map app with 20 user limit to the Community Edition. Once that is done, I'll flip the bit and it will be available in the Marketplace.

Ben

Maybe an off topic question, but based on the information on this page it's stated that the plex app should be downloadable via the marketplace. I can't find it, has it been published formerly and then been removed again?