PLEX Plugin cant see plugins folder?

Im using OpenMediaVault to run my home media server for both my family and friends. When I was running on my older system, I was using a Channel within PLEX called RequestsChannel. It was a handy tool which let users request movies, TV shows and Music all from within the PLEX app. It was convenient and worked well for what I needed it for.

However, when I setup OMV on my server I seem to be unable to see these plugins from within PLEX anymore. I made sure I was putting the plugins within the plug-ins directory from PLEX but when going into PLEX Channels, nothing seems to show up. I've made sure that all my permissions are set correctly, and PLEX can access that folder but it doesn't work at all. I've tried to use a lot of other Plug-ins and none have worked and I was wondering if anyone else has had this issue and knows how to fix it?

I've posted this on the /r/PLEX subreddit & the PLEX Forums and nobody has been able to answer as to why this isn't working For the moment, I'm having to use Ombi which is a web-based requests system which works but is so much more hassle compared to the simplicity of the PLEX plugin.

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I have read this so many times I'm going to ask some possibly stupid questions, but this is the way I go about resolving a problem.

First I don't use a Mac nor do I use Plex, those 2 statements themselves would throw up 'this guy doesn't know what he's talking about'.....however, I have also read your 2 post links, both of which infer the same.....'renaming the plugin the mac thinks it's file'.

That's the the part that got me thinking so I followed your link to the RequestChannel on github and I downloaded the file, I can extract that file either on my linux or windows machine, that would give a folder RequestChannel.bundle-master.

Now I'm going to guess 2 things, a) you have to rename that folder to RequestChannel.bundle b) you say renaming that folder your Mac then sees it as system folder.

It's b) that makes sense but no sense; if this was me I would down the zip extract it's content, then using FTP copy that folder (RequestChannel.bundle-master) to the plex plugin folder, then rename it on omv, either within the FTP software or from cli using ssh. What I read, what you are doing is renaming it on your Mac, then copying it to the Plex plugin folder.

As I said I could be typing a load goobledygook, but it's the way I'm looking at it.....and I always reboot after making any changes...just in case

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Right, I have tried this and my server is rebooting the now. Fingers crossed this is going to work.

EDIT: It didnt work

I am using the offical PLEX Plugin which is supplied by OMV within the Plug-ins option.

My directory path is as follows:
/srv/dev-disk-by-label-PLEXMedia/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins

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Are you sure that you have the correct permission and ownership set on any new files and folders you are adding?

Yes, I think so. Could you tell me which permissions they would need to be? (to refresh incase I havent set something right)

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Ok, I think that's where the problem is....
that should be /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins

Looking at the installation I have done on my OMV the plugin installs to the media that OMV is installed on, in my case it's a flash drive, so the plex plugin installs under the root directory structure of OMV, this also confirms that, even though that's an install on Ubuntu.

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I dont know why its different this time round, but it works. Thank you so much!

Its just boggles me, on my older install of OMV I did it the way I said I did it before & it worked perfectly. Dont know what I did differently this time, just glad its working. Thanks for sorting this for me