Plexmediaserver on Openmediavault

Zitat

but I don't want to mess up my system.

I highly suggest you install the virtualbox plugin and make a virtual OMV machine (set it to bridged network adapter) I'm finding it helpful to keep my freshly redone system from getting trashed.
As for the results, I got the exact same as you. I'm really interested in this to hopefully have a headless server for XBMC. I would really love it to handle the shared MySQL database set for XBMC.

Mod, I can't edit my post so please merge the following into my post once it's approved

Found out how to install Plex Media Server on Debian Squeeze. Only issue now the web GUI page is blank.
To install go according to the instructions of this post: http://forums.plexapp.com/inde…view__findpost__p__290304
Quoting here for those that don't want to open a new tab/window

Zitat

Updated with the new version 0.9.6.8.228-e6ae65a

Do the usual

First Time install

Code

sudo echo "deb http://shell.ninthgate.se/packages/debian squeeze main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo curl http://shell.ninthgate.se/packages/shell-ninthgate-se-keyring.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver

Upgrading

Code

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

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Mr. Gosh,

please have a look to
http://forums.plexapp.com/inde…server-debian-repository/

It works

Cheers
UZI

The important thing to do is:

- make a new script in /etc/init.d with the name "plexmediaserver" and paste the whole code below into it.
- make a chmod +x /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver
- make a "update-rc.d plexmediaserver enable"

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          plexmediaserver
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $all
# Required-Stop:     
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Plex Media Server
# Description:       Plex Media Server for Linux,
#                    More information at http://www.plexapp.com
#                    Many thanks to the great PlexApp team for his wonderfull job !
# Author:            Cedric Quillevere / origin@killy.net
# Version:           1.0a
### END INIT INFO


test -f "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server" || exit 0


export PMS_RUN_USER="plex"


plex_running=`ps ax | grep "\./Plex Media Server" | awk '{ print $1 }' | wc -l`


case "$1" in
    start)
        if [ "$plex_running" -gt 1 ]; then
                echo "Plex already running..."
                exit 0
        fi
        echo -n "Starting Plex Media Server: "
        su -l $PMS_RUN_USER -c "/usr/sbin/start_pms &" >/dev/null 2>&1
        sleep 1
        echo "done"
        ;;
    stop)
        if [ "$plex_running" -eq 1 ]; then
                echo "Plex Media Server is not running (no process found)..."
                exit 0
        fi
        # Trying to kill the Plex Media Server itself but also the Plug-ins
        echo -n "Killing Plex Media Server: "
        ps ax | grep "Plex Media Server" | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill -9 >/dev/null 2>&1
        sleep 1
        echo "done"
        ;;
    restart)
        sh $0 stop
        sh $0 start
        ;;
    status)
        if [ "$plex_running" -gt 1 ]; then
                echo "Plex Media Server process running."
        else
                echo "It seems that Plex Media Server isn't running (no process found)."
        fi
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac


exit 0

Hi.
I just upgraded my brothers openmedia vault with the latest plex from my repo and I had no problems what so ever with the upgrade or with the start of the new version. With that said I need to point out that he is on an amd64 system. I haven't checked the i386 package yet.

I did a google translate on the error msg you got during the upgrade.

adduser: Warnung: Das Home-Verzeichnis »/var/lib/plexmediaserver« gehört nicht dem Benutzer, den Sie gerade anlegen.
translates to
adduser: Warning: The home directory "/var/lib/plexmediaserver" does not belong to the user that you are creating.

So my question to you is what system are you running amd64 or i386 and who is the owner of /var/lib/plexmediaserver

ls -la /var/lib/
drwxr-xr-x  3 plex    nogroup 4096 Aug 21 19:12 plexmediaserver

Edit.
Just tried the i386 package on my virtual i386 debian machine and it did install nice and clean and started up without any trouble.

OK but did you check the owner of the plexmediaserver under /var/lib/

FWIW, the plex update installed fine, the web ui came up fine (and it even recognized new videos), but it would not serve media. Devices running Plex would say that the server is unavailable, and MyPlex said that the server is up, but plex isnt running.

After uninstalling and reinstalling, Plex is working perfectly.

Zitat von "mr.gosh"

Meanwhile there came in an upgrade .deb that destroyed a lot.

I recognized during the upgrade that the debconf spit out this:

Code

adduser: Warnung: Das Home-Verzeichnis »/var/lib/plexmediaserver« gehört nicht dem Benutzer, den Sie gerade anlegen.
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
Plex Media Server is not running (no process found)...
Starting Plex Media Server: done

as you can see the process marks up that the "home-folder" /var/lib/plexmediaserver soesn't belong to the just added user.
Even if it says "Starting Plex Media Server: done" it isn't running:

Code

root@omv:/# /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver status
It seems that Plex Media Server isn't running (no process found).

and trying to start it hangs:

Code

root@omv:/# su -l plex /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver start
Starting Plex Media Server:

which I must cancel with ctrl+c
I will poke around there, but I am happy if someone has a hint for that one.
(I'm not sure how the packager test his packages, that these things happen?!?) :roll:

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I have exactly the same problem. Who ever cope?

This is how I solved the problem...everything done as root

1. first install plex from here
http://forums.plexapp.com/inde…server-debian-repository/

1.5: for openemediavault I think we need to add more debian repo, I have stable, unstable and even experimental,, if installation failed then try adding each one at a time and try again

2 .run command

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver

3. change user plex to root

nano /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver

goto line 18 change "plex" to "root"

again

nano /etc/default/plexmediaserver

line 19
change plex to root

3. now
run command

/etc/init.d/plexmediaserver restart

4. goto browser

[omv ip]:32400/web

if everything went well it should work properly..

#after this (its optional, my openmediavault partition is small so I had to move my Plex library to other partition so I created symbolic link folder)

copy all the files from /root/Library to /media/[partition name]/Library

cp -avr /root/Library /media/[partition name]/Library

(just in case | backup)

mv /root/Library  /root/Library.bak

ln -s /media/[partition name]/Library /root/Library

done..

There's also a way to get a headless XBMC compiled on OMV. Works fairly well. At least for the alphas where it would allow library updates from sickbeard and couchpotato. The newer UPnP is proving to be a pain to me. But there are work-arounds for the old MySQL database shares.

Once I get more kinks on how I set it up worked out, I'll post a clear "how to" in a new thread here. I'm still appreciative to all the guys on the XBMC forums for guiding me on how to do it.

for me plex is working just fine..:) with omv + plex media server + windows client + TV = perfect home system. Right now I am trying to get itunes library working in omv, finger cross as it works in plex media server(windows version)..

Have you been able to set up your itunes library into plex?

Hey Guys!

As you know, I'm fooling around with the plugins on my testing-system. So I came across plex-server. Many people got a AppleTV at home. Is it possible to add an "Plex-Connect"-Option to the GUI? Then they could stream media to AppleTV.