Is This Forum Plex Proper ???

Is it proper/accepted to approach this forum concerning an issue with making my OMV5 Plex server work correctly?

I have tried the Plex forum itself under OMV and cannot get any response. In doing a Google search I located something about '. . . Your linux user doesn't have write permissions to your recordings Library path.' I'm wondering how to deal with this. Where I am at is I cannot get Plex to work in any manner shape or form relative to watching live TV and DVR; and watching anything placed in my library folders; and watching any free Plex movies.

Zitat von gderf

You can ask for help in the Plex Linux forum and crosspost to the OMV forum. If you are running Plex in a docker (the recommended approach), then post in the server-docker forum instead. If you don't provide all the details needed to get help, you likely won't get any or you will be asked for the information needed to help you and if you can't or won't provide it, your thread will die.

There is plenty of information available about Plex and permissions. Just search for it.

OMV 4 is EOL. You should probably upgrade, then start again with Plex.

Forgot to update my profile to OMV5.0. Sorry about that. (However, where in the GUI do I find the version number? Nothing is present in the [About] area.) Have been using OMV5.0 for about a year. Plex was recently installed in OMV5 via Docker Portainer. All that is working okay and libraries are all viewable in Plex. Just can't watch or record anything; LiveTV, DVR, personal videos, or Plex free movies.

Zitat von gderf

Is your Plex server signed into Plex.tv? If not you might not be able to have access to those features. Not sure, I don't use them, but they are available to me, and my server is always signed in.

To see your OMV version in OMV WebGUI:

Diagnostics | System Information | Overview

Looking in Portainer I can see that the Plex container is always running. That is what you meant by Plex server, correct? Regarding Plex via web . . . I have never logged out of it and It is also set for remote access (although I have no need for that remote setting). I can always see my OMV5.3.4-1 server inside the PLex web interface. I do not use a PC server.

Zitat von gderf

Yes, the container should always be running. I don't know what could be wrong with it such that you can't get those features. Maybe there is some way to restrict access to them and somehow that got turned on. I just don't know.

Okay. Thanks for the input you have given me. I will go into all my portainer settings and see if anything sticks out as out of whack. I have the config and transcode files in a separate AppFiles share. All my libraries are in a PLex share

To tell the truth. I'm about sick of Plex. How they could make something so non user friendly I'll never know. An awful lot of rigmarole to go through even if it is a free/paid app. Sure seems like it is a hodgepodge of a setup which could be cleaned up with someone that knew what they were doing. Nothing that's supposed to - in essence - be somewhat plug and play should be this deep in solutions. I'm currently using a TiVo DVR and was trying to down dollar the monthly installment. But - now feeling Plex [might] be way too much stress if I can't resolve it soon. If I can't smoothly access and operate it then no way will the wife be able to.

Thanks gderf. I've appreciated all your help to this point.