Plex will not connect to web interface

CaptainPedro · Jan 29th 2025

I have a new install of OMV, docker installed smoothly. As recommended Docker is on a separate drive from OMV. I installed Plex by creating from example in OMV |SERVICES|COMPOSE|FILES|. When i try to start Plex from the web interface at #.#.#.#:32400/web I get ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED. Same result from other machine on the LAN. Plex service is running but using no ports

omv 7.5.2-1 sandworm| 64 bit |processor (2) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz | Kernel Linux Linux 6.1.0-30-amd64 | 22G DDR2 ram

gderf · Jan 29th 2025

Post the compose file you are using.

CaptainPedro · Jan 29th 2025

---

services:

plex:

image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest

container_name: plex

network_mode: host

environment:

- PUID=1001

- PGID=100

- VERSION=latest

volumes:

- /dev/shm:/transcode

- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro

- CHANGE_TO_COMPOSE_DATA_PATH/plex/database:/config

- CHANGE_TO_COMPOSE_DATA_PATH/plex/multimedia:/multimedia

restart: unless-stopped

omv 7.5.2-1 sandworm| 64 bit |processor (2) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz | Kernel Linux Linux 6.1.0-30-amd64 | 22G DDR2 ram

CaptainPedro · Jan 29th 2025

I was hoping to use the global variables as recommended on the OMV-extras guide for installing Docker like this

THE FOLLOWING VARIABLES CAN BE USED IN ANY COMPOSE FILE

# THEIR VALUE WILL BE REPLACED BY THE VALUE ASSIGNED HERE

# YOU CAN ADD AS MANY VARIABLES AS YOU NEED

#

# Customize the PID and GID value of your appuser user.

# You can see it in the OMV GUI in the USERS > USERS tab

#

APPUSER_PUID=1001

APPUSER_PGID=100

#

# Customize your time zone value.

# You can see it in the OMV GUI in the SYSTEM > DATE & TIME tab

#

TIME_ZONE_VALUE=US/Eastern

#

# In this file you can define how many paths you need for different compose files.

# The following are examples corresponding to the example system in the Docker on OMV document on the omv-extras wiki.

# Customize the values according to your system configuration.

#

PATH_TO_APPDATA=/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-5a4b77fb-1f6f-4315-990e-10ab31bf0f2c/AppData

PATH_TO_DATA=/srv/mergerfs/DataPool/NAS_Folders

PATH_TO_DOCUMENTS=/srv/mergerfs/DataPool/NAS_Folders/User_Docs

PATH_TO_MEDIA=/srv/mergerfs/DataPool/NAS_Folders/Media

PATH_TO_MOVIES=/srv/mergerfs/DataPool/NAS_Folders/Media/Movies

PATH_TO_PHOTOS=/srv/mergerfs/DataPool/NAS_Folders/Media/Photos

PATH_TO_TV=/srv/mergerfs/DataPool/NAS_Folders/Media/TV

PATH_TO_MUSIC=/srv/mergerfs/DataPool/NAS_Folders/Media/Music

PATH_TO_BACKUPS=/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-384444bb-f020-4492-acd2-5997e908f49f/backups

PATH_TO_DOWNLOADS=/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-384444bb-f020-4492-acd2-5997e908f49f/downloads

I created the shared folders and used the copy function to set up the global variables

the APPDATA path is the extra drive to isolate Docker from the OS, but based on the example compose file I'm not sure how to implement the global variables

omv 7.5.2-1 sandworm| 64 bit |processor (2) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz | Kernel Linux Linux 6.1.0-30-amd64 | 22G DDR2 ram

gderf · Jan 29th 2025

Quote from CaptainPedro

I was hoping to use the global variables as recommended on the OMV-extras guide for installing Docker like this

Unnecessary complexity for a setup that has only one container, and makes debugging harder. I suggest not doing this.

Also, when you post a compose file please use a code box. There is no point in anyone looking at it otherwise as it can not be debugged without the required formatting which is absent.

CaptainPedro · Jan 29th 2025

thanks, dumb qustion how do i use a code box

omv 7.5.2-1 sandworm| 64 bit |processor (2) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz | Kernel Linux Linux 6.1.0-30-amd64 | 22G DDR2 ram

gderf · Jan 29th 2025

In the blue bar above where you type, click on the </> icon. Then type in the box.

CaptainPedro · Jan 29th 2025

Code

---
services:
  plex:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
    container_name: plex
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - PUID=1001
      - PGID=100
      - VERSION=latest
    volumes:
      - /dev/shm:/transcode
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - CHANGE_TO_COMPOSE_DATA_PATH/plex/database:/config
      - CHANGE_TO_COMPOSE_DATA_PATH/plex/multimedia:/multimedia
    restart: unless-stopped

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omv 7.5.2-1 sandworm| 64 bit |processor (2) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz | Kernel Linux Linux 6.1.0-30-amd64 | 22G DDR2 ram

jata1 · Jan 31st 2025

Your compose setup looks quite good/close.

I think you need to look at the volume mapping to multimedia on the container side. I think this should be media (not multimedia)

If you want to do hardware/GPU transcoding you need to add the correct devices (see my compose but yours might be different). Check what folders/files are in /dev/dri on your os file system.

You will also need to add video and render groups to your user account 1001.

Note that hardware transcoding is a plex pass feature so it will only work if you have it.

when you start the container you need to check the container log to see what they say.

Code

 services:
  plex:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
    container_name: plex
    network_mode: host
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - PUID=${PUID}
      - PGID=${PGID}
      - TZ=${TZ}
      - UMASK=002
      - VERSION=docker
    devices:
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128
      - /dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
      - /symlinks/omv-system/appdata/plex/config:/config
      - /symlinks/media/library:/media # SKIP_BACKUP
      - /dev/shm:/transcode # SKIP_BACKUP

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What a clean startup log will look like

Code

To support LSIO projects visit:
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───────────────────────────────────────
GID/UID
───────────────────────────────────────
User UID:    1001
User GID:    100
───────────────────────────────────────
Linuxserver.io version: 1.41.3.9314-a0bfb8370-ls252
Build-date: 2025-01-22T17:45:11+00:00
───────────────────────────────────────
    
**** Server already claimed ****
**** permissions for /dev/dri/card0 are good ****
**** permissions for /dev/dri/renderD128 are good ****
Docker is used for versioning skip update check
[custom-init] No custom files found, skipping...
Starting Plex Media Server. . . (you can ignore the libusb_init error)
Connection to localhost (127.0.0.1) 32400 port [tcp/*] succeeded!
[ls.io-init] done.
Critical: libusb_init failed

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Irfilius · Aug 11th 2025

Quote from jata1

when you start the container you need to check the container log to see what they say.

Hi

You running plex with non-root user? I have some issues with that

Set owner for OMV Docker Compose to root or a user?

Can you share or to check my result from service inspect?

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