Posts by tekkb

It is working!!!

How to make a good Media share for Emby and PlexMediaServer

I'll test this in erasmus right now... Give me a bit.

I have not tested tv series with OVM 3.x. Maybe it is just in Erasmus.

I've been so busy and it is not going to change for a couple weeks.

It does... you probably have a naming issue. I would post on plex forums help or search there for posts concerning this.

What is the error?? Is it when you enable the plugin or in the user interface of the plex? When you try to add a share it takes a few seconds to read it if there are a lot of files. If you wait that error disappears.

@Huberer Take a look at this guide. The same media share setup with this will work with emby and PMS.

How to make a good Media share for Emby and PlexMediaServer

@mcgyver83 You should not have that many processes. With the RPi 2 you need a version of ffmpeg that works with ARM and emby. Did you follow a guide somewhere to build ffmpeg or ?? I build the other packages and designed the plugin to work with arm. But an emby compatible ffmpeg is needed.

There is also the remote desktop plugin if he wants to run apps that require a desktop. The plugin installs a xfce desktop.

@mcgyver83 You are limited to moving the database folder to one of your data volumes. The folder was created by the emby application and is moved from it's default location at /var/lib. Plugins cannot allow infinite options and decisions, limitations, have to be made. Purpose of the plugin is to make install easy/fast for people.

@The_Catman Did you take a look at this Guide?

How to make a good Media share for Emby and PlexMediaServer

It could be naming issue or file format issue as well.

Headless maybe but in the error message it is looking for a X Server. Did he download the correct version?

It looks like it is trying to add entries to a desktop menuing systen too.

xdg-desktop-menu: No writable system menu directory found.

The version of pyload is installed by the plugin. An update to the plugin with the new version should work. Would be nice if the button in the User Interface worked.

@jhmiller

Teamviewer is a desktop application. OMV does not install a desktop by default. You need to install gnome or you could try the remote desktop app.

Do this and then try to install the plugin again:
apt-get purge openmediavault-plexmediaserver
apt-get purge plexmediaserver
userdel plex

Then delete the plexmediaserver folder on your data drive, which ever one you put it on.

Then reinstall the plugin from the plugin section in OMV's Web GUI. Do not do it from command line.

Give results of:
dpkg -l | grep openm

I know, just explaining thoroughly. Weird what is going on with this user. Waiting for some answers.

I'll try to work on it tonight or tomorrow Michael...

@desxo How did you create your media share???

Take a look at this guide:

How to make a good Media share for Emby and PlexMediaServer

Were you able to add a media share in the Plex UI??? Or did you not even get that far?
Did you try to use an old plex database that you backed up?
Also, you may have a database mistmatch between the plex uid/gid and the library (database) uid/gid if you did not delete the plex user after purging the plex plugin and the plexmediaserver package.

It is best to do this before you try to reinstall the plugin:
apt-get purge openmediavault-plexmediaserver
apt-get purge plexmediaserver
userdel plex

Then try to reinstall.

Answer some of these questions and maybe I can help you more....

The plex plugin does not change ownership of the media files. It will correct issues with the database, where are all meta data and related files are stored, in the case of a mismatch in ownership. The plex plugin is perfect as is. If you were to change ownership of the media files people would no longer be able to delete them via their samba shares. And that would not be a desired outcome. Plex reads the files fine with a read only on others.

e.g. from a movie

File: `ZOOKEEPER.mpg'
  Size: 4208617476      Blocks: 8219968    IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 831h/2097d      Inode: 107479201   Links: 1
Access: (0744/-rwxr--r--)  Uid: ( 1000/doh)   Gid: (  100/   users)
Access: 2016-08-06 18:25:04.675498395 -0400
Modify: 2011-10-23 21:04:48.048796600 -0400
Change: 2012-07-28 02:25:26.638267138 -0400
 Birth: -

I changed my username to doh in the example because my user is my real name.

Changing the ownership of the files in the database can take a long time if you have a lot of media files because a lot of meta data, and related, files, are created.

You can see my media file uid/gid does not math the uid/gid of my plex user:
id plex
uid=112(plex) gid=116(plex) groups=116(plex)

All people should have to do is install the new plugin via the update manager. If it is not working after that disable the plugin and enable it. Then you should be fine. Installs from scratch should just work right away. It is just post upgrades you may have to disable/enable the plugin.

The problem was not systemd. It was a new script plex is using that put the .prev on the files. They are going to far with this script. It is really stupid whoever made this script.