Home Assistant Community Add-on: Plex Media Server

[frenck (Franck Nijhof)]

@Purejet

Does the new hassos have funtionality to mount a network share? Instead of resinos

I’m currently not aware of such a feature.

[AlmostSerious (Marcus Peters)]

Great work Just installed this on a NUC.

@frenck

This listing above is still pretty valuable, even on a Pi. But yes, let us be honest here, this add-on makes a ton more sense for the Generic Linux or Intel NUC Hassio user.

Mounting external drives or network shares is a limitation by Hass.io 26 at this moment. Mainly on the ResinOS based devices (downloaded images flashed on SD-cards for e.g., Pi’s). Generic Linux users could simply mount volumes or network shares into the /shares/ folder to expose this extra storage space to the add-on.

If i mount my media to the “share” folder (“/shares”) is not available by default they are not visible within Plex. I tried mount --bind and symlink. None of them can be seen by Plex. Any idea?
Or is my mistake in using the /share folder?

(/usr/share/hassio/share)

[KookieMonster]

Hey @frenck… great addon m8!!

Is it possible to have this working with the Plex (media player) Component? Somehow my HA fails to find it and trigger the configurator. I have GDM enabled and custom URL set.

Thanks in advance.

[frenck (Franck Nijhof)]

Release v1.0.0

The add-on has been running perfectly since its intial release, and is now STABLE!!!

Full Changelog

Changed

• Upgrades hadolint to latest
• Upgrades base image to v2.1.0
• Sets default Shell
• Less aggressive cleanup
• Upgrades Plex Media Server to 1.13.5.5291
• Updates README and links
• Marks add-on stable

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[Prathik_Gopal]

Hey Frenck,
Im still seeing this error on the logs and it just wont start

INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server

[frenck (Franck Nijhof)]

That is not how it should be!

I’m sorry. Could you provide me some details?
Right after starting the add-on, a banner will be show, which includes all kinds of system/version information. Will you please share that with me?

[Prathik_Gopal]

This is what i get when it starts.

[s6-init] making user provided files available at /var/run/s6/etc...exited 0.
[s6-init] ensuring user provided files have correct perms...exited 0.
[fix-attrs.d] applying ownership & permissions fixes...
[fix-attrs.d] done.
[cont-init.d] executing container initialization scripts...
[cont-init.d] 00-banner.sh: executing... 
-----------------------------------------------------------
 Hass.io Add-on: Plex Media Server v1.0.0
 Recorded media, live TV, online news, and podcasts ready to stream.
 From: Community Hass.io Add-ons
 By: Franck Nijhof <[email protected]>
-----------------------------------------------------------
 aarch64 / HassOS 1.9 / HA 0.76.0 / SU 126 / stable
-----------------------------------------------------------
[cont-init.d] 00-banner.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] 01-log-level.sh: executing... 
Log level is set to INFO
[cont-init.d] 01-log-level.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] 02-updates.sh: executing... 
INFO: You are running the latest version of this add-on
[cont-init.d] 02-updates.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] 10-first-run.sh: executing... 
[cont-init.d] 10-first-run.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] 20-webtools.sh: executing... 
[cont-init.d] 20-webtools.sh: exited 0.
[cont-init.d] done.
[services.d] starting services
[services.d] done.
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server

[frenck (Franck Nijhof)]

@Prathik_Gopal I’ve just noticed you are the same guy that opened the GitHub issue 5 days ago. That issue is still open right? So why push this issue in here as well?

[Prathik_Gopal]

yes i thought you fixed it in this release, it appears not.

[frenck (Franck Nijhof)]

I would have closed the issue on GitHub and you would have known before the release.

[Prathik_Gopal]

oh ok, im not active on github as i am here. i just loaded the update and posted that. sorry to post here as well, i thought it was fixed.

[frenck (Franck Nijhof)]

Release v1.0.1

Full Changelog

Changed

• Upgrades base image to v2.1.1

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[pixeldublu]

is it possible to use an external usb storage to stream ?

[Eskimos (Martin)]

Hi guys,

I have found something like this:

ContainX/docker-volume-netshare

Would it be helpful to get access to external drives? I am not good at docker so you may to decide, please.

[Eskimos (Martin)]

I just installed on odroid c2 on armbian, docker, hassio and now addo plex and it does not start:

             aarch64 / Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) / HA 0.78.1 / SU 131 / stable
    -----------------------------------------------------------
    [cont-init.d] 00-banner.sh: exited 0.
    [cont-init.d] 01-log-level.sh: executing... 
    Log level is set to INFO
    [cont-init.d] 01-log-level.sh: exited 0.
    [cont-init.d] 02-updates.sh: executing... 

    INFO: You are running the latest version of this add-on
    [cont-init.d] 02-updates.sh: exited 0.
    [cont-init.d] 10-first-run.sh: executing... 
    [cont-init.d] 10-first-run.sh: exited 0.
    [cont-init.d] 20-webtools.sh: executing... 
    [cont-init.d] 20-webtools.sh: exited 0.
    [cont-init.d] done.
    [services.d] starting services
    [services.d] done.
    INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
    ./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
    INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
    ./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory
    INFO: Starting the Plex Media Server
    ./run: line 18: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server: No such file or directory

Strange I checked and indeed not such directory? This supouse to be a docker container so what went wrong?

[ywtstewart (Jay)]

This super nice! Just one thing plex is now up to 1.13.8.5395. How do I update this add-on?

[frenck (Franck Nijhof)]

@ywtstewart

This super nice! Just one thing plex is now up to 1.13.8.5395.

The latest version of the add-on is already running that version.
It should be available as an add-on update in Hass.io.

[frenck (Franck Nijhof)]

Release v1.1.0

Updated release, with the latest and greatest Plex Media Server.
Unfortunately, I had to drop support for 64 bits HassOS (aarch64).

Full Changelog

Changed

• Adds Hassio API security role
• Changed past to paste (#9) (@dayofdoom)
• Upgrades base image to v2.2.0
• Removes support for arm64/aarch64
• Upgrades Plex Media Server to 1.14.0.5470

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[dwinnn]

Woohoo! Once I setup Hass.io as a VM and free up some disk space, I’ll be sure to check this out.

[frenck (Franck Nijhof)]

Release v1.1.1

Full Changelog

Changed

• Upgrades Plex Media Server to 1.14.1.5488
• Limit supported machines (#10) (@HoppingMonk)

Questions? Join our Discord server! https://discord.me/hassioaddons
Enjoying my add-ons? Consider supporting my work: https://patreon.com/frenck or https://buymeacoff.ee/frenck