Home Assistant Community Add-on: Plex Media Server

frenck · August 10, 2019, 10:25am

Release v2.1.2

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Changes

Upgrades add-on base image to v3.1.4
Upgrades Plex to 1.16.4.1469

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Underknowledge · August 12, 2019, 7:27pm

updated and now getting.
An error occurred loading items to play.
Ideas how to get it working again?

back in 02.18 some plex user had an simalar issue with an update

just started poking around with docker exec -it addon_a0d7b954_plex /bin/bash

easy to fix with restoring an backup

frenck · August 23, 2019, 10:17pm

Release v2.1.3

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Upgrades add-on base image to v3.2.0
Upgrades Plex Media Server to 1.16.5.1488

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lbouriez · September 7, 2019, 6:34pm

Why don’t you add the possibility to mount external folder from a NAS for example in the conf of the addon.
Addinig new parameters in the hassio conf and then mounting the folders in the /share via the plex.sh file.

frenck · September 22, 2019, 12:42pm

Release v2.2.0

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Upgrades add-on base image to v4.0.0
Upgrades uuid-runtime to 2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.4
Removes unneeded access to config folder
Upgrades Plex Media Server to 1.17.0.1709

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ciB · September 25, 2019, 7:59pm

+1 for the possibility to mount a network drive

frenck · September 25, 2019, 8:00pm

Sorry,

I’m not adding that to the add-on, that is going to be a pain. IMHO this should be an Hassio feature.

frenck · October 22, 2019, 6:58pm

Release v2.2.1

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Upgrades Plex Media Server to 1.18.1.1973

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Purejet · October 23, 2019, 12:44pm

I think it is possible to link when using hassio inside docker. Create a docker volume which points to an host-mounted smb/cifs share under raspbian. Or using a plugin such as: http://netshare.containx.io/

th3dll · October 29, 2019, 9:41pm

Did you find a solution to this? I’ve tried the bind and symlinks also and struggling to make this happen. I’d really love to run Plex as an add-on, but I can never get access to my files when I run it in the add-on. The solution isn’t straightforward in the available documentation.

th3dll · November 4, 2019, 6:26pm

@Purejet or anyone else getting frustrated with mounting and it under /usr/share/hassio/share and files not appearing in the docker container. I finally had success after adding my video mount to /etc/fstab and rebooting. I could always see my files in the host under my mount, but they would never appear within the docker container. I’m not a docker guru, but I’m guessing it grabs all mount associations at startup. I’m running on an Ubuntu 18.04 running docker. YMMV.

dwinnn · November 4, 2019, 6:32pm

I use the local-persist plugin for Docker to mount my USB HD across multiple containers and it works well once you set it up. I use Portainer to edit each container’s config to include the persistent volume. Works with Plex, though I opted to use the official Plex container here

ciB · November 6, 2019, 6:13pm

Nice. Can you also confirm that this works with the Hassio-Addon?

dwinnn · November 6, 2019, 8:06pm

I don’t know if it works with the Hassio addon, but it works with the Plex container I use. You can use Portainer to edit the Plex Hassio addon and include the persistent volume. The Volume settings for my Plex container looks like this (‘media’ is the persistent volume):

I can’t promise it’ll work, but I can confirm it works using Plex’s official Docker container.

frenck · December 4, 2019, 12:03pm

Release v2.2.2

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Upgrades add-on base image to v4.0.2
Upgrades Plex Media Server to 1.18.3.2111

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hicling · December 24, 2019, 11:38am

Hi maybe dumb question but.

How do i access my media folder from my NAS? cant figure out how to use the /share folder

I have installed this addon on a hassio rassperrypi

frenck · December 24, 2019, 12:40pm

If you are running HassOS, there is no option to mount those folders from remote systems.

hicling · December 24, 2019, 1:07pm

alright I see

frenck · January 5, 2020, 9:13pm

Release v2.2.3

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Updates maintenance/license year to 2020
Funding adjustments
Fixes some spelling and grammar
Upgrades add-on base image to v4.0.3
Upgrades Plex Media Server to 1.18.3.2156
Adjust add-on installation instructions

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frenck · January 9, 2020, 11:52am

Release v2.2.4

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Upgrades Plex Media Server to 1.18.4.2171

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