Hi,
I just completed my first HAOS install, and everything went smoothly. I’ve added a couple of smart bulbs, and the basic setup seems to be working fine. Then I installed the Plex Media Server addon, and that also seemed to work fine. Added a network storage to HAOS for media, and transferred some shows and music for testing. I then set up the plex integration and added the relevant folders to the libraries. Everything seemed to work fine. Opening the plex webui from within HAOS works, and it is picked up as a client in the integration.
The problem is, I can’t connect to the libraries, or seemingly the local server at all, from any of the plex client apps. Plex on my android phone just says “No Local Libraries”. Plex on Android TV just gives me an exclamation mark in orange next to the “HomeAssistant” server. Plex for windows tells me I am unable to connect to the “HomeAssistant” server.
I can browse to plex on any device at 192.x:32400, and it works, and can from there access the HomeAssistant server’s library just fine. But not via any of the apps. I’ve tried uninstalling, re-installing, and manual installation in advanced mode with the IP custom set to 192.x instead of the 172.x that the normal integration does. Nothing seems to work, the android and windows clients cannot see or connect to the local server libraries. I do not believe that i have any firewalls on my router, or anyplace else except maybe my windows pc.
Any ideas on what i can check or try? I do wish there was a Jellyfin server addon. I am not quite ready to go down the proxmox/docker rabbithole, though i guess i’ll try if nothing else works.
Some tips and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Any other info i should be posting for assistance?
Man, what a mission. So, i am now up on the basics of proxmox, with a HAOS VM and a jellyfin lxc going. Finally. Figuring out mounting an SMB share to jellyfin from my laptop took a while.
Now i get to try to figure out how to pass my nucbox local 3.5mm audio output to HAOS for music assistant. The learning curve for this whole Home Assistant thing sure is a bit steeper than i expected…
Seems you’ve probably moved on, but did you follow this bit from the add-on instructions? I just setup the Plex addon a month or two ago and had it up and running without any issues in about 5 minutes.
Solving connection issues with Plex
Plex is pretty straightforward and pretty easy to set up. Most of the settings are detected automatically. Nevertheless, it fails to recognize its IP on your home network. This may cause connection issues with some Plex apps, e.g., the Samsung Tizen Plex app.
This is not Plex its fault but is because of the Docker ecosystem, in which this add-on runs. Luckily, there is an option in Plex to help with that, but it is a little hidden.
Login to the Plex web interface.
Goto setting.
Click the server tab.
On the left side, choose “Network”.
Be sure you are looking at the advanced view. There is a button “Show Advanced” in the top right.
Add your custom URLs to “Custom server access URLs” field.
The custom URLs are additional URLs Plex clients will use to try to connect to Plex. You can list multiple if you’d like, separated by a comma.
Man, this “simple setup” has turned into quite the deep dive. The home assistant VM seems fine. However, for some reason, I’m unable to upload media and just get a a fetch error. Not important.
My jellyfin lxc container seems fine, though i got a couple of random shows with zero episodes showing up that i can’'t delete. Probably a naming thing, i’ll check later. Now i’m fighting with Music Assistant. It doesn’t recognize my USB sound card as a media player. HA audio info shows it, and VLC can see it and i can choose it as an output there. Difficult to test on VLC because i can’t upload media. Adding network shares i’ll do later, trying that opened a whole other can of errors in the logs.
This is kinda more difficult than i was expecting.