I’d like to see an additional update.plex_{servername} sensor to track the Plex Media Server version and whether there are updates available.
I don’t think the integration can update the server can it?
lot better and easier to use the automatic script to update Plex Server when new updates 
GitHub - mrworf/plexupdate: Plex Update script to simplify the life of Linux Plex Media Server users. Use it since years here without any problems 
Tautulli also supports notifications on new updates. GitHub - Tautulli/Tautulli: A Python based monitoring and tracking tool for Plex Media Server.
I’m not looking to update the server, just to see if an update is available, or if the server is already up-to-date. I’ve already written a plexup script to automate the update itself over an ssh connection.
vincen, would you be able to tell me how to install this on my HAos running on my Lenovo T520? plex keeps telling me “Please install manually.” and I do not even know how to do that. 
Would love to have it automatically install the Plex server updates!
This exists today. Look for an update.plex_media_server_* entity. It will show you the release notes and will allow you to trigger an update on supported platforms (I think only Windows and NAS builds).
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Sorry but don’t use anymore Plex since a while, switched to a better and open-source tool Emby
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Where did you access that? 
That doesn’t look like the correct entity as it’s provided by “Home Assistant Supervisor”. It should be provided by the “Plex Media Server” integration:
It appears you’re running Plex as an HA Supervisor plugin, which has its own update entity (I don’t use Supervisor myself, so I’m guessing).
But there still does not seem to be a way to update it. there is just a “Skip” button at the bottom?
That’ll likely be because it’s obviously easy to update an add-on, you are just fetching the latest docker image. But actually updating the server itself via a web request is only possible on certain installations. Linux generally does not support the ability to tell plex to update, you have to update it manually (which is why the majority of us run the automation plexupdate.sh script)
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I will search and see if I can find said script. Thank you.
This one.
I haven’t manually updated my server in 2 years now…
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Thanks for the link, I had stumbled upon that over the last couple days. Does that also work on a HAos where I am running mine? It mentions Linux thus my confusion.
No if you are running Plex on HA OS - then you can update directly from the plex update sensor which is automatically provided by the add-on.
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