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Install Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi

1. run updates
   • sudo apt-get update
   • sudo apt-get upgrade
2. Possibly run dist upgrade
   • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
3. Install some dependencies
   • sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https -y --force-yes
4. Add a required auth key
   • wget -O - https://dev2day.de/pms/dev2day-pms.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
   • echo "deb https://dev2day.de/pms/ jessie main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pms.list
5. Update again
   • sudo apt-get update
6. Install the media server:
   • sudo apt-get install -t jessie plexmediaserver -y
7. Reboot:
   • sudo reboot
8. Configure server from web interface (another computer on the network would be best) by using port 32400 in url formatted like this:
   • hostname:32400/web

• Reference

Maintenance

The service is named plexmediaserver so you can use commands like

sudo service plexmediaserver start
sudo service plexmediaserver stop
sudo service plexmediaserver status

UFW Settings

1. Create file /etc/ufw/applications.d/plexmediaserver

2. insert Contents

   [PlexMediaServer]
   title=Plex Media Server
   description=This opens up PlexMediaServer for http (32400), upnp, and autodiscovery.
   ports=32469/tcp,32413/udp,1900/udp,32400/tcp,32412/udp,32410/udp,32414/udp

3. ufw allow plexmediaserver
4. ufw allow Samba

this document last modified: October 06 2017 21:42

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