Raspberry PI 2 as a low powered Plex media Server
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The new Raspberry PI 2 is powerful enough that it can now be used as a Plex Media Server (this is for raspbian build).
see http://www.htpcguides.com/install-plex-media-server-on-raspberry-pi-2/
Very easy to do: just use instructions in section
"Install Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi 2 using Repository" (text follows)
I have put a number of video files (Mp4) on a 64 GB usb stick attached to the Pi 2 and I can access over my home network without any stuttering etc. I can even watch over the internet (quality limited by my pathetic upload speed) but still watchable on my mobile phone.
You need to make a change to enable transcoding and overcome an error message (don't think this is needed if you use directplay (eg MP4s).
I found transcoding a bit hit and miss. I prefer just to transcode all files to MP4 on my PC first.
Also got it to do some other things as well. So far it does:
1. google cloud print server
2. wifi
3. ssh/ftp/rdp servers
4. plex media server
5. samba shared folders
6. NAS (not very fast though - best speed 5-10 MB/s).
Awesome stuff for a tiny pc!
I am going to try and make the system dual boot (using berry boot) so I can also install the raspbmc OS (to run KODI).
PS: I know very little re linux but all above as easy to do (mostly just cut and pass commands from articles into pi command line). Thanks to all the unpaid "experts" out there who freel sahre their knowledge - worrhy of a DS gold star.
extract from htpcguide fro installing plexmedia server (commands in bold)
Enable https transport or you will get this error: E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https -y --force-yes
Grab uglymaoo’s gpg key for his repository
wget -O - https://dev2day.de/pms/dev2day-pms.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Add uglymagoo’s repository, you are probably still on the Raspbian wheezy but may be on jessie, if so change wheezy to jessie in the line below
echo "deb https://dev2day.de/pms/ wheezy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pms.list
Update your package lists
sudo apt-get update
Install Plex Media Server
sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver -y
When you know there is a new version of Plex Media Server you can upgrade with this command now
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Access Plex on your Raspberry Pi 2 at this URL, replace ip.address with your actual IP http://ip.address:32400/web
Skip down to the transcoding part and open this guide for forcing transcoding and fixing the ‘server is not powerful enough error’.
http://www.htpcguides.com/fix-plex-server-is-not-powerful-enough-on-raspberry-pi-2/
see http://www.htpcguides.com/install-plex-media-server-on-raspberry-pi-2/
Very easy to do: just use instructions in section
"Install Plex Media Server on Raspberry Pi 2 using Repository" (text follows)
I have put a number of video files (Mp4) on a 64 GB usb stick attached to the Pi 2 and I can access over my home network without any stuttering etc. I can even watch over the internet (quality limited by my pathetic upload speed) but still watchable on my mobile phone.
You need to make a change to enable transcoding and overcome an error message (don't think this is needed if you use directplay (eg MP4s).
I found transcoding a bit hit and miss. I prefer just to transcode all files to MP4 on my PC first.
Also got it to do some other things as well. So far it does:
1. google cloud print server
2. wifi
3. ssh/ftp/rdp servers
4. plex media server
5. samba shared folders
6. NAS (not very fast though - best speed 5-10 MB/s).
Awesome stuff for a tiny pc!
I am going to try and make the system dual boot (using berry boot) so I can also install the raspbmc OS (to run KODI).
PS: I know very little re linux but all above as easy to do (mostly just cut and pass commands from articles into pi command line). Thanks to all the unpaid "experts" out there who freel sahre their knowledge - worrhy of a DS gold star.
extract from htpcguide fro installing plexmedia server (commands in bold)
Enable https transport or you will get this error: E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https -y --force-yes
Grab uglymaoo’s gpg key for his repository
wget -O - https://dev2day.de/pms/dev2day-pms.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Add uglymagoo’s repository, you are probably still on the Raspbian wheezy but may be on jessie, if so change wheezy to jessie in the line below
echo "deb https://dev2day.de/pms/ wheezy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pms.list
Update your package lists
sudo apt-get update
Install Plex Media Server
sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver -y
When you know there is a new version of Plex Media Server you can upgrade with this command now
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Access Plex on your Raspberry Pi 2 at this URL, replace ip.address with your actual IP http://ip.address:32400/web
Skip down to the transcoding part and open this guide for forcing transcoding and fixing the ‘server is not powerful enough error’.
http://www.htpcguides.com/fix-plex-server-is-not-powerful-enough-on-raspberry-pi-2/
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If you're running Kodi on your client devices better to have them simply access a SMB share and remove Plex from the equation.
Use OpenELEC instead of Raspbmc.