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1. FREENAS PLEX MEDIA SERVER SETUP HOW TO
2. FREENAS PLEX MEDIA SERVER SETUP MOVIE
3. FREENAS PLEX MEDIA SERVER SETUP INSTALL
4. FREENAS PLEX MEDIA SERVER SETUP UPDATE

FREENAS PLEX MEDIA SERVER SETUP HOW TO

This tutorial goes over how to setup a Plex Media Server on TrueNAS CORE. Please help me with this, Ive searched everywhere I can think of for answer to this everything keeps coming back to plex with plexpass. I have ran plex on my freenas server for years and had an older version of. I want the standard version of plex media server from freenas 11.2, without plexpass and all the "garbage" that installs with it I do want to be able to create create my libraries and have metadata downloaded for them I do not want any streaming services from plex I do not want outside access to my server freenas plex remote access Navigate to Plugins, select PlexMediaServer and hit. Now that I have upgraded to FreeNAS 11.3-U3.2, I am now forced to use the Plex Media Server-PlexPass, now my media server looks like Im running Netflix or some other streaming service.

FREENAS PLEX MEDIA SERVER SETUP MOVIE

I only want to access my media from my local network, I do not want anyone/anything access to media from outside my network, I do not want streaming video/tv/ads movie clips and I specifically do not want Plex to "host my server". I could save my media to libraries and plex would download appropriate metadata for each library. I had FreeNAS 11.2 installed with a standard version of plex media server it did not have plexpass or any of the garbage that installs with it, I reconnect to the web interface of Plex running on my FreeNAS box, and I see the latest version up and running.This might be a little long and may be asked before, this is my first post here so please forgive me.

FREENAS PLEX MEDIA SERVER SETUP UPDATE

pkg update to download the latest database of available packages.service plexmediaserver stop to halt the old running Plex.Once that occurred, I opened a shell window into the FreeBSD jail running Plex and issued the following commands: With this type of docker networking, the Plex Media Server is essentially behind two routers and it cannot automatically setup port forwarding on its own.

After waiting a day or two, the update propagated to FreshPorts. Apparently it checks for updates periodically and notifies me when one is available. The first notification was from my home Plex media server. I didn’t know how upgrades would work until I needed to perform one, so it’s just a waiting game for a new version of Plex to be released and see how things propagate. I was then able to enjoy my home Plex media server for a few weeks.

Copy-pasting the commands worked as advertised and everything was fairly painless.

FREENAS PLEX MEDIA SERVER SETUP INSTALL

The install process also ended with a few paragraphs of instructions on how to configure Plex to automatically start every time that instance of FreeBSD (in my case, the FreeBSD Jail) boots up. How To Install Plex Media Server on FreeNAS Hey FreeNAS folks, Heres a support articlefrom the Plex Team on how to install Plex as a plugin in FreeNAS 11.3 or newer. Plus, if this goes well, it would be a one-time cost.Īfter the FreeBSD jail was set up, I opened a shell window into it and typed pkg install plexmediaserver which thankfully took care of downloading and installing all the binaries. I had to manually create the FreeBSD Jail running on my FreeNAS box, which was harder than the built-in plug-in version but was not horrible. When I found out Plex media server is also offered as part of the FreeBSD Ports and Packages Collection (tracked via “ FreshPorts“) I hoped that might be a much better way to go. In order to update, Google found manual instructions that were… well, let’s just call them ‘nontrivial’. (Either it is hard to find, or that it doesn’t exist, it’s not user-friendly either way.) The version of Plex media server I received using the default plug-in installation process was several versions out of date and it looked like I was pretty stuck. One problem I had with the FreeNAS plug-in architecture is the lack of a user-friendly update system. To access additional Plex configurations, such as media setup, you must access the Plex web interface, as explained in Step 4 of this guide.