README.md

Installation guide for Plex Media Server on Turris Omnia

WIP version

Overview

The installation consists of these steps:

1. Create Debian LXC container
2. Simple Debian configuration
3. Install Plex Media Server
4. Connect to CIFS

1. Create Debian LXC container

Official Manual

lxc-create -t download -n Debian

• Distribution: Debian
• Release: Jessie
• Architecture: armv7l

2. Simple Debian configuration

Connect to container:

lxc-attach -n Debian

Change hostname (for eg. Debian):

nano /etc/hostname

Set new hostname to localhost:

nano /etc/hosts

And add this line (for Debian as hostname):

127.0.1.1   Debian

Install packages:

apt-get install git-core openssh-server rsync sudo fakeroot cifs-utils -y

Create your user (eg. petr):

adduser petr

Run visudo commnad and add:

petr ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Log to your user using SSH or sudo:

sudo su petr

3. Install Plex Media Server

Add repository

echo "deb http://dl.bintray.com/tproenca/pmsarm7 jessie main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pms.list

Fix for automatic start:

sudo touch /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/start.sh

Install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver

4. Connect to CIFS

Write down plex user id (uid):

id -u plex

Create empty folder for mount:

mkdir -p /media/video

Add mount to /etc/fstab (set uid from plex user)

//192.168.1.10/video /media/video cifs uid=107,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8 0 0

For more about CIFS mount

Credits

Plex Media Server ARM package for Debian/Ubuntu Linux