PLEX media server

Kodi Add-ons
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It’s working great so far. Thanks again!

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Read through the github readme. Of course DISABLE the service first before update.

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So, disable the addon first and then just install more recent zip file over it?

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Yes. Disable first.

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Hey guys, how are you?

I’ve been trying to install this addon using the zip file from this link, but actually nothing happens…It doesn’t download or install anything.

And yes, before you ask, I know how to install an addon. I’ve been using KODI for a while.

Can anyone confirm this issue?

By the way, I’m running the latest CoreElec version on Odroid C2.

Thanks!

UPDATE: Nevermind, guys. Just did a restart and now it’s working perfectly fine!

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If you add my repository inside it has the plex media server addon updated for both x86_64 and arm

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cheers! upgrade worked well

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Hello, I have Plex Media Server installed on an odroid C2 working correctly, how do I install the update that I downloaded for Coreelec?

PlexMediaServer-1.15.6.1079-78232c603-armv7hf.spk

Thank you

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IMHO, an .spk file is a Synology package.

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My Plex media server says:
A new version of Plex Media Server is available for the CoreELEC server! 1.15.6.1079
download now

and that is the file that is downloaded

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You should ask @tnds82 for a regular update in his repository.
CoreELEC doesn’t maintain this repo.

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Just for info, I tend to play around, I just used the addon from the tnds82 & the server on my CE Mecool is showing up, along with my other servers, from my laptop.

I didn’t use docker.

I haven’t tried to play any movies.

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Not sure if you guys still here. So I installed the zip file as the add on and nothing happens. Shows that it’s installed and when I checked the running service add-ons it doesn’t show PMS. So as a test I installed emby and that shows. Can anyone tell me what I’m doing wrong and what I should do after installing the zip. Spent hours installing Plex on docker and failed quite well. So I guess I should go for the easier route. Thanks in advance.

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Hi I did what you did and I’m unable to find the external storage to add libraries. All my media is my external drive and I would like to add that. It would be great if you could tell me how to do that.

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I seem to recall that this bit was not intuitive but can’t remember the details. I’m on holiday this week and I’ll not be able to look this part up to remind myself until the weekend.

If no-one else has been able to tell you by then, I’ll come back to you with what I do to get it working. I can tell you that since I posted I’ve swapped my server over to Coreelec on S905 then onto Coreelec on N2 without any problems. Just wish I could remember the bit that’s stopping you.

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I’m home now @travissolaman and I’ve reminded myself. The first thing you need to do is go into the Plex server addon settings (My Add-ons> Services> Plex (LinuxServer.io). When you go into the settings, you’ll see that you map where your movies, Tv Shows and photos are. The defaults are to /storage/videos etc. Change them to var/media/whatever. In my case I’ve set them all to var/media/TOSHIBA EXT/Media cause that’s what my HDD is called and all my Media is in a directory called Media (wow that’s original). I set at this level because I have music directories on TOSHIBA EXT/Media that I wanted to add to plex and there’s no setting for music in the addon .

Once you’ve done that perhaps a reboot would be in order. After that, go to the plex webpage and when you go to add a library you should see the folders from your external hard disc if you look in “data” directory which will be about half way down the list on the right hand side of the screen that comes up when you click on Browse for Media.

Hope this helps. my second paragraph is a little vague as I can’t recreate your scenario - a server with no libraries but I think it was the steps from the first paragraph that was stopping you.

Let me know how you get on please.

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Thank you very much for the reply. Kinda figured that on my own, was kinda desperate. It was all good and working and it was great to be honest, until I installed plexkodiconnect. Why I need this is I would like to use kodi’s player for playing and not the official plex addon. Why I need this is my tv is roku and won’t support kodi so I have to use odroid n2 as the playback device as well. My housemate’s tv’s are android and got kodi so they don’t have the problem so the odrioid needs to be the server. So back to the problem, what happens is after a while maybe a day or so CoreElec crashes several times and goes into safe mode. Tried diffrent times and what I noticed is PKC shoes read I/O error and everything goes to hell. Not clear why this is happening. Sometimes not even that and things don’t play and I reboot and it voila, safemode after several reboot by itself. I’m at a point of giving up and moving on forget the dream of having a plex server. What do you think this causes? Thanks in advance, any help would be great. I’m sorry that I don’t have any logs because I’m not very familiar with kodi that much.

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Does Plex on CoreElec support hardware transcoding of movie files?

Thanks

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Sorry can’t help you with this @travissolaman because I only use the plex client from kodi.

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As far as I know @mr_Frodo, it does. That statement comes with a big HOWEVER. Transcoding takes a lot of processor power if it is to work on the fly. I doubt if it would work successfully on Coreelec’s range of devices. I’m not sure if the Odroid N2 would handle it so I’ll have to leave that to others with more experience to comment on.