New Plugin Available: Plex Media Server!

[ixion]

Anyone know if the 9.2.1 upgrade resolves the Plex plugin update?

I read in another thread that it is supposed to be fixed now. I haven't tested it. Would be good to hear from someone who has actually tested it.

 

[Magnus33]

Work been done on it to exclude the metadata and library's but the only true test is when a update comes out and wide range testing begins.

 

[Naesstrom]

Plex + Sickbeard + Couchpotato + Transmission rocks. Also love Trakt.tv integration for Sickbeard so you don't need to remote into your freeNAS, just go to trakt.tv and add new shows to your watchlist.

Have you found a way to add the trakt plugin to the PMS to?

 

[adrianwi]

Bug report suggests they didn't get to the bottom of this so I'm holding fire for the time being. Too much of a ball ache rebuilding plex database even though it only takes a few minutes to delete and reinstall the jail.

 

[Skyfox]

I'm after updating the PLEX plugin too, but last time I had to rebuild my plex database and re-apply all the changes I had made. Do you know if it's possible to backup the database, update Plex and then reapply the backed up database? Or is that just asking for trouble?

 

[crumbz]

New version of plexmediaserver (0.9.9.2.374) at http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/plexmediaserver/

 

[cyberjock]

So we're only 2 or 3 version behind now? LOL

 

[benamira]

We will see with the next release of PMS...
Fingers crossed, as i have rebuilt all my library... ;)

 

[Magnus33]

So we're only 2 or 3 version behind now? LOL

At this rate there going to be issues with the client and the outdated plex server if things get too far apart.

 

[kckopp]

So we're only 2 or 3 version behind now? LOL

Fill me in. On FreshPorts I find that the FreeNAS Team is only one version behind (0.9.8.18.290), and the latest (0.9.9.2.374) was only released 2/10.

I do see that FreshPorts had three 0.9.8.18.290 builds but the later two appear to have fixed build issues that, at least in my environment, had not caused problems in FreeNAS.

Moreover, it appears all public PMS builds at https://plex.tv/downloads are still at 0.9.8.18.290.

FreeNAS Team have an open feature request, https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/4211, for the latest from FreshPorts and I expect that they'll have it rolled out in good time.

Are you not installing from the port anyway? If you want PBI faster, could you build for us?

Anyway, I give my thanks to the FreeNAS Team! I am happy to have my PMS running on my FreeNAS instead of a separate Ubuntu box as I had prior to them releasing PMS PBI.

 

[ixion]

Good to know. I'll wait then.But just out of curiosity - what is the command that can tell me how big my plex database is?

Try this, replace <your zpool> with your pool name:

Code:

du -ch -d 1 /mnt/<your zpool>/jails/plexmediaserver_1/usr/pbi/plexmediaserver-amd64/plexdata

 

[cyberjock]

I don't do plex as a plugin, so I can't provide a PBI faster and I don't do PBI generation. Not really interesting to me since I could do my own intalls from pkg or ports far faster. And there's guides around for doing plex in those methods if you are interested.

 

[crumbz]

I don't do plex as a plugin, so I can't provide a PBI faster and I don't do PBI generation. Not really interesting to me since I could do my own intalls from pkg or ports far faster. And there's guides around for doing plex in those methods if you are interested.

I'm interested :)

 

[cyberjock]

Interested in a PBI or a guide? Both already exist in the forums. ;)

 

[kckopp]

I don't do plex as a plugin, so I can't provide a PBI faster and I don't do PBI generation. Not really interesting to me since I could do my own intalls from pkg or ports far faster. And there's guides around for doing plex in those methods if you are interested.

Why complain about PMS PBI update speed then? You already have a method to install PMS updates more quickly.

 

[cyberjock]

I think you answered your own question with what you quoted....

I don't do plex as a plugin

AKA I don't use Plex on FreeNAS.. at all! I never complained about the slowness of updates. I was simply commenting above that I thought we were 2 or 3 releases behind.

 

[GaiusBaltar]

I'm with kckopp on this. yes, i hope that the Plex PBI gets updated as soon as new versions of Plex are released. but that said, even though there's a new FreeBSD port build on freshports, I'd rather wait for official, public builds from Plex (which is still currently sitting at 9.8.18.290 for all supported systems) before we get a PBI update.
Is that line of thinking not correct?

 

[cyberjock]

IMO there's many ways to think about this:

1. Keep up with the PBI. Your ability to stay up to date will be limited to if a PBI is released.
2. Use pkg, and then you'll be able to stay up to date based on who has provided the pkg files. This is more likely to be up to date than #1.
3. Compile your own versions from whatever source you want. This is obviously the "most" up to date because it assumes that the only reason you aren't the most up to date is laziness. ;)

I'll never do Plex on #1 because I like the bleeding edge stuff with regards to Plex. I also have a Plexpass account. I'm also fairly certain the PBI is not for the Plexpass version, and Plexpass versions are literally updated almost weekly.

I'm also somewhat expecting that #2 won't be the Plexpass version, so that's not a good choice if I want to use my paid-for version.

I've already got a working Plex server, so spending the time trying to do #3 is really not worth my time.

Now, if/when the PBI is surely on the latest versions, and is never more than 24-48 hours behind and easy to upgrade without an incident, then it *might* be worth my time to try it. Right now I have a server I can keep up to date very easily on my own, has never had a problem with upgrades(they take a whole 30 seconds.. literally), and has performed as well as I have needed it for. Until then, I'll stick with a separate Plex server. ;)

 

[crumbz]

I can see your point GaiusBaltar, but even if the plugin maintainer decides to update the plugin to the latest version from FreshPorts, you can still decide not to upgrade, or wait.

I'd like the option to upgrade though.

 

[mstinaff]

To throw my 2 cents in.

I run the plex plugin (two copies actually) and when the plex pass bsd version is updated I download it and replace the plexmediaserver binary folder like this:

Code:

# cd /usr/pbi/plexmediaserver-amd64/share/
# wget http://address.copied.from.plex.pass.bsd.download.link
# tar -xjvf ./PlexMediaServer-0.9.downloaded.version.tar.bz2
# service plexmediaserver stop
# mv ./plexmediaserver/ ./plexmediaserver.old/
# mv ./PlexMediaServer-0.9.downloaded.version/ ./plexmediaserver/
# service plexmediaserver start

I've been doing this for some time now and have not had any trouble with this method.

Take with grain of salt. Always back up your data. Get regular exercise. Call you mother.