i'm running the plex plugin on freenas 11.2-u7. i went through the normal plugin installation and everything is working fine except for one minor thing. in the freenas web gui, when i go to the list of installed plugins, the version that is shown for plex is N/A. the actual version, as reported by plex, is 1.18.2.2058. has anyone else seen this and is there a fix? also, will this prevent me from updating plex?
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Newer versions of Plex are only compatible with 11.3 Release. Your going to need to rebuild the jail with the 11.3 release version of Plex to update any farther. Might need to upgrade Freenas to 11.3 as well because I'm not sure you can get the Plex 11.3 Release version without upgraded FreeNas itself to 11.3
Can you explain this a bit more? I did upgrade FreeNAS to 11.3 and did an update on the plex jail and plugin and this is what i see:
Everything seem to be working just fine. Are you saying that i will not be able to update Plex any further?
Yes, your Plex is running on 11.2 RELEASE-p15 So your need to delete that jail and reinstall it using the 11.3-RELEASE. The 11.2 OS version will not let you upgrade to any newer Plex versions because they arent compatible with the new 11.3 OS version.
What is FrestPorts? I never had an issue reacquiring the metadata but it is a serious drag to re-organize everything time after time. Is there no easier way like installing the 11.3 plugin over the existing one?
Another user mentioned using this command, in a different thread, "iocage upgrade -r 11.3-RELEASE [jailname]" to upgrade each jail. I have not used that command because i didnt know about it. That may work to upgrade your plex to the newest release. FreshPorts are commonly used by many users here to install and update plex. Its command line updating through ssh if you know how to do that, its really pretty simple.
Depending on which version of Plex you have....
www.freshports.org
www.freshports.org
FreshPorts -- multimedia/plexmediaserver: Plex Media Server component
Plex Media Server is used to host the content and plugins that are then streamed to Plex Media Center and Plex mobile app clients, either on the same machine, the same local area network, or over the Internet. Content may be transcoded by the server before it's streamed in order to reduce...
FreshPorts -- multimedia/plexmediaserver-plexpass: Plex Media Server component
Plex Media Server is used to host the content and plugins that are then streamed to Plex Media Center and Plex mobile app clients, either on the same machine, the same local area network, or over the Internet. Content may be transcoded by the server before it's streamed in order to reduce...
Depending on which version of Plex you have....
FreshPorts -- multimedia/plexmediaserver: Plex Media Server component
Plex Media Server is used to host the content and plugins that are then streamed to Plex Media Center and Plex mobile app clients, either on the same machine, the same local area network, or over the Internet. Content may be transcoded by the server before it's streamed in order to reduce...
FreshPorts -- multimedia/plexmediaserver-plexpass: Plex Media Server component
Plex Media Server is used to host the content and plugins that are then streamed to Plex Media Center and Plex mobile app clients, either on the same machine, the same local area network, or over the Internet. Content may be transcoded by the server before it's streamed in order to reduce...
Interesting enough, my Plex version is same level as the one listed in 11.3
Nope. Just the regular version.
You will still need to upgrade plex to the 11.3 version because it will eventually stop updating. I only know this because there for a while, before i upgraded freenas to 11.3, the freshports i was using to update plex wouldnt let me because the OS version was not supported. BUT, i was not using the update button in the jail tab either.
Im pretty sure the updates that are done through the update button in your jail, only updates quarterly. So you will likely frequently have a "Update Available" warning in your Plex app, because Plex updates their versions every few weeks it seems.
Well, i did a test on the Nextcloud jail with the iocage upgrade command you mentioned earlier and that worked like a charm! I did encounter an issue with the installed Nextcloud plugin version being higher than the one from the 11.3 plugin but i managed to fix that afterwards.
Well, this was Nextcloud. Let's see if the Plex jail upgrades as easy.
Well, not so much luck with Plex today. I get an error that plex.json cannot be found in the .plugins directory. Having a look in that directory shows that they renamed the plugin to plexmediaserver.json
Seems to me that i will be forced to do a new install. Just out of curiousity, what is the best way and most futureproof way to reinstall?
I haven't made my mind up on this one. It seriously bothers me that i would need to do a all new install and configure my whole Plex interface once again. The jail upgrade should just work as it did with Nextcloud and i cannot think of any reason why it shouldn't? My currently Plex jail works fine with 11.3 and maybe i cannot update the Plex plugin anymore but actually, it works perfectly fine so what would be the point of doing so.
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