Plex plugin vs manually installing port/pkg in 11.2?

[EvanVanVan]

In FreeNAS 9.10 I manually installed/updated Plex from ports (and later from pkgs) because the 9.10 Plex plugin was supposedly slow to update. Is that less of an issue in 11.2? Right now I see the plugin is only a version behind the newest freshports release and that newest port was only released 4 days ago. Should I just install the plugin and be done with it? Or will a manual installation/updating still be preferable? I'm not worried about being a few weeks behind, but if the plugin were to be months (and many versions) behind it would be worth it imo.

Thank you

 

[danb35]

It's less of an issue, but (IMO) the plugin remains pretty much pointless. Installing Plex in a jail takes a grand total of three commands: pkg install plexmediaserver; sysrc plexmediaserver_enable=YES; service plexmediaserver start. Replace plexmediaserver with plexmediaserver-plexpass if desired. Those commands do everything the plugin would do. The hard part (which isn't really hard, but it seems that many folks have problems with it) is setting up the storage mountpoints and permissions appropriately. The plugin doesn't help you there.

 

[Yorick]

Don't you need ffmpeg, as well?

 

[danb35]

If it's needed, the Plex package will pull it in--but I don't think it is.

 

[Velcade]

It's less of an issue, but (IMO) the plugin remains pretty much pointless. Installing Plex in a jail takes a grand total of three commands: pkg install plexmediaserver; sysrc plexmediaserver_enable=YES; service plexmediaserver start. Replace plexmediaserver with plexmediaserver-plexpass if desired. Those commands do everything the plugin would do. The hard part (which isn't really hard, but it seems that many folks have problems with it) is setting up the storage mountpoints and permissions appropriately. The plugin doesn't help you there.

I kept having issues with the plugin. Then I just created a jail for plex and used the shell to install plex as danb describes here. It worked great. There are youtube vidoes using the shell to install plex. It's pretty straight forward.

 

[Yorick]

PSA: Creating a jail from UI in 11.2-U3 currently fails. Workaround:

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For those that need to create/edit a jail in the meantime before 11.2-U4 gets released, you can modify the minified JS in situ within @/usr/local/www/webui@. The code isn't obfuscated so it's just a case of finding each reference to @'hostid_strict_check'@ under the @this.YNFields@ array and moving it into the @this.OFfields@ array (and then reloading your browser).
Or else use the iocage command directly...
>>

 

[Jailer]

Or you could just create it from the CLI.