Hey thanks, this video helped me a lot. Just a quick note to those who are struggling, like me, to get an external HDD to show content in plex: The latest raspberry pi OS will auto mount the external drive so you don't have to mess with that, all you have to do is give it permissions using the same commands "sudo chmod 777 /media" , "sudo chmod 777 /media/pi" , "sudo chmod 777 /media/pi/Storage_1" After doing this, plex can see all the videos on my ext hdd.
Please, please. NEVER use 777 as rights. At least use 755 or 775 so you don't give write access to any willy nilly user on your machine. Use 777 is a great advice if one will lower the security on your machine. You should always be as restrictive as you can about access to any resource. Like network access and file access. Because is safer to add access when needed then to specifically remove access later. And I DO recommend not to use the magic octal numbers for access. Use the names and groups. - 'u' : user (owner of the file) access rights - 'g': group (that that also own the file) access rights - 'o': other (that doesn't belong to u nor g) access rights - '+': add named rights - '-': remove named rights - '=': set and remove rights in one go. - 'r': read access right - 'w': write access right - 'x': executable right (run as command for files and read content in directories). chmod ug+w file.txt # give write access to user and group chmod a+r file.txt # give read access for all (that is to user, group, other) chmod o-w file.txt # remove write access for other chmod go=r file.txt # give only read access to group and other chmod u=rwx file.txt. # give only read, write and execute access to user of the file. (can be changed to u=a) So use chgrp(1) command to change to the right group to the directory in your home folder. `chgrp -R group directory` when you change group and directory to the right values (the user that plex run as, and the library that Plex should have access to).
Really like your presentation method , and also the time pause for reading the info . I am leaning more toward the Ubuntu , since I use it now and for an older guy the memory aspects have added some challenges , well, we do what we need to do to make it work for us. I am hoping to try to get some notes on the vids but if I can download portions of your vids I can replay those. . . hmmm
im struggling at server installation. Once i download the distribution and click on the file it does not install, but opens the file? Do I need some sort of installer first to install the downloaded distribution?
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Hey thanks, this video helped me a lot.
Just a quick note to those who are struggling, like me, to get an external HDD to show content in plex:
The latest raspberry pi OS will auto mount the external drive so you don't have to mess with that, all you have to do is give it permissions using the same commands "sudo chmod 777 /media" , "sudo chmod 777 /media/pi" , "sudo chmod 777 /media/pi/Storage_1"
After doing this, plex can see all the videos on my ext hdd.
Nice, thanks very much for the quick assist! Works gr8!
Please, please. NEVER use 777 as rights. At least use 755 or 775 so you don't give write access to any willy nilly user on your machine. Use 777 is a great advice if one will lower the security on your machine.
You should always be as restrictive as you can about access to any resource. Like network access and file access. Because is safer to add access when needed then to specifically remove access later.
And I DO recommend not to use the magic octal numbers for access. Use the names and groups.
- 'u' : user (owner of the file) access rights
- 'g': group (that that also own the file) access rights
- 'o': other (that doesn't belong to u nor g) access rights
- '+': add named rights
- '-': remove named rights
- '=': set and remove rights in one go.
- 'r': read access right
- 'w': write access right
- 'x': executable right (run as command for files and read content in directories).
chmod ug+w file.txt # give write access to user and group
chmod a+r file.txt # give read access for all (that is to user, group, other)
chmod o-w file.txt # remove write access for other
chmod go=r file.txt # give only read access to group and other
chmod u=rwx file.txt. # give only read, write and execute access to user of the file. (can be changed to u=a)
So use chgrp(1) command to change to the right group to the directory in your home folder. `chgrp -R group directory` when you change group and directory to the right values (the user that plex run as, and the library that Plex should have access to).
YOU FUCKING FIXED IT FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 thank you bro : )
Really like your presentation method , and also the time pause for reading the info . I am leaning more toward the Ubuntu , since I use it now and for an older guy the memory aspects have added some challenges , well, we do what we need to do to make it work for us.
I am hoping to try to get some notes on the vids but if I can download portions of your vids I can replay those. . . hmmm
im struggling at server installation. Once i download the distribution and click on the file it does not install, but opens the file? Do I need some sort of installer first to install the downloaded distribution?
Open the downloads folder and right click on the downloaded file then properties then change open with to install packager
Always great information in your videos. 😎👍🔥
HEy! what terminal do you use?
Termius
Is pi 3b capable do these ?
Yes, but slower.
slower to transcode? or other type of slowlyness?@@AndersJackson