How To: Create Plex Media Server on TrueNAS / FreeNAS to watch your media ANYWHERE
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This tutorial goes over how to setup a Plex Media Server on TrueNAS CORE. This allows you to easily watch all of the media stored on your TrueNAS server from anywhere! It has an awesome user interface which makes watching your messy library incredibly easy.
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Great Video,Thank you so much
What we're gonna go ahead and do is what we're gonna go ahead and do :D Just joking around. Appreciate this video very helpful!
Great help thanks
Great video, helped me complete my first TrueNas Core, driven very well by an Intel i5 12400. All NVMe Gen 4 build, it flies and the 10GbE Chelsio cards are easily saturated. The problems began with my QNAP 672XT's jealousy. I call her Q-Queen, and, well, I hate to brag, but she LOVES me. The cost of that LOVE, is, like anything else that looks good but makes you bleed financially, is that it requires attention. As I crafted my TrueNas box, I could hear the 6 Ironwolf Pro drives in the Qnap beginning to grind, and head slap. Imperceptible at first, but then the temps went way up, and files began to disappear. For those unfamiliar, this Qnap model has speakers in it, and I could swear, as I fondled the TrueNAS in my other server room, the QNAP was screaming "F You A-Hole" over its tinny voice! One night, I slept with the TrueNAS. It just...happened. As I got up to make my new love a cup of coffee (I call her TrueDatNasUp), the QNAP flung one of the piddly NVMe cache drives at me. It flew 25 ft. She looked, MAD. Where once she was simple, and rectangular, her veins bulged and pulsed with IOPs. This QNAP was trying to hurt me. Long story short, I bought a new house, smashed the QNAP to pieces with a sledgehammer and an axe.
I find myself looking around though, in data centers. Hell hat no fury like a NAS scorned.
I had to read the entire thing.
DHCP does not WORK!!!!!!!
Really appreciate all your great context. This could do with an update now that Plex is in "Apps"
Hoping I could get some help. Complete noob when it comes to any of this stuff haha.
When I try installing I get this Error:
Plex had a failure Exception: RuntimeError Message: + Acquiring DHCP address: FAILED, address received: ERROR, check jail logs Stopped Plex due to DHCP failure Partial plugin destroyed
Any help would be much appreciated!
I still haven't heard one good reason to install this thing on a home NAS. My TrueNAS NFS shares are available to every node on the LAN, so access isn't an issue; neither my 'smart TV' nor my phone has ever had a problem with file playback from attached storage when offline (VLC for Android is solid, and all my IoT devices are kept isolated on a separate physical network). Plex seems like another 'solution in search of a problem.' This is all apart from the obvious security question: why would I want to expose my media archive to 3rd party snoop-ware? Plex is giving me a slick GUI and pretty thumbnail icons for my movie titles, but what am I giving Plex?
I have come to the conclusion that TrueNas Scale is still amateur hour. Brand new truenas environment on some older equipment, as I wanted to give it a try. Plex simply will not go out of "Deploying" status. I've recreated the dataset for application storage many times, tried different pathing options within plex, no luck, nothing changes.
I have no idea where you live but when I listen to you all I can think of is SNL "The Californians". lol Your videos are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
How would you setup this method for other plugins? Like qBittorrent? I installed it, Added the mount point, configured the permissions. But when I tested downloading a file. It only shows within the jail space not my TrueNAS volume.
I added some sub-directories to my media mainly for Movies, TVShow and Music. took a second to figure out how to change the mount points in the jail so that Plex sees them.... just add them by typing the name in on the destination path... duh. Plex will create the sub-directories and when you restart the jail you will now be able to map to the different things in Plex :)
hope this helps others
Life saver! Would have never figured it out. I just blindly put the destination to the media folder, and figure out why my all my dvds are showing up instead of a folder to mount.
great video, but im trying now 2 days and watched other vids and i run always against this problem Error: plex had a failure Exception: RuntimeError Message: pkg error: - ffmpeg : Refusing to fetch artifact and run post_install.sh! Partial plugin destroyed do you have another solution??
Getting the same error - the forums say that Plugins End of Life will be 2025 and TrueNas Core doesn’t support it anymore
What I would love to see is a setup, "for dummies".. Complete step by step.. adding people, how to access the files.. What you can and can't do.. Like watch videos you may have on one of the hard drives, view pictures and so on.. To many you tubers expect people to be very computer savvy, most people, know enough to shop, go to social media and that's about it...
Yeah I have been meaning to!
@@SpaceRexWill Nice, I had a bit of a hard time, when I set mine up, I am very good with computers, but knew nothing about a server or NAS, I had to watch dozens of video's and a call to Geek Squad, LOL There isn't any video's that I seen that goes into step by step detail.. Sadly there are those (many many) that are unsure or not confident to venture alone... How things are going now, that would get an amazing amount of view's, for the reason I said, it will be like someone holding their hands.. It would probably have to been done in a several part series though, Cause it would be hard to put that much info in a short video.. I believe you are the one who can do it, I have found all your video's informative and very helpful.
I am also just moving from whs 2011 to truenas and every video seems to do a different set up and would love a you can do this/don’t do this dummies set up video
I am not able to create the plug-in and encountered this error: (Jail cannot be created). Help! Anyone?
Error: MyJail had a failure Exception: RuntimeError Message: No default interface found Partial plugin destroyed
Same issue for me... were you able to get this resolved?
I tried this but I cant point Plex server to a folder in my dataset with my movies in it.
It gave me an error on the instaallation related to my dhcp configuration
Great tutorial!
What was the url for the page with Server Setup?
Safari doesn't show it in the video and my Plex web portal just asks me to download Plex. I'm hitting it via the IP. I verified my account. I think my next step is to reboot my system.
Loved your video... you actually addressed the all permission part... 3rd video of yours I saw to solve the issue.. :)
Glad it helped!
I've been running Plex off of a windows 11 machine and just using my FreeNAS for file serving for several years now. I do GPU transcoding now but I was wondering, how good is the transcoding if I change over to CPU and host Plex from my FreeNAS machine since I can't put my GTX card in the server. I'd love to just simplify my environment thus why I'm looking into the change. If you were able to tell me how well Transcoding works from the CPU and FreeNAS, I'd really appreciate it.
Great Video. Simple in a kind of complex subject for rookies like me. I tried another video before and It didn't work well. Thanks a lot for taking the time to do these kind of videos. Congratulations
Omg thank you thank you thank YOUUU! I've been racking my brain for a week trying to figure out why my Plex server wouldn't see my media. It's because I created my pool long before I started looking and Plex plug-in setup tutorials. Your very quick mention of creating a data set as SMB vs the default completely enabled me to actually load media on my mini datacenter. You sir, have changed my life. Unfortunately I had to delete my data set to change it. I'm not good with the command line for TrueNAS jails and I was very tired of searching Google for one day.
i have a question
i just make new pool and copy my movies to the media
but my plex scan nothing
i try follow every step that u do
but its still the same result
Thank you!
can you watch media on two separate Rasbery pies at the same time?
Thanks my guy, my plex messed up for some reason and had to re install it, you tutorial really helped me out again.
You have helped us so much setting up our server, thank you so much!! VERY informative videos!!
Glad to help!
Would love is you could do this for the new Truenas scale
Gracias por los videos, son muy interesantes. Suscrito al canal para ver mas.
I get 972... but user not found in the ACL
THANK YOU! Adding the User 972 solved my problem of not being able to see my sub folders in Media on Plex. Spent hours trying to figure out why I couldn't see them.
Yeah! It’s weird the user is not just added in and visable
@@SpaceRexWill i have the same probleme i create the user 972 but steel the same ...
Pude configurar correctamente todo, gracias por el paso a paso
Can you please do one for truenas scale.
don't name your jail name plex for some reason bricks the install at 20%.
Good to know!
Will plex play better on freenas vs Windows? faster /better transcode etc?
Depends on the cpu wayyy more than anything
hey I have a problem and i can see you have it at 12:46 "Could not find a user name for this user ID." it don't allow my Plex access to the mount point and on Plex interface I can't access to the Media folder to create library, it's not the first tutorial i see and i can't find the solution.
So the same thing happened to me. Really it’s a warning rather than an error.
The UID will grant Plex access to the files. What you may need to click is “apply permissions recursively”
@@SpaceRexWill wow ok i have do that the first time i've retry to many times and now i have retry and it's work xD
so thanks you !
you have made a very good tutorial with a good mood and it's dynamic very good you stand out from the others i have discover you on this video i'll check your others !
Thanks again and have a good day ;)
It is good practice to store iocage on a separate SSD to take advantage of the speed SSD affords for your database and Metadata, and have it point to the actual media/data files on your RAIDZ pool.
Since its just running a program, not a full virtual machine this is no crucial as ZFS will quickly cache all the files Plex needs (very small) in ARC. Now obviously an SSD will always help but I would say adding more ram would help more dollar for dollar
ok now to just get this done :)
added bonus a guy who annunciates English properly.
Glad you like it!
This is a great how to. I have a particular need. I would like run the Plex on TrueNas but I want to point Plex to a Synology NAS holding my media. Can you explain how to do that?
I actually have the same setup. I created a Ubuntu VM and mounted the synology share over SMB
@@SpaceRexWill thank you. I am new to Linux so I will look up this up. I went with Oracle 8 on a recommendation and find it hard for beginners.
In my experience Ubuntu tends to be the most stable and has the most tutorials around for it. It’s a Debian distribution so it also has a ton of comparability.
Generally if there is a guide from a company they will have a Ubuntu version
Definitely the cutest geek on RUclips. Came for the tech, stayed for the adorable guy 😄
Make sure you "go ahead" folks... Are you paid by how many times you say it? - I found this video too annoying
What is it with american tutorials? The amount of "we are going to go ahead and... " is ridiculous .. he says it every second sentence
or what, you'll set the building on fire?
Great video. I have a question and a problem. Question: @ ~ 11:37 you identified plex's UID as 972 and @ ~12:40 you used this, but why didn't you just use user "plex" from the drop-down list?
Problem: Around 14:01 you identify the admin portal. My problem has 3 parts. (1) @ 13:17 you get the IP address of the PMS. In my case it's 172.xxx.x.x/30. (2) @ 14:03 you get the Admin Portal. In my case it's 192.xxx.xxx.xxx:32400/web. Is this normal that the PMS IP address and the Admin Portal are so completely different? (3) When I try to log into the Admin Portal by copying and pasting the URL, I get an error message: "This site can't be reached. 192.xxx.xxx.xxx refused to connect."
My router already uses two DHCP reservations for the two Ethernet ports of my TrueNAS server, and it reserves a third unique IP address for the Plex media server. But this third address is neither the reported 172. etc. of the PMS, nor is it the 192. etc. of the Admin Portal. Although the IP address for the PMS reserved at the router differs from the address reported for the Admin Portal only by the last triplet of the address.
I don't know where to begin troubleshooting this. Where should I start?
I know this is by far the better explained Plex Setups for TruNAS. the parts of the 972 user add was never explained in others videos. I now have my PLEX Server working well.
I have being waiting for an hour at installation is still on 20%...truenas forums have being useless..any idea what is wrong?