Follow these steppes in the order i put them "top to bottom" and you will successfully be able to install Plex on a zyxel linux based system such as the zyxel325_v2
- Create a text file called web_prefix and put this to the first line: ftp://ftp.zyxel-tech.de/, then remove .txt from the file before putting it into the directory.
- Move the text file to the NAS, to directory /admin/zy-pkgs (zy-pkgs subdirectory in the admin share)
- Refresh the package list on the administrator web interface. FFP will show up, but you won’t be able to install it because the server only has FFP for the v4.40 firmware. Download that older FFP package from here. It’ll work nicely with newer firmwares too. Put this file to /admin/zy-pkgs also. Now you can install it on the web interface. It will create an install log file in /admin/zy-pkgs/ffp.
- Go to your zyxel admin page and activate telnet.
- Download Putty
- open putty "no install" a window that looks like this should pop up.
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- Type your NAS IP in the ip field and then press open.
- when you press open and it wants you to enter your login information...
- type root as username
- type your admin password as password "putty wont show that you type the password due to security reasons so do not frett if you cannot see the text or stars ******".
- When you are in there just follow the guide below from step 1.
THIS INSTALLATION BELOW IS MADE IN PUTTY;HOW TO GET PUTTY STARTED CAN BE READ ABOUT ABOVE.
This part is not written by me; taken from another forum.
You need to login via ssh to NAS with root privileges and follow these steps. It is strongly advised to read all this post carefully, before proceeding.
1. Firstly install PMS FFP 0.7-arm package from Mijzelf repo:
The package itself contains only plex FFP management script file-plexmediaserver.sh, which will be installed to /ffp/start/ directory.
There is no files of Plex Media Server in package, to avoid licensing and distributing restrictions.
Available script commands are:
Usage: /ffp/start/plexmediaserver.sh [ start | stop | status | restart | version ]
2. Second step is about to install Plex Media Server itself to FFP.
Since plexmediaserver.sh script version-20140206, running it without an option, will display the graphical menu, which will give you possibility to install, upgrade, uninstall, start and stop Plex Media Server.
Menu options are not static. They changes accordingly to the status and condition of PMS: installed or not installed, running or not running, autostarting enabled or not.
Select install command in menu (picture above) and press OK. Now you have to choose, which version of PMS to install (picture below). You can choose between Synology (with *.spk file name extensions) or ReadyNAS arm packages (with *.bin file name extensions). Recommended is Synology package, because it will install faster, due to faster decompression algorithm. Select upper Synology package, which is the latest one at the date of script build and press OK to start installation.
After confirmation, script will start to download 56,2 MB Synology arm package-PlexMediaServer-0.9.8.18.290-11b7fdd-arm.spk, extracts files to temporary directory, copies them to /ffp/lib/plexmediaserver/ and then removes temporary directory. This step can take about 2-4 minutes (this is of course partly dependent on the internet bandwidth), so wait until you will see-done and EXIT button appears. Press EXIT button and it will bring you back to main screen of menu.
3. Third step is about to run PMS for first time. It's most important step, because during this step PMS creates main directory for plex settings and data - PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/mnt/HD_a2/programs/plex/lib on your NAS hard disk. About 60MB of data will be placed here after first start and will grow, depending on your media library size. To start Plex Media Server, simply select Start command in visual menu:
Alternative way, if exited from menu, to start PMS from shell command line interface:
During first start, PMS detects the system and selfconfigures for it, loads plugins, updates them, updates plex/web, restarts and etc. First start takes about 8-10 min, but actually it is important to leave it alone at least for 30 min (to let the Plex fully selfconfigure and because of plex automatic updates), before entering first time Plex/Web configuration page. Plex development team is pushing automatic updates very frequently.
4. After first start is done, you can proceed to Plex/Web configuration page: http://Your_NAS_IP:32400/web. Here you can specify paths to your media content and manage Plex settings. More information about configuring PMS is available on:
http://www.plexapp.com/help/
http://wiki.plexapp....ndex.php/Guides
http://wiki.plexapp....x.php/Plex_FAQs
http://wiki.plexapp....e_PMS_Subtitles
http://forums.plexap...sing-subtitles/
http://wiki.plexapp....ver_Preferences
Important!. After adding directory to PMS video, photo or music libraries, Plex begins to scan for media content and search for metadata on internet databases. It is very CPU intensive job and uses a lot of memory resources. Further NAS usage can be problematic, until the scanning is complete (Plex/Web configuration page should be available during this operation). Scanning of mine media library (149 GB-122 small and medium video files) took about 1,5 hour. So, maybe it is wise, to leave this job for over the night, if you have a big collection of media.
On Plex/Web settings page you can disable services, that you don't need. For example, if there is no iOS DLNA clients, you can disable Bonjour service, iPhoto sharing, iTunes sharing and Aperture sharing.
5. Enable autostart of Plex Media Server on NAS boot:
or alternatively select Enable_autostart command in visual menu, when running script without option.
6. Extend the functionality of DLNA client:
For Samsung Smart TV's-install Samsung plexapp on TV itself from Samsung apps store-it's free (http://plexforsamsun...e/40757181/Home). For LG Smart TV's use MediaLink service.
That's all. You can start using Plex Media Server.
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Uninstall procedure
Note: This will remove PMS data and settings files also.
1. If you want to remove Plex Media Server, stop it first, then run a script without an option and choose Uninstall option in visual menu:
2. Remove PMS FFP 0.7 package:
3. Remove script file:
1. Stop Plex Media Server.
5. Choose Start option in meniu and press OK to start PMS. Alternatively, if exited from menu, you can start PMS from shell command line interface:
6. Remove downloaded Synology package:
1. Stop Plex Media Server.
Note:
It is "normal", if you are getting only the following errors:
/mnt/HD_a2/programs/plex/lib/Plex Media Server/Logs/PMS Plugin Logs/com.plexapp.system.log:2013-12-23 13:12:13,630 (4001e370) : CRITICAL (runtime:709) - Private handlers are no longer supported; couldn't register <bound method StreamService.token_handler of <streamservice.StreamService object at 0xc25730
