Asus Tinker Board and PMS

[chrisradulescu]

Hello,

I’ve recently purchased an Asus Tinker Board for the purpose of setting it up as PlexMediaServer at home. I’m not very accustomed to Linux as OS, but I can follow guides.

Coming to my issue(s), after having installed Debian offered by Asus on a microSD card, I managed to install PMS following @drmagoo’s guide. It worked initially for a small test, but then issues started to happen:

1. it crashed all my other clients’ internet connections from my router; tried different router, wifi connection to Tinker board, LAN connection, in all cases internet was suffering (can’t have an explanation)
2. Tinker Board was heating up, the CPU indicator was showing high usage, and eventually soon after it would freeze, although there was no streaming on any device regarding the Plex content

Simply uninstalling PMS solved the issues (no internet issue, no heating, no freezing of the TinkerB).

Any ideas what could cause this, as in my case it appears to be related to the PMS itself? Or, is there another version/app (maybe you call it repository?) of PMS for armhf?

Thanks!

[drmagoo]

Just don’t waste your time with an Asus Tinker Board and get a Raspberry Pi 3 instead.

Read e.g.:

There's a new raspi alternative, the ASUS Tinker Board

Hi, Here is the guide I initially used, https://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberrypi_projects/blog/2016/03/11/a-more-powerful-plex-media-server-using-raspberry-pi-3 But I sent the Tinkerboard back for a full refund and bought another Raspberry PI 3 instead. The Tinkerboard support is still really bad and the software support even worse. Plex media server installed but would judder when serving media, the PI does not suffer this issue. If it had run the standard Raspb…

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Tinkerboard Plex

Hello, I installed plex server from the dev2day sourceon an asus tinkerboard. The installation armf went well but I have some problem during the native transcoding (with ARM was heating the proc and planted during the construction of the db). I explain the problem: The playback of videos hangs natively in wifi or lan about 30 sec of reading, however the same video on the pi3 starts without any problem. I tried several parameters in the plex configuration interface (and also the same ones as …

[chrisradulescu]

Thanks. I have no experience regarding SBCs nor Linux. I chose Tinker Board because of a more powerful CPU, which helps transcoding, as I’ve previously found. Transcoding, according to my understanding, is needed even when you stream a video using external subtitles. I’m not native English and watch movies with subtitles, therefore I was looking for some device that would be able to transcode.

However, so far the problem is gone… meaning the weird CPU max usage by Plex server.

I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. The very same thing happened: opened a video for testing, worked for a few minutes then I closed. I restarted the Tinker and soon after Plex server would start using max CPU and freeze everything (including my LAN). I killed the Plex process and restarted it using systemctl Linux command.

For some reason, PMS has been stable since. Even if I reboot the Tinker Board, there is no issue like I previously noticed. Hope it stays like this, because I’m satisfied with the Plex server performance.