Autostart Plexconnect on Raspberry Pi

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Hello,

want to have the Plexconnect on autostart on my Pi.

Using thiis script, I can manually start it and stop it, but it just won’t start on boot using either rc.d, rc.local or cron.

any ideas?

EDIT: I apologize for the horrible formatting, can’t get it to show up as code for some reason. Help appreciated^^

@SingleServingSociety said:
Make sure you have screen installed:
sudo apt-get install screen
Create a file called plexconnect in /etc/init.d:
sudo nano /etc/init.d/plexconnect

Give it the following content (update the DAEMON_OPTS="-S PlexConnect -d -m /usr/local/lib/PlexConnect/PlexConnect.py" line so it will point to your installation of plexconnect):
#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          plexconnect
# Required-Start:    networking
# Required-Stop:    networking
# Default-Start:     3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: This is the Plex Connect daemon
# Description:       This script starts the Plex Connect
#                    Python scripts in a detached screen.
### END INIT INFO

# Using the lsb functions to perform the operations.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

# Process name ( For display )
NAME=PlexConnect

# Daemon name, where is the actual executable
DAEMON="/usr/bin/screen"
DAEMON_OPTS="-S PlexConnect -d -m /usr/local/lib/PlexConnect/PlexConnect.py"
DAEMON_USER="root"

# pid file for the daemon
PIDFILE=/var/run/PlexConnect.pid

# If the daemon is not there, then exit.
test -x "$DAEMON" || exit 5

case $1 in
 start)
  # Checked the PID file exists and check the actual status of process
  if [ -e $PIDFILE ]; then
   status_of_proc -p $PIDFILE "$DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS" "$NAME process" && status="0" || status="$?"
   # If the status is SUCCESS then don't need to start again.
   if [ $? = "0" ]; then
    log_success_msg "Starting the process $NAME"
    exit # Exit
   fi
  fi
  # Start the daemon.
  # Start the daemon with the help of start-stop-daemon
  # Log the message appropriately
  if start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE --startas $DAEMON -p $PIDFILE -- ${DAEMON_OPTS}; then
   while read line ; do [[ $line =~ ([0-9]*).PlexConnect ]] && echo ${BASH_REMATCH[1]} ; done < <(screen -ls) > $PIDFILE
   log_success_msg "Starting the process $NAME"
  else
   log_failure_msg "Starting the process $NAME"
  fi
  ;;
 stop)

  # Stop the daemon.
  if [ -e $PIDFILE ]; then
   status_of_proc -p $PIDFILE "$DAEMON DAEMON_OPTS" "Stoppping the $NAME process" && status="0" || status="$?"
   if [ "$?" = 0 ]; then
    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --pidfile $PIDFILE
    /bin/rm -rf $PIDFILE
    log_success_msg ""Stopping the $NAME process""
   fi
  else
   log_failure_msg "$NAME process is not running"
  fi
  ;;
 restart)
  # Restart the daemon.
  $0 stop && sleep 2 && $0 start
  ;;
 status)
  # Check the status of the process.
  if [ -e $PIDFILE ]; then
   status_of_proc -p $PIDFILE "$DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS" "$NAME process" && exit 0 || exit $?
   log_success_msg "$NAME process is running"
  else
   log_failure_msg "$NAME process is not running"
  fi
  ;;
 reload)
  $0 restart
  ;;
 *)
  # For invalid arguments, print the usage message.
  echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
  exit 2
  ;;
esac

Make the file executable
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/plexconnect
And check whether it works (make sure plexconnect is not running before starting this one):
sudo service plexconnect start
Make sure the script starts automatically when you reboot:
sudo update-rc.d plexconnect defaults

2

fixed the formatting for you - see also: “You can use Markdown in your post”

3

thx for that - help still very much appreciated

4

thanks. This was a great useful post.
I had an issue that I solved myself (although I am new on this). I post the info just in case someone else can used it.
When rebooting, the plexconnect was not launched, I got following message:
_start runlevel arguments do not match default start values
Then I modified the script with deafult-start: 2 3 4 5
After removing and cretaing from cero the rc.d everything is working.
Thank you again.
I am running minibian on raspberry pi 2.