I have a 6700v3 Netgear Nighthawk router; it supports a media center - Ready Share - from the USB3 port in the front. My Roku player can see it, but I can’t seem to get Plex to see it and use it as the major source of media. By running it from there it be be in a 24/7 mode rather than only on when the PC is on.
Any suggestions how to find it?
Also if anyone knows, how can I see a list of where my media is stored? In playing around setting it up, I moved the media files around a few times and am not sure where things are coming from.
Yes you can. I have an r7000 nighthawk. Connect your NTFS formatted drive(s) to the USB port. In your OS (I have windiows) map a drive to the newly connected HDD. Go into plex, select (or create) a library and use the path to the mapped drive. I set up my external drive as T:\ and have a Movies and a TV Show folder. For the Movie library I enter T:\Movies and Plex will pull in the content. Make sure you share the path in the router on the Basic Tab and the Readyshare Page.
If Plex server is running on Windows, why not connecting the drive to the windows computer?
One should aim for a solution with the least amount of parts which can potentially break.
And routers “playing” file servers are not particularly reliable, nor performant.
Well, Otto, as I stated in the post, the router is on 24/7, the PC is not even close to that, so what’s the sense in having a media center that you have to fire up your entire system for, when it can sit on the router. As far as parts breakage, if the router goes that’s pretty much it for everything, so it’s safer there than on a pc, in terms of system safety. As for ‘not particularly reliable’ I’d like to see some evidence of that, as I have run movies off a USB stick in the 3.0 USB port on the router without skip or sync or any problems at all. It’s Called Ready Share, and millions of Netgear users use it every day. That is my case for reliable.
Thanks,
Promytius
As far as parts breakage, if the router goes that’s pretty much it for everything, so it’s safer there than on a pc, in terms of system safety. As for ‘not particularly reliable’ I’d like to see some evidence of that, as I have run movies off a USB stick in the 3.0 USB port on the router without skip or sync or any problems at all. It’s Called Ready Share, and millions of Netgear users use it every day. That is my case for reliable.