I laid the Plex app on the Drobo and I click on the gear icon which launches a web page. Nearest the top of the page it says - A Plex Media Server update is available for the server Drobo5N2! 1.13.8.5395
Download now or Skip this version. When I click download it downloads a Plex.tar file to my Mac downloads folder. Later it creates a series of folders within a main folder called Plex. There is no DMG file just *.sh file and folders.
Is there a special way to upgrade the plex on a Drobo?
Took me a couple tries to get this but it’s been working thusfar.
shut down plex from running on drobo.
copy the tar file from the Mac to the DroboApps folder.
reboot drobo.
I don’t have my Plex automatically set up to start on boot so I just fire it back up from the dashboard.
Hope this helps.
-David
*disclaimer- i’ve been trying to figure out why drobo does not seem to update apps such as plex, nzb etc until i read the thread about version support. It sort of makes sense but also a bit frustrating. Install/upgrade at your own risk. At the time of this writing i’m on version 1.13.9.5456
When you say the apps folder I assume you mean the Droboapps folder on the drobo 5N2 using the finder (I am using Mac)
Secondarily, I have a resulting folder called Plex2 after the download and unzip process. If you copy the tar file to the Droboapps folder then what happens to the Plex folder now in the Droboapps folder when the newest tar file is unzipped?
Lastly will I need to reconfigure the Plex app or will it miraculously find a preference file and rebuild for me?
Put the tar.gz file in the parent DroboApps folder. There is probably a cleaner way to do this but I haven’t found it yet. I do NOT unzip or untar the file. Yes to your question on the folder ON the Drobo itself.
One nuance I just ran into recently though is after the reboot, the drobo dashboard stalls at “finishing booting up”
Googled around and did this:
ssh to drobo
sudo su -
DroboApps.sh stop
DroboApps.sh start
I did get a note back from Drobo support and they’re basically saying “go bug plex, go bug nzbget” etc.
Since my original post, i’ve upgraded again to Version 1.14.0.5470.
I also run Plex on the MAC itself as a backup i suppose (don’t ask me why, i’m just weird like that)
So to reiterate;
stop plex from running via the dashboard.
copy the downloaded plex.tar.gz to the DroboApps folder on the drobo.
restart/reboot drobo.
fire plex back up and should be running latest version.
if you run into the “stall” thing, just repeat those steps above from the command line.