Ignore the port instructions on the driver package they are not needed.
1.16.6 doesn’t include all the recent fixes.
Fine - now running the latest beta. Upon access I get this:
PlexMediaServer-1.17.0.1709-982421575 # Exception AttributeError: "'ZipArchive' object has no attribute '_zip'" in <bound method ZipArchive.__del__ of <Framework.components.data.ZipArchive object at 0x809ad90d0>> ignored
After watching a video and triggering transcoding I get the following:
failed to open /data/jenkins/conan_build/1154421690/conan/.conan/data/libva/2.4.0-1/plex/stable/package/242b5c997bd71de020658d1658b4b53c50ea1b39/lib/dri/hybrid_drv_video.so
Not using hybrid_drv_video.so
I’m starting via start.sh without any other system changes (save for old PMS removal).
Normal playback works without any issues.
That won’t work, you need to use the system rc.d script.
But also I provided a script above that handles all that, if you not using a jail you can easily adapt it to work on the host.
I’ll look into 1.16.6 see if it fails for me to though cause it shouldnt.
OK, modified your code to work without jails:
#!/bin/sh
# Uses PMS API to check for updates
# Downloads Updates if available
# Installs to jail using ports system
PLEX_PORT_PATH="/usr/ports/multimedia/plexmediaserver"
PLEX_PKG_NAME="plexmediaserver"
SERVER_URL="http://10.5.5.33:32400"
release_info=""
download_url=""
split_version_sufix()
{
version_prefix=$(echo $1 | cut -d "-" -f1)
version_sufix=$(echo $1 | cut -d "-" -f2)
}
check_updates()
{
##fetch -qo - SERVER_URL/updater/status | egrep -o '([0-9]+(\.|-)){4}([a-z|0-9]+)'
## I wanted no deps but fetch doens't support post/put, and httpie'jq = awesomeness
echo -e "Checking for updates...\n"
http PUT $SERVER_URL/updater/check > /dev/null
release_info=$(http --json -b $SERVER_URL/updater/status | jq '.MediaContainer.Release[]')
if [ ! -z "$release_info" ]; then
state=$(echo $release_info| jq -r '.state')
new_version=$(echo $release_info| jq -r '.version')
whats_new=$(echo $release_info| jq -r '{added,fixed} |to_entries[] | " \(.key): \(.value)"')
download_url=$(echo $release_info| jq -r '.downloadURL')
if [ "$state" == "notify" ]; then
echo -e "New Update Available\nRelease info:\n"
echo -e "Version: $new_version"
echo -e "What's New: \n$whats_new\n\n"
fi
else
echo "No updates available what the time"
exit 1
fi
}
check_pkg_version()
{
pkg query %v plexmediaserver
}
download_new_version()
{
cd /usr/ports/distfiles
http -bd $download_url # TODO: add continue mode; need filename
cd -
}
update_port_makefile()
{
# expects version_prefix and sufix as arg1 and arg2
portVersion=$(make -C $PLEX_PORT_PATH -V PORTVERSION)
portVersionSufix=$(make -C $PLEX_PORT_PATH -V DISTVERSIONSUFFIX)
echo "PORTVERSION: $portVersion || DISTVERSIONSUFFIX: $portVersionSufix"
today=$(date +%F)
sed -i "_$today.bk" "s/$portVersion/$1/" "$PLEX_PORT_PATH/Makefile"
sed -i "_$today.bk" "s/$portVersionSufix/$2/" "$PLEX_PORT_PATH/Makefile"
echo -e "\nMakefile Updated:"
echo "PORTVERSION: $(make -C $PLEX_PORT_PATH -V PORTVERSION) || DISTVERSIONSUFFIX: $(make -C $PLEX_PORT_PATH -V DISTVERSIONSUFFIX)"
}
make_package()
{
make -sC $PLEX_PORT_PATH clean
make -sC $PLEX_PORT_PATH makesum
make -sC $PLEX_PORT_PATH package
}
upgrade_pkg()
{
# expects version prefix as arg
service plexmediaserver stop
pkg remove -y $PLEX_PKG_NAME
pkg install -y $PLEX_PORT_PATH/work/pkg/$PLEX_PKG_NAME-$1.txz
service plexmediaserver start
}
check_updates
pkg_version=check_pkg_version
### Main ###
# TODO: add optional params
if [ ! -z "$pkg_version" ]; then
split_version_sufix $new_version
if [ "$version_prefix" == "$pkg_version" ]; then
echo "This version ($verion_prefix) is already installed!"
else
download_new_version
echo -e "\n\nUpdate Port Makefile"
update_port_makefile $version_prefix $version_sufix
echo -e "\nTime to make the port/package ..."
make_package
echo -e "\nUpgrade the port and restart PMS "
upgrade_pkg $version_prefix
fi
fi
Upon execution I get:
# ./.plexupdate
Checking for updates...
parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 60
No updates available what the time
Sorry, couldn’t determine how to fix this.
Is the server pointed to beta? also did u allowed that ip without auth?
I can actually just send u a txz in DM, old on a bit
No need - that IP list fixed it. 
Will revert…
When using browser clients to transcode I get ‘s1001’ (Network).
The android app reports that connection to PMS was lost.
The dashboard shows no transcoding attempts - software of hardware.
can you post pkg info | grep plex and sockstat -l46 ?
Also logs are a bit noisy now, can you:
service plexmediaserver stop
cd /usr/local/plexdata/Plex\ Media\Server/Logs
rm -rf *.log
service plexmediaserver start
And get new logs?
Here’s the info:
# pkg info | grep plex
plexmediaserver-1.17.0.1709 Plex Media Server component
# sockstat -l46
USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS
plex Plex Scrip 12775 4 tcp4 127.0.0.1:37176 *:*
plex Plex DLNA 12611 12 udp4 *:1900 *:*
plex Plex DLNA 12611 15 tcp4 *:1529 *:*
plex Plex DLNA 12611 18 udp4 *:8122 *:*
plex Plex DLNA 12611 21 udp4 *:9572 *:*
plex Plex DLNA 12611 24 tcp4 *:32469 *:*
plex Plex DLNA 12611 27 udp4 *:31806 *:*
plex Plex DLNA 12611 30 udp4 *:57973 *:*
plex Plex Tuner 11770 13 tcp4 127.0.0.1:32600 *:*
plex Plex Scrip 10665 8 tcp4 127.0.0.1:22707 *:*
plex Plex Media 9846 60 tcp46 *:32400 *:*
plex Plex Media 9846 61 tcp4 127.0.0.1:32401 *:*
plex Plex Media 9846 71 udp4 *:32414 *:*
plex Plex Media 9846 72 udp4 *:32410 *:*
plex Plex Media 9846 73 udp4 *:32412 *:*
plex Plex Media 9846 74 udp4 *:32413 *:*
plex Plex Media 9846 75 udp4 10.5.5.33:14505 *:*
plex Plex Media 9846 76 udp4 10.5.5.33:34900 *:*
plex Plex Media 9846 77 udp4 *:1901 *:*
plex Plex Media 9846 78 udp4 10.5.5.33:59080 *:*
root sshd 35131 3 tcp6 *:22 *:*
root sshd 35131 4 tcp4 *:22 *:*
root smbd 93821 34 tcp4 10.5.5.33:445 *:*
root smbd 93821 35 tcp4 10.5.5.33:139 *:*
root nmbd 90684 15 udp4 *:137 *:*
root nmbd 90684 16 udp4 *:138 *:*
root nmbd 90684 17 udp4 10.5.5.33:137 *:*
root nmbd 90684 18 udp4 10.5.5.255:137 *:*
root nmbd 90684 19 udp4 10.5.5.33:138 *:*
root nmbd 90684 20 udp4 10.5.5.255:138 *:*
root syslogd 47156 6 udp6 *:514 *:*
root syslogd 47156 7 udp4 *:514 *:*
Any luck getting to the bottom of this?
Now tested using the same file on CentOS 8 (which JUST got released yesterday…). Absolutely no problems using HWT and in comparison to BSD that transcoding is FAST.
I’ll do some more testing and reflect on non-native ZFS support and its implications. Might just stick with CentOS as I was curious about it for a while anyway. Thanks for all your help.
Just to give an update on this to others I’m discussing this in DM see what might be the problem with this particular case.
It think its best to close this but I’ll leave the requirements that I’ve confirmed work in my setup:
pkg install drm-fbsd12.0-kmod
For jails, make a devfs ruleset to expose /dev/dri/* devices.
e.g., /dev/devfs.rules on the host:
[plex_drm=10]
add include $devfsrules_hide_all
add include $devfsrules_unhide_basic
add include $devfsrules_unhide_login
add include $devfsrules_jail
add path ‘dri*’ unhide
add path ‘dri/’ unhide
add path 'drm’ unhide
add path ‘drm/*’ unhide
Enable the devfs ruleset for your jail. e.g., devfs_ruleset=10 in your /etc/jail.conf or for iocage, iocage set devfs_ruleset=“10”
Add plex user to the video group: pw groupmod -n video -m plex (on the host or jail depending on the case)
Enable HWT on the Server settings
This is for FREEBSD 12.0, I have no guarantees this works in FreeNAS as they ship their own kernel module and you can’t install a more recent drm-kmod, its also not using FreeBSD 12 kernel yet… so put simply there’s to many unknowns.
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