How to create a new Plex Media Server between Raspberry Pis when cloning the Micro SD Card

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Hello. I recently bought a Plex pass and am new to the forums.
I’ve got a Raspberry Pi (running Jessie Lite) configured as a Plex media server.
I cloned the Micro SD card (via dd) and installed it into a new Pi.
Now I’m trying to “reset” or “refresh” the Plex server’s identity so I can manage it as a unique Plex server from my account, but I can’t figure out how to.
I’ve tried uninstalling the Plex server, removing the Preferences files and associated directory, but when the new Pi boots (even after uninstalling and reinstalling) Plex, it comes up with the same identity.

Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas on how I can make this work?
It’s possible I’m missing something really obvious, but would appreciate it if anyone else has done this or has any suggestions to make it work.

Thanks,
A Sood

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Is the hostname the same?
If so, the default server name is your Pi’s hostname.

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It was at first, but I had changed it and it didn’t make a difference.

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When you clone a Plex installation on Linux, all the identification information (MachineID and Username) is stored in Preferences.xml

If you:

  1. Stop PMS
  2. Delete Preferences.xml
  3. Start PMS
  4. Perform a first-run setup wizard (127.0.0.1:32400/web in the Pi’s machine’s local browser or SSH-tunnel to it) without defining new library sections.
  5. Arrive at the dashboard
  6. Change the machine’s name in “Settings - Server - General”

You now have a new machine instance with new name

You can now decide what to do with the sections you’ve also cloned in the process

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Thank-you.

I think I found the problem. The directory I deleted was not for user running the PMS process. It must have been another from when I originally installed Plex.
So I deleted the directories in ~/Library/… and it seems to be working properly now.
I’m going to try it out and see if that was the problem.