Just a quick question from a Linux Newbie (installed my RPi2 with VNC, and Plex Media Server yesterday :D). One thing i did not figure out yet is how i can update the Plex Server. Do i only have to run the “apt-get update” command and it will install the newer version (once it comes out) on its own? Thank you 
@noreason once a new non-Plex pass version is released @uglymagoo kindly updates his repository. After that you run apt-get update (updates package list) and then apt-get upgrade to upgrade the packages found in that list.
Perfect! Thank you and @uglymagoo
The past couple days, when issuing the terminal command apt-get update, my RasPi2 indicates it can’t connect to the @uglymagoo dev2day site.
Err https://dev2day.de jessie/main armhf Packages Failed to connect to dev2day.de port 443: Connection refused
The dev2day gpg key shows up properly on my RasPi when I issue the terminal command apt-key list.
Strangely, my mac can connect to https://dev2day.de/pms/dists/jessie/main fine using safari and connecting from a different network.
Nothing on my side appears to be blocking the connection. Any ideas or suggestions?
@flexoffset said:
The past couple days, when issuing the terminal commandapt-get update, my RasPi2 indicates it can’t connect to the @uglymagoo dev2day site.
I migrated to a new server last weekend and so my DNS records changed. Your DNS cache will be updated within the next 24 hours. You could flush your DNS cache or temporarily point dev2day.de to 144.76.172.47 in your /etc/hosts file.
Could someone please elaborate on how i can stop the server and start it again? I have issues with getting my external HDD to idle mode and wonder if it has to do with PMS running
@noreason
sudo service plexmediaserver stop
Thanks!
@uglymagoo are any of the NAS packages for Plex for an armv8? With the Raspberry Pi 3 I can imagine people will want Plex on that too so it would be cool if we could splice a package into your skeleton.
@blindpet The existing armv7 builds and so the skeleton and my packages should work just fine. That’s at least what I read in the specs. If you use the new Raspbian image on a RPi 3 I am even 99.99% sure
Thanks @uglymagoo it will be one of my first tests when the Pi 3 unit arrives. Am I right to think that armv8 is basically backwards compatible with armv7 in terms of compiling binaries?
@blindpet Yes, I believe so.
Some extra remarks: Currently, the images for RPi3 are mainly (exclusively?) build for AArch32 or ARMv7. So at the moment everything will just work fine. When distributions switch to AArch64 (e.g. to the Debian ARM64 port) we have to worry But in theory, as long as there are no AArch64 PMS builds, we should be able to use the Debian multiarch support to get ARMv7 PMS running. Peace of cake
So would the installation directions be the same for rpi3? Could anyone check it out? Was also interested to see if the transcoding works for rpi3. Been waiting for a better RPI to become my PMS
@arecheese said:
So would the installation directions be the same for rpi3?
Use Raspbian with blindpet’s or my RPi 2 PMS descriptions. They should just work on the RPi 3.
@arecheese said:
Was also interested to see if the transcoding works for rpi3. Been waiting for a better RPI to become my PMS
RPi 2 and RPi 3 should perform quite similarly for PMS. I would assume a 30 % performance increase in native Arm64 distributions. Still not even close to 1080p transcoding requirements.
I have read that Plex for ARM will not do any transcoding as it’s disabled.
Does that include audio transcoding(which takes almost no CPU) as well? I have quite a bit of my library with DTS or AC3 only audio, formats which are not generally natively supported on smartphones and the like. So if there’s no audio transcoding on Plex for ARM, then I’m kinda screwed…
@VirtualPlex there is a guide for overriding transcoding, it is not guaranteed to work though but for audio it may be ok, do share your experiences afterwards.
@VirtualPlex said:
I have read that Plex for ARM will not do any transcoding as it’s disabled.Does that include audio transcoding(which takes almost no CPU) as well? I have quite a bit of my library with DTS or AC3 only audio, formats which are not generally natively supported on smartphones and the like. So if there’s no audio transcoding on Plex for ARM, then I’m kinda screwed…
Audio transcoding (e.g. DTS and AC3 to stereo AAC) works well out of the box. No need to change anything. When we talk about transcoding we usually mean video transcoding 
Damn 
I was tempted so much to try out enabling transcoding (even if transcoding might take all night) that i followd the instructions from the link posted above. I used the “automated fix” but i got this error messages:
I am new to Linux and the Terminal but always want to try out everything (leraning by doing etc ;)) but now i wonder if i destroyed something or not. I cant interpret the response the terminal gave me. Is everything fine or am i screwed?
I am able ti interpret the basic responses and installed raspbian on my RPi + tightvnc + tunnel this over ssh etc so i know some parts but would consider me an absolute beginner anyway 
Thanks for everyone who may help me 
You didn’t break anything because you didn’t change anything @noreason You needed to change plex.js to main*.js as mentioned in the tutorial. Based on @uglymagoo advice it sounds like you should not bother enabling the force transcoding if you are primarily interested in using Plex for audio and not video.
@blindpet said:
You didn’t break anything because you didn’t change anything @noreason
^^ No, that’s not what I meant. Video and audio is transcoded separately and the Plex team only disabled video transcoding in the PMS. So if you watch a 1080p mkv with DTS audio track on your iPhone it will copy the video stream but transcode audio to stereo AAC. And this was never disabled in PMS and works out of the box. So @VirtualPlex does not have to change the plex.js file as long as he does not want to try transcoding the video part of a mkv.
