From the web console I can see that the version I currently have is 0.9.12.11. I’ve read you “switch” the distribution to the plexmediaserver-installer package, but when i try to install it I get this error:
Package plexmediaserver-installer is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'plexmediaserver-installer' has no installation candidate
This is the content of my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pms.list:
So guys, it has been an interesting and fun year for me and I think @elan and this folks have done an amazing job bringing essentially all of the PMS features to ARM devices (e.g. soft subtitles, optimize and transcoding). It’s also time to thank all the supporters, contributors and bug reporters in this thread. I hope with release 1.0.0 that I pushed earlier this Friday to my repo most of the recent bugs are gone. Have fun and enjoy your movies
@jonathanmcalroy said:
Credit to [member=‘daniele.testa’] for coming up with this fix.
They’ve updated the client again so I had to update my plex.js again. If you have the “The Server is not powerful enough…” message then this should work for you. It might not be able to play the media but it will atleast try…
First locate the plex.js file for the WebClient. We have a few different builds now so it might be under /opt/plex or /usr/lib/plex. You can search for it with ‘find / -name plex.js’. Mine is here:
/opt/plex//Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/WebClient.bundle/Contents/Resources/js/plex.js
Plex have deformatted the file to make it harder for people like me to read and modify. However it’s still a straight forward edit. Find the string “validateTranscoder:function”. I use vi so I do this with a /, I think in nano it’s ctrl-w. See the before image below. The actual view will depend on how wide your putty window is.
If the file was formatted properly it would look like this:
validateTranscoder: function(e, t) { if (!e.canDirectPlay) { var n = t.transcodeServer;
We need to insert “return false;” between the inside curly bracket and the "if " statement. Like this:
validateTranscoder: function(e, t) { return false; if (!e.canDirectPlay) { var n = t.transcodeServer;
I use vi, so I set insert with i then type then escape and :wq to write/quit. See the after image below. Any plex web browsers you have open will need to be refreshed.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Since I installed Plex version 0.9.17.2 this trick doesn’t work anymore (aslo with version 1.0.0.2261 doesn’t). Has anybody had this problem too?
@awkman said:
Since I installed Plex version 0.9.17.2 this trick doesn’t work anymore (aslo with version 1.0.0.2261 doesn’t). Has anybody had this problem too?
That hack is not required anymore, at least not with a Raspberry Pi 2/3 and similar devices. Transcoding is just supported. What’s your device? Do you use my repo or do you manually install PMS? In the second case, do you use the “Netgear ARM 6.x RN2xx” build as recommended?
@uglymagoo
Hi there, I keep on getting this error when trying to install:
**root@raspberrypi:~# apt-get install -y plexmediaserver-installer
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
plexmediaserver-installer is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libgssapi3-heimdal libheimntlm0-heimdal libkdc2-heimdal
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up plexmediaserver-installer (1.0.0.2261-a17e99e-1~jessie) …
Plex Media Server is not running (no process found)…
Downloading readynas package …
curl: (7) Failed to connect to downloads.plex.tv port 443: Network is unreachabl e
sha256sum: readynas.deb: No such file or directory
Checksum mismatch. Downloaded file does not match this package.
dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver-installer (–configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of plexmediaserver:
plexmediaserver depends on plexmediaserver-installer; however:
Package plexmediaserver-installer is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package plexmediaserver (–configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
plexmediaserver-installer
plexmediaserver
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@raspberrypi:~#**
Are there problems with the site? I followed all the steps and I can browse the site just fine. My Pi has an internet connection for sure. Any help would be appreciated
@fletchers.home said:
Are there problems with the site? I followed all the steps and I can browse the site just fine. My Pi has an internet connection for sure. Any help would be appreciated
You are not able to connect to plex.tv so there is something wrong with your internet connection (or plex.tv was temporary offline). I just tested the URLs I use in the package and they are still valid.
This command fails and that’s definitively a network error: curl --progress-bar -o readynas.deb https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server/1.0.0.2261-a17e99e/plexmediaserver-ros6-binaries-annapurna_1.0.0.2261-a17e99e_armel.deb.
Yo Mr. Beautiful Magoo, Question for you, how hard would it be to add to your script to retrieve the correct readynas img and do all the things necessary to convert into a .deb file ready to install? Of Coarse I mean a plex pass release. Seems to me you are more than half way there! That sir would be the Grand Finally! <:-P
For someone that doesn’t know the language seems easy…but is it?
Thanks for all you have given to the community already! You are both Gracious and Great at the same time.
@uglymagoo said:
So guys, it has been an interesting and fun year for me and I think @elan and this folks have done an amazing job bringing essentially all of the PMS features to ARM devices (e.g. soft subtitles, optimize and transcoding). It’s also time to thank all the supporters, contributors and bug reporters in this thread. I hope with release 1.0.0 that I pushed earlier this Friday to my repo most of the recent bugs are gone. Have fun and enjoy your movies
Thanks @uglymagoo for your great work!
May I know if this major release is supposed to fix the annoying problem with the transcoder (the “Transcoder have died” error we fixed in the past using the old transcoder coming from version 0.9.14 if I am not wrong)?
Anyway I am upgrading my plex server, I will give you my feedback soon!
