I'm wondering if I can install the same Client that is installed on Rasplex on another Distro, say Raspbian?
I'm trying to install the Plex Media Server and the Client on the same Raspberry Pi.
Thanks for any help.
Look at this topic, the tenth below yours: https://forums.plex.tv/topic/167336-rasplex-and-media-server-on-one-pi-2/ or this https://forums.plex.tv/topic/163964-plex-pms-plex-client-raspberry-pi-2/I'm wondering if I can install the same Client that is installed on Rasplex on another Distro, say Raspbian?
I'm trying to install the Plex Media Server and the Client on the same Raspberry Pi.
Thanks for any help.
This is not possible due to the underlying OS for Rasplex.
I understand that, but that was not my question. I'm not trying to install Plex Media Server on a Rasplex partition, I want the other way around.
I believe that Plex Home Theather had to be compiled in some way for the ARM architure. If somehow I could install it in a Raspbian partition, I would have more freedom to install other things on that partition, for instance, a Plex Media Server.
A working setup could probably be achieved by installing PMS on one of the generic Linux distros for the RPi2, and then adding Kodi and the PlexBMC addon together with a Plex oriented skin (like Amber, Night or Titan). This should allow fairly well featured Plex client functionality (though not PHT compatible).
Why can I install Kodi and not PHT?
I understand that, but that was not my question. I'm not trying to install Plex Media Server on a Rasplex partition, I want the other way around.
Which is what the second link implies.
I believe that Plex Home Theather had to be compiled in some way for the ARM architure. If somehow I could install it in a Raspbian partition, I would have more freedom to install other things on that partition, for instance, a Plex Media Server.
Why can I install Kodi and not PHT?
You can't install Rasplex on Raspbian, Rasplex is Plex HT built on top of OpenELEC, the two are instrinically linked together as one joint OS/client
Is it technically possible to port it to Raspbian? If no, why?
Is it technically possible to port it to Raspbian? If no, why?
It should be 'possible' to port "Plex Home Theater" to any OS, including Raspbian. But that has simply not been done.
And while it is 'possible', that doesn't necessarily mean that it would be practical. It certainly wouldn't be easy...
It's one thing to make a port that works well as the main application of a dedicated media player OS.
It's another thing to make a port that works well as a generic X-window application multitasked with others.
What we have for the RPi is RasPlex, which in its porting has had many changes and adaptations to work well with OpenELEC.
This means that many of those changes and adaptations are completely unsuitable for a generic Linux distro like Raspbian
So someone intending to port PHT to Raspbian might be better off starting from PC PHT sources, though also studying some of the ARM-specific modifications of RasPlex.
Best regards: dlanor
Old thread but with over 12000 views I’m guessing there are a lot of people out there looking to solve a similar problem as Ffleadro.
I want to use a raspberry pi as a HTPC, preferably as a plex client to make use of all of the available plex channels. But I would also like to be able to use the same pi to do some basic desktop stuff, browsing the web, remoting onto my other machines, using a file manager etc etc…
Closest I’ve got is running KODI on raspian with the plex add-on, but the add-on doesn’t support channels.
If I could just run rdesktop from Rasplex that would be an alternate solution, but I can’t find a way to do that.
Anyone have any ideas?
@“waxingsatirical@gmail.com” said:
Old thread but with over 12000 views I’m guessing there are a lot of people out there looking to solve a similar problem as Ffleadro.I want to use a raspberry pi as a HTPC, preferably as a plex client to make use of all of the available plex channels. But I would also like to be able to use the same pi to do some basic desktop stuff, browsing the web, remoting onto my other machines, using a file manager etc etc…
Closest I’ve got is running KODI on raspian with the plex add-on, but the add-on doesn’t support channels.
If I could just run rdesktop from Rasplex that would be an alternate solution, but I can’t find a way to do that.
Anyone have any ideas?
I dual boot for that so I can run rasplex and raspbian from the same SD.
You would need a version of OpenPHT compiled for Raspbian.
Unfortunately, there is no such package ready-made, so you would need to compile it yourself, which is going to require a lot of black magic because finding the list of prerequisites is nearly impossible.
The same is true for PMP by the way.
No other way.
