I currently have been running PMS on a Windows Desktop which great success; however, this results in having my Desktop running 24x7. I also have a couple Raspberry Pi that I have tinkered with other projects with, but never thought of installing PMS on it until I saw an article on OMW (Open Media Vault).
With a lightweight power consumption, my interest is sparked. Can this really stream movies and access content on USB attached hard drives decently? I rarely stream HD movies, as most my content in DVD format.
Any thoughts, experience, articles/threads to read?
I read something about streaming and reading over the same bus constraints?
How about any transcoding needs?
Most important first fact: only Raspberry Pi 2 and newer are supported (ARMv7), no RPi 1 and RPi 1 based devices.
OMV is not very well supported as there is just no OMV dev active here in Plex community. We recommend a plain Raspbian installation, the default Debian distribution for the Raspberry Pis.
You need clients that do not require transcoding at all.
All this and most other stuff is discussed in our setup guide:
Thanks - I have a Raspberry Pi 2 and 3b to work with. I assume this works with the newer Raspbian Stretch version.
What about USB hard drive support? I thought I read an article that PMS was not recognizing USB drivers correctly, hence why I was looking at OMV to have another applications mount them as drives.
These reports are bs and written by people who know nothing about Linux file permissions Just correctly mount your drives so that Linux user plex has at least read permissions. That is nothing special, just Linux 101.
Also make sure to attach the USB drives to a powered USB hub, not directly to the ports of your RPis.
Just correctly mount your drives so that Linux user 