LiveTV on linux PMP

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so according to the website, LiveTV is available on Plex Media Player. However, it isnt on the linux distro of plex that i got from plex.tv. I absolutely love the linux based PMP, and its a shame that it isnt supported. Is this a feature that will be added? I run multiple media players throughout my house and the windows plex app just isnt going to cut it.

i have no issues with LiveTV itself (i run an Unraid server, Plex docker, hauppage 4tuner card, plex pass) on plex, it runs great on the phone app. But not being able to access it on linux distro of plex is really bumming me out

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or if you want to run it on a Raspberry Pi or other similar device

https://nightlies.plex.tv/public-test/plexmediaplayer/embedded-testing/

I use both and Live TV works great.

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would you be able to give some direction with installing this? i downloaded the appimage, made it executable and it supposedly installed, but it wont run. i was trying to add the flatpak but it keeps giving me errors in terminal

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@daman0025 What distro are you running it on? I ran into issues launching PMP app image on Ubuntu 18.10 a few PMP versions ago. I can get it to run by opening terminal and change directory into the directory the appimpage is in then run:

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0 ./Plex_Media_Player_2.31.0.967-a95b6d76_x64.AppImage

Obviously change the version to whatever version of PMP you are running. Assuming it’s throwing the same error that I was having.

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im trying to run Plex_Media_Player_2.31.0.967-a95b6d76_x64.AppImage on ubuntu 18.04.2

should i try a different linux distro? or different ubuntu version? ultimately i would like to not have to open up terminal every time i need to run PMP. and i cant figuire out how to add his site to the flatpak hub or w.e so i can download it that way

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Yeah I posted a message a while back in the Plex Media Packages for Linux forum asking how to launch it without having to do that extra step and didn’t get any responses. So unfortunately I don’t have an answer for you.

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i tried launching it like you said, and nothing. is there anything additonal i need to install on a clean install of ubuntu for the appimage to work?

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i ran the appimage file, it asked me if i wanted to add it to my desktop menu or whatever, and there is now an icon. but if i click on it, it doesnt load anything :frowning:

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Did you make the app image executable? Once it’s executable and you run it from terminal with the above command it should either run or give you some output as to why it didn’t start…

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i placed it on the desktop and ran it thru the GUI.

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and yes, i made it executable

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so i kept reading thru the Plex Media Packages for linux forum and found one where someone downloaded Ubuntu-MAKE and then used the PMP package 2.20. i went ahead and gave it a shot… and appimage installed and works!! so im not sure why the newer versions of appimage werent working

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