I’ve set up a new Raspberry Pi 4. Plugged in an external USB HDD. Installed OpenMediaVault (OMV) latest version 5. It seems everyone is pushing to set up Plex Media Server (PMS) in a docker container, so I installed docker and pulled PMS container from linuxserver/plex:latest. Plex loads up on localhost:32400, can sign in and see everything from the Pi browser.
Now I’m trying to add media to the libraries, and I’ve been trying for a few days now, reading various things, but am failing miserably. I sadly think I need a step-by-step “what commands do I run and in which container and what order” guide to making the USB media folders visible inside the container and available/browseable in the PMS config UI.
Hey how’s it going? Around these parts the RPi stuff is hiding, not in a mean way but more like it’s just a community topic that happens to have an odd title and not an official section like the other PMS servers have. I don’t have the answer off the top of my head about USB drives, a Pi, and dockers sorry.
That should get you a working server. I don’t see the need myself for a docker when PMS is going to be the only thing running on the Pi besides maybe a news daemon.
If I am following you correctly you have OMV5 installed and running PMS in a container inside OMV5?
You should have setup users and shared folders in OMV5 to store your media correct?
When you made the PMS container when you added the volume binds they should have been to the shared folders with your media
a simple way is make a shared folder named media, inside it make folders for movies, tv, music. One for each type of media, then put your media in them. Then when you add the binds under the volumes in the container for /moves use the path to the shared folder path-to/media/movies/
very helpful video showing how to setup plex container setup PMS on OMV5
