So I apparently have a permissions issue with camera upload from an Android - but I’m stuck on how to fix it. I assume the issue here is the plex user doesn’t have the ability to write to my home directory - which should be an easy enough fix - just chmod the directory. But it just won’t work. Even logged into the pi with root privileges I can’t grant the plex user write permissions. What am I missing?
Note - if I let Plex pick its default library the camera upload works fine, but then I have my phone photos in a different library than the rest of my photos, making it a pain to move them over.
Maybe I should not have put my media in the home directory - but that ship has sailed. What’s my best solution here? I just want to be able to easily move the camera backups into other folders. Don’t really care if I’m backing up right into my Photos library or the plex default mobile photos library.
Hi chrisodva,
First thing you can try is adding user plex to group pi (perm: X7X for group access). If that doesn’t solve the issue, you’re ship is still not too far away, you’d need a script that periodically runs over the folder and sudo cp’s the files in the home directory, basically throwing it over the high sea of annoying data transfers to the ship
Hammering it into submission is overkill, ugly, and not necessary.
Plex’s configuration on Linux can be customized per your liking.
I suggest looking at setting
a. PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR to store the metadata where you want it.
b. User= to change the username
c. Group= to change the group
You can set a configuration which uses the same username / group name used by other applications and services on your system.
