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I’m really enjoying Plex, (apart from a couple of buggy things that may not be Plex’s fault in any case). So much so that I’m working on binning off Roon. There are just a couple of sticking points. One being missing features (which are covered in other posts) & the other my Raspberry Pi.
I play audio through Roon, out of the ethernet port & into the Raspberry Pi which is piggy-backed to a DAC that has phono out to my amp.
As Plex plays from a browser, I’m wondering how I might get it to follow the same route?
A friend has suggested that I need to add some kind of code to RoPieee. (I’m not entirely sure what that is. I think it might be the OS for the Pi. I remember that word coming up when I flashed the card in the first place to work with Roon.) The same friend also suggested that I may have to get a paying version of Plex in order to get said code.
I found a couple of old threads but they were from years ago & I’d imagine quite a lot has changed in the interim.
Ropiee has a headless Plexamp player module. All you need to do, is to activate it and connect it to your plex account.
You configure that like all the other features of Ropiee, by opening the embedded web server that presents you with the configuration page in a web browser.
I know nothing about any of this. I followed some instructions to “flash” a mini SIM card, stuck it in & it worked. Hopefully these instructions will be similarly idiot-proof!
Plexamp coming off of a raspberry pi as a headless unit requires a plexpass for that feature. Airplay and chromecast work on the free tier.
So if I understand you correct. You are running just regular Raspberry Pi OS? on your raspberry pi? If this is true, if you have Plexamp application installed and running on the raspberry pi. As long as you have the Pi and Plexamp set to output to the correct DAC, then you should be able to choose that playback device in Plexamp and send your music to it.
Ropieee is super easy to setup with Plexamp. RoPieee is same process as other raspberry pi things. You flash a SD card with RoPieee than access it from web browser set it up and then its good to go.
I already have an SD card flashed with RoPieee in a Raspberry Pi, piggybacked to a DAC. I’ve been using that successfully with Roon.
Now that I’m considering getting rid of Roon, I’m just wondering how I will play lossless audio from my external hard drive to my hi-fi using Plex & so my question is how do I (or perhaps “can I”) use the existing set-up to do that?
I have been told that I need a paid Plex pass which will give me a code to put into the Pi OS somehow. (Presumably by accessing it via a browser.)
Of course, I spent half the day on the phone to Sky today, trying to figure out how to get access to the router, in order to find the IP address of the Pi so that I could get into the setting. I ran out of time in the end because work deadlines.
But if I need a Plex pass in order to do this, then I wouldn’t have been able to in any case.
Yes. Similar to Roon. You would need to install Plex media server on a computer. Maybe even the same as Roon? I know some people that run Roon and Plex Media Server on the same computer. Then after you have Plex Server running you add the folder on your external hard drive to a Plex music library and then you can have your music play out to the hifi.
To access the Roon Raspberry Pi. You can type http://ropieee.local into a web browser and it should get you to the ropiee gui.
