# Plex Client/Player for Raspberry Pi
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-client-player-for-raspberry-pi/215145
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [November 23, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-client-player-for-raspberry-pi/215145 "2017-11-23T19:58:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@tomsimmons](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tomsimmons)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-client-player-for-raspberry-pi/215145/1 "2017-11-23T19:58:05Z")
I know there is the RasPlex project that provides a player on the Raspberry Pi, but it dedicates the entire Pi to that task.
What I’m looking for is a player that can be installed on a Pi as an application, so the Pi can be used for other purposes. The web client is the closest I have come across so far, but isn’t ideal for my purpose.
Does such an application exist?
Tom
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### Author:  [@tjs4ever](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tjs4ever)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-client-player-for-raspberry-pi/215145/2 "2017-11-24T04:42:52Z")
Well, like anything else you would first decide what OS you want to run on the raspberrypi and then install plex from within the OS. There are official plex clients for Windows and Android (both of which you can run on a pi)
I can’t vouch for any of this firsthand as I just use rasplex, but I found a post here with unoficial linux versions of plex:
> **[Plex Media Player packages for Linux](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/278570/plex-media-player-packages-for-linux)**
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> Hello Plex users! Because there is no official packages of Plex Media Player for Linux desktop I have decided to create one. Instead of building multiple packages for all different packaging systems (DEB, RPM, Snap, Flatpack) and even different...
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### Author:  [@tjs4ever](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tjs4ever)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 4:55am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-client-player-for-raspberry-pi/215145/3 "2017-11-24T04:55:11Z")
I see there is also an official raspi app under the “embedded” section of the downloads page.
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### Author:  [@Coxeroni](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Coxeroni)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-client-player-for-raspberry-pi/215145/4 "2017-11-24T05:43:01Z")
Embedded takes the whole Pi/SD card. Well it depends what you want to do with the Pi apart from Plex. You could install raspbian with Kodi and the Plex app. There you have the full control. Or you try rasplex which is a flavour of Libreelec where you can run some stuff in the background.
But be aware that the Pi does not have the horse power to run Plex and a lot of other stuff in parallel. That is normally the reason why you use a Pi only for Plex and nothing else.
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### Author:  [@st\_smurfy](https://forums.plex.tv/u/st_smurfy)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 8:51am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-client-player-for-raspberry-pi/215145/5 "2017-11-24T08:51:18Z")
I use Kodi with PlexKodiConnect on all of my RPIs.
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### Author:  [@Coxeroni](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Coxeroni)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-client-player-for-raspberry-pi/215145/6 "2017-11-24T08:59:07Z")
> @st_smurfy said:
> I use Kodi with PlexKodiConnect on all of my RPIs.
Which you run on which OS?
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### Author:  [@st\_smurfy](https://forums.plex.tv/u/st_smurfy)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2017, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-client-player-for-raspberry-pi/215145/7 "2017-11-24T10:23:03Z")
RPI 2, LibreElec 8.2.1, Kodi 17.6, PlexKodiConnect 1.8.18, and they work flawless.
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### Author:  [@tomsimmons](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tomsimmons)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-client-player-for-raspberry-pi/215145/8 "2017-12-04T21:00:11Z")
I’m open to using any operating that fits the Pi.
I don’t find the official Kodi/Plex addon all that good to be honest. It’s not nearly as good as the Web front end of Plex.
To be honest I didn’t find Rasplex or Plex Media Player all that great, but I didn’t spend that long with them and only on a Pi Zero, so it was really struggling.
I was really hoping to find an application that could be installed that could be used as a client, but there doesn’t seem to be one.
I saw someone had compiled Plex Media Player for Linux, they have only done x86 64 bit, but that suggest the code exists somewhere for compiling?
Is there not an API/Web Service or similar allowing people to create their own interface? I found details of an API for Plex Server, but it only allows for stats and details of what’s going on.
Tom
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:10am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-client-player-for-raspberry-pi/215145/9 "2020-01-08T00:10:45Z")