Plex Media Player On Raspberry Pi 3 Embedded

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I have been trying to change the date on my Plex Media Player clients. I have all of my clients using Raspberry Pi 2-3’s. I was trying to change the date/time/zone a few ways…

Method One:
SSH into your the Pi using the username “root” and password “plex” and edit the “/storage/.config/autostart.sh” file.
nano /storage/.config/autostart.sh

Add the following content to the file:

#!/bin/sh
(sleep 30; \
/usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org; \
)&

Save and exit. Assign execute privileges to the file using the following command:

chmod +x /storage/.config/autostart.sh

However, that did not work.

Method Two
I tried changing the timezone by using the following command…
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime
Got an “cp: can’t create ‘/etc/localtime’: File exists” error on that one.
Then tried mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime_bak and got “mv: can’t rename ‘/etc/localtime’: Read-only file system”.

Method Three
Tried installing ntpupdate…
apt-get install ntpdate

Results: LibreELEC said hell no.

Method Four
Tried running the time GUI…
time-admin

Results: “-sh: time-admin: not found”

Is it not possible to correct the time in the Plex Media Player when running it on an Embedded copy for the Raspberry Pi?

Plex Media Player Version: 2.25.0.948-77f379e1
Embedded (Raspberry Pi): 8.2

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Thanks! Looks like I missed that thread when searching.

echo "ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /var/run/localtime" >> /storage/.config/autostart.sh

Worked like a charm for my timezone!

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