I recently bought a raspberry pi and setup Plex media server. The server runs fine but I am unable to see any of my media files (neither MP4 or mkv are showing up) on it. It is viewable from the file manager and plays just fine from there. It is on an external hard drive with NTFS. After that did not work I tried to reformat the drive to exFat to see if that made any change o Plex being able to see the media, it did not. What am I doing wrong? From all the articles I have read, plex should be able to see my files.
The server is setup on a different machine I hope, since Rasplex is only a client.
I had intended the PI to work as the server. Is this not how RasPlex was intended?
Nope, Rasplex is a client, you need another machine as server.
Interesting as it allowed the install. And I can see it from other devices on the network. Just cannot attach any media to it
I guess I just sets up a standard samba share over the network, but Plex is a different case.
And yes it installs because it works as a client, but you need to provide a server also.
First read the main setup guide:
As @Coxeroni has told you, RasPlex is only a client.
If you really have PMS running and only your media is not visible in Plex, it’s always a Linux permission problem. Please read e.g. the first Linux tip:
I had tried that tip already but ran into a problem with the root passwd command. I had reset the password and was unable to move past the step to get to the Super-User .
Do you mean the sudo sh part? I usually use sudo su. You are asked for the PW of your current user. That’s raspberry by default.
the easiest way its for you to use plex as your user when you set up everything and mount things, it will solve you a lot of issues
or just make plex run as the user Pi
because damn if I have to change the permissions of every file I upload
So it looks like I had installed the wrong pi installation. tried the apt remove PMS and re install. but i dont think it worked
So I followed the steps above installing PMS and placing the external hard drive in the disks folder as shown in the above tutorial. PMS is still not able to view any MP4 files. Made sure the pi user had ownership with chown -R pi:pi /disks.
What am I missing?
With that you are changing the ownership to the default user of raspbian, but PMS uses plex and plex group as the default owner to see the files
pi != plex
So then the command should be
chown-R pi:plex /disks?
chown -R plex:plex /disks
if you are running PMS on the default plex user
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