# Portable Plex Media Server Hotspot
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [November 22, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047 "2016-11-22T20:29:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@MechWarriorZero](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MechWarriorZero)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047/1 "2016-11-22T20:29:23Z")
I’m trying to build a Portable Plex Media Server Hotspot, but had no luck
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### Author:  [@Bartlomiej\_Baraniec](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Bartlomiej_Baraniec)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047/2 "2016-11-22T20:49:42Z")
Good luck then? 😃
Seriously what’s your question here?
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### Author:  [@MechWarriorZero](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MechWarriorZero)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047/3 "2016-11-22T21:22:04Z")
trying to make a plex media server hotspot using any devices
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### Author:  [@sGarver](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sGarver)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047/4 "2016-11-22T21:41:40Z")
And still no actual question. 🙂
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### Author:  [@MechWarriorZero](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MechWarriorZero)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047/5 "2016-11-22T22:31:35Z")
Portable Plex Media Server Hotspot is my question?
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### Author:  [@sGarver](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sGarver)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 5:11am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047/6 "2016-11-23T05:11:32Z")
Then the answer is yes. 🙂
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### Author:  [@MechWarriorZero](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MechWarriorZero)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 6:41am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047/7 "2016-11-23T06:41:26Z")
> @sGarver said:
> Then the answer is yes. 🙂
so what can I use to do this?
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### Author:  [@Bartlomiej\_Baraniec](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Bartlomiej_Baraniec)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047/8 "2016-11-23T08:43:25Z")
Dude, seriously give us some more info.
How portable should it be? Where do you want to use it? What clients are going to connect to it. How much money are you planning to spend on it.
You can use pretty anything that runs Plex. Are you planning to carry it with you in backpack? Are you traveling a lot and you need solution for hotels, etc. Are you looking for car solution.
You can have PMS on Raspberry Pi 3 + battery pack. Portable? Yes. Cheap? Yes. Powerful? Not really.
What are you trying to achieve?
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### Author:  [@MechWarriorZero](https://forums.plex.tv/u/MechWarriorZero)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2016, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047/9 "2016-11-23T10:08:21Z")
> @“Bartlomiej Baraniec” said:
> Dude, seriously give us some more info.
> How portable should it be? Where do you want to use it? What clients are going to connect to it. How much money are you planning to spend on it.
> You can use pretty anything that runs Plex. Are you planning to carry it with you in backpack? Are you traveling a lot and you need solution for hotels, etc. Are you looking for car solution.
> You can have PMS on Raspberry Pi 3 + battery pack. Portable? Yes. Cheap? Yes. Powerful? Not really.
> What are you trying to achieve?
that PMS on Raspberry Pi 3 + battery pack. Portable but how to set the wifi to be as a hotspot, but I tried doing it to my pi zero, but couldn’t get plex to work? but will it be able to stream over hotspot with no lagging or buffering, and not connected to the internet?
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### Author:  [@Atomix10Pi](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Atomix10Pi)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2018, 10:11pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047/10 "2018-03-26T22:11:43Z")
setup the 3rd party plex media server for the raspberry pi. then set up the dual hostapd. Have your system broadcast the localhost:23400/web/ as a static IP, while it will only allow one user, that should get you started
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### Author:  [@Atomix10Pi](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Atomix10Pi)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047/11 "2018-03-26T22:12:01Z")
im actually building this for my senior project
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/portable-plex-media-server-hotspot/168047/12 "2020-01-07T22:16:04Z")