Raspberry Pi 3B+ new setup ver. 4.12.3 My Content

I have just finished installing plex server on a raspberry pi 3B+. I have a 4 drive NAS with content on all drives. The drives are mounted and I see the content. I started Plex and in the GUI I see “Your Media” I can’t seem to access the anything further to setup the library.

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The drives are mounted. That isn’t the problem. I see nothing about Library on the gui . I’m just trying to add links to my drives.

What you show me looks like you have no server yet initialized.
Did you perform basic server installation (using the server IP and not app.plex.tv ) ?

I did the install on Raspberry Pi
pi@PLEX-SERVER:~ $ systemctl status plexmediaserver
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2020-01-17 22:57:52 EST; 23min ago
Process: 488 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/test -d “${PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR}” || /bin/mkdir
Main PID: 493 (sh)
Tasks: 62 (limit: 2200)
Memory: 122.3M
CGroup: /system.slice/plexmediaserver.service
├─493 /bin/sh -c PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_INFO_VENDOR="$(grep ^NAME= /etc/os-release | awk -F= “{print $2}” |
├─505 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server
├─520 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system] /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-ac2afe5f8/Framework.b
├─558 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Tuner/Private /usr/l
└─591 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.agents.imdb] /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-ac2afe5f8/Framew

Jan 17 22:57:52 PLEX-SERVER systemd[1]: Starting Plex Media Server…
Jan 17 22:57:52 PLEX-SERVER systemd[1]: Started Plex Media Server.
pi@PLEX-SERVER:~ $

I just power cycled the PI and now I get this screen.

Sign out of Plex/web (upper right corner)
Using an incognito window open the IP addr of the machine again.

If still not able to “claim” , Are both on the same IP subnet?

good morning Chuck,
No the Plex is on my multimedia subnet on my network. Same physical router but the PC is on a different subnet. I have read alot of installs about a script that is suppose to come up to setup libraries the first time you power on. I have never seen that.

Did I miss something some place. Ihad to be on the same subnet as the plex media server to mange it ?

It seems whatever you’ve read is either ambiguous, incomplete, or simply incorrect.

  • Having multiple subnets buys nothing on your home LAN unless you have more than 250 devices. There is a false sense of security by having multiple subnets which just is not so. Once someone is on your LAN, they can find and get to everything even if on a different subnet.
  • PMS cannot find devices on a different subnet. (broadcast packets do not cross subnet boundaries – TCP/IP specification)

First time setup requires you to connect to the server on the same subnet and associate it with your Plex account. Once signed in as you, you’ll be able to administer it from anywhere (even remote).

Since it is on a different subnet at this time:

  1. ssh -L 8888:127.0.0.1:32400 ip.addr.of.server (or use putty w/ port forwarding)
  2. Sign in and let sit idle
  3. On computer: http://127.0.0.1:8888/web
  4. Now you are connecting to it as if on the console.


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