Raspberry Pi installation - stuck 'Looking for Servers'

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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I have installed Plex Media Server on my Raspberry Pi by following link to the bad guide removed by mod

I am able to access the web interface from my laptop via the url http://pi:32400/web/index.html, after signing in I see a message that says ‘Looking for servers’ but no servers ever appear.

The plexmediaservice is running ok:

pi@raspberrypi:/var/log $ systemctl -l status plexmediaserver
● plexmediaserver.service - Plex Media Server for Linux
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-08-02 20:01:03 BST; 19h ago
 Main PID: 1028 (sh)
   CGroup: /system.slice/plexmediaserver.service
           ├─1028 /bin/sh -c LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server"
           ├─1031 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Server
           ├─1043 Plex Plug-in [com.plexapp.system] /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-200287a06/Framework.bundle/Contents/Resources/Versions/2/Python/bootstrap.py --server-version 1.13.4.5271-200287a06 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-200287a06/System.bundle
           ├─1150 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex DLNA Server
           └─1152 /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Tuner/Private /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Resources/Tuner/Shared 1.13.4.5271-200287a06 32600 /waitmutex

so I’m not sure what has gone wrong, can someone help? Happy to post logs etc if more information is needed, or I can just start again if better instructions are available somewhere else.

many thanks

Rob

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Don’t use that guide. It’s garbage and wrong in many aspects. Please review our official guide:

To fix your specific problem, please continue to read here (ssh instructions):

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200288586-installation/#toc-2

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Many thanks, that fixed it! Shame that there are so many incorrect guides to this online. Have you thought about creating a thread with a more search-engine-friendly title that links to this information? I’m fairly technically-literate and wouldn’t have known that I needed to look in ‘About Server armhf (arm64) Debian / Ubuntu’ for the correct procedure for a Raspberry Pi (and neither does Google apparently!) Anyway, thanks again :smile:
Rob

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