Has anyone used rasberry as plexconnect server? And if u have does it work good? Am thinking of buying one and put at the parents house but i wanna se if it works/works good… Its not such a strong device itself … Yes i have searched but without any luck
Thnx
It runs Linux, so should be capable of running PlexConnect.
But then with RPI you could also go the RasPlex way directly...
Yeah a few people have it running with the daemon mode.
Yep, I’ve test PlexConnect on a Raspberry PI and it works perfectly, it’s just very slow 
I even did extensive benchmarks measuring the xml generation speed:-
i5 quad core desktop @ 3.4GHz
Time to generate Movie_List xml 0.09 seconds
Time to generate Movie_OnDeck xml 0.25 seconds
AMD Turion II NEO dual core @ 1.5GHz
Time to generate Movie_List xml 0.28 seconds
Time to generate Movie_OnDeck xml 0.54 seconds
Raspberry PI @ 700MHz
Time to generate Movie_List xml 4.8 seconds
Time to generate Movie_OnDeck xml 6.09 seconds
So the PI is about 11 times slower than my low powered AMD server at generating the On Deck xml and about 17 times slower at generating the Movie List xml.
ohh
thx roidy for that awesome benchmark, that was exactly what i needed to know :)
guess i will havto go with another option for them.. feels abit to slow....it was just rly cheap and they just got an ATV3 for free when they extended their cell phone provider.. :ph34r:
The problem with the PI is that it’s based on the arm11 architecture which is almost 12 years old now, have a look at the BeagleBone Black, they don’t cost that much more than a PI but are based on the arm cortex-A8 CPU which is much faster that the PI. Or try one of the olimex boards like the a13 or a20, you can usually pick them up pretty cheap from eBay.
So this thread got me interested in just for far I could push my Raspberry PI, so I overclocked the hell out of it 
Raspberry PI stock @700MHz
Time to generate Movie_List xml 4.8 seconds
Time to generate Movie_OnDeck xml 6.09 seconds
Raspberry PI overclocked @1GHz TURBO preset
Time to generate Movie_List xml 2.63 seconds
Time to generate Movie_OnDeck xml 3.57 seconds
Not bad almost halved the xml generation times, my overclock values:-
ARM @ 1000MHz
CORE @ 500MHz
SDRAM @ 600MHz
OverVolt 0.6v
I couldn’t get my PI to go much higher than the TURBO preset without running into issues with it crashing So bear in mind not all PI’s will overclock the same, some will go higher some wont.
What OS are you running on that Roidy and have you tried running it off a UsB3 pen drive to see how much that chops off?
Latest raspbian wheezy image dated 7 Jan 2014, I can’t test from a USB3 stick as I don’t own one but after modifying my benchmark so it doesn’t include the loading of the template and is just the pure xml generation I get results that are within +/-0.02 seconds of the benchmarks that include loading the templates. So apart from actual boot time I don’t think a faster drive would benefit PlexConnect in any way.
Hi Roidy,
I have been trying to find out how to install plex connect on raspberry pi but to no success.
Can you point me to a step by step guide on how to do so?
thank you!
While there is no guide aimed at the Raspberry PI in particular, the wiki has a general Linux Install Guide install guide which should work for the PI.
