Hi,
First up, great project and working well for me. However, I was wondering if menus etc would be snappier if rasplex was running off my usb stick. I’ve seen this reported for xbmc installs on the pi so would it apply here?
The process seems as ‘simple’ as copying the image to a usb and then changing the cmdline file on the sd card to point to the usb - but has anyone tried it?
M
Hi,
First up, great project and working well for me. However, I was wondering if menus etc would be snappier if rasplex was running off my usb stick. I've seen this reported for xbmc installs on the pi so would it apply here?
The process seems as 'simple' as copying the image to a usb and then changing the cmdline file on the sd card to point to the usb - but has anyone tried it?
M
Yes many have tried it, it supposedly works quite well.
The drawback is that it will consume all of your USB bandwidth, so stuff like Wifi probably won't work well with it.
Could there be a guide put up for this? Or perhaps incorporated in the installer?
Love RasPlex!
We have a shiny new GUI installer in the works, we'll make it a feature.
We have a shiny new GUI installer in the works, we'll make it a feature.
Super! Looking forward to it!
I too would like to try supplementing performance via a USB stick. The new installer is cool, unfortunately (and understandably) the option to create a USB stick in tandem is not yet there....
Given all the other more important items being worked on, if anyone that has successfully created a USB stick could add a a point form step by step overview it would be awesome and sufficient to get more testing with this.
Great work so far - appreciated!
I have been thinking about trying to see if I can boot rasplex via NFS. Since it is based off OpenELEC it sounds like it would work. If I get it to work I will report my findings.
That should increase performance and not use up USB bandwidth.
Hi,
I have now actually done this - but a caveat first!
I found two approaches to doing this - 1) Moving the Storage over to USB and then just editing the config.txt file to point to it, or 2) Moving almost the entire install over to USB, leaving the SD card to just boot.
So far, I have done #1. I'm using a brand new JetFlash USB3 stick (I know, Pi=USB2 but...) and I'm not really feeling the love. Be interested to know if others have found it considerably zappier?
Haven't tried #2 yet. That's next - but it looks easier to do on a Linux kit and I haven't had time to sort out my Ubuntu VM...
I did it pretty much by reading the instructions here:
The only tricky bit I found was working out what the sda# was of the stick I was using. Turned out it was sda5 (which I found out on the fifth attempt...)
Hi,
I have now actually done this - but a caveat first!
I found two approaches to doing this - 1) Moving the Storage over to USB and then just editing the config.txt file to point to it, or 2) Moving almost the entire install over to USB, leaving the SD card to just boot.
So far, I have done #1. I'm using a brand new JetFlash USB3 stick (I know, Pi=USB2 but...) and I'm not really feeling the love. Be interested to know if others have found it considerably zappier?
Haven't tried #2 yet. That's next - but it looks easier to do on a Linux kit and I haven't had time to sort out my Ubuntu VM...
I did it pretty much by reading the instructions here:
The only tricky bit I found was working out what the sda# was of the stick I was using. Turned out it was sda5 (which I found out on the fifth attempt...)
Using the windows installer I just told it my USB drive was my SD Card, installed it to that, then copied everything from the drive (that's visible) other than the large SYSTEM file to the SD card, modified the cmdline.txt file as the link you reference indicates and it worked on the first boot.
Still forcing it to cache to see how speed is, but otherwise it worked.
I would be interested to get some feedback on how things perform compared to SD versions.
We have a couple treats incoming in the next version that should improve overall experience and USB install should be added to this list.
Installer was planned to do this in the first place, but we just need some time to finish & test the USB part :)
Give us some insight on how this performs :)
I tried this, and it really upped the experience on my 256mb pi rev b :) i am now able to directplay from my server and channels, and rasplex doesn't seem to crash as much as it used to.
1. flash both sd-card and usb drive from raqsplex installer
2. replace the original content of cmdline.txt on the sd-card with this : "boot=/dev/sda1 disk=/dev/sda2 quiet oprofile.timer=1"
Recommended :)
I've been running from USB since my initial Rasplex installation (so I really have no basis of comparison to running from SD), but I am very happy with performance on both my instances. Other than a bit of a wait for my "All movies" library to load (which is expected given the size of the library and what has been discussed on other threads), the GUI is snappy for me.
For what it's worth, I've been through XBMC on AppleTV1 and 2, OpenElec and PLEXBMC on the Pi, Plex on AppleTV, Roku and my Samsung Blu-Ray player, and after just a couple of weeks with alpha/beta Raspex, I can honestly say I am happier with the overall experience here than any of my past experiments. Anxiously awaiting some of the bells and whistles that I miss as Rasplex evolves, but worth the sacrifice for the stability, performance and cost.
EDIT - using ReFocus theme, by the way. Most of my past experiences with either Quartz (XBMC) or the standard Plex interface on the other devices.
I tried this, and it really upped the experience on my 256mb pi rev b :) i am now able to directplay from my server and channels, and rasplex doesn't seem to crash as much as it used to.
1. flash both sd-card and usb drive from raqsplex installer
2. replace the original content of cmdline.txt on the sd-card with this : "boot=/dev/sda1 disk=/dev/sda2 quiet oprofile.timer=1"
Recommended :)
I've tried this, but it's just giving me errors when the raspberry pi boots up. Anyone else got it working to run Plex from a usb drive?
Hey Retro,
I just got it working. Still need to test out to give a full review on how much better it runs
Hey Retro,
I just got it working. Still need to test out to give a full review on how much better it runs
So B.
I'm curious how the testing is going.
Is the Wi-Fi still working well?
Struggling with this. I've flashed with the SD card and USB stick with RasPlex 0.3.0, but the Pi fails to mount the drive I specify in cmdline.txt on startup.
No issues here. Flashed the SD card and USB. Changed cmdline.txt file on the SD card with the I tried this “boot=/dev/sda1 disk=/dev/sda2 quiet oprofile.timer=1” and it booted fine.
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Have same problem. 0.2.2 works fine.Struggling with this. I've flashed with the SD card and USB stick with RasPlex 0.3.0, but the Pi fails to mount the drive I specify in cmdline.txt on startup.
Have same problem. 0.2.2 works fine.
Yeah, worked good for me on 0.2.2 too.
apologies, i was referring to 0.2.2 as well. 0.3.0 will not boot
