Reinstall of Plex - No Way to Connect Libraries

[tkb2023]

I’ve running Plex Media Server on CasaOS on a Zimaboard. It crashed yesterday so I decided to reinstall the OS and then Plex. Now when I open Plex, it doesn’t seem to recognize it’s a fresh install, and I’m not getting the screen(s) to set up my libraries. I’ve searched high and low - eventually asking Perplexity. That yeilded a really confusing (and incomplete) set of instructions related to re-asserting my claim code. I wasn’t successful in accessing the screen where I’d put in the new claim code. Any help appreciated.

[tom80H]

@tkb2023

when I open Plex, it doesn’t seem to recognize it’s a fresh install, and I’m not getting the screen(s) to set up my libraries.

How do you open Plex?
The most common / straightforward approach to claim your server is to connect to the server locally (load the bundled version of Plex Web from the same network/subnet, e.g. http://127.0.0.1:32400/web when you’re on the same machine).

From there, you should get to the setup procedure.

There’s an alternative approach to claim your server with a claim token (described in the Linux Tips & Tricks Guide).

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[tkb2023]

When I load http://127.0.0.1:32400/web into a browser (on the same LAN), the browser reports: “can’t reach this page… 127.0.0.1 refused to connect.”

I checked the CasaOS logs and the following is shown numerous times:

**** Server is unclaimed, but no claim token has been set ****
plex | **** creating video group video5pj3 with id 107 ****
plex | **** adding /dev/dri/renderD128 to video group video5pj3 with id 107 ****
plex | **** adding /dev/dri/card0 to video group video with id 44 ****
plex | Docker is used for versioning skip update check
plex | [custom-init] No custom files found, skipping…
plex | Starting Plex Media Server. . . (you can ignore the libusb_init error)
plex | Connection to localhost (::1) 32400 port [tcp/*] succeeded!
plex | [ls.io-init] done.
plex | Critical: libusb_init failed
plex | [migrations] started
plex | [migrations] no migrations found
plex | usermod: no changes

[tkb2023]

Update: I ended up using the following command in the terminal:

curl -X POST ‘http://127.0.0.1:32400/myplex/claim?token=YOUR_CLAIM_TOKEN’

It worked!

Thanks very much.