I have a upright computer with 3 upright 6tb usb hard drives hooked to it. A roku ultra box . How do i get the plex app on roku to “see” the hard drives and use them? Thank you, John

I suppose you have installed the Plex Media Server package on your Linux server, finished the setup and added your libraries pointing to those 3 6TB hard drives? If the PMS and your Roku Plex app are both signed into the same Plex account, the Roku should automatically see all your libraries. http…

Can I use Roku Player to play my videos on the Plex Server? How do I get Roku Player to see the Video files? Also how do I find my server’s ip address if plex setup says that 192.168.1.5 in Linux? John

These are USB external drives. Are they accessible to the OS? Can you access them while logged into the machine? Ex: if one is mounted at /mnt/plex/media_1/ , can you change to that directory [ cd /mnt/plex/media_1/ ] and list the contents? The drive may not be mounted. Can you see them with the…

In case it’s needed - [image] Linux Tips Tips, Tricks & How-Tos Using other hard drives (Windows or Linux) with PMS This How-To is written to help with Internal and External drives. It also is written to demonstrate how to cope with NTFS and EXT4 formatted d…

Yes i can change to that directory on the media server machine. Yes they are accessible but not playable , because they are in mkv format. What about a workaround that can make plex player play these files?

[image] johnmarshall802: Yes they are accessible but not playable , because they are in mkv format. @johnmarshall802 PMS plays MKV files just as readily as it plays MP4. Don’t think you have to change all MKV’s to MP4.

192.168.1.5:32400 “Refused to connect!”

if “refused to connect” – server isn’t running. URL should be : http://192.168.1.5:32400/web if that’s the server machine on your LAN. If it’s the machine you’re also typing here with: http://127.0.0.1:32400/web Might be a good idea to make a tar.gz of `“/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Ap…

It worked when i got on a computer across the room. It only showed the desktop without the drive down the left side Now how do i get it to show the drives!!? Also how do l login into the plex app from my server? And show the drives down the left side on my roku box?

[image] johnmarshall802: It worked when i got on a computer across the room. Not understanding here. Were you previously on a different network / remote to it? From what you typed above, I think you’re using two different locations / networks. LAN addresses from one won’t work on the…

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