Server Version#: Player Version#: So just got the shield experience 9 upgrade and my plex media server has ‘vanished’ When I go into the plex app settings page the section for the plex server is blank (no options for starting or stopping the server or the storage setting) Have tried multiple r…

I’d stay on 8.2.3 for sure (remember to disable automatic updates if not already). Have a look at the various issues on this forum and the Nvidia forums directly relating to your device of the top of my head the instability of external drives is the main issue on the 2017. There are many changes w…

I think there is a bit of confusion with where Plex Media Server stores the “media” and the “data” (database, metadata, blobs etc). I use the Shield as server with external USB drive formatted as “removable storage” but due to a large music library the metadata takes up easily 1TB drive. FAT32 is …

[image] redpoint5: It’s a shame this topic is marked as “solved”. I mentioned earlier why I marked the solution but guess that post got lost. I’ve added a note to the top of that “solution” comment.

I missed that explanation somehow. That makes sense. Thanks for keeping on top of the comments here.

Only pain remaing is the hw transcode… running android 11 with 2 hotfixs from nvidia and pms version 1.25.3.5410 Disabled hw transcode in settings until this gets fixed…but with no eta for it… during the weekend i will revert pms to 1.24.5.5173 … from what i ve seen here hw transcode works in that …

I tried something slightly different this morning. Instead of opening up Plex to see if that was “frozen” I opened the device settings to look at Storage. As soon as I selected the menu item for Storage my Shield device locked up. I had to remove the power cable to recover. I’m still not certain…

In attachment my logs after once again server crashed after manually scanning… Stopped the media server on shield, restarted… no result. Had to reboot the shield to get the server back up. Also still: plex doesn’t automatically see anymore if i add a new folder and files on one of my disks… so i h…

I had all of the problems listed at the beginning of this thread after the initial install of the 9 (not so great) experience. I have applied both hot “fixes” and side-loaded the PMS apk. After the apk and hot fix one, everything started working with the exception that I still could not point the PM…

There needs to be a note at the top of the instructions for users with NTFS formatted external USB drives specifically saying there is no fix at the moment for Shield USB drives becoming unresponsive resulting in the device’s power having to be disconnected eventually causing PMS to not start - rath…

Shield experience 9 upgrade, server dissapeared

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Shield experience 9 upgrade, server dissapeared

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