I have a new Roku mounted to my TV along with a 5 TB hard drive half full of stuff I want to watch.
I don’t have much experience with android. How do I associate the Roku on that machine to play any movies on the hard drive? How do I set Plex up as the default movie player?
The Roku sees the hard disk as drive H:/ and reads everything on it but won’t play as it sits right now
Roku is not Android. Roku devices run Roku OS.
The Plex app streams media from your Plex Media Server.
Why attach the hard drive to the Roku? Why not add the drive and/or movies directly to your Plex Media Server?
The HDD could not be seen from the Roku. I gave up and moved it back and forth between the Upstairs TV and my basement desktop. That worked as far as getting the media on the disk but, playing them was something else. I downloaded a full version of Plex onto the Roku in hopes it would pick up the attached hard drive but, no luck. The HDD is seen by Roku as “H” renaming of the drive did not turn out right on the desktop it shows up as H: (I)
Now, with Windows so unfriendly I plan on downloading torrents on the Roku If I can ever get that disk working I can save them to the disk.
The point is my Plex is on my desktop windows operation and Windows has blocked the file associations so the OS will not download torrents.
If you want to play the movies via Plex, they will have to be visible to your Plex Media Server.
Plex clients do not play local files (some can sync/download, but that still goes through the Plex server).
No idea what is going on with your torrents. That is not part of Plex.
@Dan_Bev via Plex forums.
I have Google Chrome loaded on my Roku machine I have 67 GB of storage not much used.
The idea you associate your file with an application has lost it’s ability to associate a downloaded torrent icon with anything at all. This came with their last upgrade. The hamper is in MS operating system, You can right-click the item but BitTorrent does not show up in the choices any more. Still get the array of notepad etc. I can’t see the Roku from my desktop for some reason. Nor can I see the drive H: which is attached to it.
I will bring my HDD downstairs and see if the Roku can see it. Even if it does see it, I cannot add anything to it on the MS operating system they have properly screwed that.
Looking ahead perhaps I can download to the roku and someway pick the roku up on my desktop. Sense your frustration, sorry about that.
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In any way I’ll appreciate if you can handle those torrenting related discussions outside of this forum.
gentle reminder on the Forum Guidelines.
Forget torrents. We are not allowed to discuss that on this forum and it has nothing to do with the problem anyway.
You have to pick a direction. Either you are playing media connected directly to your Roku or you are using Plex. You seem to be trying to do both.
If you go with Plex you need to install Plex Server. You have a windows PC so install it there.
Your media should be on a drive connected to the Windows Plex Server.
You create libraries in Plex from the files on the connected drives.
If you want to play media directly on the Roku from an attached drive head over to the Roku forum.
Windows can not “see” a Roku or any drive connected to it.
Windows can cast to a Roku.
You can’t install Chrome on a Roku.
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