Ubuntu script to install OpenPHT

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EDIT: Official builds are now available, you can use this if you want to build it yourself for specific commits/bug fixes while you wait for official builds. This build will not interfere with the official builds, you can run both along side each other.

Had to update a few systems so decided to write a script, while i was at it, tried to make it future proof.
It will generate a loader script that you must use to run OpenPHT.

It should not conflict with existing ffmpeg installs or plex installs but see options.
Updated a few systems on 16.04 and 14.04 already.

Use at own risk, no support provided.

To use, in terminal:

wget https://anythingtech.com.au/public/openpht-install
chmod +x openpht-install
./openpht-install

Default options are:

WORKINGBASEDIR=~/Downloads/OpenPHT
FFMPEGCUSTINSTDIR=/opt/ffmpeg-openpht
OPENPHTINSTALLDIR=/opt/openpht
LOADERSCRIPTDIR=~

Based on vdimitrov’s guide https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1196558/#Comment_1196558

Any weird behaviour is probably caused by the old plex home theater for linux.

in terminal run

mv .plexht/ .plexht.bak/
mv .kodi/ .kodi.bak/

Reconfigure plex. Tearing is probably caused by the wrong Dirty region setting, try 3 (default 1). http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Modify_dirty_regions

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Tested on Ubuntu 14.04. Nicely done. Just two small issues:

  1. During sudo apt-get install
    Package libcurl-dev is a virtual package provided by:
    libcurl4-openssl-dev 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.6
    libcurl4-nss-dev 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.6
    libcurl4-gnutls-dev 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.6
    You should explicitly select one to install.
    E: Package ‘libcurl-dev’ has no installation candidate

  2. File /home/plex/plexhometheater.sh should not be owned by root:
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 126 Jun 16 08:22 /home/plex/plexhometheater.sh

Also, I did add the following lines to the startup script to disable pulse audio:

pactl suspend-sink 1 1
export AE_SINK=ALSA
/opt/openpht/bin/plexhometheater
pactl suspend-sink 1 0

Thanks!

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@vdimitrov said:
Tested on Ubuntu 14.04. Nicely done. Just two small issues:

  1. During sudo apt-get install
    Package libcurl-dev is a virtual package provided by:
    libcurl4-openssl-dev 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.6
    libcurl4-nss-dev 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.6
    libcurl4-gnutls-dev 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.6
    You should explicitly select one to install.
    E: Package ‘libcurl-dev’ has no installation candidate

  2. File /home/plex/plexhometheater.sh should not be owned by root:
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 126 Jun 16 08:22 /home/plex/plexhometheater.sh

Also, I did add the following lines to the startup script to disable pulse audio:

pactl suspend-sink 1 1
export AE_SINK=ALSA
/opt/openpht/bin/plexhometheater
pactl suspend-sink 1 0

Thanks!

Thanks for the tips.

As for ALSA vs Pulse, users can see PulseAudio Sink and decide if the options are for them. I use pulse.

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I see that you have updated the script to use the internal ffmpeg. Nice work!
I tried it and it worked fine on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS except one small issue.
It added the xbmc ppa even that it was already added to the sources.
I think that the double hyphens mess up with the grep command. See below:

plex@htpc:~$ grep “team-xbmc-ppa” /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
plex@htpc:~$ grep “team.xbmc.ppa” /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/team-xbmc-ppa-trusty.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu trusty main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/team-xbmc-ppa-trusty.list:deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu trusty main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/team-xbmc-ppa-trusty.list.save:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu trusty main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/team-xbmc-ppa-trusty.list.save:deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu trusty main

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@blindy

Good work, once you have a fully working script can I suggest that you add it to the Wiki https://github.com/RasPlex/OpenPHT/wiki as I am sure that others would find this extremely beneficial and easy to locate, eventually this topic will disappear from the first page of this section.

Regards

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Deb packages now available for Ubuntu and Debian, see the 1.6.2 release notes (just released).

Regards.

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@NedtheNerd said:
Deb packages now available for Ubuntu and Debian, see the 1.6.2 release notes (just released).

This is great, you guys are the best! May I suggest to edit the description of the “release” post adding Linux to the “Downloads” section where it says “For Windows, OS X and Embedded”?

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Thanks, will update.

Regards

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Updated original post now that official builds are available.