Hi,
Has any one a walk though on how to change user plex to user pi I have read to my eyes bleed but still don’t understand.
Thanks guys
Have a look at the information in this how-to, specifically “Customizing your Plex configuration on systemd based systems.”
The short version is:
- Stop Plex Media Server if it is running.
- Run
sudo systemctl edit plexmediaserver. - In the editor which opens, add something like the following, and save it:
[Service]
User=pi
Group=pi
- Reload the service information by running
sudo systemctl daemon-reload plexmediaserver. - When PMS next starts, it should run as user
pi, so ensure that its data directory is owned by the correct user. If you haven’t moved the Plex data directory, something like the following should work:sudo chown -R pi:pi /var/lib/plexmediaserver - Start Plex Media Server.
Assuming everything completed successfully, PMS should now be running as pi.
I may be wrong but i think you need to fallow the old post first.
before you can use sudo systemctl edit plexmediaserver
also i have changed the umask to let the group to have full access to the media.
here is what i use
[Service]
# These values are only needed if you wish to change user & group
User=plex
Group=pi
# This is needed to change the default umask
UMask=002
Just my approch…
It doesn’t matter which order it’s done in as long as Plex is stopped and all work complete before restarting.
Thanks guys,
It seems such hard work now to have plex on a raspberry.
The old dev2day repository seemed to work so easy where I’m now finding the the offering from the plex repository more of a problem to set-up. I’m also finding it very slow and unresponsive all in all a poor showing from plex, maybe it’s just got to big for my little raspberry.
It seems time I started my search for a new media server that will work for me as plex seems to have lost it’s edge for my needs.
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