hello,
where do I find the pluggin folder on my shield tv?
thanks
petra1000
Manually Installing Channels or Plugins
When running on the NVIDIA SHIELD, the Plex Media Server data directory is not currently user-accessible. Unfortunately, this means that it is not currently possible to manually install channels or plugins on the device. You can, of course, still install things through the normal Channel Directory.
How exactly are the Plex directories hidden? If we have Root access can we access them? My Shield is about the only Android device I havent rooted, but Id do it if it meant I could add the AniDB…
I’m having a hard time understanding why the PMS data folder and meta data location are set to internal storage only (even if you have adopted storage attached) where no one can access unless you have root I’m assuming which the average person won’t have.
Why not do what Kodi, SPMC and I’m sure others do and use /sdcard/Android/data/com.plexapp.mediaserver.smb or /storage/self/primary/Android/data/com.plexapp.mediaserver.smb or whichever evaluated path to the same thing you want to use? I mean, you’re already using it for the PMS cache directory.
This would give people the ability to tweak PMS like they can on other platforms, not have to deal with the limited storage for meta data that is being imposed right now due to the use of internal only storage on a 16g Shield TV box which also limits how much content you can have in your library, etc… etc…
@heymoe said:
I’m having a hard time understanding why the PMS data folder and meta data location are set to internal storage only (even if you have adopted storage attached) where no one can access unless you have root I’m assuming which the average person won’t have.Why not do what Kodi, SPMC and I’m sure others do and use /sdcard/Android/data/com.plexapp.mediaserver.smb or /storage/self/primary/Android/data/com.plexapp.mediaserver.smb or whichever evaluated path to the same thing you want to use? I mean, you’re already using it for the PMS cache directory.
This would give people the ability to tweak PMS like they can on other platforms, not have to deal with the limited storage for meta data that is being imposed right now due to the use of internal only storage on a 16g Shield TV box which also limits how much content you can have in your library, etc… etc…
You can add storage (external USB or SD set as internal storage, which replaces the 16GB internal space for most of what Plex does) to the Shield TV if you want to have media stored locally. It also adds transcoding space.
@kegobeer-plex, That’s not what he’s saying, we only want the 3party scanner and plugin folders in a location where we can add things like “Absolute-Series-Scanner” or “hama.bundle” and its seen by the server, after a server restart…
And yes local meta can do for now, but wasn’t necessary if there just edited the default path for those 2 folders…
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This was brought up about a month ago and a ninja opened a ticket with the devs, so hopefully this will be changed in a future update.
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The inability for me to add needed 3rd party agents, channels for my setup and knowing that the size of my current PMS meta data directory would exceed the amount of free space on my Sheild TV’s (16G version not Pro) internal storage where the Shield TV’s PMS stores the meta data instead to the much larger adopted storage I have connected is preventing me to moving my PMS server to the the Shield TV. I was even planning on buying another Shield TV to run as a dedicated PMS server which I will still do if these issues are fixed.
@heymoe said:
The inability for me to add needed 3rd party agents, channels for my setup and knowing that the size of my current PMS meta data directory would exceed the amount of free space on my Sheild TV’s (16G version not Pro) internal storage where the Shield TV’s PMS stores the meta data instead to the much larger adopted storage I have connected is preventing me to moving my PMS server to the the Shield TV. I was even planning on buying another Shield TV to run as a dedicated PMS server which I will still do if these issues are fixed.
Same here.
Actually, if you have root on your STV you can copy over and symlink the internal Plex Media Server folder to the Plex Media Server folder that gets created on the sdcard and install 3rd Party Plug-ins that way (just don’t forget to set the file permissions on the symlink to the same permissions as the other files) .It’s a hacky solution though. I used it to install WebTools and that works so far.
Ok, I seem to be getting further with your solution. I can see the HD Homerun Prime plugin/channel, but it’s sadly not yet working. Will keep hacking at it.
Hoping to find a solution to this as well. I’d really like to add the Open Movie Database as an agent.
I guess if Plex added more plugins to the official channel list (Trakt comes to mind) we could install then that way…
How can we add codecs to plex media server on Shield TV? It’s rooted, so I just need to know where to put files. I’m thinking if I can get the AC3 codec onto the Shield TV it will start picking up the channels for encoding. Maybe something like this…
Ok, I guess ignore that last post. I finally got the Plex Media Server to encode my video sample from the HDHR. It is still not working with HDHRViewer channel plugin, though.
@hthighway said:
See: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/221099648-Limitations-When-Running-Plex-Media-Server-on-NVIDIA-SHIELDManually Installing Channels or Plugins
When running on the NVIDIA SHIELD, the Plex Media Server data directory is not currently user-accessible. Unfortunately, this means that it is not currently possible to manually install channels or plugins on the device. You can, of course, still install things through the normal Channel Directory.
Hello,
This is not quite true as sub-zero, which is in the normal channel directory (whatever that is) refuses to work stating permission issues.
Back to the original question - where does the actual plugins/database/etc hide.
And yes I would like access so I can get my watched shows moved over - (until this happens Shield will not be my server)
But my plex server folder on my pcs and NAS are around 100gb!.
Does that mean I need 100gb+ as internal storage - either a microSD or usb3.
Or is the Plexserver folder on my networked NAS where my media is stored?
for now if i understand correctly, yes, so until plex release an update that allow us to set where we want the datastore to be located (if they will even allow that), that all you can do, that’s why i bought the pro. But same as you until i can access the datastore, i will not be using shield as main server.
@andyblac1974 said:
for now if i understand correctly, yes, so until plex release an update that allow us to set where we want the datastore to be located (if they will even allow that), that all you can do, that’s why i bought the pro. But same as you until i can access the datastore, i will not be using shield as main server.
Hey Andy,
I am lost! Where do you think the folder is hidden?
What I am saying is if it is on the local storage I will need more than 100gb
During my multiple attempts to get plex server working including 8 resets i saw now size increase in my local storage.
The last time (about an hour ago b4 the latest crash) I had just finished getting the poster art for 667 Tv shows. I could find no size /space difference on the 64gb microsd card i was using this time.
Surely that art work would have taken up some space.
But ofcourse even the space used might be hidden !!
And if it is on my NAS with my media surely that is not ideal? Surely it would be slower across a network getting all that meta stuff (or doesn’t speed matter during this bit of streaming? ) than on a local drive!
@spikemixture said:
@andyblac1974 said:
for now if i understand correctly, yes, so until plex release an update that allow us to set where we want the datastore to be located (if they will even allow that), that all you can do, that’s why i bought the pro. But same as you until i can access the datastore, i will not be using shield as main server.Hey Andy,
I am lost! Where do you think the folder is hidden?
What I am saying is if it is on the local storage I will need more than 100gbDuring my multiple attempts to get plex server working including 8 resets i saw now size increase in my local storage.
The last time (about an hour ago b4 the latest crash) I had just finished getting the poster art for 667 Tv shows. I could find no size /space difference on the 64gb microsd card i was using this time.
Surely that art work would have taken up some space.
But ofcourse even the space used might be hidden !!And if it is on my NAS with my media surely that is not ideal? Surely it would be slower across a network getting all that meta stuff (or doesn’t speed matter during this bit of streaming? ) than on a local drive!
think remember reading that it locked to the internal partition of the shield, i.e. not in the in extended SDCARD part. so imo thats why Nvidia only marketed the plex server to the PRO model as it vast amount more internal available.
