I’m using the Plex Media server on a supported QNAP device. A problem I keep having is keeping the Plex Media server up to date as the version stored in the QNAP app centre is routinely out of date. This requires me to manually update with new Plex Media Server releases.
At present a number of QNAP users have hand-rolled various scripts to keep there Plex Media Servers up to date by manually checking version numbers. These scripts are at different level of maturity and may result in broken PMS installations / support burden for you.
What is stopping Plex providing a QNAP repository URL that Plex users can add as a third party repository to keep things in check? Has it been considered previously?
If you pulled out the “Plex Media Server/Library/Plex Media Server” directory and put it somewhere safe then dumped it back in after the reinstall, as long as the media paths didn’t change it would be fine?
Since the internals of the qpkg would be identical to what QNAP hosts, metadata would be pulled from QNAP appstore, since that has precedence
And yes, for the actual app, your procedure would work, but too dangerous and complicated for Plex to recommend to users, that might not be power users of QNAP
Oh I get it for sure, but I also have 3 qnap Plex servers and am also in the beta channel, so sometimes updating gets a bit laborious, so a self-updating Plex beta channel (at least) would be great, and yes, I know this isn’t the feature requests channel.
The thing is more I don‘t log onto web dashboard to check manually for updates. So as mainly every other user I check app updates centrally at the App Center. And since there is no notification I miss updates etc.
