Will PMS ever allow Plex data on adopted storage? YES!!

Plex Media Server NAS & Devices
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Themes play for me after the move and I’m using the betas.

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Themes haven’t been playing for me since I’ve moved PMS over to adopted storage. Not sure if that’s related. The logs show that it doesn’t cache it or store it the metadata.

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Sorry guys, from a newbie to this particular setup (assume a fresh install) and I want to attach my 8 bay TowerRaid for the media:

  1. Install PMS onto a usb thumbdrive into 1 of the 2 slots.
  2. Attach my TowerRaid to the other USB 3 slot and I can “point” the server to that storage and whichever drive(s)
  3. I assume that to write to the 8 individual drives I would go through Windows as a “networked” drive?

thanks

Kev

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Off topic, but please see https://support.plex.tv/articles/220391808-media-storage-options-for-nvidia-shield/ on how to use external storage devices.

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So i’ve moved my Plex data to my attached USB hard drive but now the Shield server shows up as offline. What did I do wrong?

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@petergraczer said:
So i’ve moved my Plex data to my attached USB hard drive but now the Shield server shows up as offline. What did I do wrong? !

I am using my Shield as a Plex Server (and client too).

I had something similar happen to me yesterday, though I haven’t moved to external or adopted storage yet, but am interested in this new feature.

I tried going into the Plex App settings on the Shield, and saw Plex server was “stopped”. Tried starting it twice, and it would not start.

I rebooted the Shield, and it was still showing as stopped, so I tried again, and it started, and has been working fine.

I think it might have something to do with the latest Plex update for Shield, just a guess.

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Same thing happend to me, server was stopped. Tried to turn it on however continued to fail. Restarted with same issue. In the end i had to uninstall and reinstall plex. Ran though the wizard and it started working.

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Why doesn’t the obvious workaround work?

(Obvious albeit klunky workaround being

  • Disable system version of Plex
  • Release hardware restricted version of Plex on the Play store “Plex for NVIDIA shield on external storage” plexapp.plex_external with the appropriate manifest options.

Unless there’s perks to being a system app Plex relies on

I haven’t really looked at it, but I’m presuming good android practices for intents are used so third party apps shouldn’t care about the different app id?

I mean it is a kludge, and not ideal, but relying on internal storage on Android for large databases is fundamentally broken as a design decision to begin with. There are still devices that barely have room for the base OS in shops right now.

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