jaymoulin/plex repository overview

⁠Plex Media Server - Docker Image (Multiarch + Raspberry Pi)

Github⁠ Issues / Contrib⁠

This image allows you to configure a Plex Media Server easily thanks to Docker.

⁠Installation

First, you have to mount your USB drive.

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive

This will start Plex using your mounted drive

docker run -d --restart=always --name plex -v /mnt/usbdrive:/media --net=host jaymoulin/plex

⁠Configuration

Go to http://your_machine_ip:32400/manage to configure it

You can change the Plex Library directory by plugin your local folder to /root/Library folder

Example :

docker run -d --restart=always --name plex -v /mnt/usbdrive:/media --net=host -v /mnt/usbdrive:/root/Library jaymoulin/plex

⁠Appendixes

⁠Install Docker

If you don't have Docker installed yet, you can do it easily in one line using this command

curl -sSL "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jaymoulin/e749a189511cd965f45919f2f99e45f3/raw/0e650b38fde684c4ac534b254099d6d5543375f1/ARM%2520(Raspberry%2520PI)%2520Docker%2520Install" | sudo sh && sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

⁠Repairing Database

As-of 1.1.0 (Plex 1.40.0) This image brings ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair⁠ tool to help fixing errors on Plex databases. If some error occurs and database is corrupted, you would be able to check/repair using this tool.

To use it, the plex service should be STOPPED. Then you can use the command DBRepair in the docker container with your Library volume mounted.

⁠Docker CLI example

docker run --rm -v /mnt/usbdrive:/media -v /mnt/usbdrive:/root/Library jaymoulin/plex DBRepair

⁠Docker Compose Example

docker compose stop plex
docker compose run plex DBRepair

⁠Can't match correctly a movie

After trying "Fix association", if you still can't find the correct movie, you can seek for the correct movie on tmdb.org and enter its ID preceded by tmdb- in the title field. For example, my movie Selfie was not correctly associated. Found it on https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/613319-selfie so I seeked for tmdb-613319 to fix it.

⁠Known issues

⁠libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file

You will probably notice that kind of error log:

/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Tuner Service: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This is a known issue for Plex Tune Service ONLY. This service is not required by Plex Media Server to work properly. I have no intention to fix this log. If you REALLY NEED Plex Tuner Service to work, please open an issue, or (better desired option), make a Pull Request to implement this feature.

⁠Unknown file formats / "This server is not powerful enough to convert video"

Plex for Raspberry PI cannot read some video file format like AVI, WMV or OGM, either due to codec or due to RPI lack of power. You can convert them to make them compatible by using my docker image jaymoulin/rpi-plex-video-converter : https://github.com/jaymoulin/docker-rpi-plex-video-converter⁠