How to run Plex on Odroid U3 (Ubuntu OS)

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How to run Plex on Odroid U3 (Ubuntu OS)

WARNING: This guide is deprecated

Follow this new one (for Ubuntu and Debian - General ODROID hardware): http://www.htpcguides.com/install-plex-media-server-on-odroid-lubuntu-and-debian/

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1. Download Plex from https://plex.tv/downloads, version Netgear ARM 6.x
2. In the ODROID U3 create de dir apps on the root, or run this command:

$ sudo mkdir /apps

3. On your pc, open the .deb file with the package manager and copy the entire content of the folder "apps" to the /apps directory on ODROID U3
4. Create "MediaLibrary" and "temp" in /apps/plexmediaserver/ directory or run these commands:

$ sudo mkdir /apps/plexmediaserver/MediaLibrary
$ sudo mkdir /apps/plexmediaserver/temp

5. Copy files reported below to the following paths:

• The modified start.sh to /apps/plexmediaserver/Binaries
• plexmediaserver_environment to /etc/default/
• plexmediaserver.conf to /etc/init/
• plexmediaserver to /etc/init.d/

Now you can start and stop Plex with

$ sudo service plexmediaserver start|stop

or

$ /etc/init.d/plexmediaserver start|status|stop

plexmediaserver

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          plexmediaserver
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $networking
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Plex Media Server
# Description:       Plex Media Server for Linux,
#                    More information at http://www.plexapp.com
#                    Many thanks to the great PlexApp team for their wonderfull job !
# Author:            Cedric Quillevere / [email protected]
# Rewamped           Christian Svedin / [email protected]
# Adapted (cubox-i)  Francis Belnger / [email protected]
# Version:           1.2
### END INIT INFO

# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r /etc/default/plexmediaserver_environment ] && . /etc/default/plexmediaserver_environment

# test -f "/usr/local/bin/plexmediaserver" || exit 0

plex_running=`ps ax | grep "Plex Media Server" | awk '{ print $1 }' | wc -l`


case "$1" in
    start)
        if [ "$plex_running" -gt 1 ]; then
                echo "Plex already running..."
                exit 0
        fi
        echo -n "Starting Plex Media Server: "
        # su -l $PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_USER -c "/apps/plexmediaserver/Binaries/plexmediaserver/start.sh &" >/dev/null 2>&1
        su -c "/apps/plexmediaserver/Binaries/start.sh &" > /var/log/plexms.log 2>&1
        sleep 1
        echo "done"
        ;;
    stop)
        if [ "$plex_running" -eq 1 ]; then
                echo "Plex Media Server is not running (no process found)..."
                exit 0
        fi
        echo -n "Killing Plex Media Server: "
        # Trying to kill the Plex Media Server itself but also the Plug-ins
        ps ax | grep "Plex Media Server" | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill -9 >/dev/null 2>&1
        ps ax | grep "Plex DLNA Server" | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill -9 >/dev/null 2>&1
        sleep 1
        echo "done"
        ;;
    restart)
        sh $0 stop
        sh $0 start
        ;;
    status)
        if [ "$plex_running" -gt 1 ]; then
                echo "Plex Media Server process running."
        else
                echo "It seems that Plex Media Server isn't running (no process found)."
        fi
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0

plexmediaserver.conf

# plexpms - service job file

description "Plex Media Server"
author "http://www.plexapp.com/"

# When to start the service
start on runlevel [2345]

# When to stop the service
stop on runlevel [016]

# Automatically restart process if crashed
respawn

# Sets nice and ionice level for job
nice -5

# What to execute
script
        su -c /apps/plexmediaserver/Binaries/start.sh > /var/log/plexms.log 2>&1
end script

plexmediaserver_environment

# default script for Plex Media Server

# the number of plugins that can run at the same time
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_MAX_PLUGIN_PROCS=6

# ulimit -s $PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_MAX_STACK_SIZE
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_MAX_STACK_SIZE=3000

# uncomment to set it to something else
PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR="/apps/plexmediaserver/MediaLibrary"

# let's set the tmp dir to something useful.
TMPDIR="/apps/plexmediaserver/temp"

# We need to catch our libraries
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/apps/plexmediaserver/Binaries:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

start.sh

#!/bin/sh
#SCRIPTPATH=$(dirname $(python -c 'import sys,os;print os.path.realpath(sys.argv[1])' $0))
SCRIPT=$(readlink -f $0)
SCRIPTPATH=`dirname ${SCRIPT}`
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${SCRIPTPATH}"
export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_HOME="${SCRIPTPATH}"
export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_MAX_PLUGIN_PROCS=6
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
ulimit -s 3000
# ./Plex\ Media\ Server
cd /apps/plexmediaserver/Binaries/
./Plex\ Media\ Server

Awesome, thanks! Can you say how well this runs (i.e. - Can it handle transcoding)?

Due an update of my Ubuntu on U3, Plex has stopped working for me.
The guide above didn't worked, so I found this more reliable one: http://www.htpcguides.com/install-plex-media-server-on-odroid-lubuntu-and-debian/

In this way you can maintain Plex ever updated (useful if you have Plex Pass subscription) and also handle a bit of transcoding.

Tip: consider this official guide, if you want to maintain all libraries instead of a new rescan of all ;)