You can register a Plex user account (for free) at You will need to this to claim your Plex media server and lock it to your account with your user name and password. USB storage device which is large enough to hold your media.Micro-USB Android phone charger (for the Raspberry PI).You will need a few things to get your Plex server up and running. These reasons make a Raspberry PI an ideal home streaming server and a great introduction to using Linux if you haven’t already taken the plunge. They are full computers with a desktop environment so you can log and use GUI tools to manage them.They are sufficiently powerful to stream HD movies to your computer.You can leave them running 24/7 without worrying about your energy bills. Raspberry PI’s make grade Plex streaming servers because: In this guide, we will install Plex on a Raspberry PI minicomputer. You can use the free version of Plex if you only want to view your own media and free to view streaming content. Plex even streams a wide variety of podcasts and shows directly from the internet and by upgrading to the Premium (paid) tier Plex offers many more services.
We don’t want to go to all the trouble of running the upgrade if we’re already running the latest available version.Plex is a media streaming application that allows you to keep your media collection – movies, music, photos – on a server attached to your local network and access them from a browser-based interface or app.
Installing the upgradeįor this bit, I need to have a terminal session on the pi ( I usually use SSH to remote in). There is a good tutorial here about using the freeware sftp client Filezilla to transfer files to and from a pi via sftp. I can now copy the file from my machine to the pi via SFTP. Now I want to select one of the ARM distros ( in my case v7) :
Then click on the “Choose Distribution” button : On the download site, I need to select “Linux” when asked to choose a platform : I can click on the link and download the update file here.Īlternatively, you can get it directly from the Plex Downloads site. no monitor attached), so I’m usually accessing the Plex management web page on another machine when I see it’s upgrade time : Therefore, I follow the link provided in the documentation and ended up with these instructions. If I happen to lose everything, re-installation and configuration would not be too onerous a task. In my case, I only really use my Pi for the plex server so the in-place upgrade does not present a huge risk. There is a big warning about in-place upgrades in the documentation
This is not usually a requirement for upgrading Plex, but I thought I’d mention it here just in case.
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