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with their file names, and not the name which should be scraped from the web, follow these instructions ( source):

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If you have an issue with movies and TV showing up with dots in their names (i.e. However there is one challenge I found I needed to solve and you may come across it aswell:

This article is not meant to lead you through the setup of your Plex Server, there are other resources out there if you need help with that. To make sure your Plex server is up to date and to automate that update process (if you want), check out the TrueNAS: Update Plex Server article.

It’s a bit of a pain that you can’t do an update from the browser, however there is a really simple work around. And you probably also notice that you are unable to update it from the web browser. Once you are setup, you will probably notice that your Plex Media Server is not the latest version and is asking for an update.

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Update Plex Install and Automate the Process Once the service has started, or you jail has rebooted, you are ready to access the web interface and start setting up your Plex server and adding all your movies and TV shows! You can access the web interface at: Service plexmediaserver start Access Web Interface Service plexmediaserver_plexpass start OR

Now you can restart your jail or start Plex with one of the following commands: So I edit the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/plexmediaserver file and change: I have my Plex server being run by the root user so that I can be sure that there is access to files and I am able to delete files from my Plex interface. If you plan to use the default use/group then you need to make sure permissions are setup correctly within and this jail and through your TrueNAS system. By default these are set as the user/group that would be running the Plex service. The Plex installation creates a new user and a new group, both named ‘plex’. Sysrc 'plexmediaserver_plexpass_enable=YES' OR It’s pretty simple, all you need to do is run the following command:

HOW TO UPDATE PLEX MEDIA SERVER FREENAS MANUAL

The next step in this TrueNAS: Plex Manual Install article is to set Plex to start automatically every time the jail starts. That’s it! Plex is now installed, but now we need to configure it a bit. If you DO NOT have a PlexPass, use this command to install: If you DO have a PlexPass, use this command to install: Go to the command line interface for the jail in which you want to install Plex and enter one of the two following commands. There are two versions of Plex to install – the PlexPass version and the basic version if you don’t have a PlexPass. However, theoretically there’s no reason these steps wouldn’t work with other jails. I started from a fresh jail using release 12.1-p10 which obtains a separate IP using DHCP and uses all the default jail creation options. This TrueNAS: Plex Manual Install article assumes that you already have TrueNAS installed and configured and you have already created a jail in which you want to run Plex.

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This is part of my ongoing series of TrueNAS and FreeNAS setup, configuration and install articles.

HOW TO UPDATE PLEX MEDIA SERVER FREENAS HOW TO

You may want to setup Plex after you have setup some of your automated downloading agents which you can read about how to setup in my Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, Qbittorrent, OpenVPN. This article will show you how to install Plex Media Server on your TrueNAS server (formally FreeNAS) without using the standard TrueNAS plugin interface and will instruct you on how to update your install your Plex Media Server to the latest version. It will serve, and transcode as necessary based on the client devices requirements, all your movies, TV shows, music personal videos and more. The Plex Media Server is the core of your PVR setup here and will provide all the media that you are ripping, downloading, etc to all of your clients. Plex is a digital media player and organizational tool that allows you to access the music, pictures, and videos stored on one computer with any other computer, set top device or compatible mobile device. Completing a TrueNAS: Plex manual install allows you to further customize the jail you’ve installed with additional programs and services such as Tautulli. Installing Plex Media Server in a jail on your TrueNAS server (formally FreeNAS) is an absolute essential.

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