Plex

RasPlex

Installation on RaspberryPi 2 Get and install Rasbian Lite

https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_lite_latest.torrent

• Burn with Win32DiskImager

Prepare wireless network (/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf)

network={
ssid="SSID"
psk="SSIDPASSWD"
}

Install updated tools

$ sudo wget -q -O - https://www.bunkus.org/gpg-pub-moritzbunkus.txt | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunkus.list

add these lines......

deb http://www.bunkus.org/debian/jessie/ ./
deb-src http://www.bunkus.org/debian/jessie/ ./

Then install plexmediaserver on raspberrypi 2

$ sudo wget https://dev2day.de/plex-latest
$ sudo dpkg -i plex-latest
$ sudo apt-get install mkvtoolnix libexpat1 libav-tools ntfs-3g samba samba-common exfat-utils -y
$ sudo wget -q -O - http://dev2day.de/pms/dev2day-pms.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo su
# echo "deb http://dev2day.de/pms/ jessie main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pms.list
# apt-get update
# apt-get install plexmediaserver

• left out ffmpeg

Mount external(USB/HDD) disk:

• Reference: http://www.htpcguides.com/properly-mount-usb-storage-raspberry-pi/

$ sudo nano /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /media/usbhdd1 ntfs-3g gid=pi,uid=pi,noatime 0 0
$ sudo mkdir -p /media/usbhdd1
$ sudo reboot

OpenPHT

• Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty install

apt-get build-dep kodi

https://github.com/RasPlex/OpenPHT/releases
https://github.com/RasPlex/OpenPHT/releases/download/v1.6.2.123-e23a7eef/openpht_1.6.2.123-e23a7eef-trusty_amd64.deb

• /etc/init.d/plexhometheater

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          plexhometheater
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $all
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts instance of Plex Home Theater
# Description:       starts instance of Plex Home Theater using start-stop-daemon and xinit
### END INIT INFO

############### EDIT ME ##################

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

# path to xinit exec
DAEMON=/usr/bin/xinit

# startup args
DAEMON_OPTS="/usr/bin/openpht"

# script name
NAME=plexhometheater

# app name
DESC="Plex Home Theater"

# user
RUN_AS=root

# Path of the PID file
PID_FILE=/var/run/plexhometheater.pid

############### END EDIT ME ##################

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

case "$1" in
  start)
        echo "Starting $DESC"
        start-stop-daemon --start -c $RUN_AS --background --pidfile $PID_FILE  --make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        ;;
  stop)
        echo "Stopping $DESC"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PID_FILE
        ;;

  restart|force-reload)
        echo "Restarting $DESC"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile $PID_FILE
        sleep 5
        start-stop-daemon --start -c $RUN_AS --background --pidfile $PID_FILE  --make-pidfile --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
        ;;
  *)
        N=/etc/init.d/$NAME
        echo "Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

exit 0

OpenPHT Debian

Installation for Jessie/Sid

• Enable all extras.ubuntu.com packages in sources.list

apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 16126D3A3E5C1192

• Add repos

apt-get install software-properties-common
add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
apt-get update

• Install key

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x860CDC13 && gpg --armor --export 0x860CDC13 | apt-key add -

• Add /etc/sources.list.d/openpht.list

deb http://www.preining.info/debian/ openpht-sid main
deb-src http://www.preining.info/debian/ openpht-sid main

• Install libssl

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openssl/libssl1.0.2_1.0.2h-1_i386.deb
dpkg -i libssl1.0.2_1.0.2h-1_i386.deb

apt-get update
apt-get install libjpeg62-dev openpht

OpenPHT Minimal (ION)

The following guide/information assume you have decent linux knowledge adn can create a bootable usb pen
Get the ubuntu minial iso from ubuntu, extract it to a usb pen. Use plex as your username in the setup
When the initial setup completes and you've logged in, run the following commands

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common pkg-config
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:plexapp/plexht
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jon-severinsson/ffmpeg
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pulse-eight/libcec
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install plexhometheater xorg alsa-utils lirc

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/304.88/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.88.run
chmod 755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.88.run
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.88.run

sudo nvidia-xconfig -s --no-logo --force-generate --output-xconfig=/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Set X to be accessed by everyone

sudo dpkg-reconfigure x11-common

Setup PlexHT to boot at startup by editing xbmc.conf

sudo nano /etc/init/xbmc.conf

And paste the following, save with ctrl+x, y and hit enter

# PlexHT auto start script
description "Autostart PlexHT"

start on (filesystem and stopped udevtrigger)
stop on runlevel [06]

task
console output
emits starting-x

script
su plex -c "startx /etc/X11/Xsession /usr/bin/plexhometheater.sh"
end script

Edit plexhometheater.sh

sudo nano /usr/bin/plexhometheater.sh

Add the follwing line to the top (before the other export line)

export AE_ENGINE=SOFT

And finaly run

sudo reboot