My top suggestion after 24 hours of using Plex is to install it and any docker apps to an SSD if you have one installed. I have a large library and trying to manage it from the HDD. Made indexing painfully slow. Create a volume on your SSD and place your Plex and Config folders there. You can leave your movies and shows on the HDD. It made a massive performance difference.
Ok so the linuxserver/plex image and not the plexinc/pms-docker version. I had tried that one first so good to confirm it's right. It worked, thank you. I almost had it... I didn't add Timezone and that was it. The other thing that confused me is I thought I needed a run command. Tip - don't click to add a command, it won't let you leave it blank and you can't remove the field in this version. On a Mac - using ssh worked to get the id's
Otherwise very nice video! while you're on Debian I would recommend running sudo apt update followed by sudo apt upgrade. This will update the built in Debian based operating system.
Under the Plex Web UI click on Account Settings> click Manage Library Access> click Grant Library Access and from here you can send an invitation via Username or Account email and choose which libraries you'd like to share. Once the other users accept the invitation they'll have access to your shared libraries
So natively Windows doesn't have an SSH app. The best one for Windows machines is called Putty. When you go to SSH using terminal on Mac OS you'll do: ssh username(your NAS admin account)@IP of your NAS. For Windows you'll use the GUI in PUTTY and input whatever values are needed to SSH in.
Don't forget to add the libraries to your Plex server. I don't do it here unfortunately, but there's a ton of videos online that show the setup process
Hello, thanks for your support. i had made it second time, use another Image: "plexinc/pms-docker" - and it works. I dont think that my problem was an failure configuration. No it works. thank for your video.
I have all my movies and shows on an external drive, the NAS recognizes it but i cant create a shared folder for plex to access those files, any idea how i can do it? or does it HAVE to be on the internal drives.
Sorry I'm late to this but that's a good question. The first thing I would try would be to point the paths where we create the "movie" and "tv" volumes to the paths that lead to the external drive when connected. That way you can create the libraries with those volumes that point to the external drive, the only issue I see coming is if the path changes when the drive is disconnected and reconnected later on. I can certainly test this next time I get a chance if you'd like me too.
@@lazytechguyltg if you could test it that would be great please, because I still haven’t figured it out 😅 a buddy of mine said something about having to mount the drive but that was confusing. If you can get it to work that would be amazing!
@@sadmanbob So I ended up installing Docker through the command line and I manage my containers with Portainer now, so I can’t use the UGOS Docker anymore as it would mess up my already installed Docker. But I got my Plex to play movies from an external drive by adding another volume and pointing to the drive. In my external drive I have one “Media” parent folder and two subfolders labeled “Movies” and “TV_Shows” filled with their respective content. I also formatted in exFAT so my drive was readable by Windows and Linux. You can try this - Connect external drive to NAS - Open File Manager - Click Peripheral on the left side o Click the drive > Open Media folder - Right click Movies folder > click Properties > copy path in the Location line - Save the path in Text Editor or notes to use later - Repeat for TV_Shows folder path - If Plex container is already created you’re going to have to stop it > edit > add volumes > and restart container o You may also need a new Plex Claim Code if the server isn’t responding - This is where it’s going to be different - In Storage Pool, add two more volumes and see if you can paste the previously saved paths into where it says Automatic distribution> then I added the names “externalmovies” and “externaltv” to make it easier to find when adding the libraries - It should look something like this o NAS directory/file: /mnt/@usb/sdg1/Media/Movies o Container Directory/file: /externalmovies - If it lets you paste in the path then when you deploy the container it should let you add the library now - If the Plex container was already installed open the Plex WebUI > account settings > Manage > Libraries > Add Library
@@sadmanbob Unfortunately I can't I only have one NAS and I installed Docker through the command line behind UGOS so I can use Portainer, if I install docker through UGOS both dockers would conflict. If anything goes wrong you can hit the red minus at the end of the line where you add new volumes and delete the new volumes or delete the whole Plex container and rebuild it. As long as you don't delete your Config files that are saved in the internal drives you're good and can rebuild a fresh container, point it to the config folder like in the video but this time your config folder is going to be populated with files from your last build 😅 it sounds complicated but it's simple once you mess with it
so my issue is i already have a remote plex server.....and the UGreen server is another server i was trying to stand up but for some reason plex wont allow me to configure the ugreen server. All i get are the shows on my first NAS
So you have the Plex Media Server container running and configured in your Ugreen NAS but you cannot finish the setup through the browser or are you trying to configure your Ugreen NAS storage to be accessed by your other Plex Media Server? Is your other Plex Media Server on another NAS, PC, Media Streamer like a Shield?
I ended up needing to uninstall Plex Media Server from my Windows pc, and then I was able to get the Ugreen Plex Server running. Unfortunately now I’m stuck where I have moved files over to the shared/movies folder but the Plex server doesn’t see files there.
@@prezpolk4ever See my other comment here. I had the same issue, but what wasn't apparent from the tutorial is that you have to connect to the Plex port FROM your NAS ip address in the web browser. That makes the final connection and Plex can now index everything.
So everything is running apparently. On the Nas its green. However I can't get the plex server on the nas system. i don't know how to configure that. UA-cam isn't' really helping either.
Everything is very new including the UGOS software so How-To videos are going to be scarce unfortunately. I hope my video is able to help you with the configuration of your Plex Media Server
@@lazytechguyltg yeah this is my first nas system. I know this is all new with this system cause it just came out. Your video is the only one that i can even find. I followed your instruction on how to create the container. I think I did it right. It says its running and green. however I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the plex server on the system. Or how to view the folders on the Nas system When i attempt to use the Nas ip address:32400/web it has the "this site can't be reached" page. The only options I have are windows servers that I had on my last computer plex server. idk...thanks for your help in this but hopefully someone in the coming weeks will be able to have set up guide on how to connect the server to the container.
If you have a model with a pcie 4.0 x4 slot (DXP6800 or better) you can add a gpu that fits and tick hw transcoding settings in the browser configuration. I'm curious if you can hook up an External GPU dock to thunderbolt
@@Redlinehmf Oh gotcha. I would also like to know this haha I tried everything from adding the command in the run command to exporting the configuration and adding the code there but the OS didn't like that either
If you have a model with a pcie 4.0 x4 slot (DXP6800 or better) you can add a gpu that fits and tick hw transcoding settings in the browser configuration. I'm curious if you can hook up an External GPU dock to thunderbolt
I finally figured it out but it was definitely a mission. This is what I did - Deleted Plex Container and Docker App - SSH into NAS - Installed Docker through the command line - Installed Portainer through the command line - Used Portainer to install Plex Media Server as it had more advanced configuration settings - In Portainer under Runtime & Resources I had the option to input '/dev/dri' After this mess I was able to change the HW Trans device and I had the lovely 'HW' next to transcoding under DASHBOARD
I managed to enable hardware transcoding on my DXP4800 Plus with the standard Plex installation using the Docker app. Here's what I did: 1. Open your Plex container, shut it down, press the three dots, and select "Edit." 2. Go to the "Extended" settings and activate "Privileged Mode." 3. Restart your Plex container and open Plex in your web browser. 4. In the transcoder settings, under "Hardware Transcoding Device," you can now change the setting from "Auto" to "Alder Lake-UP3 GT1 [UHD Graphics]." 5. Save the changes and restart the server. After these steps, hardware transcoding worked perfectly.
Only if you want to access it from outside your home network. Currently, I have not seen any vpn options yet so I would recommend a vpn on your router to secure it.
That I'm aware of, no. But I wouldn't be intimidated by Docker, I was and never used it before, but I found the setup simple. Ugreen may add a Plex app in future seeing how Plex is everywhere, it's even in Android Auto now!
I finally figured it out but it was definitely a mission. This is what I did - Deleted Plex Container and Docker App - SSH into NAS - Installed Docker through the command line - Installed Portainer through the command line - Used Portainer to install Plex Media Server as it had more advanced configuration settings - In Portainer under Runtime & Resources I had the option to input '/dev/dri' After this mess I was able to change the HW Trans device and I had the lovely 'HW' next to transcoding under DASHBOARD
My top suggestion after 24 hours of using Plex is to install it and any docker apps to an SSD if you have one installed. I have a large library and trying to manage it from the HDD. Made indexing painfully slow. Create a volume on your SSD and place your Plex and Config folders there. You can leave your movies and shows on the HDD. It made a massive performance difference.
Great job on this. Easy to follow. I was up and running in minutes.
Glad it helped!
Very well done video! I shared this in the ugreen Facebook forum so others can see it. Nice job!
Thanks for sharing!
Ok so the linuxserver/plex image and not the plexinc/pms-docker version. I had tried that one first so good to confirm it's right. It worked, thank you. I almost had it... I didn't add Timezone and that was it. The other thing that confused me is I thought I needed a run command. Tip - don't click to add a command, it won't let you leave it blank and you can't remove the field in this version.
On a Mac - using ssh worked to get the id's
Yeah I clicked it too and had to start over because I couldn't remove it haha I was finally able to get SSH to work!
Otherwise very nice video! while you're on Debian I would recommend running sudo apt update followed by sudo apt upgrade. This will update the built in Debian based operating system.
Thanks for the info!
Thank you my hero,❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for this video
No worries!
I like you pinned tabs in Chrome 😂
Hahaha I actually just cleaned up some of that mess yesterday 😅
Could you do a video explaining how to add users to shared folders and giving them remote access for files and photos?
Under the Plex Web UI click on Account Settings> click Manage Library Access> click Grant Library Access and from here you can send an invitation via Username or Account email and choose which libraries you'd like to share. Once the other users accept the invitation they'll have access to your shared libraries
Thanks!
No problem!
So natively Windows doesn't have an SSH app. The best one for Windows machines is called Putty. When you go to SSH using terminal on Mac OS you'll do: ssh username(your NAS admin account)@IP of your NAS. For Windows you'll use the GUI in PUTTY and input whatever values are needed to SSH in.
Windows has openssh builtin since 2019 or so. Just open the "terminal" app and probably make sure that it is powershell running
This is great, got it running, however, I can't seem to browse to my NAS drive within the plex web ui to add my libraries to it.
Is the folder in the shared folder with read/write permissions?
I followed your instructions and got "exec /init: exec format error" do you know how to fix this?
@@kevinliu4797 Which NAS do you have?
I made it like this, but my plex installation dosnt find any mkv file. How can i fix it?
Don't forget to add the libraries to your Plex server. I don't do it here unfortunately, but there's a ton of videos online that show the setup process
Hello, thanks for your support. i had made it second time, use another Image: "plexinc/pms-docker" - and it works. I dont think that my problem was an failure configuration. No it works. thank for your video.
Hello, how to find the PUID and PGID while being on mac the "telnet" command does not exist on the macos terminal
I saw a few forums on google to get it to work since Apple removed it but your best bet is to use SSH
I have all my movies and shows on an external drive, the NAS recognizes it but i cant create a shared folder for plex to access those files, any idea how i can do it? or does it HAVE to be on the internal drives.
Sorry I'm late to this but that's a good question. The first thing I would try would be to point the paths where we create the "movie" and "tv" volumes to the paths that lead to the external drive when connected. That way you can create the libraries with those volumes that point to the external drive, the only issue I see coming is if the path changes when the drive is disconnected and reconnected later on. I can certainly test this next time I get a chance if you'd like me too.
@@lazytechguyltg if you could test it that would be great please, because I still haven’t figured it out 😅 a buddy of mine said something about having to mount the drive but that was confusing. If you can get it to work that would be amazing!
@@sadmanbob So I ended up installing Docker through the command line and I manage my containers with Portainer now, so I can’t use the UGOS Docker anymore as it would mess up my already installed Docker. But I got my Plex to play movies from an external drive by adding another volume and pointing to the drive.
In my external drive I have one “Media” parent folder and two subfolders labeled “Movies” and “TV_Shows” filled with their respective content. I also formatted in exFAT so my drive was readable by Windows and Linux.
You can try this
- Connect external drive to NAS
- Open File Manager
- Click Peripheral on the left side
o Click the drive > Open Media folder
- Right click Movies folder > click Properties > copy path in the Location line
- Save the path in Text Editor or notes to use later
- Repeat for TV_Shows folder path
- If Plex container is already created you’re going to have to stop it > edit > add volumes > and restart container
o You may also need a new Plex Claim Code if the server isn’t responding
- This is where it’s going to be different
- In Storage Pool, add two more volumes and see if you can paste the previously saved paths into where it says Automatic distribution> then I added the names “externalmovies” and “externaltv” to make it easier to find when adding the libraries
- It should look something like this
o NAS directory/file: /mnt/@usb/sdg1/Media/Movies
o Container Directory/file: /externalmovies
- If it lets you paste in the path then when you deploy the container it should let you add the library now
- If the Plex container was already installed open the Plex WebUI > account settings > Manage > Libraries > Add Library
@@lazytechguyltg thank you so much I’ll give this a go. Any chance you’d do a video on it just so I don’t mess anything up 😅
@@sadmanbob Unfortunately I can't I only have one NAS and I installed Docker through the command line behind UGOS so I can use Portainer, if I install docker through UGOS both dockers would conflict. If anything goes wrong you can hit the red minus at the end of the line where you add new volumes and delete the new volumes or delete the whole Plex container and rebuild it. As long as you don't delete your Config files that are saved in the internal drives you're good and can rebuild a fresh container, point it to the config folder like in the video but this time your config folder is going to be populated with files from your last build 😅 it sounds complicated but it's simple once you mess with it
so my issue is i already have a remote plex server.....and the UGreen server is another server i was trying to stand up but for some reason plex wont allow me to configure the ugreen server. All i get are the shows on my first NAS
So you have the Plex Media Server container running and configured in your Ugreen NAS but you cannot finish the setup through the browser or are you trying to configure your Ugreen NAS storage to be accessed by your other Plex Media Server? Is your other Plex Media Server on another NAS, PC, Media Streamer like a Shield?
I ended up needing to uninstall Plex Media Server from my Windows pc, and then I was able to get the Ugreen Plex Server running. Unfortunately now I’m stuck where I have moved files over to the shared/movies folder but the Plex server doesn’t see files there.
@@prezpolk4ever See my other comment here. I had the same issue, but what wasn't apparent from the tutorial is that you have to connect to the Plex port FROM your NAS ip address in the web browser. That makes the final connection and Plex can now index everything.
So everything is running apparently. On the Nas its green. However I can't get the plex server on the nas system. i don't know how to configure that. UA-cam isn't' really helping either.
Everything is very new including the UGOS software so How-To videos are going to be scarce unfortunately. I hope my video is able to help you with the configuration of your Plex Media Server
@@lazytechguyltg yeah this is my first nas system.
I know this is all new with this system cause it just came out. Your video is the only one that i can even find.
I followed your instruction on how to create the container. I think I did it right. It says its running and green. however I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the plex server on the system. Or how to view the folders on the Nas system
When i attempt to use the Nas ip address:32400/web it has the "this site can't be reached" page.
The only options I have are windows servers that I had on my last computer plex server. idk...thanks for your help in this but hopefully someone in the coming weeks will be able to have set up guide on how to connect the server to the container.
How do you ad hardware transcoding to this?
If you have a model with a pcie 4.0 x4 slot (DXP6800 or better) you can add a gpu that fits and tick hw transcoding settings in the browser configuration. I'm curious if you can hook up an External GPU dock to thunderbolt
I mean in the code. The 6800 intel chip can do transcoding.
@@lazytechguyltg apparently someone found you can already hook up a monitor via thunderbolt on one of these boxes, so it might just be possible.
@@Redlinehmf Oh gotcha. I would also like to know this haha I tried everything from adding the command in the run command to exporting the configuration and adding the code there but the OS didn't like that either
I too would like to know how to add hardware transcoding to this.
If you have a model with a pcie 4.0 x4 slot (DXP6800 or better) you can add a gpu that fits and tick hw transcoding settings in the browser configuration. I'm curious if you can hook up an External GPU dock to thunderbolt
I finally figured it out but it was definitely a mission. This is what I did
- Deleted Plex Container and Docker App
- SSH into NAS
- Installed Docker through the command line
- Installed Portainer through the command line
- Used Portainer to install Plex Media Server as it had more advanced configuration settings
- In Portainer under Runtime & Resources I had the option to input '/dev/dri'
After this mess I was able to change the HW Trans device and I had the lovely 'HW' next to transcoding under DASHBOARD
ua-cam.com/video/zjONURmO1mk/v-deo.html
I managed to enable hardware transcoding on my DXP4800 Plus with the standard Plex installation using the Docker app. Here's what I did:
1. Open your Plex container, shut it down, press the three dots, and select "Edit."
2. Go to the "Extended" settings and activate "Privileged Mode."
3. Restart your Plex container and open Plex in your web browser.
4. In the transcoder settings, under "Hardware Transcoding Device," you can now change the setting from "Auto" to "Alder Lake-UP3 GT1 [UHD Graphics]."
5. Save the changes and restart the server.
After these steps, hardware transcoding worked perfectly.
Does your NAS need to be open to internet to use Plex?
Only if you want to access it from outside your home network. Currently, I have not seen any vpn options yet so I would recommend a vpn on your router to secure it.
I was able to get Tailscale running and I can connect from outside my network without opening Plex directly to the Internet
There is no other way to get plex on green NAS?
That I'm aware of, no. But I wouldn't be intimidated by Docker, I was and never used it before, but I found the setup simple. Ugreen may add a Plex app in future seeing how Plex is everywhere, it's even in Android Auto now!
Can you add the transcode line in advanced variable? devices:
- /dev/dri:/dev/dri
I finally figured it out but it was definitely a mission. This is what I did
- Deleted Plex Container and Docker App
- SSH into NAS
- Installed Docker through the command line
- Installed Portainer through the command line
- Used Portainer to install Plex Media Server as it had more advanced configuration settings
- In Portainer under Runtime & Resources I had the option to input '/dev/dri'
After this mess I was able to change the HW Trans device and I had the lovely 'HW' next to transcoding under DASHBOARD
Well I look forward to your updated video on this lol
I'll get working on it soon, it's my anniversary this weekend and I have been getting a lot of side eyes lol
@@Redlinehmf ua-cam.com/video/zjONURmO1mk/v-deo.html