Description
Plex Media Player allows you to watch your personal media,
no matter where you are.
Introduction
Plex is a media player that works wherever you are.
This charm makes it easy to deploy a Plex server.
Barebones instructions:
- Deploy charm
- Browse to https://ip:32400/web
- Signin to your plex account
- Make sure server is remotely accessible (see firewall info below)
Firewall/Routing
You'll need to route traffic from your local machine to the Plex container.
There isn't an automated way of doing this (yet), so I've resorted to creating
a bash script to run the routing commands manually.
Note: this should be rewritten to loop through an array of ports to be opened.
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# Plex Media Server #
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PLEX_IP=10.0.3.22
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --dport 32400 -j DNAT --to-destination $PLEX_IP:32400
# Plex Companion
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --dport 3005 -j DNAT --to-destination $PLEX_IP:3005
# Roku
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8324 -j DNAT --to-destination $PLEX_IP:8324
# Plex DNLA server
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --dport 32469 -j DNAT --to-destination $PLEX_IP:32469
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -m udp --dport 1900 -j DNAT --to-destination $PLEX_IP:1900
# For bonjour/avahi
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -m udp --dport 5353 -j DNAT --to-destination $PLEX_IP:5353
# GDM network discovery
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -m udp --dport 32410 -j DNAT --to-destination $PLEX_IP:32410
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -m udp --dport 32412 -j DNAT --to-destination $PLEX_IP:32412
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -m udp --dport 32413 -j DNAT --to-destination $PLEX_IP:32413
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -m udp --dport 32414 -j DNAT --to-destination $PLEX_IP:32414
# Plex DLNA (discoverability)
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp --dport 32469 -j DNAT --to-destination $PLEX_IP:32469
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -m udp --dport 32469 -j DNAT --to-destination $PLEX_IP:32469
NFS
TODO: Fully document this. And make it easier.
NFS allows you to share media across multiple servers. Work needs to be done
to automate this process. Right now, you'll need to juju ssh to the Plex unit
and manually configure /etc/fstab with your nfs mount point(s).
Upgrading
Simply run juju upgrade-charm plex and the charm will automatically download
and install the latest version of Plex.
Contact
Maintained by Adam Israel - adam@adamisrael.com
Bug reports and
pull requests welcome!
