How To Update Plex With Plexguide

We've all tried to catalogue our downloaded media content manually on our machines. As our media content library grows, it becomes a headache to apply and manage. Downloaded media content names are deadline illegible, you forget what y'all accept and haven't watched and when you want to watch something, you have to scour through tens, hundreds or thousands of files.

Hither's where Plex comes to the rescue.

Plex magically scans and organizes your files, automatically sorting your media beautifully and intuitively in your Plex library.

Think Netflix, only for your own media content. Plex groups like media titles, remembers what you take, and haven't watched, where you are upwards to in videos, has excellent search functionality, provides additional information derived from media content metadata and much, much more than.

Plex was i of the biggest reasons behind me ownership and setting upwardly my NAS. I wanted the server to concord all my media content and all of Plex's features helped me justify the costs associated with building the NAS.

In this article, I'grand going to go through how I set up Plex on my Unraid NAS Server!

Annotation: This article assumes that you've already setup Unraid. If you haven't bank check out this article.

Create an account on Plex

Navigate to https://www.plex.television set/, click Sign upward, enter your email, password and create your business relationship! All pretty standard stuff.

Before we install Plex on our server, we need to create an Unraid "Share" that is dedicated to holding our media content that we desire Plex to catalogue.

Open upward Unraid, click on the Shares tab then click Add together Share:

On the Share Settings folio, fill up out Share proper name and Comments and click Add together Share:

In one case this share has been created, I recommend creating folders that split up the type of media content you lot wish to shop. To do this, open Unraid in your file browser (\\{UNRAID_IP}) on Windows.

For example, I created folders called Photos and Videos. So I now have the two directories:

\\{UNRAID_IP}\Media\Photos
\\{UNRAID_IP}\Media\Videos

Installing Plex

We're going to be using Docker to help us install/manage Plex. Unraid has excellent support for Docker and comes with it already fix up (1 of the biggest reasons why I chose the Unraid Os for my NAS).

Before we install Plex, we need to install an Unraid plugin which makes it super piece of cake to search for and install Docker images/containers. The plugin is called Community Applications.

Navigate to Plugins -> Install Plugin, add the following URL and click Install:

          https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/community.applications/master/plugins/community.applications.plg

Y'all will then take access to a new tab chosen Apps.

Plex Docker Prototype

Navigate to the new Apps tab, search for "Plex" and click the install icon for Plex Media Server past plexinc (the official Plex Docker image):

You'll exist taken to a screen chosen Add Container.

There are 3 fields you'll have to add:

Container Path: /transcode (Host Path ii): /tmp/
Container Path: /data (Host Path three): /mnt/user/{YOUR_NEW_SHARE_NAME}
Container Variable: PLEX_CLAIM (Primal one): Navigate to https://world wide web.plex.tv/merits/. Log in, and then re-create paste the Plex Claim code here.

Click Apply, and so the Docker image will download and the Docker container volition be set up.

Setting up Plex

Now that nosotros've setup our Plex Docker container, nosotros have to perform some final steps within our Plex instance before we tin can get-go using information technology.

Navigate to Docker, left click the Plex logo and click WebUI:

You'll be redirected to Plex server: http://{UNRAID_IP}:32400 (which I recommend bookmarking in your browser).

Now we demand to have Plex create libraries for our 2 content directories, Videos and Photos.

Click the settings icon in the elevation right:

In the side menu, under your new server click Library. And then click Add together Library.

First, let's setup a Plex library for Videos. In the popup, select the Television set programmes library type, enter a name for your library so go to Add together folders:

Click Browse for Media Folder and under data, y'all'll find the two folders we created in our Media share. Click Videos and click Add.

And so click Add together Library:

The reason why information technology'southward a bit tricky to observe these folders is because we've mapped the data directory in Plex to our Media share (if you look at the Docker container settings).

Repeat the procedure for Photos, merely using the Photos library type. Get back home, and you should see the new Photos and Videos library. If yous have any content in these directories, I recommend running Scan Library Files, so the Plex catalogue gets updated (you should do this someday you add together new content):

That's it! Plex is at present fix on your Unraid server.

Now, move all your existing media content to these new directories we created in our Unraid share. Don't forget to run Scan Library Files someday you lot add new content.

Note: You tin besides visit https://www.plex.tv/, login and click Launch to sentry your media content (as opposed to opening the Unraid Plex spider web case).

Next steps

I've written a few articles which provide instructions on how to prepare software that automates the downloading of media content. Check them out if yous're interested in setting upward such a thing: