Instal Plex on Asus Tinker Board

INSTALL.md

1. In terminal, upgrade TinkerOS.

   sudo apt update && apt upgrade -y
   sudo apt dist-upgrade

2. Install avahi-daemon

   sudo apt install avahi-daemon -y

3. Change the default password for the default "linaro" account.

   passwd

4. Change the hostname to something more memorable like "tinkerplex".

   echo "tinkerplex" > /etc/hostname && sudo hostname tinkerplex

5. Reboot the Tinker Board. (The reboot is not only for the hostname change, but also because some of the updated packages will request it as well.)

   sudo reboot

6. You can continue accessing your Pi locally, or connect to it via ssh with ssh pi@tinkerplex.local.

7. Install from repository.

   # become root
   sudo su
   # add the public key
   wget -O - https://dev2day.de/pms/dev2day-pms.gpg.key | apt-key add -
   # add the PMS repo
   echo "deb [arch=armhf] https://dev2day.de/pms/ stretch main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pms.list
   # activate https
   apt install apt-transport-https
   # enable armhf support
   dpkg --add-architecture armhf 
   # update the repos
   apt update
   # install PMS
   apt install -t stretch plexmediaserver-installer:armhf
   # exit su
   exit

8. You can verify that the server is running with the following commands:

   service plexmediaserver status
   sudo netstat -lptu | grep 32400

9. You can now access your Plex Media Server in your favorite browser.

   http://tinkerplex.local:32400/web

10. Next, let's attach a network share with a media library. Skip this step if the library will be local to the device.

    sudo su
    apt install cifs-utils -y
    mkdir -p /mnt/shares/media
    # mount a public network share...
    mount.cifs //192.168.1.199/share1/  /mnt/shares/media/
    # or mount a private network share with credentials
    mount.cifs //192.168.1.199/share1/  /mnt/shares/media/ -o user=user1,pass=user1password
    # mount a share at system boot (preferred)
    echo "username=user1" >> ~/.smbcredentials
    echo "password=user1password" >> ~/.smbcredentials
    chmod 600 ~/.smbcredentials
    echo "//192.168.1.199/share1  /mnt/shares/media  cifs  credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,_netdev  0  0" >> /etc/fstab
    exit

11. Install Tautulli for monitoring. Requires Python 2.7 which is installed by default. Tautulli is not compatible with Python 3. You can check your version with python --version.

    sudo apt install git-core
    cd /opt
    sudo git clone https://github.com/Tautulli/Tautulli.git

12. Copy the config file, create a data directory, and take ownership of the program directories.

    sudo cp /opt/Tautulli/config.ini /etc/tautulli.conf
    sudo mkdir -p /opt/TautulliData
    sudo chown linaro:linaro /etc/tautulli.conf
    sudo chown -R linaro:linaro /opt/TautulliData
    sudo chown -R linaro:linaro /opt/Tautulli

13. Set up a launch daemon so that Tautulli runs at startup.

    cat <<EOT >> /lib/systemd/system/tautulli.service
    [Unit]
    Description=Tautulli - Stats for Plex Media Server usage
    
    [Service]
    ExecStart=/opt/Tautulli/Tautulli.py --quiet --daemon --nolaunch --config /etc/tautulli.conf --datadir /opt/TautulliData
    GuessMainPID=no
    Type=forking
    User=linaro
    Group=linaro
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=graphical.target
    EOT | sudo -s

14. Reload and start the service.

    sudo systemctl daemon-reload
    sudo systemctl enable tautulli.service
    sudo systemctl start tautulli.service
    exit

15. Complete the setup wizard in your browser.

    http://tinkerplex.local:8181