Installing Open Movie Database Plug-In for Plex

[Nordlicht-13]

I tried to install the Open Movie Database Plug-In for Plex on my Truenas Core.
I copied die Open Movie Database Plug-In-Folder (OpenMovieDatabase.bundle) to
/Plex Media Server /Plug-ins/
and grant access to folder for the user "plex".
After that I stopped plex and started it again, but the plug-in is not working.
Has anyone get this to work?

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[sretalla]

Has anyone get this to work?

Yes.

I just did it now.

I put the files (.bundle directory) in the Plug-ins location, did a chown to the user I use to run plex, restarted and I see the new option in the library settings as shown in the how-to you linked.

You don't mention it, but I assume you ran a chown with -R to cover the entire .bundle structure?

 

[Nordlicht-13]

The Plug-in Folder is "/Plex Media Server /Plug-ins/", right?
I put the .bundle directory here and die a "chown -R plex:plex OpenMovieDatabase.bundle"

 

[sretalla]

The Plug-in Folder is "/Plex Media Server /Plug-ins/", right?

Sort of... depends where you are starting from and if that's the current one in use... you also have a space in the path that should not be there.

I put the .bundle directory here and die a "chown -R plex:plex OpenMovieDatabase.bundle"

Is that the user you're running plex as? if so, should work.

 

[Nordlicht-13]

spaces are between Plex, Media and Server, not between Server and /

 

[sretalla]

Looks like the right place.

Are you sure that all the other .bundle files in that directory are also owned by plex:plex? (ls -l)

 

[Nordlicht-13]

Yes:

Code:

ls -l
total 1
drwxr-xr-x   3 plex plex  5 Aug 15 10:05 OpenMovieDatabase.bundle

 

[sretalla]

That's the only file in there???

Not sure if I just did that too long ago to remember, but mine already had like 20 .bundle files in there, I thought those were at least in part default.

Can you see if there are other .bundle files somewhere?

find / -name "*.bundle" (from the jail shell)

 

[Nordlicht-13]

Okay, the others are under
/usr/local/share/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-2632c9d3a/

 

[sretalla]

So I guess you know what to try next...

 

[Nordlicht-13]

Yep, but still not working, I give it up.
OpenMovieDatabase.bundle is now in /usr/local/share/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins-2632c9d3a/
root and wheel like all the other plugins, but still don't shows up in plex.

 

[sretalla]

root and wheel like all the other plugins

So how about in the other location with root:wheel?

Or in that location with plex:plex (for all of them)? (I assume you see some evidence of some of those plugins working where they are now?)

 

[Nordlicht-13]

Tried both, not working :-(

 

[sretalla]

OK, that's a pity... what version of Plex (and which version of jail) are you running?

 

[Nordlicht-13]

TrueNAS-13.0-U4 (because TrueNAS 13.0-U5 was shutting down on it's own, with no reason)

Plex-Plugin:
Version: 1.32.5.7328
Plugin: plexmediaserver
Release: 13.0-RELEASE-p13

 

[sretalla]

I'm only a little ahead of you on a few things, but since you're on the plugin, you don't have a lot of options to get out of that.

I can thoroughly recommend getting out of the plugin and building your own jail (I would also recommend separating out the plex database to its own dataset as you do that).

I build my jail with this script:

Code:

echo '{"pkgs":["plexmediaserver-plexpass","ca_root_nss","ffmpeg"]}' > /tmp/pkg.json
iocage create -n "plx" -p /tmp/pkg.json -r 13.2-RELEASE vnet="on" allow_raw_sockets="1" boot="on" dhcp="on" bpf="yes"
rm /tmp/pkg.json
iocage exec plx "pw user add pms -c pms -u 972 -d /nonexistent -s /usr/bin/nologin -g wheel"
iocage exec plx mkdir -p /config
iocage exec plx mkdir -p /mnt/multimedia
iocage exec plx mkdir -p /mnt/tmp
iocage fstab -a plx /mnt/SSD/apps/plex /config nullfs rw 0 0
iocage fstab -a plx /mnt/HDD/data/Multimedia /mnt/multimedia nullfs rw 0 0
iocage fstab -a plx /mnt/RAMDISK/tmp /mnt/tmp nullfs rw 0 0
iocage exec plx chown -R pms:wheel /config /mnt/tmp /mnt/multimedia
iocage exec plx sysrc plexmediaserver_plexpass_enable="YES"
iocage exec plx sysrc plexmediaserver_plexpass_support_path="/config"
iocage exec plx sysrc plexmediaserver_plexpass_user="pms"
iocage exec plx sysrc plexmediaserver_plexpass_group="wheel"
iocage exec plx service plexmediaserver_plexpass start
iocage pkg plx lock plexmediaserver-plexpass
iocage exec plx "fetch -o /usr/local/etc/ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mstinaff/PMS_Updater/master/PMS_Updater.sh"
iocage exec plx "chmod +x /usr/local/etc/PMS_Updater.sh"
iocage exec plx "/usr/local/etc/PMS_Updater.sh -a"

If you've put your plex DB in a separate dataset, substitute that in along with media (although you may want to match that in your jail to the same path where it is now).

Also the transcode temp location is optional.

The last 4 lines about the updater are also optional, but I just can't stand to have the "update waiting" notification burning a hole in my eyes whenever I look at the plex web interface, so I use it.

I like to use a user which is on my host and in the jails called pms rather than plex, but you don't have to follow that.

If your paths are all set up with the correct rights, all you need to do is make a fresh jail anytime something doesn't work right.

 

[Nordlicht-13]

Thanks for the help and answers, I will try this out.
Have to figure out how to create a jail with the script-code...

 

[sretalla]

Have to figure out how to create a jail with the script-code...

You can use the shell on the host and copy the lines (1 by 1 or in bulk) once you have them edited to look how you want them to look.

All of those commands are designed to run directly on the host and they jump into the jail with iocage exec where needed.

 

[Nordlicht-13]

Thanks, for the great help

 

[sretalla]

One small point... the very latest plexpass update is bad, so don't run that last line for now... wait for a version higher than 1.32.6.7371 to be available.