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  • Raspberry Pi PLEX Home Media Server
    • Main Resource
    • KEY
      • Noobs Install
      • ISO Install with Pi Installer
    • Using Noobs install Raspberry Pi OS Lite
    • Burn Raspberry Pi OS Lite to the SD card
      • In menu press Shift + X to open advanced settings and activate SSH, use Ethernet so DHCP auto assigns an IP Address to the Pi
    • update password passwd
    • Update and Upgrade everything: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
    • sudo apt-get install vim
    • Try to install SSH: sudo apt-get install openssh-server
    • Create SSH file: touch /boot/ssh
    • Activate SSH:
      • sudo raspi-config
        • Interface Options
        • Enable SSH
      • OR
        • sudo systemctl enable ssh
        • sudo systemctl start ssh
    • Figure out IP Address to SSH into: hostname -i
    • Install software for Cooling fan
      • sudo apt-get install -y python-smbus python
      • sudo apt-get install -y pigpio python-pigpio python3-pigpio git
      • git clone https://github.com/geekworm-com/x735-v2.5
      • cd x735-v2.5
      • sudo chmod +x *.sh
      • sudo bash install.sh
      • sudo reboot
    • update .bash_aliases
      • alias v='vim'
      • alias '..'='cd ..'
      • alias 'll'='ls -lA'
    • Update .bashrc
      • add this so that at startup fan always starts: python /home/pi/x735-v2.5/pwm_fan_control.py &
    • Install OpenMediaVault: wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/installScript/master/install | sudo bash
    • Go to the web location using the IP address of the pi in the URL location
    • OpenMediaVault (OMV) default creds:
      • username: admin
      • password: openmediavault
    • Update OMV credentials
      • System > General Settings > Web Administrator Password
    • Make sure disk/drive is listed
      • Storage > Disks
    • Then To mount the drive
      • Storage > File Systems
      • Create
      • Select your device, Label for it, and EXT4
      • Mount
    • Provisioning
      • Access Rights Management > Shared Folder
      • Add
      • Name it, select the drive, name the folder, default credentials
      • Privileges
        • Make sure Pi (or any other user) can read/write
      • Apply
    • Now to set up some services
      • Services
        • SMB == Windows
          • Services > SMB > Settings > General Settings > Enable
          • Services > SMB > Shares > Create
            • Can leave them all default or modify later, just choose folder and that's MVP
        • NFS == Linux/MacOS
          • Services > NFS > Settings > Enable
          • Services > NFS > Shares > Create
    • User Access
      • Access Rights Management > User
      • Edit the Pi to use the same password as the system login
      • Hit Save if/when you get an error, acknowledge and then hit Save again
    • Map the network drives on the various computers using SMB
    • Starting Plex Server Setup
      • sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
      • curl https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-keys/PlexSign.key | sudo apt-key add -
      • echo deb https://downloads.plex.tv/repo/deb public main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list
      • sudo apt-get update
      • sudo apt install plexmediaserver
        • When prompted for Which Repo version to use at around 40% completion, just say N
    • Go to the web address of your IP address plus port 32400/web to open Plex
    • Make a free account with plex and follow the prompts to set up your account

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