Plex Raspberry Pi

Using Ansible to get a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspbian OS

https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-os/

Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) Lite

Pre-req

Advanced OS settings menu

Set SSH to Enabled and set user and password

Add ssh environment vars

export MEDIAUSER=youruser
export MEDIAPASS=yourpassword

Run

Don't forget to add your server to the inventory file

Install

ansible-navigator run plex_rpi4.yml -i hosts --penv MEDIAUSER MEDIAPASS

Using community ee

ansible-navigator run plex_rpi4.yml -i hosts --execution-environment-image ghcr.io/ansible-community/community-ee-base:latest --pull-policy missing -m stdout --penv MEDIAUSER MEDIAPASS

Update

ansible-navigator run plex_update.yml -i hosts --penv MEDIAUSER MEDIAPASS

Update with custom ee

ansible-navigator run plex_update.yml -i hosts --penv MEDIAUSER MEDIAPASS --execution-environment-image ansible-execution-env

Sources of help

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-plex-server/

Drive help

NOTE: this is in the ansible playbook. However keeping here for reference if needed later.

Use lsusb and lsblk to find out where the drive is being seen

Mount drive

sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sda2 /media/mediaplus

Verify the mount

df -h

Unmount drive

assuming drive is located in /dev/sda2

sudo umount /dev/sda2