Plex on Pogoplug

[moonman]

Run plex on your desktop and see if the same behavior persists. I have E3200 running tomato and I had no problems running it (well for whole 10 min that I used it

[grayman4hire]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kingfish600', 'G')uys there may be a problem with this build. My router (Cisco e2000 running stock) will not allow WiFi connections to be established but Ethernet is working while running samba,pogoplug, and Plex. A second person from the slickdeals forum on the pogoplug is having similar problems with his while running Plex and Samba. We both had to unplug our pogoplugs to get the network back up.

If there is anything you want me to try on it I'll be glad to give feedback.

Thanks for making the build.

[grayman4hire]

I did some troubleshooting last night.

Looks like the problem is related to the Plex DNLA Server flooding the network with some UDP packets (not sure why/what). Wired clients are able to plow through, but the packets are too much for wireless clients.

I'll post this issue on the Plex forum later today to see if the developers knows what's causing it. For now disable the Plex DNLA server.

[grayman4hire]

From the Plex developer, the network flooding is caused by the time changing after Plex has started up. Since the Pogoplug doesn't have a hardware clock and it takes a couple of minutes for NTPD to sync time, my solution is to force a time update before starting the Plex Media Server service.

#force time update prior to starting plex
#all one line
sed -i '/ExecStart/ i\ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/ntpdate -u time.nist.gov' /usr/lib/systemd/system/plexmediaserver.service

[moonman]

You could just After=ntpd.service or After=openntpd.service whatever you use.

[grayman4hire]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'Y')ou could just After=ntpd.service or After=openntpd.service whatever you use.

[moonman]

Alright. I can add your fix to the service file in the repo then. My only concern is whether openntpd and ntpd use the same command to update time. I'll look into this when I get home. Thanks for researching the cause of the problem

[grayman4hire]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'A')lright. I can add your fix to the service file in the repo then. My only concern is whether openntpd and ntpd use the same command to update time. I'll look into this when I get home. Thanks for researching the cause of the problem

[moonman]

I saw that, it is actually in archwiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne ... mon#Netctl
It may be quicker if you setup the proper server for your country/region instead of using the default.

For U.S.:
http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/us

I had it setup on GoFlex which does have RTC so no problems here.

I won't add anything to the service file, this should be done for netctl profile, not plex. Plex is only up after network.target is up.

[cownamedpuppy]

I able to get plexmedia server up and running but it is not showing any agents and I can not add any media to it.
Logs show-
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:06 [0xb2056460] ERROR - Error reading from plug-in [com.plexapp.system], we're killing it (got: '').
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:06 [0xb2056460] DEBUG - Stopping [com.plexapp.system].
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:06 [0xb2056460] DEBUG - [com.plexapp.system] Killing.
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:06 [0xb2056460] ERROR - Error received reading configuration for com.plexapp.system
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:06 [0xb2056460] DEBUG - Stopping [com.plexapp.system].
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:06 [0xb2056460] DEBUG - System bundle was restarted, we need to notify other plug-ins
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:06 [0xb2056460] DEBUG - The system knows about 0 agents.
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:06 [0xb2344460] DEBUG - Starting file watcher for com.plexapp.system
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:06 [0xb2344460] DEBUG - Spawned plug-in com.plexapp.system with PID 941
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:06 [0xb2344460] DEBUG - [com.plexapp.system] Sent command: GET /:/prefixes
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:07 [0xb2344460] ERROR - Error reading from plug-in [com.plexapp.system], we're killing it (got: '').
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:07 [0xb2344460] DEBUG - Stopping [com.plexapp.system].
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:07 [0xb2344460] DEBUG - [com.plexapp.system] Killing.
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:07 [0xb2344460] ERROR - Error received reading configuration for com.plexapp.system
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:07 [0xb2344460] DEBUG - Stopping [com.plexapp.system].
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:07 [0xb2344460] DEBUG - System bundle was restarted, we need to notify other plug-ins
Aug 27, 2013 00:31:07 [0xb2344460] DEBUG - The system knows about 0 agents.

Any clues to what I could be doing wrong?
These logs are from E02 though I was getting the exact same error with an oxnas device (P22) too.