PmsService VS pms-wiki

Check out Plex Media Server Service. I've used it for 6+ years and it works great.

That aside, you can configure Plex to run as a service using PmsService, which will cause it to run on boot and without you having to touch the machine at all, so when it reboots for updates it will come back up unattended.

Mine worked for a bit then just didn't, and I could never get it to work again. I ended up downloading PMSservice.

I used this to install Plex as a Windows service on my server: https://github.com/cjmurph/PmsService

I just came across this last night so I'm trying it out. https://github.com/cjmurph/PmsService. It is very simple and even if I kill Plex in task manager it is restarted in less than a second. The log is helpful in knowing when it crashed.

I rolled back to 10 because I kept getting stopped on 11. You could try using the PMS Service wrapper to make it automatically restart https://github.com/cjmurph/PmsService

Do you remember the process you went through to set up Plex as a service? If it was this GitHub project, it has instructions at the bottom of the page for removing it.

You'll have to run Plex as a service, which isn't supported out-of-the-box, but this project should make it possible. Or run a different service that logs in for you automatically.

If you want a fully open and free solution, https://perfectmediaserver.com should do the trick.

Alex Kretzschmar from Jupiter Broadcast (Linux Action news, Linux Unplugged, Self Hosted) used to maintain https://perfectmediaserver.com/ as a guide to do this.

I am creating a list of parts for building multi-purpose server that will be running Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 as I am relatively new to Linux and a GUI will ease me into the structure OS as become more familiar with the CLI. Also, I am using perfectmediaserver.com as a general guide. For some context, I also have a gaming PC with some older parts I may donate to the server build. Specifically, I am considering possibly transferring:

Have you looked at the resources here, https://perfectmediaserver.com/

I myself prescribe to the teachings of the IronicBadger(Alex Kretzshmar) from the Self-Hosted podcast and (when I get one setup) intend to follow the guides on his site https://perfectmediaserver.com and use mergerfs to turn a JBOD to a single filesystem and use SnapRAID for redundancy.

I went with this guide https://perfectmediaserver.com/

Trashguides and Perfect Media Server have great setup guides and linuxserver.io has all the docker-compose templates. Good luck!

It's supposed to be a "Perfect Media Server"/NAS/Router/Smart Home Hub/Hypervisor in a Small Form Factor footprint. I want to combine as many appliances as possible into one. Single point of failure is okay, I use the network alone, only I will suffer if any of the services (including Internet) goes down ;). I value less power consumption (0,35€/kWh...) over redundancy currently.

Are there any good tutorials? I’ve read the Perfect Media Server (PMS) series but it’s not that thorough.