infra VS PmsService

My scrappy personal blog attracted enough interest that it was transformed into the Linuxserver.io project, which then led to a career in DevOps and eventually at Red Hat. And ultimately into starting the Self-Hosted podcast and writing for Ars Technica last year.

I would recommend taking a look around /u/ironicbadger 's infra repo at https://github.com/IronicBadger/infra

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.