You will be able to upload your media files to the attached storage (USB pen drive or External HD) and then stream the media from the server to any other device, be it mobile phone, or connected computer. Plex Client is supported for all of these devices.įor this tutorial, we will be creating the Plex server on Rasbperry Pi. You can access the data from all your favorite devices like Web, Android Smart phone, Apple, Amazon fire TV, iOS, Windows, Xbox, PlayStation, Chromecast, Smart TVs etc. The Plex Home Media Server allows you to keep all your media files in one place and access them from any and all of your other devices. Clients can access the media files from the Plex Server. Media players are the clients running on the client devices like mobile, computer etc.Here we are using Raspberry Pi as Plex Server.

Plex organize all you media files, whether it be music, movies, photos, shows, in clean manner with posters and thumbnails and also show ratings and other things from the online services. The Plex Media Server can be run on many Operating Systems like Windows, macOS and Linux etc.

Plex is a client-server media player system, which has a Plex Server to serve all the media files and a Plex Client to access or stream all the media files from the server.

All of this particular kind of issues and other similar ones are what Plex tried to solve and for this tutorial, we will be installing the Plex server on your Raspberry Pi, giving you unlimited, not tethered connectivity to your media library. Hi guys, so one of the problems with the digital age is having so much data stored here and there, especially media files, its always a pain when you have that favorite song on your computer at home and you can’t really access it or share with any other person from any other part of the house unless you come down to where its located.

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