It wasn’t like PowerShell where you can simply tag numbers as version with a -gt to evaluate true or false, but I did find a very simple way. The hardest part for me was comparing version numbers. I use the download link provided by PMS, but had to learn how to use awk to get my version numbers. I set out on my quest and found it was actually fairly easy. I wanted something that I could create a cron job for, a script that would download the latest version and install for me. I put on my scripting hat and went to work! What does it do, and how does it do it? I’m sorry, but I don’t put my user/pass in a script, even if it’s as trivial as logging into Plex’s website to download the latest version. I did some googling and found a script on github that was basically what I was looking for, but 1) was very long and 2) required my username & password in the script. I’m a scripter/coder by nature, so jumping over to a *nix platform was kind of exiting. Now, as you know, my background is Windows, as evident by my PowerShell & PowerCLI scripts, among other things.

“Why not automate it?” I thought to myself. It’s not that bad, it saves all settings, just tedious to do. I had to manually download the file and basically reinstall PMS.

I then set up the mounts for my Synology NAS where my movie folders are so they’re mounted at boot, installed PMS, configured libraries, did some customizations, and BOOM! Kids’ movies on my phone on the go! Sounds awesome! Why are you writing a post?Īfter a week or so, the web interface showed my server was out of date. In my home lab running ESXi through my VMUG Advantage EVALexperience (shameless plug, I know), I have an ubuntu VM I built specifically for PMS with 2 vCPUs & 4GB of RAM. It likely needs no introduction, but if you’d like to learn more, please click Plex Media Server to be taken to their site. I’m sure many of you know of Plex Media Server (PMS) and how awesome it can be for letting your kids watch your movies on the go.

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