hassio-addons/plex

Home assistant add-on: plex

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About

Forked to add latest beta versions, smb and local hdd mount.

• Inital version : https://github.com/petersendev/hassio-addons
• CIFS code : https://github.com/dianlight/hassio-addons

plex organizes video, music, live TV, and photos from personal media libraries and streams them to smart TVs, streaming boxes and mobile devices. This container is packaged as a standalone plex Media Server.

This addon is based on the docker image from linuxserver.io.

Configuration

Webui can be found at <your-ip>:32400.

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
PGID	int	0	Group ID for file permissions
PUID	int	0	User ID for file permissions
TZ	str		Timezone (e.g., Europe/London)
claim	str		Plex claim token from https://plex.tv/claim
localdisks	str		Local drives to mount (e.g., sda1,sdb1,MYNAS)
networkdisks	str		SMB shares to mount (e.g., //SERVER/SHARE)
cifsusername	str		SMB username for network shares
cifspassword	str		SMB password for network shares
cifsdomain	str		SMB domain for network shares
smbv1	bool	false	Enable SMB v1 protocol
skip_permissions_check	bool	false	Skip file permissions checking

Example Configuration

PGID: 0
PUID: 0
TZ: "Europe/London"
claim: "Get_from_https://www.plex.tv/claim"
localdisks: "sda1,sdb1"
networkdisks: "//192.168.1.100/media,//nas.local/movies"
cifsusername: "mediauser"
cifspassword: "password123"
cifsdomain: "workgroup"

Mounting Drives

This addon supports mounting both local drives and remote SMB shares:

• Local drives: See Mounting Local Drives in Addons
• Remote shares: See Mounting Remote Shares in Addons

Installation

The installation of this add-on is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other Hass.io add-on.

1. Add my Hass.io add-ons repository to your Hass.io instance.
2. Install this add-on.
3. Click the Save button to store your configuration.
4. Start the add-on.
5. Check the logs of the add-on to see if everything went well.
6. Carefully configure the add-on to your preferences, see the official documentation for for that.