Now which library you add depends on what you have. You will be prompted to add a library, so go ahead and do so. So now that we our drive ready to serve our media, let's start using it!īack to our laptop/PC and open your web browser to your Plex Media Server. Now this might take some time so be patient. Our next goal is to install the software necessary for our Pi.įirst we update our list of available software. It may seem a little scary at first but the terminal is the best way to work with a Linux computer. With our Pi rebooted we now find ourselves at the terminal. You will be asked to reboot, do so before progressing. With these changes made, save and exit the application. We’ll also change the memory for the GPU to only use 16MB of RAM, and overclock the Pi 2 to 1GHz. In this application we need to change the boot behaviour so that the Pi boots to the terminal and is logged in. From there select the Raspberry Pi Configuration application. When your Pi has booted to the desktop, click on the menu to the top left of the screen and go to the Preferences menu. Lastly attach the power cable to boot the Pi. Insert the microSD into the Raspberry Pi, then attach any peripherals such as keyboard, mouse, HDMI, Ethernet to the Pi. With Raspbian installed we now need to boot our Raspberry Pi.
#Linux media center pc with plex how to
The best tutorial on how to do this is provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and can be found on their blog We start the project by installing the latest version of Raspbian on to an 8GB or greater SD card. An Ethernet cable connected to a router.If you fancy opera in the kitchen, jazz in the bathroom and the latest Hollywood blockbuster in your pocket, then you need a media server and the Raspberry Pi 2 is the ideal low cost candidate. With our ever increasing media libraries containing movies, TV shows, music and pictures we need something that can serve this content to any of our devices.