The Plex Server Auto Updater application allows the Plex Media server to be updated automatically when it is run as a Windows service.
When the Plex Server Auto Updater performs an update, the following tasks are done:
The auto updater is easy to install, in fact, there isn't an install. It is a portable application and can be run from anywhere on the machine that has the Plex service installed.
To use the Plex Server Auto Updater, use the following steps:
The Plex Server Auto Updater can be run silently from any commandline using the following:
psupdate.exe -silent
The easiest way to keep Plex Media Server updated is to schedule the Plex Server Auto Updater from the Windows task scheduler. You can find information about how to do this from the How to Update Plex Automatically When Run as a Service post on Technically Easy or Updating Plex When Plex is Running as a Windows Service on Plexopedia.
Of course, you can use any scheduling application with Plex Server Auto Updater by running the psupdate.exe with the -silent argument.
By default, the updater will only update the Plex server if there is no client streaming media. If there is a client streaming from the Plex server, the update will wait until the server is free.
You have a few options on how Plex is updated when media is streaming:
The default log location is: %TEMP%\plex-updater.txt. Any installation log files are also stored in %TEMP%.
If the -log parameter is specified on the command line with a valid directory, then that directory will be used to store all the log files.