garbled1
commented
2 years ago It works on a VM, here is what I learned:
1) I couldn't get it to work sanely without specifying both CONFIG_PATH and HOST_IP on the commandline. 2) When you go to plex to bind a device, immediately go back to the bind page, and click the check linked box. 3) Once you do that, you should now see a data.json file in the config path. Now when you restart this service, it will remember the bindings, and everything just works. 4) Yes, you need to run this at all times you want to proxy DLNA. 5) Yes, it works fine on a VM, I have only ever tried it on a VM.
My setup was to build a venv for it, in it's own directory somewhere, and then a quick service file. I also created a local user to run it.
[Unit]
Description=PlexDLNAPlayer
Documentation=https://github.com/songchenwen/plexdlnaplayer
After=network-online.target
[Service]
User=plexdlna
Type=simple
Environment=HOST_IP=xxxxxx
Environment=CONFIG_PATH=/home/plexdlna/config
WorkingDirectory=/opt/plexdlnaplayer
ExecStart=/opt/plexdlnaplayer/venv/bin/python3 /opt/plexdlnaplayer/main.py
Restart=always
RestartSec=30
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
FrankSausF
Hi guys, this one really looked good, and for a short moment, I could see my desired player. But then I stopped the python, and now it's not working anymore. Not at all, not even after reinstallation. Maybe, I'm weak on the concept (and of course on programming, python debugging and ubuntu), but basically experienced in any IT matter, so here's the story:
I'm running plex server on ubuntu 20.04 (server) as a virtual machine on my qnap nas. Works fine for the moment, quick, streamlined, as it should. Plex clients easily access and get the media quickly. Should purely act as a headless server. But I want to stream to DNLA hardware (as most here). So, I cloned the github and added (pip3) all the modules that it stated to miss (try and error, one by one). For JUST ONE TIME, the thing came up, offered my DNLA for registration in the web page, I did so, and for once, the player was visible in my plex environment. Then, I did the mistake to stop the script. The player disappeared. OK, so I figured out that the script should be permanently running when the server will be up. But, doing so, the player did not reappear, the web page ran into internal server error, end of the show. I flipped back the snapshot of the virtual machine to repeat the exercise of installing and getting access to my players successfully before stopping the srcipt. But this does not work. The player was visible once again in the registration screen, plex.tv/link accepted it, but it did not appear as a player in plex. The server page (port 32488) offers "Server error", without saying anything further.
So, here's the questions: 1.) What do I need to do to get a stable installation of the script in ubuntu 20.04 server? Is there a better context to install and run than in my user directory? 2.) Does this script need to be running all the time when the server will be up? 3.) What will happen, if the server as such is being shut down / restarted? Will I need to re-register all my devices manually again?
The deal is: If there will be a solution, I'll be glad to document it in the sense of writing an installation article for less advanced users for wiki. I'm glad to assist for testing.
Cheers!
FrankSausF
P.S.: Docker is out of the question for me. I'm fine with virtual machines. I've tried it, and Docker Station shot the network configuration of my NAS in a way that I really poured some sweat to get basic control of the device again without erasing all users.