plex-admin

A system to manage a media center ecosystem

Capabilities

• When was the most recent episode, and do we have it?
• When is the next episode?

Requirements

Working web server that allows:

• CGI access
• authentication and authorization (strongly recommended)
• SSH access to a UNIX-like shell environment with /bin/sh and common utilities

NB: Web server configuration is complex and not described in this project. However, information regarding recommended settings that may be applicable is included in the related seedhost-apache repository.

Installation

1. git clone https://github.com/therealchjones/plex-admin into a temporary directory of your choice
2. Enable the web server authorization and authentication method of your choice
3. Protect the path api/index.cgi via authentication and/or authorization on the server
4. Configure the web server to run api/index.cgi as a CGI script rather than to serve the file contents
5. Choose a directory not accessible to any web server visitors but accessible to api/index.cgi that will house admin-secrets.sh
6. Edit variables in admin-secrets.sh and deploy.sh as needed
7. Run deploy.sh to move files to the server

Development

1. git clone https://github.com/therealchjones/plex-admin into a development directory of your choice
2. Configure web server as desired
3. Copy admin-secrets.sh to admin-secrets_local.sh and deploy.sh to deploy_local.sh
4. Edit variables in admin-secrets_local.sh and deploy_local.sh as needed
5. Run deploy_local.sh to move files to the server
6. Add appropriate Node.js modules (npm install) and VS Code extensions as desired
7. Edit source files in the plex-admin/ directory hierarchy as desired
8. Repeat steps 5-6 as desired
9. Submit pull request as desired

Development Notes

• Comments are important and plentiful. Read them. Write more.
• Neither Node.js/npm nor Visual Studio Code and its recommended extensions are required for development. However, using them can improve code quality and style standardization for this project. Configuration files are included.

Copyright

CC0