This article deals with the software side of the setup.Ī few days ago I wrote about when I physically put together my Odroid-XU4 home media server.

Hi all, I bought my first Raspberry recently and I became addicted to it, I installed several things but mainly focused on making it become LOCAL Plex Media Server, by local I mean that it should not need to transcode anything. This server runs Plex, shares all the media files via Samba (Windows file sharing) and also runs the Deluge torrent client. When I was initially looking at my options there was only one NAS oriented OS that seemed to meet all my requirements - OpenMediaVault. I did install it and tried to get it set up the way I wanted, but after much struggle, headache and frustration I decided to give up and use a bare minimum distribution instead. Select the volume that Plex should be installed on (you may have completed this step with a prior Package Center install already), then select Next. I chose DietPi as the OS to run on my XU4. Open Synology DSM 7 and navigate to the Package Center, then search for Plex and install it. I was a little skeptical at first given how gaudy their web site is, but it's actually a very well put together Debian (Jessie) Linux based distribution for ARM.

If you read my previous posts, I jumped the gun in sealing my XU4 in the enclosure so was forced to boot from the SD card and transfer files over to the eMMC afterwards.

That wasn't a big deal, just meant a couple extra reboots. When booting from the SD card, the eMMC is visible as the first block device so copying the DietPi image is as simple as.

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