Build your own home-server – Plex

Plex Media Server is a software application that allows you to organize and stream your collection of movies, TV shows, music, and photos, from a central location. Think of it like having your own personal Netflix or Spotify server that you can access from various devices. It’s a great tool for anyone who wants to streamline their media consumption and take control of their entertainment experience

https://www.plex.tv/

Optional. Connect an usb hdd

Create a folder to mount the disk: sudo mkdir -p /mnt/hdd
Get the sdX of your drive: lsblk
For example, our hdd has the label sd1
Get the uuid of the hdd: blkid /dev/sdb1
Then, edit fstab: sudo nano /etc/fstab
Add to the file uuid and options:
UUID={{OBTAINEDUUID}} /mnt/hdd ext4 auto,nofail,noatime,rw,user,x-systemd.device-timeout=10s 0 0

Mounting An External Drive On Ubuntu Server – Ken Favors . com

Create a plex account

https://www.plex.tv/

Install Plex with docker

First of all install docker ce into your server. Remember to run the post-actions to get it working properly.

Get a plex token

Once docker is installed, just execute the following script into you server:

docker run \
  -d \
  --name plex \
  --network=host \
  -e TZ="Europe/Madrid" \
  -e PLEX_CLAIM="{{PLEXTOKEN}}" \
  -e PLEX_UID=1000 \
  -e PLEX_UID=1000 \
  -v /var/lib/plexmediaserver:/config \
  -v {{configDir}}/transcode:/transcode \
  -v {{configDir}}/media:/data \
  -v /mnt/hdd/movies:/movies \
  -v /mnt/hdd/music:/music \
  --restart=always \
  --pull always \
  plexinc/pms-docker:1.32.8.7639-fb6452ebf

Access to plex

After the docker is fully up (you can check it with docker ps) you should be able to access to http://{{YOURSERVERIP}}:32400
This will get you to your plex server to start using it.