About project

Simple way to install plex on your raspberry pi and mount connected USB drive. You can also set up samba server and install transmission for download torrents. Or set up pi as file storage by installing only usb and samba. If you have two pi you can separate torrents and plex server.

Requirements

• Ubuntu (or Windows with bash ubuntu)
• Raspberry Pi Imager
• Ansible
• Raspberry pi 3/4 with SD card
• USB drive

Preparation

1. Download Raspberry Pi OS Lite
2. In Raspberry Pi Imager choose use cusstom and select downloaded image. Choose your SD card and click write.
3. Go to the boot volume on SD card and create ssh file touch ssh
4. Generete private and public key with cd ~/.ssh && ssh-gen and set name for keypair as raspberry for example.
5. Go to the rootfs volume on SD card and create .ssh folder mkdir home/pi/.ssh.
6. Put your public ssh key into authorized_keys file cp ~/.ssh/raspberry.pub home/pi/.ssh/authorized_keys
7. Format USB drive to NTFS and set label usb_750g for example, we will be use it later.
8. Connect Ethernet, USB drive to your PI an power up.
9. Connect via ssh to pi ssh -i cp ~/.ssh/raspberry pi@your_ip and set up static IP on your pi read this article or set up permanent IP by MAC address on your DHCP server. Run on pi cat /sys/class/net/eth0/address to get MAC address.

Installing plex

1. In hosts.ini file replace IP with your static IP.
2. In group_vars/all.yml file replace ansible_user, ansible_ssh_private_key_file, host_name variables with yours values. Replace usb_volume_label with value from step 7 of preparation.
3. Run ansible-playbook plex.yml to install plex media server. Your pi will be rebooted in the end.
4. Run ansible-playbook usb-volume.yml to mount your USB drive.
5. Is everything was OK open your_ip:32400/web and setup plex. At first access it can take longer. Try access again if it shows some errors.

Installing samba server

Run ansible-playbook samba.yml to install and set up. It will share your USB drive. In Windows access by \\your_ip.

Installing transmission for torrents

1. In group_vars/all.yml file replace transmission_username, transmission_password with what you want and replace home network in transmission_white_list.
2. Run ansible-playbook transmission.yml to install and set up. It will create download folder in your USB drive and set up as default for downloads.
3. Access to transmission web your_ip:9091/transmission.