On top of that, you can quickly and effortlessly add movies, TV shows, music, photos and even home movies to your library. With the help of Plex Media Server you decide what content you want to stream to your other devices.įrom Plex Media Server’s local homepage, you can view your dashboard, as well as recently added content, check the channels list along with the Queue list. Comprehensive and simple to use media organizerīefore using Plex Home Theater to watch your videos, music and photos, you first have to install and configure Plex Media Server.
You can now enjoy all your Plex content on your Apple TV 2G.Plex Media Server is a self-explanatory macOS application designed to help you manage and stream your multimedia content to various computers and devices. Once in a while I might release an updated version for the plugin, so once in a while you might want to check for updates and install them. If you experience any problems (which you almost certainly will ) just report back here. If the UI does not come up again, you probably have to restore your ATV! downloads/PLEX/” > /etc/apt//plex.listĤ- Install the plugins (and its dependencies like beigelist by DHowett) withĥ – Restart the GUI and hope that it comes back (I strongly suggest you change the password using the passwd command!!!)Ģ- In that ssh session, you need to add new cydia sources usingĮcho “deb. Ssh will ask you for your password, which (if you did not change the default) is alpine. For the sake of the following instruction I assume thet the IP-Address of your ATV is 169.10.11.12, and that you can log in using ssh.ġ- Start your ATV and log in to your ATV using ssh A nice little instruction can be found on.
If you not use this, the plugin will still work, but the image-quality might not be on par with what you expect.įirst off: you need to Jailbreak your Apple TV. This will also increase the image quality on other iOS devices, however you will need a potent Mac for the encoding! So If you still feel like installing use the following two commands in a Terminal on the Mac running your Media Server:Ĭp ~/Downloads/ffmpeg ~/Library/Application\ Support/Plex/Plex\ Media\ Server.app/Contents/Resources/ This part is optional, but if you feel like experimenting a lot, you might want to install a testing built of ffmpeg, that enables higher bitrates for the (currently) highest available quality (which is the only quality your ATV will use). After that start Plex and check for updates in the PlexOnline section.
Since those changes are considered ‘beta’, you need to tell your PMS to download beta plug-ins, by enetering the following URL in a Safari running on the same machine as the media server:
AppleCare+ cost and coverage for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and other devicesīefore you install the actual plugin you need to prepare the Plex Media Server (it needed some tweaks before it would talk to the ATV).
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