Today I have a nice craft project for long Christmas days and new Blu-Rays for you. This series of articles explains how anyone can run their own Plex service.
Even in the age of Netflix, Amazon, Disney and the like, many people still have their Blu-rays or DVDs in the cupboard. Digitized and stored on a hard drive or NAS, accessing them is still a bit cumbersome. At the latest when the TV at home and mobile devices or other family members come into play, it gets fiddly.
The aim of these instructions is to operate a Plex Media Server based on TrueNAS/FreeBSD. In order to be able to use Plex publicly, further measures are required, which will be dealt with separately from Part 2 onwards. An already installed TrueNAS or FreeBSD and for part 2 an OPNsense firewall is required.
This series of articles explains how anyone can run their own Plex Service.