


The best part? You can run everything on a single Raspberry Pi - the TV HAT, the Tvheadend server and the Plex server. Today we're going to show you how to combine that Tvheadend server with your Raspberry Pi Plex server to allow you to access your Digital TV streams via Plex! This means you can access all your local media AND the Digital TV streams from your TV HAT in one place - within Plex! We created a step-by-step user guide to help you set up the HAT and create a Tvheadend server for streaming Digital TV to devices on your network. There are plenty of instructions online for how to use Plex Media Server, and Plex client, etc., which is out of the scope of this article.Yesterday Raspberry Pi released the new Raspberry Pi TV HAT, a DVB-T2 Digital TV receiver add on for the Raspberry Pi. Run the above script and you will have Plex Media Server running. Then put the following in a script on your Raspberry Pi. Mkdir -p /path/to/plex/database /path/to/plex/tv /path/to/plex/movies You want to create several folders for your plex config and media to locate at. If you don’t have firewall services running on your Raspberry Pi, no need to run them. The last 2 commands above assumes that you have firewalld running. Run the following command.įirewall-cmd -zone=public -permanent -add-port=32400/tcp Fortunately containerization technology provide a easy and clean way to run Plex on it. It is not easy, if not impossible to install native Plex Media Server package on the arm v8 architecture that Raspberry Pi 4 runs.

Here we give a short step by step instruction on how to install the popular Plex media server on Raspberry Pi 4, in Centos 8. There are plenty of articles on how to install Plex on the native Raspberry Pi OS, or a debian based linux distribution. Installation of Centos 8 on Raspberry Pi 4 8Gb ModelĪ common usage of Raspberry Pi is to make it a media server. In the last post we give a easy-to-follow, step-by-step instruction on how to install Centos 8 on Raspberry Pi 4.
