Plex client for the Raspberry Pi

Certainly interested in trying this, but FFS - give us an obvious image download link (there is one, but buried behind layers of "Buy this!" and "Run this script!").

I appreciate the (presumable) desire to make it easy for people to burn the image onto an SD card, but when I see this:

> Please re-run this script with root privileges, i.e. 'sudo ./getrasplex.py'

without any kind of explanation, or justification, just a "do this!" instruction, the answer is "NO".

Re: Plex client for the Raspberry Pi

#6

Post by misnome » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 9:22 PM UTC

Hmm, so after trying this I'm not exactly impressed. The menu visibly lags and it just sits and... well, either does nothing or the screen goes blank when I try to play a relatively simple video. This is with a preexisting plex setup that works fine.

I'm running on an original B, but the site mentions nothing about the split - so maybe it only works on the 512mb models (I really wish they had changed the name, though the site says "A Raspberry Pi mini-computer" is required, and I doubt it works on the A, so they don't seem to be explicit any way).

Re: Plex client for the Raspberry Pi

#7

Post by dalehamel » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 9:34 PM UTC

misnome wrote: post #6

Hmm, so after trying this I'm not exactly impressed. The menu visibly lags and it just sits and... well, either does nothing or the screen goes blank when I try to play a relatively simple video. This is with a preexisting plex setup that works fine. I'm running on an original B, but the site mentions nothing about the split - so maybe it only works on the 512mb models (I really wish they had changed the name, though…

This is still in Alpha, we are working on making the experience smoother.

Make sure you are running 0.1.27

As for the black screen, currently a known issue that seems to occur before caching is done.

Re: Plex client for the Raspberry Pi

#8

Post by dalehamel » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 9:35 PM UTC

misnome wrote: post #5

Certainly interested in trying this, but FFS - give us an obvious image download link (there is one, but buried behind layers of "Buy this!" and "Run this script!"). I appreciate the (presumable) desire to make it easy for people to burn the image onto an SD card, but when I see this: > Please re-run this script with root privileges, i.e. 'sudo ./getrasplex.py' without any kind of explanation, or justification, just…

I'll look into clarifying this.

We have plans to have a single, GUI installer, but only have so much man power.

Again, still in Alpha. The project is only about 1 month old.

Re: Plex client for the Raspberry Pi

#9

Post by dalehamel » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 9:37 PM UTC

misnome wrote: post #6

Hmm, so after trying this I'm not exactly impressed. The menu visibly lags and it just sits and... well, either does nothing or the screen goes blank when I try to play a relatively simple video. This is with a preexisting plex setup that works fine. I'm running on an original B, but the site mentions nothing about the split - so maybe it only works on the 512mb models (I really wish they had changed the name, though…

As for compatibility, I firmly stand behind supporting all Raspberry Pis, though it probably works best with 512 atm

Re: Plex client for the Raspberry Pi

#10

Post by dalehamel » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 9:39 PM UTC

misnome wrote: post #6

Hmm, so after trying this I'm not exactly impressed. The menu visibly lags and it just sits and... well, either does nothing or the screen goes blank when I try to play a relatively simple video. This is with a preexisting plex setup that works fine. I'm running on an original B, but the site mentions nothing about the split - so maybe it only works on the 512mb models (I really wish they had changed the name, though…

http://rasplex.com/about/faq.html