This way you would have to navigate to the Cron Job menu in the web interface to run the job, but you wouldn’t have to drop to command line an remember the syntax. First, you can just have it setup an you can manually run it without a schedule and whenever you notice an update is needed, or if you’re one of those people who (like me) likes to wait a few weeks before any kinks get ironed out of updates. There are two ways you can choose to use the Cron Job. So we can work towards automating this a little bit and to do that we will setup a Cron Job using the TrueNAS web interface. So dropping to command line to update your Plex Server every time is a bit of a pain. If you’re following this guide you should have the latest version, but if you need it the syntax for previous versions, including how to use an username and password stored in a file can be read in the previous version of this article: FreeNAS: Manual Install and Update of Plex Media Server Automate PMS Updater and Setup as a Cron job Previous versions of the updater required username and password. Now we can run the updater to get the latest Plex update and the syntax is as follows: Now we can download the PMS Updater with the following commands: So lets go ahead and get that installed.įrom the shell within your Plex jail, we will first need to install some of the dependencies with the following commands: So we need to install a little program called PMS Updater. And you probably also notice that you are unable to update it from the web browser. Install PMS UpdaterĪfter following my TrueNAS: Plex Manual Install article you have probably noticed that your Plex Media Server is not the latest version and is asking for an update.

This is part of my ongoing series of TrueNAS and FreeNAS setup, configuration and install articles. This article assumes that you have already installed Plex into a jail by following my TrueNAS: Plex Manual Install article and that jail is up and running and that you have shell access to it. This will ensure you can continue to use Plex as your digital media player and organizational tool to access the music, pictures, and videos stored on one computer with any other computer, set top device or compatible mobile device. This article will show you how to update your Plex media server on your TrueNAS install to the latest build as well as show you how to automate that update process should you wish. Updating your Plex Media Server installed on your TrueNAS server is important to keep up with the latest offered features and bug fixes.

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