

Wpa_passphrase "MyWiFiESSID" "MyWiFiPassword" will create a network profile with your password replaced by a token so that it is not saved as plain text. Wpa_passphrase "MyWiFiESSID" "MyWiFiPassword" > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_nf Other encryption types are out of scope for this tutorial. Check the encryption of your network it should be WPA2.

Note down the ESSID and make sure you have your WiFi password handy.ģ. We only need the ESSID and Encryption type.Ģ. Note: This is a modified version of sudo iwlist wlan0 scan which has a lot of additional information. Sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning | egrep 'Cell |Encryption|ESSID' This will be very similar to the name of your WiFi. Note: If you are directly connecting the pi via an ethernet cable, you can skip this section and go straight to fixing your IP address Find your networkįirst, we need to find the details (ESSID and Encryption) of your WiFi network. And we will need the internet to download all the software and get Plex running on your home network. Relaunch the application as you normally would using a shortcut in your Start Menu, Dock, or the like to fire it up.The first thing we need to do is connect the pi to the internet so you can SSH into it from your everyday computer without the need of connecting the pi to a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Select “Exit” to safely shut down the server. Look for the Plex icon in the Windows system tray (or the macOS menu bar). On Windows and macOS, there is no dedicated restart function, and you’re left simply quitting the application and starting it again. So if you can’t restart it from the web control panel, then how do you get the job done? How you restart Plex Media Server varies significantly depending on the system you’re running it on, ranging from the kludgy to the useful. If you’re accessing your Plex install through the web GUI away from home (like say on a business trip) and you accidentally shut it down then the server is off until you get home to start it back up again.

As baffling at that might seem at first, it’s actually a clever way to ensure server stability: you can only restart Plex Media Server if you’re either sitting at the computer it is running on, because that’s the only way to ensure you can turn it back on.
