I’ve installed plex but I don’t even know where to start with it. Is there an “idiots guide” anywhere that I can follow?

What can it do? Can I access it from my chromecast? Is there a difference between plex player and plex? Why do I even need it? If I get it to work, what else do I need to make it useful?

So many questions and most guides I’ve found are far too advanced, or they don’t tell you enough. I want to know, just explained in a way that doesn’t assume I’m an plex expert.

  • goldgate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Which hardware do you recommend? I am thinking about setting up pihole as well in the same server. Do you think this would work? I am trying to find a reasonably priced refurbished server, but I am finding difficult to find/understand how big HDD these support.

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      1 year ago

      You can definitely run pihole and Plex on the same machine!

      I would go for a used PC over a refurb server. servers eat up a lot of electricity and will increase your electric bills quite a bit.

      go for something with an Intel CPU, maybe a 10th gen i3, or even older if you want cheaper. Intel’s quicksync will let you do hardware transcoding without a GPU. you really don’t need a very powerful cpu otherwise, both Plex and pihole aren’t very heavy on the cpu.