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Claiming Your Plex Server

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Claim your Plex Server

NOTE: This is for the Portainer Method

  1. Head over to your Portainer service at http://ipv4:9000/

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  1. Open the Plex container and press Duplicate/Edit

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  1. Browse to the bottom and press Env

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  1. Press add environment variable

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  1. In a new tab, go here and login using the details of the Plex Account that will own the server: https://plex.tv/claim

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  1. Press Copy to Clipboard button. If you don't, the code will not be copied properly! Also, notice the code is valid only for 4 minutes!

Head back to Portainer and do the following: In "Name" write "PLEX_CLAIM" and in "Value" you can paste the code you copied earlier. Notice that you need to paste the whole thing, including the "claim-" part!

  1. Press Deploy Container and wait until the container is Healthy. You can press Replace, don't worry...

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  1. After the container is healthy, head over to https://app.plex.tv/ and login with the same account as the one for the Plex Token! Then you should see your server under the server list!

Useful Starter Links

  1. Introduction
  2. G-Suite Signup
  3. Recommended NewsHosts
  4. Change Log

Prior Planning 101

  1. Recommended Pre-Reading
  2. Server - Storage Planning
  3. Usenet or BitTorrent
  4. PTS Editions
  5. PTS Folder Structure
  6. PTS-Repos
  7. Common Issues

Deploy & Config

PTS-Team
  1. SSH Server Access
  2. Install PTS
  3. WatchTower
  4. Remote Path Mappings

Data Transport
  1. PTS Clone
    1. Google OAuth Keys
    2. PTS Move
    3. PTS Blitz
    4. 2nd HD Option

Key Components

  1. Traefik
  2. Port Guard
  3. PTS Shield
  4. PTS Press
  5. Google Cloud - GCE
    1. Automated setup
  6. Hetzner Cloud
  7. PTS Fork
  8. Extra PTS Commands

Blitz App Info

  1. Accessing PTS Apps
  2. App Port Scheme

Tools & Services

Core Apps [Expand]
  1. Emby
  2. Jackett
  3. Jellyfin
  4. LazyLibrarian
  5. Lidarr
  6. Netdata
  7. NZBGet
  8. Ombi
  9. Plex
  10. Portainer
  11. qBittorrent
  12. Radarr
  13. Radarr4k
  14. RadarrHDR
  15. RuTorrent
  16. SABnzbd
  17. Sonarr
  18. Sonarr4k
  19. SonarrHDR
  20. Tautulli
  21. JDownloader2
Community Apps [Expand]
  1. AirSonic
  2. Bazarr
  3. Bitwarden
  4. BookSonic
  5. cAdvisor
  6. Cloud Commander
  7. Deluge
  8. DelugeVPN
  9. Dozzle
  10. Duplicati
  11. Filebrowser
  12. FlexGet
  13. Gazee
  14. Headphones
  15. Heimdall
  16. HomeAssistant
  17. jd2-openvpn
  18. Kitana
  19. Logarr
  20. MakeMKV
  21. MariaDB
  22. McMyadmin
  23. MEDUSA
  24. Mellow
  25. Miniflux
  26. Monitorr
  27. Muximux
  28. Mylar
  29. NextCloud
  30. NowShowing
  31. NZBHydra2
  32. Organizr
  33. plpp
  34. pyLoad
  35. qBittorrent
  36. QBittorrent VPN
  37. radarrsyncarr
  38. Resilio
  39. rflood-openvpn
  40. rutorrent-openvpn
  41. Shoko Anime Server
  42. SpeedTest
  43. SyncLounge
  44. Teamspeak3
  45. The Lounge
  46. Transmission
  47. Trakt.or
  48. Ubooquity
  49. Varken
  50. vnc-xfce
  51. vnstat
  52. ZeroTier

Misc Info & Articles

  1. Change Server Time
  2. Fail2Ban
  3. Custom Containers
  4. Deploying Varken, Influx, Telegraf, Grafana
  5. cloneclean commands
  6. Understanding htop
Scripts
  1. Scripting Area
    1. Auto Upload for Sonarr and Lidarr
    2. Auto Delete Log
    3. Plex Plugin DB Backup
    4. Plex fast BACKUP
    5. Delete All Unmonitored from Radarr

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