Hello, I have trouble installing “Plex” on a brand new Umbrel Home. In The UI, I see “Installing” being stuck in the App Store, restarts didn’t help. I SSH’d in to remove any leftover Plex data in /home/umbrel/umbrel/app-data, restarted and retried to no avail. I checked on the karen.log and see …

Try again for a fresh Plex install after running the script below. I had the same issue once, but this seemed to work for me. [image] Official Umbrel Troubleshooting Guide and FAQ If you are unable to install an app through Umbrel app store, follow these steps: Restart your Umbrel. If the issu…

thanks for chiming in, followed this step by step, but the issue with Plex installation persists. I installed couple of others apps without any issue if that makes any difference.

Hi, did you find any solution to this as im getting the same on a brand new install? Ive tried the steps provided but they didnt work for me either?

Nope, Plex simply refuses to run. I think attention of Umbrel folks would be much appreciated here.

What’s interesting is that it seems to install fine, but it’s just having trouble starting up Try running the following, and we’ll see if we get any further information sudo ~/umbrel/scripts/app compose plex logs --tail 100

only shows this: Attaching to plex_server_1 The original post shows more detail via the karen.log

Hey @zajiczech , I just sent you a DM on this forum platform to set up a time to help you troubleshoot live, since this seems to be quite a tricky issue. You can check your DMs by clicking on your profile icon on the top right and then clicking the message icon: [image] We can then post the resolu…

Hi, Does anyone have a solution to this issue with Plex. I followed the above advice with no luck. I tried install via SSH and was hit with this: umbrel@umbrel:~ $ sudo ~/umbrel/scripts/app install plex Installing 'plex' from: https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps.git Setting up data dir for a…

@ItsMeNJC we had chance to debug this with @nmfretz and it turned out if you install HomeAssistant before Plex, it will allocate a port Plex needs to start. If you have HomeAssistant running, try uninstalling it, then prune docker volumes via the below, reboot and install Plex again: sudo ./umbrel/…

To avoid uninstall home-assistant just reboot it from UI Settings > System On/Off button top right then quickly launch before service reboot and it works fine. sudo ./umbrel/scripts/app install plex

Plex stuck at "Installing"

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smolgrrr August 23, 2023, 10:48am 2

Try again for a fresh Plex install after running the script below. I had the same issue once, but this seemed to work for me.

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Plex stuck at "Installing"

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