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    How-to: pFsense and Plex on same box...

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      Garrett 0
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      I built a tiny travel computer with LTE internet for our family to take on road trips and entertain the kids. The computer is a Dell 9020m with an Atheros wifi card (9280) with two tiny omni-directional 5.8GHz antennas used for drones (using channel 161). I have a large SATA SSD to store the media (movies, tvs and music) with Plex as the server for them. Here is what I did to get things working:

      1. Install updated pfSense to computer (auto ZFS);
      2. Configure the interfaces upon reboot (my LTE modem is connected with USB);
      3. pkg add https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/plexmediaserver-plexpass-1.22.0.4145.txz
      4. pkg install nano
      5. nano /etc/rc.conf.local and add "plexmediaserver_plexpass_enable="YES"
      6. install shellcmd through the web GUI;
      7. add "service -R" to the shellcmd and save.
      8. enable SSH (temporarily) through GUI to add media for plex

      So far, seems to work great. I hope this might help others who might be interested in a similar setup.

      Cheers!

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