ansible-plexserver

Ansible playbook to setup a multimedia server in Centos that includes:

• Plex Media Server https://www.plex.tv/.
• BitTorrent client https://transmissionbt.com/
• Download torrent files automatically using http://flexget.com/

Testing

You can test everything with Vagrant. Just run the following command to setup and provision the whole environment:

vagrant up

If you want to apply any modification to the default configuration just re-provision your VM running:

vagrant provision

If you are not interested anymore, just run the following command to remove the VM and save some space.

vagrant destroy

Installation

So you finally decide to install this playbook, great!. Before running your Ansible playbook against your machine you need to:

• modify your inventory/all file to include your ip address.

• run Ansible playbook:

  ansible-playbook -i inventory/all site.yml -K

Plex Media Server

Plex should be accessible at http://your_ip/plex

Plugins/Channels/Bundles

You basically have two options:

• Install plugins from a git repo such as Plex plug-ins git repo.
• Copying a zip bundle inside the "files" folder in plex-server role.

Git repo

Add plugins needed to git_plex_plugins property in plex-server role.

git_plex_plugins:
  - "https://github.com/plexinc-plugins/ABC.bundle.git"
  - "https://github.com/plexinc-plugins/Vimeo.bundle.git"

Zip bundle

Copy your zip bundle inside the "files" folder in the plex-server role, and ansible will install it for you.

Transmission

Transmission BitTorrent web client should be accessible at http://your_ip/transmission

• Username: transmission
• Password: transmission

Flexget