Month: March 2019

New BittBoy Custom Firmware Install – Play SNES GBA PCE SMS DOS MD NEOGEO

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In this video ETA Prime shows you how to flash custom firmware on The New BittBoy V2, This will allow you to play Game Boy Advance Sega Genesis SNES NES NeoGeo PC Engine Megadrive Atari dos box and many more awesome emulators on the new BittBoy! You can always go back to stock by inserting the old or a fresh Micro SD Card. Unfortunately this only work on the New BittBoy Hardware Revision V2. THIS VIDEO IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY!

Manually updating Plex on FreeNAS, including PlexPass versions. -PMS_Updater.sh

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Are you running Plex Media Server on FreeNAS as a plugin, but don’t like waiting for the updates from FreeNAS?
PMS_Updater for FreeNAS is exactly what you need!

PMS_Updated allows you to update the FreeNAS Plex install from CLI with out waiting for the plugin updates from the devs, the updater will connect to your specified jail, download the most recent version of Plex and run the update if needed.

To do so, first we need to either access our FreeNAS console, or login via SSH. (for Windows users, check out Putty)
Once logged into your FreeNAS server, you want to determine what Jail number your Plex server is installed in, to do so execute the following

jls

You will get an output of Jails installed, choose your Plex Server. In this example mine is 1.
Our next line with log into that Jail to update Plex, so be sure to use the number from the jls command above.

jexec 1 csh

The first time you run this, you may need to install the following.

pkg install ca_root_nss
pkg install wget
pkg install perl5

Once in the Jail, we can download the PMS_Update script

fetch -o PMS_Updater.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mstinaff/PMS_Updater/master/PMS_Updater.sh

Or for PlexPass use

fetch -o PMS_Updater.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luluhoc/PMS_Updater/master/PMS_UpdaterPLEXPASS.sh

After the appropriate updater is downloaded, make sure to modify the permissions for the file to execute correctly.

chmod 755 PMS_Updater.sh

And then execute the script.

./PMS_Updater.sh -vv -a

You should now be on the latest version of Plex, you may need to start your Plex Server in the FreeNAS plugins page.

For a list of known issues and bugs, please check the Issues Page from the Author of this script.
At the time of writing this article (3/23/19), there are 2 known bugs with the current release.

Forcing an update when all else fails

A few times the script above has failed me, to get around I still execute the jexec for the jail I wish to update.

jexec 1
fetch -o PMS_Updater.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luluhoc/PMS_Updater/master/PMS_UpdaterPLEXPASS.sh
chmod 755 PMS_Updater.sh

And I then use WinSCP to copy the install files over to the plex jail location. The installers can be downloaded from Plex.tv and choosing FreeBSD.

And then execute the following command. (Just be sure to name the downloaded Plex server files to PlexBuild.tar.bz2)

./PMS_Updater.sh -l PlexBuild.tar.bz2 -vv -a