FreeNAS, Plex, and Plex Automation – Part 1 – Getting ready
With the start of a new year, I’ve decided to start a series on setting up a FreeNAS server at home along with setting up Plex as a media server and various other applications to help automate Plex. By the time I’m done with this series, you’ll be able to setup all the following:
- Install FreeNAS on a bare metal server
- Install the following programs to manage your media
- Plex Media Server
- Transmission – A Bittorrent Client
- Sonarr – Automatically downloads TV Shows
- Couchpotato – Automatically downloads Movies
- PlexPy – Provides in depth monitoring and reporting for Plex
- PlexEmail – Send newsletters to your Plex users
- Setup your own domain using dynamic dns from Dyn.org
- Install and configure nginx to work as a reverse proxy and act as a traffic cop for incoming requests
I’ve been working on this setup for a few months now, and I’ve done quite a bit of customization to all these different items to make them work. As this series goes on, I’m going to try to recreate what I’ve done in a VM so I can have screenshots to show you exactly what you should be doing. In the meantime, I’d suggest you start thinking about what hardware you’d like to use for your build.