Note: Zimaboard sponsored a tutorial on how to setup Plex with zimaboard connected to Synology
How to install Plex on zimaboard and mount it to a Synology for media
This tutorial assumes that you are able to ssh into a device and run basic terminal commands.
Step 1: SSH Into the Zimaboard
The default username and password for zimaboard should be casaos
and the hostname is as well
ssh casaos@casaos.local
(then input casaos
as the password)
Step 2: Install plex
Here we are just going to enter the debian distro commands from Plex’s how to
Step 3: Setup the drives to auto mount on boot from the synology
First create a user on DSM that has a random password and is setup with access to your media folder
Now execute the following commands to create the folder
sudo mkdir /mnt/plexmedia
Now we want to install a few SMB utilities, just in case
sudo apt install cifs-utils
sudo apt install cif-tools
Now we want to setup the drive to be mounted on boot by editing the /etc/fstab
file
sudo nano /etc/fstab
and add the following line
//<NAS IP>/<folder name with your media> /mnt/plexmedia cifs username=<username on synology>, password=<password on synology>,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
Note: to close use
control+x
Now mount the media to test it
sudo mount -a
if you see files within /mnt/plexmedia
then you are good to go! give a reboot to test
Step 4: Add your media within Plex
Now just go into Plex and add the appropriate media folder. This should now also work after a reboot with no problems!