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Have you used the forum search feature (magnifying glass icon upper right) to search for past discussions relevant to your question?
There are a number of past discussions on attempting to install Plex to a first gen 4.x single bay My Cloud to varying degree’s of success.
There are a number of discussions on using alternate firmware.
Note these are unofficial modifications that have the potential to brick (render unusable) a My Cloud device.