Hello. Why Plex is not available for WD personal cloud?
…because apps can’t be installed in this particular NAS.
All the other listed NASes support third-party app installation via the UI.
Besides the ‘app’ issue*, there may be performance limitations:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201373823
* it ought to be possible to build an image to run on the basic MyCloud; after all, it’s just a Linux box. But it would require Linux skills to install and administer. I notice Plex don’t offer an obvious Debian Linux image, just Ubuntu, Fedora and CentOS.
Maybe it’s a question to ask Plex…? After all, it’s their s/w, not WD’s…
With a bit of work you can have it running on firmware v.3.
But you will probably find it’s a bit too slow for your taste. It sort of takes over the NAS.
Check out this link.
RAC
That is good news. The MyCloud single HD version is missing from the download list, though.
“The exact WD My Cloud models supported by this first release of Plex Media Server for WD include the My Cloud Mirror, My Cloud EX2/EX4, My Cloud EX2100/EX4100 and My Cloud DL2100/DL4100.”
I doubt they ever release it for MyCloud _tout court. _Unless they strip it down, it will hamper the device.
Rip out the HDD from your cloud by a Raspberry PI 2 and run RasPlex Kodi or whatever you like on it. If you fidddle too much and break it just re build the PI and you are good to go.
BananaPi is a good h/w platform: SATA disk I/f and GBE. Not so sure about s/w support for it, though.
Here’s a really stupid question: I just bought two new My Clouds - a 4TB from Costco and a 2TB from Bestbuy, both to use to store music on and hopefully stream from.
How do I tell which model of ‘My Cloud’ I have? Nowhere on the device, the box, or the literature that came with it does it say specifically what model of My Cloud. I would love to be able to use Plex.
If it only says ‘MyCloud’, then it’s a MyCloud, not a Mirror or an EX.
Have a look at the thumbnails on the community homepage, or look at the manuals:
The Mirror is twice as wide as the plain MyCloud, since it has to hold two drives, and it says ‘MyCloud Mirror’ on the front… The EX drives are black. Fairly obvious differences…
Plex will be useless on the mycloud. It is nowhere near powerful enough to transcode.
Wormvortex wrote:
Plex will be useless on the mycloud. It is nowhere near powerful enough to transcode.
Not neccesarily useless. While the host NAS may not be powerful enough to transcode many of the other features of Plex should work just fine. Plex will not have to transcode if one keeps the file format in a format that is supported by the device that will be playing the media content. For example if one is using Plex on thier Roku, if one keeps the media files in a Roku supported format then no transcoding is done by the Plex media server.
