CM3588 in combination with an existing plex server

mithawk · March 31

Hi! I wanted to ask for some clarification after today's video about the awesome CM3588. Linus mentioned that it would be possible to use the CM3588 for Plex with a network switch attached it and a more powerful computer actually running the Plex server application. I wanted to make sure I was understanding what he meant by that. Would all that would be required to do this be setting up the CM3588 as instructed in the start of the video and then making folder on the NAS for the Plex app to identify? Would it be like adding a new folder for Plex to look for files?

Thank you for time!

Needfuldoer · March 31

[ Moved to Servers, NAS, and Homelab ]

23 minutes ago, mithawk said:

Would it be like adding a new folder for Plex to look for files?

Exactly. The more powerful computer would do all the heavy lifting (transcoding, maintaining the database, presenting the web UI), but the CM3588 would hold all the actual media files.