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mattonfire
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Hi, I was wanting to remotely add media from my home computer onto a external hard drive attached to my Raspberry Pi Plex Media server, yet I don't know how to do it.

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if you have SSH enabled on the Pi, then you can use SFTP - just download the Filezilla client onto your computer, and try to connect to the Pi using SFTP - same IP, port, and username/password as when you are SSHing into it.

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Its quite simple really. Just install a CIF server or SAMBA server on your Raspberry Pi. Make a share and connect your Windows PC by adding the share as a network attached storage device. You'll get something like this then: https://gyazo.com/0ff81ac0a6649bca9abeaca59f0abe3b

 

Then simply drag and drop your media files in the corresponding video folders you've set up in Plex

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On 10/7/2017 at 6:31 PM, Aelita Sophie said:

Its quite simple really. Just install a CIF server or SAMBA server on your Raspberry Pi. Make a share and connect your Windows PC by adding the share as a network attached storage device. You'll get something like this then: https://gyazo.com/0ff81ac0a6649bca9abeaca59f0abe3b

 

Then simply drag and drop your media files in the corresponding video folders you've set up in Plex

I thought about doing that, but I wanted to create or use a premade GUI. For family use, with a SQL search.

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9 minutes ago, mattonfire said:

I thought about doing that, but I wanted to create or use a premade GUI. For family use, with a SQL search.

you mean a premade GUI for file transfers, or a premade GUI for plex? Also, what do you mean about SQL search? AFAIK you can't directly access the Plex database, if it even uses something that is SQL-compatible.

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2 hours ago, brwainer said:

you mean a premade GUI for file transfers, or a premade GUI for plex? Also, what do you mean about SQL search? AFAIK you can't directly access the Plex database, if it even uses something that is SQL-compatible.

I believe Plex uses sqlite if I'm not mistaken. But it's probably password protected/encrypted.

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10 minutes ago, Aelita Sophie said:

I believe Plex uses sqlite if I'm not mistaken. But it's probably password protected/encrypted.

but why would you want to directly access the Plex database? you can search from any plex client.

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