Plex

Plex organizes video, music and photos from personal media libraries and streams them to smart TVs, streaming boxes and mobile devices.

Setting up

plex_enabled: true

By default, Plex can be accessed at http://[your_server_ip]:32400 or https://plex.[your_domain].com if you have DNS access configured.

Configuration

Plex can take advantage of hardware acceleration for transcoding:

# Device mappings for the docker container. E.g. To enable hardware transcoding:
plex_devices:
  - "/dev/dri:/dev/dri"

See the default configuration options for Plex at roles/plex/defaults/main.yml. Add any overrides to your inventories/[your_inventory]/group_vars/homelab.yml file.

Alternatives

Jellyfin
Emby

Recent Changes

Nov 4, 2025

Feat Allow mounting in custom paths for more media libraries