Generally, if you are only using Plex at home with devices that can direct play your media you likely won’t need this. The version of this guide you follow will depend on whether you want hardware transcoding, this is available to Plex Pass holders and requires your Synology CPU to have Intel Quick Sync capabilities. In this guide I am going to take you through the setup of Plex in Docker. Historic updates now at the end of the guide.

Tailscale: Remote Access to Synology and Its Services Made EasyĪligned the Plex Claim environment variable with the other guides.Step 3: Setting Up a Docker Bridge Network.Plex in ‘Container Manager’ (No Hardware Transcoding).Plex in ‘Container Manager’ (Hardware Transcoding).Jellyfin in ‘Container Manager’ (No Hardware Transcoding).Jellyfin in ‘Container Manager’ (Hardware Transcoding).Deluge with GlueTUN VPN in ‘Container Manager’.qBittorrent with GlueTUN VPN in ‘Container Manager’.Step 3: Setting Up a Docker Bridge Network in Container Manager.Step 2: Setting up a restricted Docker user and obtaining IDs.Watchtower – Automated Updates in ‘Container Manager’.Updating Containers in Container Manager.DSM 7.2 Container Manager open child menu.

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