Home Assistant Community App: Plex Media Server

April 12, 2026 · View on GitHub

The plex app brings your favorite media together in one place, making it beautiful and easy to enjoy. The Plex Media Server provided by this app, organizes your personal video, music, and photo collections and streams them to all of your devices.

Installation

The installation of this app is pretty straightforward and not different in comparison to installing any other Home Assistant app.

Click the Home Assistant My button below to open the app on your Home Assistant instance.
Click the "Install" button to install the app.
Surf to https://www.plex.tv/claim and get your claim token.
Update the app config with the claim code you've got in the previous step.
Save the app configuration.
Start the "Plex Media Server" app.
Check the logs of the "Plex Media Server" to see if everything went well.
Login to the Plex admin interface and complete the setup process.

NOTE: When adding media locations, please use /share and /media as the base directories.

Configuration

Note: Remember to restart the app when the configuration is changed.

Example app configuration:

log_level: info
claim_code: claim-cAMrqFrenckFU4x445Tn

Note: This is just an example, don't copy and paste it! Create your own!

Option: `log_level`

The log_level option controls the level of log output by the app and can be changed to be more or less verbose, which might be useful when you are dealing with an unknown issue. Possible values are:

trace: Show every detail, like all called internal functions.
debug: Shows detailed debug information.
info: Normal (usually) interesting events.
warning: Exceptional occurrences that are not errors.
error: Runtime errors that do not require immediate action.
fatal: Something went terribly wrong. App becomes unusable.

Please note that each level automatically includes log messages from a more severe level, e.g., debug also shows info messages. By default, the log_level is set to info, which is the recommended setting unless you are troubleshooting.

Option: `claim_code`

To allow your server to sign-in to your Plex account, it needs a so-called "Claim Code". Sign-ing into Plex allows Plex to locate and connect to your server and unlocks all kinds of features as well.

In order to get your code surf to https://www.plex.tv/claim.

This code is only used once by the app. As soon as the server is successfully authenticated with Plex, the code may be removed.

Solving connection issues with Plex

Plex is pretty straightforward and pretty easy to set up. Most of the settings are detected automatically. Nevertheless, it fails to recognize its IP on your home network. This may cause connection issues with some Plex apps, e.g., the Samsung Tizen Plex app.

This is not Plex its fault but is because of the Docker ecosystem, in which this app runs. Luckily, there is an option in Plex to help with that, but it is a little hidden.

Login to the Plex web interface.
Goto setting.
Click the server tab.
On the left side, choose "Network".
Be sure you are looking at the advanced view. There is a button "Show Advanced" in the top right.
Add your custom URLs to "Custom server access URLs" field.

The custom URLs are additional URLs Plex clients will use to try to connect to Plex. You can list multiple if you'd like, separated by a comma.

Example:

http://homeassistant.local:32400,http://192.168.1.88:32400,http://mydomain.duckdns.org:32400

Known issues and limitations

This app will be able to run on a Raspberry Pi. While it still can be useful, don't expect too much. In general, the Pi lacks the processing power and is probably not able to stream your media; therefore it is not recommended using this app on such a device.
This app cannot add/mount any additional USB or other devices for you. This is a Home Assistant limitation. In case you'd like to use extra devices, you'll have to modify the host system yourself and is not supported by the Home Assistant project or Community Apps team.
A Plex Pass gives you exclusive access to new features, which are available through a Beta version channel of the media server. At this time, running this "Beta" version, is not supported by this app.
This app does not support Plex over DLNA.

Changelog & Releases

This repository keeps a change log using GitHub's releases functionality.

Releases are based on Semantic Versioning, and use the format of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. In a nutshell, the version will be incremented based on the following:

MAJOR: Incompatible or major changes.
MINOR: Backwards-compatible new features and enhancements.
PATCH: Backwards-compatible bugfixes and package updates.

Support

Got questions?

You have several options to get them answered:

The Home Assistant Community Apps Discord chat server for app support and feature requests.
The Home Assistant Discord chat server for general Home Assistant discussions and questions.
The Home Assistant Community Forum.
Join the Reddit subreddit in /r/homeassistant

You could also open an issue here GitHub.

Authors & contributors

The original setup of this repository is by Franck Nijhof.

For a full list of all authors and contributors, check the contributor's page.

License

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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