Free Personal NetFlix with Plex and Raspberry Pi in 15 mins

5 min readApr 12, 2020

Setup your own free private streaming service with Plex and Raspberry Pi. Takes less than 15 minutes! Let’s go.

I’m using a raspberry pi 4, with built in wifi. Before this, I’ve set the raspberry pi up as a headless set up. If you’re interested installing raspberry the same way, check out my earlier article here.

The 5 Minute Raspberry Pi Setup Guide without External Display, Keyboard or Mouse

Setup your raspberry directly from your Windows, macOS or Linux machine without the need for any extra I/O devices.

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Next, to get my video collection up onto raspberry pi, I also setup my raspberry pi to work as NAS. So if you’re interested, take a look at my earlier article on how I converted a 4TB external USB drive into a NAS.

Convert your 4TB USB HDD into a NAS in 5 minutes with Raspberry

With a built-in WIFI module, true Gigabit Ethernet ports and multiple USB3 ports, the raspberry was turning to be a…

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Let’s Start!

First, update and and upgrade. We want to get the latest version of our repositories and make any package upgrade where necessary.

$ sudo apt-get update