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I have been running Plex since version 8. I have it on a Mac Mini in my home theater and it works great. I use the Aeon Skin which is very nice. I also run it on a JB Apple TV2 now in the bedroom since yesterday and it runs quite well. It runs as a front end and streams from either my Mini which runs PMS or the iMac which also runs PMS.

I have tried XBMC and Boxee but always come back to Plex. I do wish Plex ran on the 1st generation Apple TV but I believe it was a choice for the dev's not to get it running on it.

It runs great with media from my NAS (Acer Easystore) running WHS.

 

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I use Plex on a Mini and an Acer WHS box. I run the server and client on the mini. The WHS serves up 4 shares (Movies, Music Concerts, Kids Movies and TV Shows). It has been running quite well after tweaking things to my liking. On my iMac I can update the mini by going to the mini IP address and the plex homepage it serves. I find sometimes the automatic updating does not occur after adding files to my WHS.

I have not updated to myPlex yet as I have no need for it. I also use the Logitech Harmony One with it and it works very well. I have used the Apple remote in the past so you should have no problems Hugh.

 

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I find using the WHS machine as my NAS works very well for me with my gear. The Plex Media Server runs on my mac mini with the client installed as well. This machine is connected to my plasma. My iMac is where I download the latest versions of both PMS and the client to test. I make SMB connections from my machines to the WHS machine and it seems to work fine. I do find with Mountain Lion on my iMac the SMB is hit or miss but since it is a test bed for new releases its not a big deal to me. Sickbeard, Couch Potato and Headphones run all from my iMac. My iPad, iPhone and Apple TV all serve up media from the mac mini with runs Snow Leopard which handles SMB much better. So in my case my little Acer WHS machine is only a repository for my rips.

 

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Plex uses plug-ins that fall under your Channels section. If I remember there are no live sports plug ins. I think this is due to a subscription based model from the providers. There was some chatter in the dev forum about building a plug in for it but I do not think it got beyond a beta stage.

 

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Hugh, Are you running Lion or Mountain Lion by chance? From what I read this does not happen in Snow Leopard and maybe thats why im not having it happen to me.

 

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It did start in Lion and lots of people complaining about it. Part of the reason I stuck with SL on my mini. I do have other issues with the client though that hopefully are fixed in the next release