How to turn your Now TV box into a Media Center
Problem
You want to view all your media on your now TV and constantly sync new media you have.
Solution
Plugin your Now TV and press the following buttons quickly to access developer mode:
Home x2
Up x2
Right
Left
Right
Left
Right
This should access the developers section of the Now TV system.
Press enter – this will take you to a licence agreement
Agree to the new terms
The Now TV box should restart
Go to this link and download a ZIP file:
Once you have the file go back to your Now TV box
Access developer mode again (above sequence)
You will now see an http://***.***.*** (copy this address and add it to your pc)
You will see a grey screen with a tab saying “choose file”: press this tab
Add the “plex” file you downloaded earlier (still zipped)
Then press the button “install”
This will install plex to your Now TV box
Next you will need to create and account on plex
Download plex here: https://plex.tv/downloads
Once you have installed it, run it and it will open a page on your web browser
Use the web interface on plex to add your files by creating folder using the (+) sign on the left bar
Point it to the files you want and create as many as you want
Don’t choose TV Shows for pics. Choose the relevant category for your files
Tip: if VLC media player can play the files so can plex
VLC download: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
Next you need to go back to your Now TV system
Here you need to go to the configuration settings
The title should say “set plex channel preferences”
There are now two ways to continue:
1.
Next you can go to “ plex media servers”
Click on “discover servers”
This should find your home PC
Click on it and its done!
You now have access to the files you added to the plex site
(don’t change the file name plex is linked to as it wont update when you add more items to it)
2
Click on “connect to myPlex account”
Add your details
Done
You should now be able to view all the files you add to your plex account, this creates your home media center; you can link as many Now TV systems as you want to this.
A video to help you if you get stuck or don’t understand instructions:
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