I have a remote Linux server with some of my videos. I very would like to keep them there and not download locally.
I have been running plex server on a remote Linux server and accessing via the plex client on my android tv (nvidia shield tv). This has worked great.
I am now looking to run plex server on my shield as I am trying out its dvr and live tv functionality. While plex client allows you to connect to multiple servers you have to toggle between them.
I am trying to make plex a seemless experience - both dvr and files on remote server.
I was thinking that I could mount the drive using something like sshfs/fuse. However, searching the internet doesn't yield much info for how do this on Android TV.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Go into settings. The android TV ones. Storage. Mount network drive. It definitely supports smb. So set them shared with samba and the shield should have no problem mounting them, and then you can add the folders in Plex's network/website interface.
My shield's plex server is what I use for my roku as well. I've had it need to transcode files and still no problem.