• First off create an Oracle Free Tier Account at https://www.oracle.com/ca-en/cloud/free/
• Work your way through the sign up process until your account is active and you can sign in
• I understand that sometimes it takes a bit (up to days) before your account has been provisioned
• If it is taking to long you can try to reach out to Oracle Support to ask them to provision the account more quickly
• Once your account has been provisioned log in

• From your home page, select Virtual Cloud Networking

• Select “Start VCN Wizard”

• Select “Create VCN with Internet Connectivity” and “Start VCN Wizard”

• On the next page add a VCN Name (e.g. “vcn-network”) leaving all other options the same
• Click “Next” and then “Create”

• Once created, click “View Virtual Cloud Network” at the bottom left
• Select the “Public Subnet”

• Select the “Default Security List”

• Click Add Ingress Rules
• Change “Source CIDR” to read 0.0.0.0/0
• Change “Destination Port Range” to read 32400

• Click “Add Ingress Rules” to save
• Head to instances by clicking the top left three lines and selecting “Instances”

The end result of these steps is that port 32400 is exposed for Plex

• On the left side of the screen select “Compartment” and your username if it is not already selected
• Select “Create Instance”
• Edit “Image and Shape”

• Select “Change Shape”
• Select “Ampere” and adjust the OCPU count to 4

• Select “Change Image”
• Select “Canonical Ubuntu”

• Select “Save Private Key”
• Email this Key file to yourself to safely store it - you will need this key file to log in!

• Click “Create”
• Your screen should reload and indicate that the image is being provisioned - “PROVISIONING”
• Once it has been provisioned it will change from an Orange Box to a Green Box and will indicate “RUNNING”
• Once it is running you can now log in to your server

• Take note of the IP address listed under “Instance Access” - this is your public IP address to access your server

• If you experience difficulties review this link for support from Oracle - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/Tasks/accessinginstance.htm
• If you are Windows your easiest option is likely using OpenSSH - OpenSSH can be enabled through the Windows Optional Features dialoge - see this link for more details - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse?tabs=gui

• Open the directory where you saved the ssh.key file to and follow the instructions described under “Accessing Instances” linked above
  • Rename the file from ssh-key---.key to ssh.key for easy access
  • Right-click the file, select Properties, the Security tab, and Advanced at the bottom
  • Click Disable Inheritance, and Convert Inherited Permissions
  • Remove any Permissions listed that are not your User Account
  • Click OK
• Open Windows Powershell
• Navigate to the directory where you saved the ssh.key file
• Enter this command replacing the asterisks with the public IP address of your server

ssh -i ssh.key ubuntu@**********

• The server will let you know that the authenticity of the host cannot be verified, type “yes”
• You should know be logged in to your remote server

• Once you are logged in, enter a root prompt

sudo su

Next use an automated script to install all required software

• The script will prompt twice - once for your Real Debrid API key available at https://real-debrid.com/apitoken and a second time for your Plex server claim token available at https://www.plex.tv/claim/ Note - Don't retrieve a Plex claim token until you are ready to use it as they only last for 4 minutes

bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://gist.githubusercontent.com/godver3/d6465e0222381fec1a315d5369ac09fe/raw/bd136c25f22a45e6b83fee67770fadffb7e0d0cd/setup.sh)"

• The script will do the following
  • Update and Upgrade all software on the Server
  • Build and Install the custom rclone software to mount Real Debrid
  • Setup rclone with the necessary information to auto-mount the Real Debrid share each time the Server is powered on
  • Install Plex and Plex_Debrid
• FYI the contents of the script can be found Here - it can be helpful to review the script contents for learning

• Once the script has run you can now access your software using the following
  • Plex - http://YOURPUBLICIP:32400
  • Plex Debrid - Plex Debrid can be reached through the SSH terminal by typing “sudo docker attach plex_debrid”
• Steps needed to finish setting up Software
  • Plex
    • Log into your Plex Media Server and complete the initial set up
    • Add two Media Libraries - one for Movies and one for Shows
      • The Movies folder you will select is /library/movies
      • The Shows folder you will select is /library/shows
      • Under Advanced disable Video Preview Thumbnails
    • In order for Plex Debrid to properly recognize your Plex Libraries you will need to ensure you have at least one item of each type in your Movie and Show libraries
      • I recommend any random movie and TV show torrent to your Real Debrid account, manually running a scan to ensure they are recognized, and then start running your Plex Debrid script
      • This must be done before setting up Plex_Debrid
  • Plex Debrid
    • Plex Debrid is now running on your server - to set up Plex Debrid type “sudo docker attach plex_debrid”
    • You will initially have a black screen, hit the return key to setup your Plex Debrid service
    • Enter “http://localhost:32400” for your server address
    • In order to gracefully exit the script while leaving it running push Ctrl-P and then Ctrl-Q

• If you have already set up an rclone mount on your home PC, and are now transitioning to Oracle you will first need to go to https://real-debrid.com/downloads and delete all of your download links - the mount will automatically recreate all of your links for you
  • This is necessary because pre-existing downloads will have been created for your home IP address and will need to be recreated for the Oracle IP address

• All credit goes to itstoggle and their projects including:
  • https://github.com/itsToggle/plex_debrid
  • https://github.com/itsToggle/rclone_rd
• Make sure to buy them a beer!
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