


There's a nice quick guide from OpenELEC that shows how you can prepare your USB drive with that image file.

Download Ubuntu 16.04 64bit server version as.Update BIOS with latest from Intel's website.250GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (Samsung 960 EVO MZ-V6E250BW, Link).Even if there are that many steps it only took me 30-60 minutes to setup the NUC, so don't worry^^ I wanted this guide to be complete and step by step understandable My work is based on that guide from 2014 but changes some things and adds some more features as for example RAM transcoding. Feedback, tips and suggestions are pretty much appreciated! I got positive feedback for my setup from friends, so I decided to share this guide maybe it helps anyone else. Recently I had this issue 10 times on a single day, so I decided to kick this device out of my house. The only solution to fix this was to reboot the Shield, un-mounting and re-mounting did not help. My mounted SMB/CIFS drives kind of crashed on the shield randomly with no reason. This problem was solved in mid 2017 but still another very annoying issue remained. In early 2017 the Shield randomly ignored folders on the NAS (there are a lot of forum posts about this topic, for example this one). The main problem here is that Plex users are enforced to use the SMB/CIFS protocol for file sharing. The reason why I switched was that I had huge troubles to setup a stable Plex Media Server on the Shield. My media contents are stored on a Synology DiskStation. I recently switched my Plex Media Server from Nvidia Shield Pro 2017 to a dedicated Intel NUC.
