Comment on Plex has paywalled my server!
gdog05@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoBut I keep hearing the value of Plex is that anyone can use it.
Comment on Plex has paywalled my server!
gdog05@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoBut I keep hearing the value of Plex is that anyone can use it.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yes anyone can use it even people who don’t know how to configure their server
gdog05@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The OP might disagree from what I’m seeing.
hedgehog@ttrpg.network 4 weeks ago
OP is also in the allegedly ultra rare camp of “successfully configured Jellyfin and lived to tell the tale.” Not what I’d expect of someone unable to configure Plex correctly. I’ve not set up a Plex server myself but my guess is it wasn’t clear that it was misconfigured - it did work previously, after all.
gdog05@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well, with Plex constantly changing allowed abilities and such, it seems to me that this is the expected outcome.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I can’t speak for OP, but I self host lots of stuff, have literally dozens of services running, have an Ansible repo to manage it all and routi some stuff through a VPS, not to mention my day job has included managing services in one way or another for a long while. This is to say, I know what I’m doing. I couldn’t setup Plex to work the way I wanted to, they expect it to run in a docker with network set to host mode, I couldn’t find any way to tell Plex that my living room TV was in the same network, it just wouldn’t accept any connections as local. I know I shot myself in the foot here by not letting it run with network on host mode, but I shouldn’t have to, the port was exposed, I could reach it through the local network IP, but I wasn’t able to stream any content locally.