Comment on Plex has paywalled my server!

FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• JordanZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  My guess is they have VLANs and they didn’t set up the server up to treat them as local traffic.

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• haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That is exactly the case. It is absolutely true and accusing me of lying is not okay.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You’re not lying, you’re just not good at networking and/or setting up Plex.

    Plex does NOT charge for streaming on your own network. If it is saying that you need to pay it’s because you’ve set your network(s) or Plex up wrong.

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    • haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And the next wrong assumption. It’s beginning to get really tiring. Maybe try to stop individualizing systemic problems. I know it is counter to our society but it is the only healthy way.

      I’m building networks for a living. The situation I’m in has zero to do with my skills and assuming so is highly disrespectful.

      But yes, as others have pointed out, it is likely that a configuration back when setting the service up years ago led to it using an outside connection which has only now become an issue because of plex’s switch to blocking remote streaming.

      No matter because plex works just as well.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Cool, so you can finally admit you set Plex up wrong.

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• Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’ve had that happen to me with plex, it was probably 100% my fault because I specifically changed things during the setup of the docker file, but apparently Plex can’t figure out that is local if it’s running inside docker with non-host network, it probably only accepts local connections from the docker network, and I was never able to make it treat my actual home network as local.

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  • Zanathos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Under Settings > Network there is a setting for this. Image

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    • Fribbtastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      LAN networks is only available for plex pass users

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      • Zanathos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It all starts to make sense then. I need to set Jellyfin up soon. It’s only a matter of time before they come after the “Lifetime” purchasers like myself. I bought it over a decade ago at this point.

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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t have that configuration: Image

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      • Zanathos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        As someone else mentioned, this is only available to PlexPass users. Sorry for the confusion! I bought my lifetime sub over a decade ago at this point and forget about these inconsistencies that used to just be part of the product.

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