Comment on Plex has paywalled my server!

• 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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    • Fribbtastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      the actual problem here is that OPs network is not configured correctly and that Plex detects that the physical local client is actually accessing the server from a totally other network.

      Fairly common when you use docker to run Plex and have the container run in bridge mode. This will put the container in the docker network that will then be different to your local network.

      Plex determines if a stream is local or remote based on the network so when your container is in bridge mode, the physical local client will be a remote connection because of the different networks.

      And since remote streaming requires Plex pass since end of April, you will see this.

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      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yup, that’s exactly the problem I have, it’s ridiculous that it doesn’t let me stream from a local network just because it thinks that it’s local network is only the docker one, it should be fairly simple for Plex to figure out it’s accessible via a direct connection and it doesn’t need to route through the Plex servers for this. But it won’t get fixed because it pushes people to pay, hell from what people are saying here the config to fix this is paywalled so they create a problem for which they sell you the solutions.

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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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    • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Therefore it’s literally impossible for me to watch my media locally, way to go Plex.

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      • Zanathos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Are you running in docker? Change from bridged mode to host mode on your container which should resolve this.

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