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I am a huge Plex power user; watching something at least once a day. Unfortunately, Plex is a bit of a mess these days - constantly pushing Live TV on us, requ

I am a huge Plex power user; watching something at least once a day. Unfortunately, Plex is a bit of a mess these days - constantly pushing Live TV on us, requiring internet access to access local media (this is a killer whenever internet goes down), overly complex, clunky remote access (altho this is much better these days). But it still isn't bad enough to make me try and migrate. I love my local setup (Sonarr and a custom app for movies as Radarr is OTT for the amount of movies we watch) and Plex is very polished (compared to the alternatives) but I do wonder how much longer it will be around.

OhioMan2943 1y ago
Conversely I love the plex tv channels as an alternative to regular australian free to air- same as the lg channels. Easy way for me to turn my brain off and find a good documentary/educational show at the end of the day
- m4tthumphrey 1y ago
  I don't mind them doing it, but they shove it in my face constantly when I've clearly said I am not interested.
add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
Live TV is magical when you set up ErsatzTV and self-host that part as well. You can make channels out of anything. The modes of "I want to watch this specific thing now" and "I want to see what's 'on' right now and pick something to put on in the background" are very different and complementary. I end up relying on the latter more than the former.
stinky613 1y ago
> requiring internet access to access local media Good news! You can whitelist exceptions by IP/subnet Go into Plex Settings, then Settings > Network (show advanced). Scroll down to "List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth" "Comma separated list of IP addresses or IP/netmask entries for networks that are allowed to access Plex Media Server without logging in. When the server is signed out and this value is set, only localhost and addresses on this list will be allowed." Put your local subnet and netmask into that (e.g. "192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0") and you should be all good FYI, I also have "Secure Connections" set to "Preferred", but I don't know if that makes a difference for this or not
- m4tthumphrey 1y ago
  NO WAY!! I will check this out later! Thanks!

OhioMan2943 1y ago

Conversely I love the plex tv channels as an alternative to regular australian free to air- same as the lg channels. Easy way for me to turn my brain off and find a good documentary/educational show at the end of the day

m4tthumphrey 1y ago
I don't mind them doing it, but they shove it in my face constantly when I've clearly said I am not interested.

add-sub-mul-div 1y ago

Live TV is magical when you set up ErsatzTV and self-host that part as well. You can make channels out of anything. The modes of "I want to watch this specific thing now" and "I want to see what's 'on' right now and pick something to put on in the background" are very different and complementary. I end up relying on the latter more than the former.

stinky613 1y ago

> requiring internet access to access local media Good news! You can whitelist exceptions by IP/subnet Go into Plex Settings, then Settings > Network (show advanced). Scroll down to "List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth" "Comma separated list of IP addresses or IP/netmask entries for networks that are allowed to access Plex Media Server without logging in. When the server is signed out and this value is set, only localhost and addresses on this list will be allowed." Put your local subnet and netmask into that (e.g. "192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0") and you should be all good FYI, I also have "Secure Connections" set to "Preferred", but I don't know if that makes a difference for this or not

m4tthumphrey 1y ago
NO WAY!! I will check this out later! Thanks!