I’ve been running a dedicated Plex Server for 3 years now and am very familiar with it and all its intricacies.
I have limited data on my phone and always watch the usage. Noticed Plex was over a gig in the last week. All I use at work is streaming synced music - no tv, movies, or anything. I always switch off Server and onto local device. I start to play music that it shows in my synced list but my data usage kept going up.
I remote into my home PC and look on the “Now Playing” screen and it shows the song I’m playing. AKA Im in the synced section on my phoen yet its still streaming from server. It only seems to actually stream from local device if I put my phone in airplane mode which obviously isn’t anyway ideal. Ideas? Anyone else have this issue?
Again. I have 10 cds synced to phone. I switch off server and switch to local. I play music, and my data keeps going up. I remote into my home PC and the server shows the music I’m playing. It only properly works if I put my phone in airplane mode. Why???!??!?!??!
When you switch to the local server, does only the media you have synced appear? It’s been a long time since I used the sync, but I’ll try to help you.
Thanks for the response. Yes, it does switch to showing only the local content when I switch off the server.
I’ve used synced content forever, avid plex user for 3 years running a dedicated server for it. This is the first time I’ve experienced this and only noticed cuz I used a gig of data super fast and looked into it
If someone else with an Android 7 device can test this, that would be helpful.
This might be an Android 7 issue. Been seeing a lot of Android 7 specific issues happening with sync that are not currently happening on older Android OS’s.
I just synced three MP3s and sure enough, it is ignoring the synced content and playing from the server. However, I have previously synced movies on my phone and those play from the phone and not the server.
I’m syncing a movie now to see if the same thing happens.
At least it’s not just me. Thanks for your testing. (Sorry, this is still “theDwiz” - apparently I had two accounts and it auto logged me into my other one). Hopefully someone on the developer team eventually sees this and addresses it
@kegobeer-plex said:
I just synced three MP3s and sure enough, it is ignoring the synced content and playing from the server. However, I have previously synced movies on my phone and those play from the phone and not the server.
I’m syncing a movie now to see if the same thing happens.
Nexus 6P, Android 7.1.1.
Thanks for testing it out. Curious to see the results of a newly synced movie.
FYI I am on an iPhone 6s Plus. This is also happening to me. I just ran out of data for the month in 2 weeks because I was trying to watch sync’ed content and it used my cell phones data plan. This is not just an Android problem.
@Gadget008 said:
FYI I am on an iPhone 6s Plus. This is also happening to me. I just ran out of data for the month in 2 weeks because I was trying to watch sync’ed content and it used my cell phones data plan. This is not just an Android problem.
It was verified that my files weren’t playing from the server - it was only communicating playback status with the server the files came from, so that if I stop watching on my phone I would be able to resume from that spot when I returned to my home server. I checked outgoing packets from my server and there was no massive data leaving, so I know I wasn’t streaming from the server.
There’s nothing wrong with the system - it doesn’t stream from the original server, it only sends file location information back to the server. It’s working as designed.
Hi the Dwiz,
Are you convinced that it’s just communicating track progress information and not streaming all the data? Did you figure out why your data usage on the Droid was skyrocketing? thanks ~dj
