Please consider adding OwnCloud as a cloud storage function. All the other already available are great but limited on space for free services. OwnCloud is managed by the owner and can be unlimited and always free, Please consider adding this function.
I am a OwnCloud user for years and have it installed on my server, it is really a charm!
+1 and nextcloud as well as its basically same.
I think the primary driver for the Plex Cloud beta is to turn OFF a machine in your home and host things remotely, with a remote server handling the transcoding. (and to put income into the providers of the storage services. Which I’m sure is another motivation for Plex somewhere along the line…) No more electric bills for a 24/7 box to stream media from…
If you are going to be running ownCloud or NextCloud, it’s essentially the same as having the PMS on your local machine, and farming out the transcoding to a remote location, then sending it right back to your network to view it.
As I also run an ownCloud setup, I honestly can’t see any benefits to using this over the intrinsic storage Plex itself could be using. I might be missing something here, though…
Can you not create a network share with owncloud and use it as a source for a library?
I’m sure that you can. I have actually used ownCloud to hold my Adobe LightRoom data so I can use any of the computers on the network to do photo editing within LightRoom. (Which didn’t support putting this onto network shares at all. This was a fully functional work around.) I’m sure the same idea should work for a Plex Media Server install right now.
I would love do to OwnCloud as a Cloud Sync choice for Plex.
@MikeG6.5 said:
I think the primary driver for the Plex Cloud beta is to turn OFF a machine in your home and host things remotely, with a remote server handling the transcoding. (and to put income into the providers of the storage services. Which I’m sure is another motivation for Plex somewhere along the line…) No more electric bills for a 24/7 box to stream media from…If you are going to be running ownCloud or NextCloud, it’s essentially the same as having the PMS on your local machine, and farming out the transcoding to a remote location, then sending it right back to your network to view it.
As I also run an ownCloud setup, I honestly can’t see any benefits to using this over the intrinsic storage Plex itself could be using. I might be missing something here, though…
One could cheaply host an ownCloud setup in a data-centre. Or find a 3rd party who does this for you.
Perhaps one that offers 1Tb of ownCloud for free… (Jouw online Cloudopslag met STACK. Own it / TransIP)
@MikeG6.5 said:
I think the primary driver for the Plex Cloud beta is to turn OFF a machine in your home and host things remotely, with a remote server handling the transcoding. (and to put income into the providers of the storage services. Which I’m sure is another motivation for Plex somewhere along the line…) No more electric bills for a 24/7 box to stream media from…If you are going to be running ownCloud or NextCloud, it’s essentially the same as having the PMS on your local machine, and farming out the transcoding to a remote location, then sending it right back to your network to view it.
As I also run an ownCloud setup, I honestly can’t see any benefits to using this over the intrinsic storage Plex itself could be using. I might be missing something here, though…
OwnCloud is not necessarily run at home. It’s a self hosted solution…
Early 2021 clean-up: obsolete (Plex Cloud has been discontinued)
