@onlinedela@gmail.com said:
Posting my experience in this thread. Other post was closed to prevent vote fragmentation. Voting this up, way up.Thanks,
OD
Hi all,
I see a number of posts on this but no resolution. Thanks to hurricane season I am without internet and not expected to have it back until next week earliest. This will be more than two weeks. We are cord cutters so this is problematic.
But, no worries, I tell my wife, we’ve been using Plex for years and have a large library of media to revisit. Should provide ample distraction until the internet is working again and Netflix, Hulu, Amazon are all back …
Well. Imagine my surprise. Plex insists on internet access to stream media from a computer on my local network to another device also on my local network.
Thanks, Plex. This is horrible and going to make it that much harder to introduce new and cool technology to the household in the future.
Is this crippled functionality supposed to be a feature?
Awful.
You have picked a very old forum topic.
A lot has changed since.
See this support page for information on internet dependency https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200484903-Internet-and-Network-Requirements
There is now enhanced security which means that whilst the server is signed in to plex.tv then all plex client apps need to also sign in to plex.tv for authentication unless the IP Address of the machine / device running the app is whitelisted in the server network settings.
https Secure Connections also need internet DNS lookups for plex.direct urls.
To work offline, you can sign the server off in settings / server / general which would also remove the secure connections and for client apps ensure setting to fallback to insecure connections is set to always. Discovery of the server on the local network would be through GDM or via IP Address and local port 32400
