Problem: We own a tablet that we use primarily as a remote control for our audio and home theater setup. PMP running on a RPi3 acts as the renderer/player in that setup. Whenever we pick up the tablet , the first action is almost always to set the “controlled player” to the PMP. Want to change the…

So, am I the only person who has a dedicated plex renderer (Raspberry Pi) that is hooked up to an audio/video system and that is controlled from a plex controller (iPad)? Am I the only one who would like the controller to remember the device it is supposed to control?

+1. Ive been asking for something like this for years in the IOS section. Either have it so it stays selected or have a long press option to pick the player you want to cast to. Your pressing play anyway, why not have it as one of the long press options? Having to choose the player every time at the…

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Hey hstamas, we’ll I’m glad I’ve got some company here. Still, I’m beginning to doubt casting is within the scope of features that are regularly used. Hope some votes and some more replies will prove me wrong. Remember to “Like” the post if you want to vote for it. The “+1” isn’t counted.

@a5cent said: Am I the only one who would like the controller to remember the device it is supposed to control? Absolutely not, I use an iPad as a remote for my AppleTV4, and it’s amazingly annoying to always have to select the player every single time. Adding some checkboxes and storing the se…

Ability to specify a default controlled-player for casting

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Ability to specify a default controlled-player for casting

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