Allow fully qualified domain names (FQDN) in the plex app server address.

Feature Suggestions
1

Currently you can only add IP address to connect to a PMS in the Android apps and there is no option to add a manual address on the Hisense TV app. I prepose that all of the plex apps should be able to have networking manually configured and have the ability to enter an IP or FQDN. The use of FQDN would allow you to have a remote connection to your PMS through a reverse proxy and get around the issue of having a dynamic IP address.

2

The default Plex remote connection is already able to handle a dynamic IP address.
No reverse proxy required.
No custom domain name required.
No 3rd party DDNS required.

You already get a FQDN for your server by default - including a “pinned”, universally valid TLS certificate for secure connections.

All you need to do is to

  • ‘sign in’ your Plex server into your Plex account
  • ‘sign in’ your client app into the same Plex account

Server and clients will find each other automatically and establish a secure connection.

The only snag you may hit is a sometimes unreliable name resolution of your ISP’s DNS server. Those sometimes suck when it comes to the .direct TLD. In this case use Google’s (8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4) or OpenDNS instead.

3

Hi,

I’m not sure this helps me, I have signed in on both sides but I still cannot connect remotely via the app. The problem is my ISP is doing double-nat, however they also provide a port forwarding service thddns.net. This allows me to do blah.myFQDN.net:6600 then NAT on my ISPs router for port 6600->Plex Server IP:32400. This works perfectly and with Chrome I can simply type blah.myFQDN.net:6600/web and everything is perfect. However, using the IP from the app does not work as it bypasses the ddns service. So I still think the possibility of using FQDN is an important one.

Thanks,
Peter.

4

Settings - Server - Network - (Show Advanced)
Custom server access URLs

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200430283-Network

Make sure to put the full URL in.
And disable Secure Connections, until you eventually get a fitting cryptographic cert for this domain.

5

2021 clean-up: implemented (Settings > [Server Name] > Network > Custom Server Access URLs)