Amazon firestick and finding my files

Hello.

New to Plex.

Whilst I’m find working the desktop site, when using Plex through my firestick (which will be my No1 option), I do not find it intuitive to navigate.

All I want to do if you the files that I have uploaded/have on my NAS.

However, instead, I’m greeted with the Netflix style homepage of these programs that I have no interest in.

There doesn’t appear to be any option to just view “my library” like you can on the desktop.

Any tips?

You have to ‘Manage Your Home Manually’ - then remove/re-order the junk you don’t want.
It’s complicated.

If you don’t want ANY of the junk - turn it all off:
Server/Settings/Account/Online Media Sources - Disable:

Then you can add/remove/re-order the junk you may want from your own Plexiverse.
It’s complicated.

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I guess I should also say:
Once you disable all the junk you don’t want from Online Media Sources, Manage Automatically will give you - basically - what you’re seeing in Plexweb - all the stuff you’re used to seeing, we hope.

You could give it a go… then Manage Manually if it doesn’t suit.

Yeah, that didn’t seem to work. Turned them all off as suggested, but still have to use the search function to find what I wanted to watch out of my own catalogue

You don’t see your own libraries?

On the home page you should see “More” at the bottom. Select it. You should then see your server listed. Select it. You should then see your libraries. You can then choose which ones to pin to the home page.

Alternately, you can re-set everything. In the FireStick settings, force stop the app, then clear data & cache. This is basically the same as deleting & re-installing. Next time you launch the app, you’ll have to login, etc again. One of the setup screens should give you the option to pin your libraries to your home page.

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Ford is going to tell you how to fix it (he did), but somewhere you’ll find ‘Reset Customization’. From there it could go anywhere, but you’d select your server, then pin your libraries and stuff to the sidebar.

Some of this stuff is over on the Home Page under that lonely set of Dots - upper right.

It’s complicated.

Oh yeah. Sure I checked that out the other day. Silly me. Thanks all :slightly_smiling_face:

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