Auto-sign out for inactive managed user sessions in Player apps

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1

Very often my youngest child is still signed in after several hours even if the TV was turned off (standby), we can be away from the television for hours and that profile is still signed in. This managed user does not have profile PIN (she is 4 years old and so need for her content).

But we have seen the issue happen every now and then for PIN required managed user profiles too but far less often. I would hate for my kids to turn on the television and load the Plex app only for them to see what filth the wife had been watching the night before and play it.

Solution: Have a setting in the PMS to force inactive managed user sessions in players to sign out after pre-determined times like 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes etc.

2

You might want to check out Settings > [Server Name] > Network > Terminate Sessions Paused for Longer Than in your server’s settings.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200430283-network/

3

That is set to 10 minutes and works if a video is paused but it doesn’t sign out the managed user. Managed users can leave the app on the library, home, categories or collections with nothing playing and it won’t sign out the user. I can bring the TV out of standby hours later and load up the plex app, and the same profile is still signed in and on the same page (Home, Library, Collection or Categories).

4

Do you have automatically sign in enabled? Turn it off and you’ll get the effect you want.