I invested considerable time and money to build a Plex server, with all of it’s wonderful elegance and user account features specifically so my family could each watch their own movies without an internet connection. This also meant that I assumed I could manage/add/remove users, all without an internet connection as well.
Please at least make “The limitations of Plex without an internet connection” a publicly known FAQ or disclaimer before downloading the server software so that all the other thousands of cottagers/boaters/RVers without internet wishing to do the same thing as myself can be spared the pain of discovering this limitation after the fact.
@Duckminster said:
I invested considerable time and money to build a Plex server, with all of it’s wonderful elegance and user account features specifically so my family could each watch their own movies without an internet connection. This also meant that I assumed I could manage/add/remove users, all without an internet connection as well.
Please at least make “The limitations of Plex without an internet connection” a publicly known FAQ or disclaimer before downloading the server software so that all the other thousands of cottagers/boaters/RVers without internet wishing to do the same thing as myself can be spared the pain of discovering this limitation after the fact.
They did. The Plex Home support section has been updated to explain that an internet connection is required for any fast user switching. If internet is lost, the last user still has access.
I’ve been using Plex for over four years and can attest that normally during a plex.tv service outage you can still access your server that is on your local network without issue. All of the devices that were affected (as far as I know just iOS and AppleTV?) during this past outage were acknowledged to be a bug. I trust that this has been added as a huge bullet point item to test during QA from here on out. Yes, it should have been on there already but the Plex developers have been developing very rapidly and sometimes major bugs slip through. Afterall, they’re just humans that can make mistakes like you and me. The down time and not being able to watch Plex on my AppleTV was aggravating but while I was sitting there trying to find something to watch on Netflix I thought to myself “I’m sure the Plex devs will find this bug and squash it”. Anyways, just thought I’d throw my two cents in. Happy Plexing.
You are missing the point. Plex should be configurable without the dependence of plex.tv. Yes I understand that if is an outage I can reconfigure my setup to allow access to my content, but that defeats purpose. I should not have to do this every time plex.tv goes offline and Fast User Switching is still not a solution. FUS only allows the last user to have access. Well if I will single and did not have a family then great, but I have a family of four so this does not work for me.
@nilesfoster - did you put up a feature request in the feature request forum to not require Plex.TV or did you find an existing one that we can vote on?
Sometimes these help a little.
