I was mostly wondering about the power to download.
If I leave the free on the license on the server, can premium users download content fromthe server?
Or vise versa,can free user download content from the premium server for offline.
I’m actuality just thinkabout myself. I don’t thinkit makes senseto haveto buy a premium pass for the server account and another pass for my personal account just so I can download content for offline viewing.
Is sleep timer also locked for non-subscribers? My wife and I bought a lifetime plex pass together, but she added it to her account.
We’re in the same home group, but when I try to set a sleep timer on my android, it suggests I buy plex pass. I assumed that being in the same group, I would have access to all the features. I can watch movies on my phone and download stuff for later, so I seem to have access to all the other features. It would be very frustrating to not have access to the sleep timer as it’s a feature my wife doesn’t care about, but I regularly use.
Feature"inheritance" only works from the server owner down to the Plex Home members.
On top of that, only “managed” users (those without an own email address and password) inherit most of the above features.
Regular Plex accounts (with their own email and password) only inherit the right to use the mobile Plex apps for free.
So the sleep timer is a new feature and the server requires a Plex Pass in order for clients to use that feature? Is that what you mean by feature inheritance?
No.
There are two general types of Plex accounts:
Those which have an email address (normal accounts) and those which don’t (managed accounts).
Managed accounts are a kind of sub-account of one main plex account. They are intended for family members.
The main account and its sub accounts are members of the same Plex Home.
If the main plex account has a plex pass, most features of the plex pass can also be used by its sub-accounts.
Some features are still server-dependent. So the server owner/administrator must have a Plex Pass. The server is signed into the Plex account of the server owner. That is how it knows whether to activate the server-dependent Plex Pass features or not.
“Sleep timer” is not a server-dependent feature. It is solely dependent on the Plex account of the user (whether this user account has a plex pass). Managed users have access to the feature through their “owner”.
There is a way to add normal plex accounts to a Plex Home. However, by doing so, those regular plex accounts don’t gain access to Plex Pass features.
