I agree with you darthzuasive… it is a little unreal how long this issue has been outstanding without being addressed. Especially if you consider how easy it should be to modify bind statement to bind to one specific IP.
I have been a PlexPass user since the beginning, but unanswered issues like this make me keep an eye on other competing products. Emby is an alternative and quite good, but still a far from being as mature as Plex overall. One day Emby will be more mature… All they have to do is keep reading Plex Forums to know what issues are driving their users crazy, lol.
Come on Plex… playing with Emby makes me feel like I am cheating on you with another application… I want to stay loyal, but you have to start putting out
I am hoping that there are folks out there that have past code repos of plex before they went commercial and closed everything off… its time to fork… this train left the rails years ago as a home theater, film enthusiast platform… its for script kiddies and mobile device teenagers that never leave their parents basements now…
@maca134 said:
So 5 years on still no option?
Binding to a network interface is trival, come on guys give me a reason to pay…
I would not say it is trivial. But I would say it is not particularly hard (at least it is not hard under Windows I do not know about other operating systems) nor is it unimportant.
However it is unimportant to the powers that be at Plex so it will probably never happen.
Plex does not see any need to expend their efforts on something that would be needed by only a minority of their users and a majority of that minority do not really need the feature as, in Plex’s belief, they are clearly doing it wrong if they need such and advanced and esoteric feature.
I do have to say that I am one of the ones that have no current need for the feature as I do not use any form of remote access or other features that require remote access to work. But there are others that I help that need the feature.
This is just one more example of Plex’s near total disregard of the desires of their customers.
Plex knows what is best for Plex users and anyone that deviates from exactly what Plex wants their customers to do just does not know what is good for them and is clearly not operating in the only important (to Plex) manner. That is Plex believes what is important to Plex is the only thing that is of any concern. The customer only interests Plex as a money source and they are now so big that they do not even need all the users they have. They have grown so bloated with their own importance that they do not even notice many groups of users as they squish underfoot.
So unbelievable that a feature like a network binding is still not posible in plex. I’m running a complex network and server, and have to do routing because plex can’t manage to sort interface binding in 5+ years!
Well I do have the same Issue here. On my linux server I have multiple NICs. Right now the Plex I even paid for just does not really work. from my perspective denying me the possibility to specify the NIC it binds on is equal to sabotage. I mean under linux this is kind of a very basic setting.
I urge you to document a way to do the binding.
I want to add my voice to this. I recently started using OpenVPN, and I while the VPN is active, I can no longer establish a direct connection to my Plex server from outside my local network.
I think I can use iptables to forward connections from the VPN server to my Plex Server host, but I’m not very good with iptables, so it’s taking a lot of trial and error. This would be a lot easier if I could just bind Plex to my non-VPN interface, like I do with other apps that can safely go outside the VPN.
Come on Plex team, how about a sign of life here! This is very much getting out of hand!
We’ve all been waiting too long for this issue to be addressed. I am sure you can imagine the types of people posting in this thread and making a requests of this nature can be considered “power users”. These are the people that help push your product word to mouth.
A sign… anything… a simple “we have heard your request but can unfortunately not do anything right now” would be better than silence.
issue first reported: 2012
current year: 2018
time passed with nothing: ~5 years, give or take…
Seriously. This makes running a Plex server in a somewhat strictly controlled environment very hard, if not impossible.
I don’t want to go back to a decentralized media center setup, but with the way the network I have to use is set up, its either that, or nothing. …or ability to tell Plex what to use. I dont want to have to guess which IP to configure things on, nor do i want to hope my connection works from the outside because there is no way to reliably influence which IP Plex is announcing.
Since Plex does not believe there is any really need for this they will NEVER implement it. Because Plex did not and does not believe that the users here (mostly power users according to Plex) represent “real” users they will not really listen to anything said here.
this feature is too important
I have to internet connections on two separate routers
I download 24/7 on my plex machine so I can’t stream well or even refresh metadata because of the low bandwidth
what I want to do is to connect the plex machine to my second router and let plex bind to a virtual adapter that is bridged to this second internet source interface(just like virtualbox)
the IPs needs to be assigned internally from plex as I can’t have two default gateways on the same machine, so plex only will use this virtual adapter
I get the same emails over and over related to any feature in the hopper.
This one, the one where people want to send messages to users… Just “me
too” for years and nothing doing from Plex.
If I didn’t have so many users with play history to keep, I would switch to
Emby
Exactly 4 years, thats how much time has passed since this thread has been opened!
This is NOT a feature but a CORE requirement.
It never even occurred to me that Plex might not support ip binding - this is ridiculous to put it mildly.
You guys just blew my mind - Luckily you don’t have any competition, just like cable providers. Not sure why I expected you to behave differently.
