Apparently, I’m ‘not allowed’ to post in the ‘Plex Media Server’ section, so I guess I need to post here… How does one go about connecting to a SPECIFIC Plex server? I have two Plex servers I administer - one is mine and one is my sisters, on separate LANs connected via VPN. If we both had Google Fiber gig links, we could just use mine and be good, but we don’t so we can’t. So the problem is, in MY LAN, if I try to go to the IP of her plex server (http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/32400/web), I get redirected to some ‘app.plex.tv’ site (yet if I do the same for MINE, I get MY server, not redirected). This is BAD. how do I manage her Plex server from MY LAN, DIRECTLY, without that garbage??
I’ve really loved plex for some time - despite a speed bump or two along the way, it really has been great, but the one thing that’s really starting to annoy me is the whole ‘cloud’ mentality. I don’t want my Plex server (or anything else, for that matter) synced or in any way reachable, indexable or whatever from anywhere other than inside my LAN. It should be its own entity, with NO tendrils to the outside world. If it’s to be reachable from elsewhere, it will be to another site over a VPN. NO OTHER WAY. If I want to administer a Plex server on another network connected to my LAN via VPN, I should be able to do so, NOT be redirected to some Plex internet site. AS nice as Plex is now, with the DVR capabilities and such, frankly, it was orders of magnitude better back when it was ‘just a server sitting on a LAN serving media’, with none of this cloud garbage. Is there any way to disable all this ‘cloud’ garbage and get it to where it was, and to the root question, is there any way do disable that stupid redirect so I can administer her Plex server from my LAN??
When you connect your Sisters Server you need to provide the xPlexTokenID for the server to recognise you.
But I’m also confused, If you connect to her server and get directed to app.plex.tv, it’s just a remote interface on the server, what are you expecting to do? it is just the security model which has kicked in. Why do you think you are not interacting with the server?
If you want to ‘manage’ your sister’s server, the server has to be signed in to your own Plex account. This would exclude her own ability to change/edit anything on it, unless you are sharing the username and password with her.
Which unfortunately also means that her playback actions will be credited to your account, so following a TV series will not work for the both of you.
I did some more poking around and found the ‘List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth’ setting and added both LANs, and apparently that got rid of the redirect from my LAN.
We don’t care about ‘playback actions will be credited’ or ‘following a TV series’ or any of that fluff (I assume that has something to do with stalkerbook or some other social media junk). They are for storing and organizing our media libraries to make watching movies easier and to keep the original discs safely away from our kids. I have a HDHomeRun Quatro and use the DVR functionality on mine.
Like I said, I don’t like the way it has tendrils out to the web at all times. The fact that before finding that setting, it reached out to a Plex internet address for me to ‘authenticate’, rather than a login page of some sort on THAT server, means that some part of it is always ‘out there’. In that particular regard, it was better a long time ago when it was just a standalone server serving up media. If it wasn’t for the fact that I use the DVR functionality on mine, I would block all outbound traffic from the Plex server to the web at the firewalls, only opening it up when adding media or maybe whitelisting the sites used for media lookup.
No, it is just a little helper which keeps track of which movies you have already seen and, more crucially, which episodes of a tv series. It will then present you with the next episode of that tv series when you return.
If several people use the same plex account, this feature is of course rendered useless.
