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I might as well just make VLC playlists or plug my hard drive directly into the Xbox if this is the only solution. Even xbox’s crappy Movies & TV app will auto play continuously
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Okay, I just unsubscribed to Plex Pass. Kodi has a viable alternative albeit without a server. Fortunately my MyCloud has had home network server capability for over a decade and yes I paid for it but just once. PLEX - START LISTENING TO YOUR USERS as they literally pay your salary and should be considered the boss. That would have included me but I decided to end the BS as well as my payments. Thank GOD I did not purchase the lifetime pass which I highly considered. KODI which is not a business in the same way as Plex listens to its users who don’t have to pay anything, it looks way prettier, allows unlimited customization, and is hands down better than Plex. I started with them but got frustrated when a DB upon which they depend broke and disrupted my ability to add new TV episodes and I moved to Plex. Well, KODI, I am back. BYE PLEX. Learn to listen to your customers’ dumbasses!
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And no overall KODI is not better than Plex, which is why I signed on but this complete indifference to the people who pay your salary is insufferable as is the addition of the stupid limitation in the first place. Yes, I have gone back and marked episodes unwatched bc I do want to watch them but more importantly, I want to sleep at night and I enjoy the noise and content I used to be able to command on Plex. And no, I will not make a playlist either as I change the series I am watching on a daily and that was an unviable work-around from the start. Stop following Netflix as if they are the leader because here is news for you apparently, your products are not in the same silo and serve completely different functions. Still, if this caused their customers the issues it has yours, they would have listened and provided a method to keep their customers happy. They are leaders and also innovators after all. Plex tried to be but was really a juiced-up KODI which produced a reliably consistent user-interface albeit without any ability to control it. I was a big fan. Now you have pissed me off so badly I am rooting against you. If you don’t find that sad as the people who used to obtain your salary from me, wake up. If you do, demand change from your company, otherwise, you will be unemployed soon because Plex will be no more…
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No progress to report? This isn’t even a brand new feature to develop. We’re simply asking to either remove this Plex-imposed restriction that didn’t used to exist, or better yet, give users the ability to toggle it. Development time/cost cannot be the roadblock here when a solution is to simply revert changes. So what is it?
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It’s bizarre to me that the devs are so dead set against this…
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At least give us the option to change the time delay, from 15 seconds to 5, or something.
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I love this thread, and I also love that Elan dropped in.
My biggest reason for using Plex is because it’s a solid platform, it’s reliable, and it’s easy to share. I share out to most of my family, and a few friends. The experiences with Embry or Jellyfin that I’ve had haven’t been as great or as simple, and plus I do tend to change things around a lot, and I’ve acknowledged that folks eventually get tired of you moving your infrastructure around and them having to learn new things. I’ve been using Plex for like…3-5 years, something like that. For some reason I never got a lifetime Plex Pass, don’t ask me why, I don’t know. Just keep shelling out that $5 a month.
That being said, I did want to weigh in on how frustrating this “Feature” is. It would be better if Plex actually explained why it was stopping, because honestly when it just stops like that, it looks like something’s wrong on the server, or the client, or internet. I really did think it was an unintended glitch initially.
We all use Plex for different reasons, personally I like to have a TV on playing Blues Clues or some other kids show for my daughter. I don’t just abandon her in front of it for hours at a time, but she likes watching, and gets upset when it turns off. I saw some other folks use it for babysitting, some watch to fall asleep. This is OUR media, and OUR bandwidth, and OUR electricity. Is there literally any disadvantage for Plex to just add this feature? When they’ve got other garbage features like the theme music playing when you view a title, god, why is that a thing.
I hope things improve, or if nothing else I hope I can find a way to crack those settings. I’m not great at programming, but I am pretty good at MacGyvering technology to do what I want. I’ll post here if I find anything.
Plex, please listen to your customers.
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I wrote out a super basic, not super pretty script that seems to do the job. It’s Python based using the plexapi out on Github. Link
Essentially it connects to your device via the API and manually runs the individual episodes. Since the device is sending requests to the server after every episode, the 2-hour timeout is never reached.
It’s not perfect, and it selects a random episode from the show you specify instead of going in order, but I wasn’t able to find anything else like this ANYWHERE so I figured I’d share it. While it’s awesome that the CTO took notice of this thread and gave us an update a few months ago, it’ll be nicer to have a workaround until they end up adding the option to disable this wonderful “feature”. Feel free to ping me with any questions, or customize it to your individual needs.
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This is my last post, I swear.
I’ve updated the Infinite Plex Autoplay script to include a GUI with a group of nested dropdowns, so you select the client, then the section, then the show, then the episode. You can find the gui here: https://github.com/TheGreatSkeeve/Infinite-Plex-Autoplay/blob/main/dammitplex_gui.py
It’s still a work in progress, I kept getting thrown off by what appears to be the Roku device I was using blocking my desktop from sending API requests because I sent too many. It doesn’t loop yet, but I should be able to get that fixed tomorrow. Check the readme.
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I really hope that there is progress being made. I watch my media via Xbox Ones mostly and when the new Series X drops, I’ll probably wait to see what other media options it offers as the Plex app controlling my playback is awful. All I want is a program to run TV shows in the background like normal TV does. The sad truth is, if we can’t control our media, then it makes no sense to use Plex over a streaming service.
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Powers that be,
Would it be at all possible to provide the community an update on where this stands?
thank you.
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@anon18523487 while it is your job to help people on this forum, your interaction with the thread is akin to pouring gas on a fire. It would be best not to involve yourself with this discussion unless there are users threatening harm to plex employees or one another.
As I stated previously, this issue regardless of whom from Plex has replied to it will never be addressed due to it not making Plex any money. Plex at the end of the day is a business and meeting the needs of a life time pass users does not make them money.
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Ok seriously; 6 months, since the CTO, co founder said “we are on it” 6 months, several updates and every update I am chipping at the bit for an auto play update. But every update since has been useless to me. This feature was no.1 reason for me to pay plex pass lifetime. Seriously! Get on it. Should be a super easy 1 day coding thing guys!
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The loop button on the playback control on the Roku client not only resolved the 2 hour timeout issue, but it also got rid of the 15 second wait between episodes.
This seems like the perfect solution as it allows the user to choose the default behavior (15 seconds between episodes and a 2 hour time limit) and the continuous play behavior at the point of playback.
Anyone that is still complaining about this is just looking for a reason to ■■■■■ amd not an actual solution.
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Good sir, this is not a client issue, but a server issue. We want control over features that have been added. @Kakabael said it nicely:
We want control over the time out aka “sleep protection” as well as control over the amount of time between episodes. These are features that we want direct control over, be it to increase/decrease the time out, or to disable it. Again this is our hardware hosting our own content running on electricity that we have to pay for.
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I disagree that it is a server issue. While server owners may have an interest in it, it is very much a client/user choice.
What if you are a user, but not the server owner, should you not have the choice to enable/disable a sleep time out ?
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You’re using my service so I will chose how the service defaults. if the client then wants to change it that’s fine, but I want control over those defaults.
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Agreed, there should be no cut off limit. Clicking the series or a single episode in a series should just keep playing that series. Until stopped by the user.
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Not everyone can afford a roku device. Good for those that can and have but I can only afford the cheap mibox and an old Samsung tablet. A static play all option for all devices please
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