Does Discover work for managed users? I can only seem to access discover with my main Plex account.
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Everyone in my household uses a separate plex user selection. I don’t even use the main account for myself, I only use it for administrative purposes. I use my own managed user for my shows.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who uses it this way! I have the same use model as nwinters1. One would hope the streaming services would return the rating that you could key off of to filter out the results that don’t match the ratings a given managed user can view. Hopefully something that you will continue to look to support in the near future!
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I too do exactly this, my main plex account is administrative while I use managed accounts for myself, my wife, and kids to keep track of separate playlists and watched statuses more easily.
I appreciate very much the need to directly manage content appropriateness for kids, I need that ability. How about a toggle per-managed-account to enable or disable Discover? I’d love to enable Discover for my and my wife’s managed accounts and disable it for my kid’s account.
Thanks, this feature looks really interesting. But until it works with managed accounts it’s not going to fit very well with how I use Plex.
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I can only add my +1. I do have the exact same use case.
Please enable Discover Source for Managed users. For me it’s fine to share one streaming service between all managed users, ie tie it to the Admin “King of the Home” account!
Potentially you could add a setting where the owner of the Home enable or disable Discover for managed users.
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Adding my +1 as well. With three kids in the household, locking the admin account behind a pin code and having a managed user account for everyone (myself included) has always been a no-brainer. Not gonna risk one of them getting access to under the hood stuff even for a second.
Plex argues that adults can create their own accounts and unite them in Plex Home, leaving managed user profiles for kids, but I’d like to be able to make that call on my own. Not because a key feature (judging by their own hype around its launching) is dependant on it. And honestly, who wants to be the first one to go “Honey, you know that streaming service I spend way too much time on curating, the one you barely ever watch on your own? Yeah, you wanna create your own account?”
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+1 from me too. Recently switched to the “Primary account for admin only, managed users for watching” model and, while this was one of the most exciting Plex announcements in a while, I was immediately disappointed to find that it is unavailable for managed accounts. A toggle on the Restrictions page is exactly what I would expect to find if the issue is solely parental control concerns.
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It’s ridiculous that this isn’t available for managed users honestly. We are paid subscribers. It’s very annoying Plex keeps trying to push towards individual users with their own Plex Passes by not allowing extended functionality for managed users. Why not just remove managed users completely, since you obviously do not want to actually properly support them?
I don’t believe for a second that managed users are mostly kids accounts. I imagine most Plex Pass users have at least one managed user account for their spouse.
Besides, even if that’s the reason, there’s a simple fix: allow the administrator to turn the feature on and off per managed account. That way it can be on for adult accounts and off for kids account. Problem solved!
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So I use plex heavily with over 160tb of data.
I have managed accounts for other family members and shared for friends
So far I love this discover feature I had to do some work today due to some of my content using old agents but now it works.
I love the fact it shows you what is trending and popular to watch.
I understand from what they say about not being able to control what other apps open as and they are worried about kids
One thing we can all definitely agree on is yes adults have managed accounts too but kids most likely definitely don’t have there own plex account and are more than likely in most cases a managed account
I feel that plex has done great with this and probably felt it was nearly ready for prime time I feel they probably decided to release it with managed users off for now and will work on an update to allow you to chose to turn it on once you understand it could mean your kids might see something not age appropriate.
Imagine the kick back if they released it without being disabled for the managed accounts and found out later the kids are accessing something wrong.
It just means for the unique use cases listed in the forum you might have to wait a little longer while they implement an option to enable or disable for managed accounts
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An awesome new feature, thank you. I do hope you rethink the logic of not allowing managed accounts to access that feature.
The logical thinking process is a bit flawed. At the higher level (main account), you currently expose all libraries, which means that for family night, in order to not expose kids to anything not proper for their age, I cannot sign in as the main account. You do allow to specify what libraries are accessible for lower accounts. This is fine, and works ok.
Using your logic that you don’t want to return potential bad results to kids, by disabling access to that feature in lower managed accounts is to be quite frank… rather stupid and makes no sense:
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If I set up sub-accounts, I already selected what libraries are accessible… why could I not simply also specify if I want the new feature available or not. I already chose and made the decision of what is right or wrong under those accounts, regarding libraries. Why deviate from that consistency?
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If I want to use Plex with family, I will most likely use lower accounts. In order to use this great feature, I could only use it with the higher more restricted account…thus allowing the kids to view/access libraries I didn’t want them to see in first place… This logic is puzzling.
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You allow live TV and also Plex movies/channels. No issues with kids seeing Horror Movies???
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Kids that have access to the other streaming channels, can also do searches on the individual apps…
I don’t mind if you tell us: “We didn’t add the ability to add to managed accounts, but may in 1 year” or “We don’t feel like it”, or “We’re not getting paid enough”, etc.
Whatever the excuse or reason is, most of us will be fine and patient, but please don’t cover the flawed planning with a false explanation that you’re trying to save our kids from search results. They have access to the internet already. Trust me, they’re already doomed!
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This is exactly how I have my users set up. I never use the admin account unless I want to do… admin tasks
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To be fair, inviting a user to your Plex Home supposedly gives them the benefits of your Plex Pass. I say supposedly as all my Home users are managed accounts. If I share a library to someone outside of my immediate family, they sign up for an account of their own.
Otherwise I wholeheartedly agree. It feels like Plex has been slowly fading away the very things that built their user base over the years. Us server admins are becoming a footnote in their business.
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Is this feature for manged users on the roadmap?
Count me in for wanting this feature incorporated for managed users! Make it possible to enable or disable per user. Seems easy enough and makes everyone happy.
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+1 for this
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I really hadn’t thought of it when mentioned here (or elsewhere), but I’m not trying to circumvent any plex-pass features. The household family members are all managed users. Any content shared with friends is shared to their own account and I don’t really care if they have access to Discovery or not.
+1 for this
I think if the devs ultimately decide not to allow managed users to have access to this feature, at the very minimum we need an option to migrate / upgrade managed accounts to fully fledged accounts…
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