Sounds like this was not clear from the description in first post. If you go back to the enrollment page you will see that the button changed to “enroll my friends” this allows them to actually get your messages and see your activity. ( if you changed it from private)
Those friends do not need a Plex Pass or have a server of their own
It does not change their own settings and their own activity will still be set to private until they decide to change it. If they don’t want anything to do with these features at that point they can turn off the Discover and notification options.
hopefully above answered
yes you can have friends you do not share a server with. They maybe just use our free streaming or have access to someone else’s server or may watch on an external service like Disney Plus
on the Friends tab there should. be a +Add Friendsand. Grant library access buttons to initiate
@Tangs if you turned off all the discover settings previously there is a new setting to also remove the Activity module on detail pages. You can also go directly to your own profile as he mentioned above even with discover disabled. ( the profile and friends existed before discover or this but we added to it.)
I assumed @Tangs was talking about the profile which can be accessed via the menu on top right of web app even if discover disabled. Then you can look at individual friends activity by clicking on thei profiles. But yeah the activity feed tab itself needs discover enabled
When I go to the enrollment page via the link you provided, the button to enroll my Friends is disabled. I honestly don’t remember if it was clickable when I first enrolled myself, mostly because my enrollment process was somehow interrupted. I thought I had finished it, but nothing appeared on my server settings pages until I refreshed the web page. After refreshing the page, I was presented with a few introductory screens, and I don’t remember if I ever saw the page you referenced, asking whether I wanted to enroll my Friends.
Regarding requests, I guess I misunderstood what ‘request’ is for. I thought it was a way for a Friend to request of me to put something in my library. But after looking at the Request tab more closely, it seems like a way for me to initiate a Friend connection (“hey person, I’d like to add you as a Friend”). That said, I’m still a little unclear about incoming Friend requests?
request button can be used to view both your incoming and outgoing friend requests . If you have an incoming request the button will turn orange on your profile
I mean personally I would just enable discover source. it does not need to be pinned and it should remember the tab when you return just like libraries. I can’t remember the reason we have the two paths to the profile at the moment but will try to find out if there was a reason
Got it, thanks. I understand how I might get such an incoming Friend request is by having talked with someone I know, who has a server of their own, and they agree to make me a Friend because I’d like to view the content on their server.
But could a person who doesn’t have their own server also (knowing of my existence) request that we be Friends, perhaps just, for example, to share movie recommendations? They wouldn’t necessarily even need to know I even had my own server - we’re just two Plex users with common interests.
Sorry if I’m coming across a little dense on the concept, but I’ve never thought about Friends beyond content sharing before.
Absolutely. A server is not required to use. There are many Plex users who only use our free streaming for example. You may be friends with someone on forum that you have common media interest with but may not give access to your server libraries because you don’t really “know” them.
New here and just activated this today, just curious about watched items and if Plex is only syncing the watch history from the web and mobile apps or is it actually syncing with Roku etc.? do you have to enable sync on each player or is it account wide? I have had my own server since 2012 and my watched since joining numbers are quite low? I am not exactly sure when I enabled the sync feature but its been long enough I don’t remember. it only shows 72 episodes and I know my wife has watched at least that many episodes of Psych in the last few months? I don’t see any of those listed in my watch history either? these have all happened on a Roku or Chromecast if that helps? I have also watched a few things in the last few weeks both via the web app and on other devices and none of that is showing up either? do you have to manually mark things watched? I assumed that happens automatically? just providing feedback more than anything
Thanks
I really really like the watch history feed. That’s so much fun for me and my family. Are there any plans to allow users to pin that exact part of the feed to the homescreen? I would love to have what everyone has been doing/watching on the homescreen each time I login.
I don’t think there was any definite plans but I know possible having a “trending among friends” type of hub might be something we do. Thanks for feedback
I really love these features! I love them so much in fact, they reminded me of two years ago when I put them all in a single feature request and had the request immediately shot down because apparently Plex could already do these things or because each individual feature should be its own request? Anyway, I’m glad this finally happened!
