Possible to have an “Are you still watching?” prompt to friends? It would be ideal to have this as a toggle for each friend. Since we don’t host plex with the data centers that are Netflix and the like, it would be nice as the Plex host to have a prompt to guests to ensure they’re not wasting resources of the host.
I could see this being useful to popup to guests only if the host server is using too many resources, or to have it as an option selectively per-friend. A global option would work too, but I’d worry as the host I’m creating a negative experience for the friends that aren’t putting a show on and falling asleep/doing other things, causing a worse experience for those that are actively trying to watch something.
By default auto-playing content will not continue to auto-play the next item, if it’s been more than 2 hours since the user last interacted with the app. This is to help prevent content from continually playing if you fall asleep. Choices are:
There has always been a server setting to stop paused streams after a specific amount of time.
Settings → Network → Terminate Sessions Paused for Longer Than
That’s exciting to hear, thank you for sharing! Odd that this is a client-side feature but not a server-side one since that means the host can’t force passout protection on clients to prevent overusing server resources to a sleeping audience.
