I would love to have the ability to sync movies/shows to my Chromebook through Plex without having to install Linux or anything like that. Being able to do it natively would be so convenient! Anyone else want to see this? How far off do you think we are? Is it even possible?
This is completely possible from a technical perspective and something that I’ve been wanting for years now. Chrome supports offline caching and I imagine the implementation would be similar to how sync works on mobile devices.
This feature would be very helpful for those with any sort of laptop/Chromebook and do not have a reliable Internet connection.
I would really appreciate this capability too. The pieces are so close to being there, too: Plex can use Google Drive for cloud sync, Google Drive can do offline caching on ChromeOS… All that’s missing is Plex taking advantage of that gdrive offline support somehow.
This would be absolutely wonderful. I recently bought a Chromebook Flip 2 and it (mostly) blows my Nexus 9 tablet out of the water, with the exception of playing local content. It has a MicoSD card slot, but that isn’t as useful as it could be if there were more apps which would play local content, Plex chief among them for me.
Just got an ASUS Chromebook flip half an hour ago, installed Plex, no sync. 
Sadness. That would make this the perfect travel machine.
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!
I really want this. It would make my Chromebook Flip a lot more useful.
I know some Android apps are able to run on Chromebooks (it’s a fairly new feature) – is there any way to get the Plex Android app to run on a 'book?
Yes! That would be highly appreciated.
The fact that this isn’t already available blows me away
Yes please
Agreed. Just got a Chromebook on Black Friday thinking it would be the ideal travel device. Boy was I wrong. My phone followed by iPad are still way ahead of the Chromebook. All this thing is good for is browsing and email. Ugh!!! Way too much dependency on the cloud.
Is it easy to expand the Local Storage limits for the quantity of data we would be talking about? Maybe that is a headache preventing it?
Going to +1 this as well since I am awaiting a Chromebook flip right now and this functionality would be great since I got the flip as a commuting device.
+1
most don’t use the 16gb of storage usually in a chromebook (and on android you seldom have that much available anyway). so where is the problem?
I was very disappointed that this wasn’t already a thing.
I’d love to carry just my Chromebook Flip instead of also my Android tablet.
maybe this could solve it, if it does, i’m getting a chromebook pixel2
If you want this, click Like on the first post. It only has 3 likes so far. Surely there are more Chrome users out there that want offline Sync on the Chrome Plex app.
Absolutely! Most of my collection of Plex content is large 30gb+ blu-ray backups. It kills me that I can sync it to a much more mobile size for my phone. With the limited storage of Chrome OS devices, mobile sync is an absolute must. I could fill my entire storage capacity with one file. Relying on a separate application for converting video is not ideal for an all-in-one solution like Plex.
Dear PLEX @elan and @ManuelPG,
I hope you’re as excited as I am that Chromebooks will soon support Android apps!
I actually did get PLEX to work on a Chromebook under their old emulator - all except for the most important part, Sync.
I’m really hoping that you’ll make an effort to make sure that PLEX is well represented on Chromebooks now, as an Asus Chromebook Flip running PLEX would be the ultimate little travel device.
This could now become a reality, if we can persuade Plex to implement the right storage access code. Plex is now available as an Android app on Chromebooks, and MicroSD cards are now available as storage. All we need is to bring the two together! Vote for this feature suggestion!
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