Help. Plex forcing relay/transcoding on home network

[tom80H]

Maybe it’s worth to take a look at this post in the tips & tricks section to verify why Plex might consider your server remote.

Client says it won't play from "remote server", although the server is local

This thread is not for discussing the introduction of the Remote Watch Pass and this restriction for free users as such. All postings trying to bring that up, will be deleted immediately. The same happens to descriptions of how to circumvent the requirement for Remote Watch Pass, or posts which are asking about it. Please stick to the topic: Here we are trying to collect various tips, which could help those users who are only using Plex within their home network, but see the message from t…