My daughter is a “home user” and I’ve shared content with her. She wants to watch some TV shows with her friends. She’s added friends to her friends list. I have not added her friends to my friends list that I share content with. She’s trying to watch this and it’s failing because her friends don’t have access. I have a lifetime PlexPass. My daughter does not, of course.
I get why this is probably happening from a permissions perspective, but I’d also like to have a way to allow it. I don’t want to add her friends to my friends list. She’s only interested in Watch Together, and not sharing a whole library. How can I make this work?
I may be wrong, but I don’t believe that is the intended behavior for Watch Together.
It’s my understanding that Watch Together only applies to users of the same plex server who all have access to the same library/files.
For example, a couple of my users are father and adult son and they love to watch certain shows together so one will invite the other and bam they are watching together at a distance.
Okay, I think I finally figured out the issue. Not a big fan of this method, will require some rework to my home accounts, etc. But here goes:
Me=Admin
Daughter=Home User
Daughter can’t add friends (apparently this is because she does not have a plex.tv account)
Daughter friend = Admin Friend (because she can’t add friends)
Even if I share a file (movie) with my daughter and my daughter’s friend, under her home user account she is unable to Watch together with anyone outside of the home user group. To remedy this, your home users must have plex.tv accounts in order to watch together with anyone outside of the home user group correct?
It appears that there is no way to add the plex.tv account to their existing home user account, so their customization and history, etc will be lost. Is this also correct?
This seems like a strange restriction. Not sure why all home users couldn’t watch together with any friends that are configured for them.
