I will be making a trip shortly, and I will be using a hotspot to connect to the internet with my iPad and my iPhone. I do not want to have my iPad and iPhone killing my data plan in another country just to sync.
I know that my devices will see the connection as Wifi and start to sync. Putting the iPad into airplane mode is not a problem, but if I ned to use whatsapp or something similar on my phone then I have to pause all shows manually each time that I connect to hotspot wifi.
What is the best way to manually choose when my devices will start to sync when connected to Wifi?
I believe there used to be an option (Android) to automatically sync changes when the app was opened, when the server pushed changes, etc. Disabling all of those would make it ‘manual’ sync. Since they did a makeover for Android sync (which is much better, not knocking it at all), I can’t find those settings.
Maybe they still exist on the iPhone app?
I’m not sure about the iOS app, but the setting to use mobile data is still in the Android app.
Settings \ Sync \ Use mobile data
@MovieFan.Plex said:
I’m not sure about the iOS app, but the setting to use mobile data is still in the Android app.
Settings \ Sync \ Use mobile data
But the settings for using Remote/Local Network is missing in the Android app. I haven’t looked at an iOS device for a while, but I’m sure this setting is also missing from that platform. For a tablet that has no integrated Mobile system, it sees any type of WiFi as being a WiFi connection, even if it’s through a remote WAN connection or not.
So if you go to Settings → Video → Video the only options there are Quality over Wifi and Quality over Mobile Network. The Quality over WiFI is the one that applies here, and in this case, the phone/tablet WOULD try syncing, eating up his Hotspot data plan. The lack of a Remote/Local setting for this could end up being darned expensive to someone that doesn’t know before they tried to use their device… (I think I made a Feature Request for this a while back, come to think of it…)
I no longer see the options on the Android side for syncing on startup or when the server pushes out changes as @MeatChunks suggests in his post above. It’s likely this is another setting we’ve lost over the last few months or so. I know it WAS there, but can’t find it now. My thoughts are, if it’s missing from the Android client now, it’s likely missing from the iOS clients as well…
To the OP: This basically means that you have to decide to be connected via your Hotspot or to stream synced content. It appears you can no longer prevent the Plex client app from attempting to sync, short of not providing it an avenue to do so.
