… however I cannot find where to list what ratings to share. I can’t find the section the article describes as “ratings” in my media server web portal.
I am able to see on each movie that I can edit the movie’s ratings to whatever I want. But I can’t find a way to restrict what will show up once I pull up the movies on my Plex app on my TV
I’ve tried contacting Plex directly about this question and they’ve said that you can restrict certain rated titles with someone you are sharing with. I explained I’m not looking to share anything just somehow restrict what shows up through my Plex app on my TV to certain rated movies. They then just referred me to the forums.
Go to the settings > users, click edit user (little pencil icon), click Restrictions on the left, scroll down to Movies section, enter desired ratings. Screenshot for help:
Thanks for the reply with these steps to follow. However, I do not see any of these options when I browse to the section in your steps. There isn’t even a little pencil icon over my user name
Thanks for the reply…As I explained in my original post, I’m not looking to create shares or users. I just want to restrict what shows up on ONE account - my account - when I pull up the Plex TV app on my TV.
On owner’s account, to my best knowledge, this cannot be done.
I understand you may have your reasons to not have multiple users, but creating second one with restrictions for TV and locking yours with PIN is only solution that comes to my mind.
Thanks for the reply. Guess I’ll be moving this to feature request forum then. Seems antiquated not to allow parental controls or restrictions for a main account.
@nacho220 said:
Thanks for the reply. Guess I’ll be moving this to feature request forum then. Seems antiquated not to allow parental controls or restrictions for a main account.
That doesn’t make sense.
How do you want to distinguish then, who is sitting in front of the Plex client? How do you tell Plex it is you, who wants to see that splatter movie? This is done with different user accounts.
@OttoKerner said:
That doesn’t make sense.
How do you want to distinguish then, who is sitting in front of the Plex client? How do you tell Plex it is you, who wants to see that splatter movie? This is done with different user accounts.
Thanks for the reply @OttoKerner. It makes sense to me. I don’t need any other user accounts. It’s either going to be me or other people sitting in front of the TV and sure there is no way to “tell” but there is no one else in the household that I’d need to create additional users.
I would just switch on or off parental controls on the account based upon who might be over and browsing through the TV at any given time.
Thanks for the link. I understand how the process works but again, there isn’t any reason for me to add all kinds of accounts or shares. I am the only user, it just so happens some people and kids might be over from time to time that want to browse a movie to watch.
@nacho220 said:
I would just switch on or off parental controls on the account based upon who might be over and browsing through the TV at any given time.
This use case is simply to achieve.
Just create one ‘managed’ user. Give that user restricted access, as explained in the linked article.
Whenever someone comes over to your house, switch to this user account.
Put a PIN number on your main user account, to prevent your guests to switch back to your level.
Activate ‘Automatic Logon’ in the preferences of your Plex client.
When they are gone, switch back to your main user. Mission accomplished.
(A managed user is not a full user. It is merely a sub-account on your main user account.)
I guess you didn’t find a solution to this had looked for it for ages with setting up restrictioed users which is good for personal devices but for the living room it’s not practical… Bit of a NO-BRAINER required feature… Still no joy… So basically we just extra vigilant with what the kids play on telly
Basically Netflix, prime let you do it plex is trying putting all the effort introducing and making content outside people’s libraries at the moment that the little things get missed si
Netflix let’s you create users too, however if the TV is logged into another user and you play content that could contain inappropriate stuff it will ask for a pin for that particular stream or movie
