How do you troubleshoot Plex remotely?

General Discussions
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I’m on the road frequently for work and have found plenty of situations where my Plex server running on my Mac stops accepting remote connections. Since I’m not physically in the room with the computer I end up having to wait until I return to troubleshoot what happened and fix it.

Anyone else in this situation? What are you doing for remote access to the computer?

Is there anything I can do in Plex directly to trigger an email alert to indicate something broke? Or perhaps to trigger a restart of the Plex server?

So far each time this has happened the solution has been to log back into the mac, open Plex from the browser and everything starts working again.

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I use Chrome Remote Desktop to access all of my computers when I am on the road.
This past week was in Buffalo, NY (live in Florida) and fixed a problem with a movie for my son, all through CRD.

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TeamViewer and Pulseway are my goto monitoring and remote access apps.

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Is it possible to manage this via microsofts onboard tools? (To connect via the homepage)

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TeamViewer here…works great. I can even access via my phone in a pinch.

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For me, running PMS on Ubuntu, I just SSH into the box or if I really have issues I use the On-board IPMI controller and the IPMIView for Android V1.3.0

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@rsava said:
I use Chrome Remote Desktop to access all of my computers when I am on the road.
This past week was in Buffalo, NY (live in Florida) and fixed a problem with a movie for my son, all through CRD.

Google has a nice iOS app for this that I use on my iPad. I even finish some of my ripping/encoding using this app.

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i Use either Apple remote desktop or Teamviewer to get into my little Mac on the road, and if all else fails SSH to Kill PID’s and Remote restart

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Personnaly my setup is a little more for the tech savvy, i have a linux box running openvpn then VNC to my windows server. If we ever see a windows service integration for plex ill just RDP over VPN.

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I can access my Plex servers via Remote Desktop, Team Viewer, VNC or AnyDesk. AnyDesk is strongly growing on me. These give me a full GUI. I can also use command line tools as well.

I can also VPN into my network with either MS VPN or with OpenVNC.

I can also remotely kill/reset power to any machine in case the machine is locked. Obviously not the best thing to do but sometimes it’s the only way.

Carlo