Server Version#: 1.18.4.2171 Player Version#: 4.1.12.3 Does anyone know how PMS perform the tests which it uses to to indicate if it is accessible outside the network on the Settings > Remote Access Page?. The reason I am asking is that I have port-forwarding setup at the router level on the usua…

Actually when you connect to a VPN all your traffic is tunneled and Plex should not be able to know what is your real WAN IP, only the VPNs valid IP

I understand that Plex ‘knows’ the real WAN IP from what was reported prior to ExpressVPN being run, since ExpressVPN is only run periodically on this machine. I expect (but haven’t confirmed) that if I restarted the router (which would force assignment of a new WAN P address by my ISP) when Expres…

Without further information, I suspect that Plex performs its own tests reported under ‘Remote Access’ using what it currently ‘detects’ as the WAN IP - which when ExpressVPN is running would be the VPN IP - instead of what it last recorded as the PUBLIC IP Address, corresponding to the ‘real’ WAN …

After activating your tunnel, you must stop/end/quit Plex server and restart it, because only then will it be able to report your new external IP address to plex.tv immediately. plex.tv in turn will perform the accessibility test and will also tell your new external IP all other plex clients which …

Until quite recently, with Plex Bypass running using xFlak’s VPN Bypass scripts, Plex reported it’s accessibility very reliably without any requirement to stop / restart the server. Indeed just after my last posts I tested the scenario of changing the real WAN IP while ExpressVPN was enabled, and a…

Updating this. With a couple of tweaks to the bypassed URLs I’ve been able get the Nedrelid VPN Bypass Solution working. However Plex’s ‘Remote Access’ screen continues to indicate that it is not accessible remotely when it is perfectly accessible via the WAN IP that it is currently displaying / re…

How does PMS Test remote access?

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hadim January 6, 2020, 5:51pm 2

I noticed the same thing: Plex + Traefik 2.0/2.1: "Not available outside your network"

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How does PMS Test remote access?

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