Is there a way to limit the number of connection per user ? Im looking for a way to block the connection if a streaming is already in progress with the same user.
Nope.
It’s a request in features and requests.
And it’s a really popular request. If you have a user that has more than a single session going on your server, delete that user as a friend right now. He’s someone that has shared his user id out and not worth the time it would take to correct his actions.
H’s going to hand his id out to everyone and the only way to break the habit is to cut him off completely. At least this has been my mileage…
You can do this with a third party program.
@MikeG6.5 said:
And it’s a really popular request. If you have a user that has more than a single session going on your server, delete that user as a friend right now. He’s someone that has shared his user id out and not worth the time it would take to correct his actions.H’s going to hand his id out to everyone and the only way to break the habit is to cut him off completely. At least this has been my mileage…
Haha, I have a friend who often has 3 concurrent streams. Him on his phone, his wife on the tv, his daughter on a tablet. Device names match as I’d expect, and they’re all coming from the same IP.
Sometimes, this behaviour is legit 
@deepseth said:
Sometimes, this behaviour is legit
I guess it depends on who you think your sharing with as to whether or not it’s legit.
Did you only plan on sharing with just your friend, or did you plan on sharing with everyone in his family too.
@hthighway said:
@deepseth said:
Sometimes, this behaviour is legitI guess it depends on who you think your sharing with as to whether or not it’s legit.
Did you only plan on sharing with just your friend, or did you plan on sharing with everyone in his family too.
This. I’ve shared with work colleagues and when they’re asking me to add X,y,z for their kids. I’m like. “I haven’t met your kids, why do I have to keep them entertained?”
Or it’s “get this TV show” my response is “why? I won’t watch it, it’s ■■■■. If you want it. You get it and give it to me to load into it”
People forget it’s not theirs but think they have power over what’s curated in it.
I really hope they build in an option to restrict accounts to a single stream at a time.
if you are on linux you can do it with an iptables script. block so only one connection per ip at a time to said port
@deepseth said:
@MikeG6.5 said:
And it’s a really popular request. If you have a user that has more than a single session going on your server, delete that user as a friend right now. He’s someone that has shared his user id out and not worth the time it would take to correct his actions.H’s going to hand his id out to everyone and the only way to break the habit is to cut him off completely. At least this has been my mileage…
Haha, I have a friend who often has 3 concurrent streams. Him on his phone, his wife on the tv, his daughter on a tablet. Device names match as I’d expect, and they’re all coming from the same IP.
Sometimes, this behaviour is legit
I’d personally set each user up with their own user account to be sure.
Sometimes people don’t understand what the effect is when they share so it’s not always malicious. Would be handy to be able to limit the activity.
@gertgerman said:
@deepseth said:
@MikeG6.5 said:
And it’s a really popular request. If you have a user that has more than a single session going on your server, delete that user as a friend right now. He’s someone that has shared his user id out and not worth the time it would take to correct his actions.H’s going to hand his id out to everyone and the only way to break the habit is to cut him off completely. At least this has been my mileage…
Haha, I have a friend who often has 3 concurrent streams. Him on his phone, his wife on the tv, his daughter on a tablet. Device names match as I’d expect, and they’re all coming from the same IP.
Sometimes, this behaviour is legit
I’d personally set each user up with their own user account to be sure.
Sometimes people don’t understand what the effect is when they share so it’s not always malicious. Would be handy to be able to limit the activity.
And what happens when they share their passwords? There is not a lot you can do to avoid that. I will be so glad when I can restrict to one stream per user.
Hey, you either trust your friends, or you don’t.
If I’m sharing with my friend, and he’s married with kids, it’s completely unreasonable for me to expect him to keep this from his wife. Why is my server so important that it requires him to potentially compromise his marriage? If he’s going to use it, his whole family is, or it wont be used at all. So screw it, his whole family can use it.
If he had PlexPass, I’m sure his wife and kids would have their own accounts. As it stands, he doesn’t run his own PMS, and only has a Plex account purely for the purposes of streaming my media, so it’s all good.
If you cant trust the people you’re sharing with to not abuse that privilege, even after you’ve explained to them what your own definition of abusing that privilege actually means, you need to re-evaluate what you’re doing.
Sometimes the problem is a social one, not a technological one. Technology can help with, but will never cure social problems.
@deepseth but sometimes you need technology to bring problems into line. For some people a quick word will fix it, for others it takes the knowledge that there is big brother (plexSentry, py, watch) somewhere that’ll catch them in the act (and email them about it). Those that think the rules don’t apply to them get banned. I’ve only had to do that once, and made the software better for it.
@random.server said:
For some people a quick word will fix it
Those are the only people that have access to my server. It shouldn’t take monitoring software to ensure good behaviour. You either behave or your access is revoked.
for others it takes the knowledge that there is big brother (plexSentry, py, watch) somewhere that’ll catch them in the act (and email them about it). Those that think the rules don’t apply to them get banned.
Access is a privilege, not a right. If people are taking the piss based on what you consider acceptable behaviour, they shouldn’t still be on. Technological methods be damned, this is a social problem.
Unless you’re in the business of selling access to your plex server. Then you’re in the business of bad behaviour anyway, and best of luck to you.
Thx for all reply I’ll set up plexsentry this week and see how it works
Please post back as I’m interested to see if it can help me too 
I tried but the installation process from the developer is a mess. After 4 hours I gave up.
@igowas wow, 4 hours? Should take 5 minutes, pm me and I can walk you through it
Finally got my SQL server running with plexsentry next step is to run the web interface from IIS. I’ll sens you à message tommorow random.server if needed thx
Would love this feature too, My server is on a Qnap Linux. And I don’t want to add a VM on it. Having this feature directly in Plex server by user will be great !
Best Regards,
Sylvain
