I’ve been trying for days to figure this out. I have a Samsung S7 Edge Android phone where I have media stored such as movies and music. I would like to stream this to my PS4 using Plex. Is this possible?
I have already gone on my phone app and selected SETTINGS>SYSTEM>ADVERTISE AS SERVER. When I go on my PS4 (connected to the same network through wifi), my server is not found. I can’t seem to figure out how to have it found.
@Flejszon said:
Is this possible?
No.
The mobile server is for media you have sync’d from your Plex Media Server to your phone.
So there is no way to stream media from my phone to my PS4 using Plex?
@Flejszon said:
So there is no way to stream media from my phone to my PS4 using Plex?
media that has not be sync’d to your phone from our PMS first, no.
If this is accurate. Why does the setting “ADVERTISE AS SERVER.” exist? I found some old forms that says this was once possible. I can see my phone server in the windows app but not web. Inside the web it shows offline and wont work anyways. I am on the same network.
Correction:
It shows in the windows app as offline. Does NOT show in the web at all. 
@tshippen@outlook.com said:
If this is accurate. Why does the setting “ADVERTISE AS SERVER.” exist?
for advertising media that is already sync’d to your phone from your PMS to be seen by other clients.
I don’t know if it matters, but if you’re doing casting operations from the phone to some other Plex thing on the network does advertise as server have to be on? I enabled mine and it’s working as expected - that’s all I know.
Also be aware that anything you want to ‘cast-to’, needs to have it’s app open, seen on the network and available as a destination. You can’t cast-to devices who’s apps are ‘cold’.
I am using my phone app (Android) to operate Plex Media Player that I’ve dragged to my TV through the trusty HDMI cable from server to TV - due to Roku and AFTV Plex apps being out of service or severely compromised. I can use my phone’s app to ‘mirror’ operations, or use the ‘Remote’ function with the big white buttons.
I don’t know if that method will work on a PS4. Don’t own one.
@trudge said:
for advertising media that is already sync’d to your phone from your PMS to be seen by other clients.
Ok but I still have the issue of the phone not appearing in the other clients or appearing as offline. I am on the same network and have trusted connections allowed. Thoughts?
All the clients/devices you want to play in this game should be signed in - that includes the server. All the apps/devices should have ‘Allow Fallback to insecure connections on local network only’ <— Plex likes to call that something different on each client app, but it should be something similar. The security setting on the server should be, Preferred, not Required.
Open the phone app - wait a minute - does the phone appear in the available list now?
If you’re using the phone to ‘Send’ something to other clients - open all the apps you want to play in this game. Those devices should appear in the PHONE’S List. You’re casting FROM the phone TO other devices.
