How to use the new feature of plexamp 4.7.0 "Home users can see and control local players"

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Hi and thanks for an exciting release.

In the Plexamp release 4.7.0 we get a new feature:
“Home users can see and control local players”

What are local players in this context?

I have a headless plexamp (also updated to 4.7.0). However, this is still only visible to one user.
Is this expected behaviour?

Best regards
Aske

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Local players = players on the same subnet/LAN.

Please post Plexamp logs for the user who can’t see the player. Broadcast UDP is required.

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I had this same issue - the players I wanted to connect to were only visible from my main/admin account on my iPhone and not for a home user attached to this account. During troubleshooting, I discovered this was only an issue on wifi. All players were there for the home user when connecting from a desktop via ethernet.

I disabled “Multicast-to-Unicast Conversion” on my wireless access points and now I can see all players from my phone using the admin or home user. So thanks to elan for mentioning the broadcast UDP requirement. Hopefully this helps someone else having the same issue.

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Hi, thanks for the quick response :slight_smile:

I haven’t been home since my post, but will be looking into it during the week. Is there a safe way to send the logs, I don’t feel safe posting these logs on an open forum like this :confused:

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Via a DM?

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Yes, of course!

I’ve sent you the logs through DM :slight_smile:

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In the following use case this does not work for me:

  • Headless Pi
  • logged in via browser to Headless Pi (ip:32500)
  • Change to Managed User
    Now I can’t see any players, not even the headless pi itself.

I can see all devices (including the pi and other pi’s) when I connect via any of the apps. Or when I log in as Admin user on the web.

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Browser doesn’t support managed users + headless. Mobile apps should.

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