I just found out today about this Remote Plex Pass/Remote Watch Pass with Plex Pass. I was logged out of the Plex App on my Chromebook and I logged in. I am in my home doing this on my own network. When I logged into Plex and tried to play one of my own movies that’s on my Plex Server that is on my laptop I got the message about the Remote Watch/Plex Pass. Should I be getting this being I’m at home on my own network. I am not out and trying to use remotely. When it does this I looked at my server on my Chromebook and it says “Indirect.” It usually says “Nearby” when I click on the server. I logged out of my Plex app on my Chromebook and logged back in and it let me in fine and I was able to view a movie that is stored on my network laptop, also the server now says “nearby.” The thing is I did log out and back in to see if I would get that message like before about the Remote Plex Pass/Watch and I did and the server went back to “indirect.” I just logged out again so it would let me back in and it did with it going back to “nearby.” Why is this happening and should it be if I am watching everything on my Plex apps at home from my own server. Please respond as I just noticed this today. Not having an issue at all with Plex on my TV. Now I do have my laptop with the Plex Server wired to my router just to get top speeds but I would not think that would have anything to do with it as I have never had a problem before. Please help.
This shouldn’t be happening but you may struggle with responses based on your title.
Perhaps change it to something like”App asking for Remote Pass on local network”.
I believe others have also had this issue also so perhaps worth searching the forum for similar topics.
As @JCHH mentioned… you shouldn’t be confronted with that warning on your local network. That being said, based on your description, Plex doesn’t seem to recognize this is a local connection.
Are your server and the client on the same network?
I’ve seen some recent threads where users got into this with certain content blockers or browsers concealing the device‘s IP.
Yeah this is the problem with making a distinction between remote and local connections.
The server should not be doing this unless the user configured it to do that.
This is a consequence of Plex intentionally crippling their software to try and get people who don’t want to get Plex pass to buy it anyway.
Always online is silly (literally can’t watch videos without an Internet connection) and so is restricting the server so it can’t connect to a user on the internet.
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