When you invite users to share your library, they cannot use the various home screen views within Plex apps (Android for example) such as ondeck/unwatched/recently viewed. They must go to the Shared Libraries each time. If you have family and friends using this, it gets annoying for each of them as each time they fire it up they have to swipe over. Plus, the Plex app's default views look great! I would either like to request one of two features (or both):
1. Allow the ability to set the default view in the client application to a default view. For example, I could set my default view to the shared libraries as the default.
2. Enable shared library content to display in the default views (ondeck/unwatched/recently viewed) so that if you were being shared a dozen things but had no servers of your own, you would still get all the UI benefits.
I'd love to see Multiuser home views tied into the XBone app (I know, I know, it's only rumoured at this stage )...
So thinking it'd work like the multi gamer support works, so user with the control gets their xbox live account signed into (this is based on validation through the Kinect)...
Imagine sitting in front of the TV picking up the remote, and boom there's your Home Screen... Magic
Bit wishful and forward thinking I know, but awesome thought hey
yes and very risky. I dont want any camera and software controlling anything in my apartment or house. Especially not from MS, Apple, Google or any other big company.
But I too would love multiuser login. Especially, when I invite friends and they dont want to buy a plexpass. Also did anyone
consider, that Plex is making money with this and is not paying us for the content? I mean its my content but if someone else wants to see
it, Plex charges them if I invite them as friends. But is not paying me, for the stuff I put into Plex. Just thinking out loud as the media is mine.
I payed for it and not Plex, so it should be my decition, if my friend has to pay for it or not.
yes and very risky. I dont want any camera and software controlling anything in my apartment or house. Especially not from MS, Apple, Google or any other big company.
But I too would love multiuser login. Especially, when I invite friends and they dont want to buy a plexpass. Also did anyone
consider, that Plex is making money with this and is not paying us for the content? I mean its my content but if someone else wants to see
it, Plex charges them if I invite them as friends. But is not paying me, for the stuff I put into Plex. Just thinking out loud as the media is mine.
I payed for it and not Plex, so it should be my decition, if my friend has to pay for it or not.
Foux: and why did you take just my post. te5s3rakt is talking about multiuser login and camera setup. So my post is right towards him but not for the topic?
and by the way your post is as useless as mine and instead of writing it, just report the post which is wrong to a moderator.
or did you miss the topic of the post:
Multi-User Home Views
And yes licensing of the media has defenetly something to-do with multiuser login at the same time.
Honestly don't know why shared libraries need separate section to begin with. Plex could easily just display who's server it is below the library name.
I think you should be able to hide the libraries shared to you (sometimes you want to work from your own library without the clutter of a friends library), but I agree completely: Plex should stop treating shared libraries as a second class citizen. In theory you are a user and X libraries are shared to you which are presented in one holistic view. The concept of "I am the owner of that data" is actually irrelevant so why treat it in a special way?
When looking at a home scenario, you see the absurd effects it has: as a Plex owner (actually administrative user on the server, which is totally different for the content owner, since I do not want to own my daughters Dora collection) I am the only one with a decently functioning client. My Wife and kids end up with a horrible Plex experience since the first three screens are totally empty, and only the "Shared Libraries" tab shows some content....
+1. Completely agree the home screen looks great for the primary user.. don't understand why "shared users" can't have the same (have to go into another screen with no 'on deck' 'watched').
+1. I would love these features, especially no.2. That or completely disable local libraries.
I have family members with no library of their own, but use android and chromecast to watch mine.
Anything to make it easier for them would be welcome.
This would be huge for me. It seems like a good move for Plex, too, being able to add 1-5 full clients per PMS install. Plex already appears to track what people have watched but having the next episode pop up in the "On Deck" would be great for the rest of the house.
I'm keeping my parents on XMBC until something like this gets made. They would have problems navigating all of the menus, it would be amazing if they had the "On Deck" menu
